摘要

The original Nelder-Mead (NM) method tends to be used to optimize low-dimensional functions. This article provides a modified NM that has the capability of large-scale optimization. The modification of NM is characterized by (a) working with a population of points, (b) mining multiple search directions through two strategies - point-grouping and variable-centroid multi-direction (VCMD), thus giving rise to VCMD plus grouping (VCMDg)