Novel Limited Memory Quasi-Newton Methods Based On Optimal Matrix Approximation

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Main Authors: Berglund, Erik, Johansson, Mikael
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Johansson, Mikael
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Johansson, Mikael
contents Update formulas for the Hessian approximations in quasi-Newton methods such as BFGS can be derived as analytical solutions to certain nearest-matrix problems. In this article, we propose a similar idea for deriving new limited memory versions of quasi-Newton methods. Most limited memory quasi-Newton methods make use of Hessian approximations that can be written as a scaled identity matrix plus a symmetric matrix with limited rank. We derive a way of finding the nearest matrix of this type to an arbitrary symmetric matrix, in either the Frobenius norm, the induced $l^2$ norm, or a dissimilarity measure for positive definite matrices in terms of trace and determinant. In doing so, we lay down a framework for more general matrix optimization problems with unitarily invariant matrix norms and arbitrary constraints on the set of eigenvalues. We then propose a trust region method in which the Hessian approximation, after having been updated by a Broyden class formula and used to solve a trust-region problem, is replaced by one of its closest limited memory approximations. We propose to store the Hessian approximation in terms of its eigenvectors and eigenvalues in a way that completely defines its eigenvalue decomposition, as this simplifies both the solution of the trust region subproblem and the nearest limited memory matrix problem. Our method is compared to a reference trust region method with the usual limited memory BFGS updates, and is shown to require fewer iterations and the storage of fewer vectors for a variety of test problems.
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spellingShingle Novel Limited Memory Quasi-Newton Methods Based On Optimal Matrix Approximation
Berglund, Erik
Johansson, Mikael
Optimization and Control
90C53
Update formulas for the Hessian approximations in quasi-Newton methods such as BFGS can be derived as analytical solutions to certain nearest-matrix problems. In this article, we propose a similar idea for deriving new limited memory versions of quasi-Newton methods. Most limited memory quasi-Newton methods make use of Hessian approximations that can be written as a scaled identity matrix plus a symmetric matrix with limited rank. We derive a way of finding the nearest matrix of this type to an arbitrary symmetric matrix, in either the Frobenius norm, the induced $l^2$ norm, or a dissimilarity measure for positive definite matrices in terms of trace and determinant. In doing so, we lay down a framework for more general matrix optimization problems with unitarily invariant matrix norms and arbitrary constraints on the set of eigenvalues. We then propose a trust region method in which the Hessian approximation, after having been updated by a Broyden class formula and used to solve a trust-region problem, is replaced by one of its closest limited memory approximations. We propose to store the Hessian approximation in terms of its eigenvectors and eigenvalues in a way that completely defines its eigenvalue decomposition, as this simplifies both the solution of the trust region subproblem and the nearest limited memory matrix problem. Our method is compared to a reference trust region method with the usual limited memory BFGS updates, and is shown to require fewer iterations and the storage of fewer vectors for a variety of test problems.
title Novel Limited Memory Quasi-Newton Methods Based On Optimal Matrix Approximation
topic Optimization and Control
90C53
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02860