Abstract The spectral conjugate gradient methods are very interesting and have been proved to be effective for strictly convex quadratic minimisation. In this paper, a new spectral conjugate gradient method is proposed to solve large-scale unconstrained optimisation problems. Motivated by the advantages of approximate optimal stepsize strategy used in the gradient method, we design a new scheme for the choices of the spectral and conjugate parameters. Furthermore, the new search direction satisfies the spectral property and sufficient descent condition. Under some suitable assumptions, the global convergence of the developed method is established. Numerical comparisons show better behaviour of the proposed method with respect to some existing methods for a set of 130 test problems.
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