The minimal-norm Gauss-Newton method and some of its regularized variants
Federica Pes
;Giuseppe Rodriguez
2020-01-01
Abstract
Nonlinear least-squares problems appear in many real-world applications. When a nonlinear model is used to reproduce the behavior of a physical system, the unknown parameters of the model can be estimated by fitting experimental observations by a least-squares approach. It is common to solve such problems by Newton’s method or one of its variants such as the Gauss-Newton algorithm. In this paper, we study the computation of the minimal-norm solution to a nonlinear least-squares problem, as well as the case where the solution minimizes a suitable semi-norm. Since many important applications lead to severely ill-conditioned least-squares problems, we also consider some regularization techniques for their solution. Numerical experiments, both artificial and derived from an application in applied geophysics, illustrate the performance of the different approaches.File | Size | Format | |
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