Interval quasi-Newton methods?

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I am looking to find all zeroes of a smooth function $ f \colon [0,1]^2 \to \mathbb{R}^2, $ using interval arithmetic.

The standard way to do this seems to be to use the interval Newton method

$$ x_{n+1} = x_n \cap \left ( y_n - \left ( \mathbf{J}f \right )^{-1}(x_n) f(y_n) \right ), $$

where $ y_n \in x_n $ (usually the midpoint).

This requires a way to compute and invert the interval Jacobian $\mathbf{J}f$. However, in my situation, the exact computation of the Jacobian is prohibitively expensive. Is there a variant on the interval Newton method which does not require the computation of the Jacobian? With normal arithmetic (instead of interval arithmetic), one has access to quasi-Newton methods such as Broyden's method, which estimate the inverse Jacobian as the method progresses, using function evaluations only.