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The conjugate gradient (CG) method is an efficient iterative method for solving large-scale strongly convex quadratic programming (QP). In this paper we propose some generalized CG (GCG) methods for solving the $\ell_1$-regularized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-02-15 Zhaosong Lu , Xiaojun Chen

We consider the conjugate gradient algorithm applied to a general class of spiked sample covariance matrices. The main result of the paper is that the norms of the error and residual vectors at any finite step concentrate on deterministic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-29 Xiucai Ding , Thomas Trogdon

The Preconditioned Conjugate Gradient (PCG) method is widely used for solving linear systems of equations with sparse matrices. A recent version of PCG, Pipelined PCG, eliminates the dependencies in the computations of the PCG algorithm so…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Manasi Tiwari , Sathish Vadhiyar

The primal-dual hybrid gradient (PDHG) algorithm is popular in solving min-max problems which are being widely used in a variety of areas. To improve the applicability and efficiency of PDHG for different application scenarios, we focus on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-10 Yumin Ma , Xingju Cai , Bo Jiang , Deren Han

We consider estimators obtained by iterates of the conjugate gradient (CG) algorithm applied to the normal equation of prototypical statistical inverse problems. Stopping the CG algorithm early induces regularisation, and optimal…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-12-23 Laura Hucker , Markus Reiß

Our goal in this paper is to clarify the relationship between the block Lanczos and the block conjugate gradient (BCG) algorithms. Under the full rank assumption for the block vectors, we show the one-to-one correspondence between the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-25 Petr Tichý , Gérard Meurant , Dorota Šimonová

We analyze the convergence of the Conjugate Gradient (CG) method in exact arithmetic, when the coefficient matrix $A$ is symmetric positive semidefinite and the system is consistent. To do so, we diagonalize $A$ and decompose the algorithm…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-12 Ken Hayami

Multilevel methods represent a powerful approach in numerical solution of partial differential equations. The multilevel structure can also be used to construct estimates for total and algebraic errors of computed approximations. This paper…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-13 Petr Vacek , Jan Papež , Zdeněk Strakoš

We consider the preconditioned conjugate gradient method (PCG) with optimal preconditioner in the frame of the boundary element method (BEM) for elliptic first-kind integral equations. Our adaptive algorithm steers the termination of PCG as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-21 Thomas Führer , Alexander Haberl , Dirk Praetorius , Stefan Schimanko

In this paper, we propose two mixed precision algorithms for Block-Jacobi preconditioner(BJAC): a fixed low precision strategy and an adaptive precision strategy. We evaluate the performance improvement of the proposed mixed precision BJAC…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-16 Ningxi Tian , Silu Huang , Xiaowen Xu

The problem of optimal precision switching for the conjugate gradient (CG) method applied to sparse linear systems is considered. A sparse matrix is defined as an $n\!\times\!n$ matrix with $m\!=\!O(n)$ nonzero entries. The algorithm first…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Alexander V. Prolubnikov

The use of the Preconditioned Conjugate Gradient (PCG) method for computing the Generalized Least Squares (GLS) estimator of the General Linear Model (GLM) is considered. The GLS estimator is expressed in terms of the solution of an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-17 Paolo Foschi

In recent years, topology optimization has been developed sufficiently and many researchers have concentrated on enhancing to computationally numerical algorithms for computational effectiveness of this method. Along with the development of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-19 Nam G. Luu , Thanh T. Banh

We present and analyze a preconditioned conjugate gradient method (PCG) for solving spatial network problems. Primarily, we consider diffusion and structural mechanics simulations for fiber based materials, but the methodology can be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-18 Morgan Görtz , Fredrik Hellman , Axel Målqvist

The Bayesian conjugate gradient method offers probabilistic solutions to linear systems but suffers from poor calibration, limiting its utility in uncertainty quantification tasks. Recent approaches leveraging postiterations to construct…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-08-13 Niall Vyas , Disha Hegde , Jon Cockayne

Estimating hyperparameters has been a long-standing problem in machine learning. We consider the case where the task at hand is modeled as the solution to an optimization problem. Here the exact gradient with respect to the hyperparameters…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-16 Matthias J. Ehrhardt , Lindon Roberts

The locally optimal block preconditioned conjugate gradient (LOBPCG) algorithm is a popular approach for computing a few smallest eigenvalues and the corresponding eigenvectors of a large Hermitian positive definite matrix A. In this work,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-06 Daniel Kressner , Yuxin Ma , Meiyue Shao

The efficient solution of large-scale multiterm linear matrix equations is a challenging task in numerical linear algebra, and it is a largely open problem. We propose a new iterative scheme for symmetric and positive definite operators,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Davide Palitta , Martina Iannacito , Valeria Simoncini

In this letter, an accelerated quadratic programming (QP) algorithm is proposed based on the proximal gradient method. The algorithm can achieve convergence rate $O(1/p^{\alpha})$, where $p$ is the iteration number and $\alpha$ is the given…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-25 Jia Wang , Ying Yang

The computational and storage complexity of kernel machines presents the primary barrier to their scaling to large, modern, datasets. A common way to tackle the scalability issue is to use the conjugate gradient algorithm, which relieves…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-05-26 Kurt Cutajar , Michael A. Osborne , John P. Cunningham , Maurizio Filippone