SOME GLOBAL CONVERGENCE PROPERTIES OF THE LEVENBERG-MARQUARDT METHODS WITH LINE SEARCH

In this paper, we consider two kinds of the Levenberg-Marquardt method for solve a system of nonlinear equations. We use line search on every iteration to guarantee that the Levenberg-Marquardt methods are globally convergent. Under mild conditions, we prove that while the de- scent condition can be satisfied at the iteration of the Levenberg-Marquardt method, the global convergence of the method can be established.