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A Multigrid Preconditioner for Tensor Product Spline Smoothing

Numerical Analysis 2024-12-20 v1 Numerical Analysis Optimization and Control

Abstract

Uni- and bivariate data smoothing with spline functions is a well established method in nonparametric regression analysis. The extension to multivariate data is straightforward, but suffers from exponentially increasing memory and computational complexity. Therefore, we consider a matrix-free implementation of a geometric multigrid preconditioned conjugate gradient method for the regularized least squares problem resulting from tensor product B-spline smoothing with multivariate and scattered data. The algorithm requires a moderate amount of memory and is therefore applicable also for high-dimensional data. Moreover, for arbitrary but fixed dimension, we achieve grid independent convergence which is fundamental to achieve algorithmic scalability.

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@article{arxiv.1901.00654,
  title  = {A Multigrid Preconditioner for Tensor Product Spline Smoothing},
  author = {Martin Siebenborn and Julian Wagner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.00654},
  year   = {2024}
}
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