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A comparison of the convergence of gradient descent with optimal step size (in green) and conjugate vector (in red) for minimizing a quadratic function associated with a given linear system. Conjugate gradient, assuming exact arithmetic, converges in at most n steps where n is the size of the matrix of the system (here n=2).

In mathematics, the conjugate gradient method is an algorithm for the numerical solution of particular systems of linear equations, namely those whose matrix is symmetric and positive-definite. The conjugate gradient method is often implemented as an iterative algorithm, applicable to sparse systems that are too large to be handled by a direct implementation or other direct methods such as the Cholesky decomposition. Large sparse systems often arise when numerically solving partial differential equations or optimization problems.

The conjugate gradient method can also be used to solve unconstrained optimization problems such as energy minimization. It was developed by Magnus Hestenes and Eduard Stiefel.

The biconjugate gradient method provides a generalization to non-symmetric matrices. Various nonlinear conjugate gradient methods seek minima of nonlinear equations.

Description of the method

Suppose we want to solve the following system of linear equations

Ax = b

for the vector x where the known n-by-n matrix A is symmetric (i.e. A^T = A), positive definite (i.e. x^TAx > 0 for all non-zero vectors x in Rⁿ), and real, and b is known as well.

We denote the unique solution of this system by ${\mathbf{x}}_{*}$.

The conjugate gradient method as a direct method

We say that two non-zero vectors u and v are conjugate (with respect to A) if

${\mathbf{u}}^{\mathrm{T}}\mathbf{A}\mathbf{v}=0.$

Since A is symmetric and positive definite, the left-hand side defines an inner product

$⟨\mathbf{u},\mathbf{v}{⟩}_{\mathbf{A}}:=⟨\mathbf{A}\mathbf{u},\mathbf{v}⟩=⟨\mathbf{u},{\mathbf{A}}^{\mathrm{T}}\mathbf{v}⟩=⟨\mathbf{u},\mathbf{A}\mathbf{v}⟩={\mathbf{u}}^{\mathrm{T}}\mathbf{A}\mathbf{v}.$

Two vectors are conjugate if they are orthogonal with respect to this inner product. Being conjugate is a symmetric relation: if u is conjugate to v, then v is conjugate to u.

Suppose that $P=\{{\mathbf{p}}_k:\mathrm{\forall }i\ne k\in [1,n]\subset \mathbb{\mathbb{N}},⟨{\mathbf{p}}_i,{\mathbf{p}}_k{⟩}_A=0\}$ is a set of n mutually conjugate directions. Then $P$ is a basis of ${\mathbb{ℝ}}^n$, so within $P$ we can expand the solution ${\mathbf{x}}_{*}$ of $\mathbf{A}\mathbf{x}=\mathbf{b}$:

${\mathbf{x}}_{*}=\sum _{i=1}^n{\alpha }_i{\mathbf{p}}_i$

and we see that

$\mathbf{b}=\mathbf{A}{\mathbf{x}}_{*}=\sum _{i=1}^n{\alpha }_i\mathbf{A}{\mathbf{p}}_i.$

For any ${\mathbf{p}}_k\in P$,

${\mathbf{p}}_k^{\mathrm{T}}\mathbf{b}={\mathbf{p}}_k^{\mathrm{T}}\mathbf{A}{\mathbf{x}}_{*}=\sum _{i=1}^n{\alpha }_i{\mathbf{p}}_k^{\mathrm{T}}\mathbf{A}{\mathbf{p}}_i={\alpha }_k{\mathbf{p}}_k^{\mathrm{T}}\mathbf{A}{\mathbf{p}}_k.$

(because $\mathrm{\forall }i\ne k,p_i,p_k$ are mutually conjugate)

${\alpha }_k=\frac{{\mathbf{p}}_k^{\mathrm{T}}\mathbf{b}}{{\mathbf{p}}_k^{\mathrm{T}}\mathbf{A}{\mathbf{p}}_k}=\frac{⟨{\mathbf{p}}_k,\mathbf{b}⟩}{⟨{\mathbf{p}}_k,{\mathbf{p}}_k{⟩}_{\mathbf{A}}}=\frac{⟨{\mathbf{p}}_k,\mathbf{b}⟩}{\Vert {\mathbf{p}}_k{\Vert }_{\mathbf{A}}^2}.$

This result is perhaps most transparent by considering the inner product defined above.

This gives the following method for solving the equation Ax = b: find a sequence of n conjugate directions, and then compute the coefficients ${\alpha }_k$.

The conjugate gradient method as an iterative method

If we choose the conjugate vectors p_k carefully, then we may not need all of them to obtain a good approximation to the solution ${\mathbf{x}}_{*}$. So, we want to regard the conjugate gradient method as an iterative method. This also allows us to approximately solve systems where n is so large that the direct method would take too much time.

We denote the initial guess for ${\mathbf{x}}_{*}$ by x₀. We can assume without loss of generality that x₀ = 0 (otherwise, consider the system Az = b − Ax₀ instead). Starting with x₀ we search for the solution and in each iteration we need a metric to tell us whether we are closer to the solution ${\mathbf{x}}_{*}$ (that is unknown to us). This metric comes from the fact that the solution ${\mathbf{x}}_{*}$ is also the unique minimizer of the following quadratic function; so if f(x) becomes smaller in an iteration it means that we are closer to ${\mathbf{x}}_{*}$.

$f(\mathbf{x})=\frac{1}{2}{\mathbf{x}}^{\mathrm{T}}\mathbf{A}\mathbf{x}-{\mathbf{x}}^{\mathrm{T}}\mathbf{b},\mathbf{x}\in {\mathbf{R}}^n.$

This suggests taking the first basis vector p₀ to be the negative of the gradient of f at x = x₀. The gradient of f equals Ax₀−b. Starting with a "guessed solution" x₀ (we can always guess that ${\mathbf{x}}_{*}$ is 0 and set x₀ to 0 if we have no reason to guess for anything else), this means we take p₀ = b−Ax₀. The other vectors in the basis will be conjugate to the gradient, hence the name conjugate gradient method.

Let r_k be the residual at the kth step:

${\mathbf{r}}_k=\mathbf{b}-{\mathbf{A}\mathbf{x}}_k.$

Note that r_k is the negative gradient of f at x = x_k, so the gradient descent method would be to move in the direction r_k. Here, we insist that the directions p_k be conjugate to each other. We also require that the next search direction be built out of the current residue and all previous search directions, which is reasonable enough in practice.

The conjugation constraint is an orthonormal-type constraint and hence the algorithm bears resemblance to Gram-Schmidt orthonormalization.

This gives the following expression:

${\mathbf{p}}_k={\mathbf{r}}_k-\sum _{i<k}\frac{{\mathbf{p}}_i^{\mathrm{T}}\mathbf{A}{\mathbf{r}}_k}{{\mathbf{p}}_i^{\mathrm{T}}\mathbf{A}{\mathbf{p}}_i}{\mathbf{p}}_i$

(see the picture at the top of the article for the effect of the conjugacy constraint on convergence). Following this direction, the next optimal location is given by

${\mathbf{x}}_{k+1}={\mathbf{x}}_k+{\alpha }_k{\mathbf{p}}_k$

with

${\alpha }_k=\frac{{\mathbf{p}}_k^{\mathrm{T}}\mathbf{b}}{{\mathbf{p}}_k^{\mathrm{T}}\mathbf{A}{\mathbf{p}}_k}=\frac{{\mathbf{p}}_k^{\mathrm{T}}({\mathbf{r}}_{k-1}+{\mathbf{A}\mathbf{x}}_{k-1})}{{\mathbf{p}}_k^{\mathrm{T}}\mathbf{A}{\mathbf{p}}_k}=\frac{{\mathbf{p}}_k^{\mathrm{T}}{\mathbf{r}}_{k-1}}{{\mathbf{p}}_k^{\mathrm{T}}\mathbf{A}{\mathbf{p}}_k},$

where the last equality holds because p_k and x_k-1 are conjugate.

The resulting algorithm

The above algorithm gives the most straightforward explanation of the conjugate gradient method. Seemingly, the algorithm as stated requires storage of all previous searching directions and residue vectors, as well as many matrix-vector multiplications, and thus can be computationally expensive. However, a closer analysis of the algorithm shows that r_k+1 is conjugate to p_i for all i < k (can be proved by induction, for example), and therefore only r_k, p_k, and x_k are needed to construct r_k+1, p_k+1, and x_k+1. Furthermore, only one matrix-vector multiplication is needed in each iteration.

The algorithm is detailed below for solving Ax = b where A is a real, symmetric, positive-definite matrix. The input vector x₀ can be an approximate initial solution or 0. It is a different formulation of the exact procedure described above.

$\begin{array}{rl}& {\mathbf{r}}_0:=\mathbf{b}-{\mathbf{A}\mathbf{x}}_0\\ & {\mathbf{p}}_0:={\mathbf{r}}_0\\ & k:=0\\ & \text{repeat}\\ & {\alpha }_k:=\frac{{\mathbf{r}}_k^{\mathrm{T}}{\mathbf{r}}_k}{{\mathbf{p}}_k^{\mathrm{T}}{\mathbf{A}\mathbf{p}}_k}\\ & {\mathbf{x}}_{k+1}:={\mathbf{x}}_k+{\alpha }_k{\mathbf{p}}_k\\ & {\mathbf{r}}_{k+1}:={\mathbf{r}}_k-{\alpha }_k{\mathbf{A}\mathbf{p}}_k\\ & \text{if }{r}_{k+1}\text{ is sufficiently small then exit loop}\\ & {\beta }_k:=\frac{{\mathbf{r}}_{k+1}^{\mathrm{T}}{\mathbf{r}}_{k+1}}{{\mathbf{r}}_k^{\mathrm{T}}{\mathbf{r}}_k}\\ & {\mathbf{p}}_{k+1}:={\mathbf{r}}_{k+1}+{\beta }_k{\mathbf{p}}_k\\ & k:=k+1\\ & \text{end repeat}\\ & \text{The result is }{\mathbf{x}}_{k+1}\end{array}$

This is the most commonly used algorithm. The same formula for ${\beta }_k$ is also used in the Fletcher–Reeves nonlinear conjugate gradient method.

Computation of alpha and beta

In the algorithm, ${\alpha }_k$ is chosen such that ${\mathbf{r}}_{k+1}$ is orthogonal to ${\mathbf{r}}_k$. The denominator is simplified from

${\alpha }_k=\frac{{\mathbf{r}}_k^{\mathrm{T}}{\mathbf{r}}_k}{{\mathbf{r}}_k^{\mathrm{T}}{\mathbf{A}\mathbf{p}}_k}=\frac{{\mathbf{r}}_k^{\mathrm{T}}{\mathbf{r}}_k}{{\mathbf{p}}_k^{\mathrm{T}}{\mathbf{A}\mathbf{p}}_k}$

since ${\mathbf{r}}_k={\mathbf{p}}_k-{\mathit{\beta }}_{k-1}{\mathbf{p}}_{k-1}$. The ${\beta }_k$ is chosen such that ${\mathbf{p}}_{k+1}$ is conjugated to ${\mathbf{p}}_k$. Initially, ${\beta }_k$ is

${\beta }_k=-\frac{{\mathbf{r}}_{k+1}^{\mathrm{T}}A{\mathbf{p}}_k}{{\mathbf{p}}_k^{\mathrm{T}}A{\mathbf{p}}_k}$

using ${\mathbf{r}}_k={\mathbf{r}}_{k-1}-{\alpha }_{k-1}A{\mathbf{p}}_{k-1}$ and equivalently $A{\mathbf{p}}_{k-1}=\frac{1}{{\alpha }_{k-1}}({\mathbf{r}}_{k-1}-{\mathbf{r}}_k)$, the numerator of ${\beta }_k$ is rewritten as

${\mathbf{r}}_{k+1}^{\mathrm{T}}A{\mathbf{p}}_k=\frac{1}{{\alpha }_k}{\mathbf{r}}_{k+1}^{\mathrm{T}}({\mathbf{r}}_k-{\mathbf{r}}_{k+1})=-\frac{1}{{\alpha }_k}{\mathbf{r}}_{k+1}^{\mathrm{T}}{\mathbf{r}}_{k+1}$

because ${\mathbf{r}}_{k+1}$ and ${\mathbf{r}}_k$ are orthogonal by design. The denominator is rewritten as

${\mathbf{p}}_k^{\mathrm{T}}A{\mathbf{p}}_k=({\mathbf{r}}_k+{\beta }_{k-1}{\mathbf{p}}_{k-1}{)}^{\mathrm{T}}A{\mathbf{p}}_k=\frac{1}{{\alpha }_k}{\mathbf{r}}_k^{\mathrm{T}}({\mathbf{r}}_k-{\mathbf{r}}_{k+1})=\frac{1}{{\alpha }_k}{\mathbf{r}}_k^{\mathrm{T}}{\mathbf{r}}_k$

using that the search directions ${\mathbf{p}}_k$ are conjugated and again that the residuals are orthogonal. This gives the $\beta$ in the algorithm after cancelling ${\alpha }_k$.

Example code in Matlab

function [x] = conjgrad(A,b,x)
    r=b-A*x;
    p=r;
    rsold=r'*r;

    for i=1:10^(6)
        Ap=A*p;
        alpha=rsold/(p'*Ap);
        x=x+alpha*p;
        r=r-alpha*Ap;
        rsnew=r'*r;
        if sqrt(rsnew)<1e-10
              break;
        end
        p=r+rsnew/rsold*p;
        rsold=rsnew;
    end

Numerical example

To illustrate the conjugate gradient method, we will complete a simple example.

Considering the linear system Ax = b given by

$\mathbf{A}\mathbf{x}=\left[\begin{array}{cc}4& 1\\ 1& 3\end{array}\right]\left[\begin{array}{c}{x}_1\\ x_2\end{array}\right]=\left[\begin{array}{c}1\\ 2\end{array}\right],$

we will perform two steps of the conjugate gradient method beginning with the initial guess

${\mathbf{x}}_0=\left[\begin{array}{c}2\\ 1\end{array}\right]$

in order to find an approximate solution to the system.

Solution

For reference, the exact solution is

$\mathbf{x}=\left[\begin{array}{c}\frac{1}{11}\\ \\ \frac{7}{11}\end{array}\right]$

Our first step is to calculate the residual vector r₀ associated with x₀. This residual is computed from the formula r₀ = b - Ax₀, and in our case is equal to

${\mathbf{r}}_0=\left[\begin{array}{c}1\\ 2\end{array}\right]-\left[\begin{array}{cc}4& 1\\ 1& 3\end{array}\right]\left[\begin{array}{c}2\\ 1\end{array}\right]=\left[\begin{array}{c}-8\\ -3\end{array}\right].$

Since this is the first iteration, we will use the residual vector r₀ as our initial search direction p₀; the method of selecting p_k will change in further iterations.

We now compute the scalar α₀ using the relationship

${\alpha }_0=\frac{{\mathbf{r}}_0^{\mathrm{T}}{\mathbf{r}}_0}{{\mathbf{p}}_0^{\mathrm{T}}{\mathbf{A}\mathbf{p}}_0}=\frac{\left[\begin{array}{cc}-8& -3\end{array}\right]\left[\begin{array}{c}-8\\ -3\end{array}\right]}{\left[\begin{array}{cc}-8& -3\end{array}\right]\left[\begin{array}{cc}4& 1\\ 1& 3\end{array}\right]\left[\begin{array}{c}-8\\ -3\end{array}\right]}=\frac{73}{331}.$

We can now compute x₁ using the formula

${\mathbf{x}}_1={\mathbf{x}}_0+{\alpha }_0{\mathbf{p}}_0=\left[\begin{array}{c}2\\ 1\end{array}\right]+\frac{73}{331}\left[\begin{array}{c}-8\\ -3\end{array}\right]=\left[\begin{array}{c}0.2356\\ 0.3384\end{array}\right].$

This result completes the first iteration, the result being an "improved" approximate solution to the system, x₁. We may now move on and compute the next residual vector r₁ using the formula

${\mathbf{r}}_1={\mathbf{r}}_0-{\alpha }_0\mathbf{A}{\mathbf{p}}_0=\left[\begin{array}{c}-8\\ -3\end{array}\right]-\frac{73}{331}\left[\begin{array}{cc}4& 1\\ 1& 3\end{array}\right]\left[\begin{array}{c}-8\\ -3\end{array}\right]=\left[\begin{array}{c}-0.2810\\ 0.7492\end{array}\right].$

Our next step in the process is to compute the scalar β₀ that will eventually be used to determine the next search direction p₁.

${\beta }_0=\frac{{\mathbf{r}}_1^{\mathrm{T}}{\mathbf{r}}_1}{{\mathbf{r}}_0^{\mathrm{T}}{\mathbf{r}}_0}=\frac{\left[\begin{array}{cc}-0.2810& 0.7492\end{array}\right]\left[\begin{array}{c}-0.2810\\ 0.7492\end{array}\right]}{\left[\begin{array}{cc}-8& -3\end{array}\right]\left[\begin{array}{c}-8\\ -3\end{array}\right]}=0.0088.$

Now, using this scalar β₀, we can compute the next search direction p₁ using the relationship

${\mathbf{p}}_1={\mathbf{r}}_1+{\beta }_0{\mathbf{p}}_0=\left[\begin{array}{c}-0.2810\\ 0.7492\end{array}\right]+0.0088\left[\begin{array}{c}-8\\ -3\end{array}\right]=\left[\begin{array}{c}-0.3511\\ 0.7229\end{array}\right].$

We now compute the scalar α₁ using our newly-acquired p₁ using the same method as that used for α₀.

${\alpha }_1=\frac{{\mathbf{r}}_1^{\mathrm{T}}{\mathbf{r}}_1}{{\mathbf{p}}_1^{\mathrm{T}}{\mathbf{A}\mathbf{p}}_1}=\frac{\left[\begin{array}{cc}-0.2810& 0.7492\end{array}\right]\left[\begin{array}{c}-0.2810\\ 0.7492\end{array}\right]}{\left[\begin{array}{cc}-0.3511& 0.7229\end{array}\right]\left[\begin{array}{cc}4& 1\\ 1& 3\end{array}\right]\left[\begin{array}{c}-0.3511\\ 0.7229\end{array}\right]}=0.4122.$

Finally, we find x₂ using the same method as that used to find x₁.

${\mathbf{x}}_2={\mathbf{x}}_1+{\alpha }_1{\mathbf{p}}_1=\left[\begin{array}{c}0.2356\\ 0.3384\end{array}\right]+0.4122\left[\begin{array}{c}-0.3511\\ 0.7229\end{array}\right]=\left[\begin{array}{c}0.0909\\ 0.6364\end{array}\right].$

The result, x₂, is a "better" approximation to the system's solution than x₁ and x₀. If exact arithmetic were to be used in this example instead of limited-precision, then the exact solution would theoretically have been reached after n = 2 iterations (n being the order of the system).

Convergence properties of the conjugate gradient method

The conjugate gradient method can theoretically be viewed as a direct method, as it produces the exact solution after a finite number of iterations, which is not larger than the size of the matrix, in the absence of round-off error. However, the conjugate gradient method is unstable with respect to even small perturbations, e.g., most directions are not in practice conjugate, and the exact solution is never obtained. Fortunately, the conjugate gradient method can be used as an iterative method as it provides monotonically improving approximations ${\mathbf{x}}_k$ to the exact solution, which may reach the required tolerance after a relatively small (compared to the problem size) number of iterations. The improvement is typically linear and its speed is determined by the condition number $\kappa (A)$ of the system matrix $A$: the larger is $\kappa (A)$, the slower the improvement.

If $\kappa (A)$ is large, preconditioning is used to replace the original system $\mathbf{A}\mathbf{x}-\mathbf{b}=0$ with ${\mathbf{M}}^{-1}(\mathbf{A}\mathbf{x}-\mathbf{b})=0$ so that $\kappa ({\mathbf{M}}^{-1}\mathbf{A})$ gets smaller than $\kappa (\mathbf{A})$, see below.

The preconditioned conjugate gradient method

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${\mathbf{r}}_0:=\mathbf{b}-{\mathbf{A}\mathbf{x}}_0$

${\mathbf{z}}_0:={\mathbf{M}}^{-1}{\mathbf{r}}_0$

${\mathbf{p}}_0:={\mathbf{z}}_0$

$k:=0$

repeat

${\alpha }_k:=\frac{{\mathbf{r}}_k^{\mathrm{T}}{\mathbf{z}}_k}{{\mathbf{p}}_k^{\mathrm{T}}{\mathbf{A}\mathbf{p}}_k}$

${\mathbf{x}}_{k+1}:={\mathbf{x}}_k+{\alpha }_k{\mathbf{p}}_k$

${\mathbf{r}}_{k+1}:={\mathbf{r}}_k-{\alpha }_k{\mathbf{A}\mathbf{p}}_k$

if r_k+1 is sufficiently small then exit loop end if

${\mathbf{z}}_{k+1}:={\mathbf{M}}^{-1}{\mathbf{r}}_{k+1}$

${\beta }_k:=\frac{{\mathbf{z}}_{k+1}^{\mathrm{T}}{\mathbf{r}}_{k+1}}{{\mathbf{z}}_k^{\mathrm{T}}{\mathbf{r}}_k}$

${\mathbf{p}}_{k+1}:={\mathbf{z}}_{k+1}+{\beta }_k{\mathbf{p}}_k$

$k:=k+1$

end repeat

The result is x_k+1

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${\mathbf{E}}^{-1}\mathbf{A}({\mathbf{E}}^{-1}{)}^{\mathrm{T}}\hat{\mathbf{x}}={\mathbf{E}}^{-1}\mathbf{b}$

where ${\mathbf{E}\mathbf{E}}^{\mathrm{T}}=\mathbf{M}$ and $\hat{\mathbf{x}}={\mathbf{E}}^{\mathrm{T}}\mathbf{x}$.

The preconditioner matrix M has to be symmetric positive-definite and fixed, i.e., cannot change from iteration to iteration. If any of these assumptions on the preconditioner is violated, the behavior of the preconditioned conjugate gradient method may become unpredictable.

An example of a commonly used preconditioner is the incomplete Cholesky factorization.

The flexible preconditioned conjugate gradient method

In numerically challenging applications, sophisticated preconditioners are used, which may lead to variable preconditioning, changing between iterations. Even if the preconditioner is symmetric positive-definite on every iteration, the fact that it may change makes the arguments above invalid, and in practical tests leads to a significant slow down of the convergence of the algorithm presented above. Using the Polak–Ribière formula

${\beta }_k:=\frac{{\mathbf{z}}_{k+1}^{\mathrm{T}}({\mathbf{r}}_{k+1}-{\mathbf{r}}_k)}{{\mathbf{z}}_k^{\mathrm{T}}{\mathbf{r}}_k}$

instead of the Fletcher–Reeves formula

${\beta }_k:=\frac{{\mathbf{z}}_{k+1}^{\mathrm{T}}{\mathbf{r}}_{k+1}}{{\mathbf{z}}_k^{\mathrm{T}}{\mathbf{r}}_k}$

may dramatically improve the convergence in this case. This version of the preconditioned conjugate gradient method can be called flexible, as it allows for variable preconditioning. The implementation of the flexible version requires storing an extra vector. For a fixed preconditioner, ${\mathbf{z}}_{k+1}^{\mathrm{T}}{\mathbf{r}}_k=0,$ so both formulas for ${\beta }_k$ are equivalent in exact arithmetic, i.e., without the round-off error.

The mathematical explanation of the better convergence behavior of the method with the Polak–Ribière formula is that the method is locally optimal in this case, in particular, it converges not slower than the locally optimal steepest descent method.

The conjugate gradient method vs. the locally optimal steepest descent method

In both the original and the preconditioned conjugate gradient methods one only needs to always set ${\beta }_k:=0$ in order to turn them into locally optimal, using the line search, steepest descent methods. With this substitution, vectors $\mathbf{p}$ are always the same as vectors $\mathbf{z}$, so there is no need to store vectors $\mathbf{p}$. Thus, every iteration of these steepest descent methods is a bit cheaper compared to that for the conjugate gradient methods. However, the latter converge faster, unless a (highly) variable preconditioner is used, see above.

Derivation of the method

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The conjugate gradient method can be derived from several different perspectives, including specialization of the conjugate direction method for optimization, and variation of the Arnoldi/Lanczos iteration for eigenvalue problems. Despite differences in their approaches, these derivations share a common topic—proving the orthogonality of the residuals and conjugacy of the search directions. These two properties are crucial to developing the well-known succinct formulation of the method.

Conjugate gradient on the normal equations

The conjugate gradient method can be applied to an arbitrary n-by-m matrix by applying it to normal equations A^TA and right-hand side vector A^Tb, since A^TA is a symmetric positive-semidefinite matrix for any A. The result is conjugate gradient on the normal equations (CGNR).

A^TAx = A^Tb

As an iterative method, it is not necessary to form A^TA explicitly in memory but only to perform the matrix-vector and transpose matrix-vector multiplications. Therefore CGNR is particularly useful when A is a sparse matrix since these operations are usually extremely efficient. However the downside of forming the normal equations is that the condition number κ(A^TA) is equal to κ²(A) and so the rate of convergence of CGNR may be slow and the quality of the approximate solution may be sensitive to roundoff errors. Finding a good preconditioner is often an important part of using the CGNR method.

Several algorithms have been proposed (e.g., CGLS, LSQR). The LSQR algorithm purportedly has the best numerical stability when A is ill-conditioned, i.e., A has a large condition number.

See also

• Biconjugate gradient method (BiCG)
• Conjugate residual method
• Nonlinear conjugate gradient method
• Iterative method. Linear systems
• Preconditioning
• Gaussian Belief Propagation
• Krylov subspace

Notes

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References

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  There are various methods to go about discovering the precise property. Some local newspapers (together with the Straits Instances ) have categorised property sections and many local property brokers have websites. Now there are some specifics to consider when buying a 'new launch' rental. Intended use of the unit Every sale begins with 10 p.c low cost for finish of season sale; changes to 20 % discount storewide; follows by additional reduction of fiftyand ends with last discount of 70 % or extra. Typically there is even a warehouse sale or transferring out sale with huge mark-down of costs for stock clearance. Deborah Regulation from Expat Realtor shares her property market update, plus prime rental residences and houses at the moment available to lease Esparina EC @ Sengkang

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• An Introduction to the Conjugate Gradient Method Without the Agonizing Pain by Jonathan Richard Shewchuk.
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