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A Randomised Subspace Gauss-Newton Method for Nonlinear Least-Squares

Optimization and Control 2022-11-11 v1 Machine Learning

Abstract

We propose a Randomised Subspace Gauss-Newton (R-SGN) algorithm for solving nonlinear least-squares optimization problems, that uses a sketched Jacobian of the residual in the variable domain and solves a reduced linear least-squares on each iteration. A sublinear global rate of convergence result is presented for a trust-region variant of R-SGN, with high probability, which matches deterministic counterpart results in the order of the accuracy tolerance. Promising preliminary numerical results are presented for R-SGN on logistic regression and on nonlinear regression problems from the CUTEst collection.

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@article{arxiv.2211.05727,
  title  = {A Randomised Subspace Gauss-Newton Method for Nonlinear Least-Squares},
  author = {Coralia Cartis and Jaroslav Fowkes and Zhen Shao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.05727},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

This work first appears in Thirty-seventh International Conference on Machine Learning, 2020, in Workshop on Beyond First Order Methods in ML Systems. https://sites.google.com/view/optml-icml2020/accepted-papers?authuser=0. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2206.03371

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