A note on the Levenberg-Marquardt parameter

Jinyan Fan*, Jianyu Pan

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Abstract

In [C. Ma, L. Jiang, Some research on Levenberg-Marquardt method for the nonlinear equations, Appl. Math. Comput. 184 (2007) 1032-1040], the LM parameter at the kth iteration is chosen as λk = θ {norm of matrix} Fk {norm of matrix}2 + (1 - θ) {norm of matrix} JkT Fk {norm of matrix}2 where F is the residual function, J is the Jacobi of F, and θ ∈ [0, 1] is a constant. In this note, we point out that the LM parameter can be any combination of {norm of matrix} Fk {norm of matrix}2 and {norm of matrix} JkT Fk {norm of matrix}2 provided it is positive. Furthermore, we give a more general choice of the LM parameter, and show that the LM method still preserves the quadratic convergence under the local error condition which is weaker than nonsingularity. Crown

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)351-359
Number of pages9
JournalApplied Mathematics and Computation
Volume207
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 15 Jan 2009

Keywords

  • Levenberg-Marquardt method
  • Nonlinear equations
  • Quadratic convergence

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