A regularization method for constrained nonlinear least squares

Dominique Orban () and Abel Soares Siqueira ()
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Dominique Orban: École Polytechnique
Abel Soares Siqueira: Federal University of Paraná

Computational Optimization and Applications, 2020, vol. 76, issue 3, No 14, 989 pages

Abstract: Abstract We propose a regularization method for nonlinear least-squares problems with equality constraints. Our approach is modeled after those of Arreckx and Orban (SIAM J Optim 28(2):1613–1639, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1137/16M1088570) and Dehghani et al. (INFOR Inf Syst Oper Res, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1080/03155986.2018.1559428) and applies a selective regularization scheme that may be viewed as a reformulation of an augmented Lagrangian. Our formulation avoids the occurrence of the operator $$A(x)^T A(x)$$A(x)TA(x), where A is the Jacobian of the nonlinear residual, which typically contributes to the density and ill conditioning of subproblems. Under boundedness of the derivatives, we establish global convergence to a KKT point or a stationary point of an infeasibility measure. If second derivatives are Lipschitz continuous and a second-order sufficient condition is satisfied, we establish superlinear convergence without requiring a constraint qualification to hold. The convergence rate is determined by a Dennis–Moré-type condition. We describe our implementation in the Julia language, which supports multiple floating-point systems. We illustrate a simple progressive scheme to obtain solutions in quadruple precision. Because our approach is similar to applying an SQP method with an exact merit function on a related problem, we show that our implementation compares favorably to IPOPT in IEEE double precision.

Keywords: Regularization; Least-squares problem; Nonlinear least-squares; Constrained nonlinear least-squares; Julia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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