Title
The Limited Memory Conjugate Gradient Method.
Abstract
In theory, the successive gradients generated by the conjugate gradient method applied to a quadratic should be orthogonal. However, for some ill-conditioned problems, orthogonality is quickly lost due to rounding errors, and convergence is much slower than expected. A limited memory version of the nonlinear conjugate gradient method is developed. The memory is used to both detect the loss of orthogonality and to restore orthogonality. An implementation of the algorithm is presented based on the CG_DESCENT nonlinear conjugate gradient method. Limited memory CG_DESCENT (L-CG_DESCENT) possesses a global convergence property similar to that of the memoryless algorithm but has much better practical performance. Numerical comparisons to the limited memory BFGS method (L-BFGS) are given using the CUTEr test problems.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1137/120898097
SIAM JOURNAL ON OPTIMIZATION
Keywords
Field
DocType
nonlinear conjugate gradients,CG DESCENT,unconstrained optimization,limited memory,BFGS,limited memory BFGS,L-BFGS,reduced Hessian method,L-RHR,adaptive method
Gradient method,Conjugate gradient method,Mathematical optimization,Gradient descent,Orthogonality,Algorithm,Nonlinear conjugate gradient method,Broyden–Fletcher–Goldfarb–Shanno algorithm,Mathematics,Conjugate residual method,Derivation of the conjugate gradient method
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
23
4
1052-6234
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
26
0.83
13
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
William W. Hager11603214.67
Hongchao Zhang280943.29