A chordal preconditioner for large scale optimization:

We propose an automatic preconditioning scheme for large sparse numerical optimization. The strategy is based on an examination of the sparsity pattern of the Hessian matrix: using a graph-theoretic heuristic, a block diagonal approximation to the Hessian matrix is induced. The blocks are submatrice...

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Main Author: Coleman, Thomas F. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, New York 1986
Series:Cornell University <Ithaca, NY> / Department of Computer Science: Technical report 762
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Summary:We propose an automatic preconditioning scheme for large sparse numerical optimization. The strategy is based on an examination of the sparsity pattern of the Hessian matrix: using a graph-theoretic heuristic, a block diagonal approximation to the Hessian matrix is induced. The blocks are submatrices of the Hessian matrix; furthermore, each block is chordal. That is, under a positive definiteness assumption, each block can be Cholesky factored without creating new nonzeroes (fill). Therefore the preconditioner is space efficient. We conduct a number of numerical experiments to determine the effectiveness of the preconditioner in the context of a linear conjugate gradient algorithm for optimization.
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