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非线性最小二乘法LevenbergMarquardtmethod

Levenberg-MarquardtMethod（麦夸尔特法）

Levenberg-MarquardtisapopularalternativetotheGauss-Newtonmethodoffindingtheminimumofafunction

thatisasumofsquaresofnonlinearfunctions,

LettheJacobianof

bedenoted

thentheLevenberg-Marquardtmethodsearchesinthedirectiongivenbythesolution

totheequations

where

arenonnegativescalarsand

istheidentitymatrix.Themethodhasthenicepropertythat,forsomescalar

relatedto

thevector

isthesolutionoftheconstrainedsubproblemofminimizing

subjectto

（Gilletal.1981,p. 136）.

ThemethodisusedbythecommandFindMinimum[f,

x,x0

]whengiventheMethod->LevenbergMarquardtoption.

窗体顶端

SEEALSO:

Minimum,Optimization

窗体底端

REFERENCES:

Bates,D. M.andWatts,D. G.NonlinearRegressionandItsApplications.NewYork:

Wiley,1988.

Gill,P. R.;Murray,W.;andWright,M. H."TheLevenberg-MarquardtMethod."§4.7.3inPracticalOptimization.London:

AcademicPress,pp. 136-137,1981.

Levenberg,K."AMethodfortheSolutionofCertainProblemsinLeastSquares."Quart.Appl.Math.2,164-168,1944.

Marquardt,D."AnAlgorithmforLeast-SquaresEstimationofNonlinearParameters."SIAMJ.Appl.Math.11,431-441,1963.

Levenberg–Marquardtalgorithm

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Inmathematicsandcomputing,theLevenberg–Marquardtalgorithm（LMA）[1]providesanumericalsolutiontotheproblemofminimizingafunction,generallynonlinear,overaspaceofparametersofthefunction.Theseminimizationproblemsariseespeciallyinleastsquarescurvefittingandnonlinearprogramming.

TheLMAinterpolatesbetweentheGauss–Newtonalgorithm（GNA）andthemethodofgradientdescent.TheLMAismorerobustthantheGNA,whichmeansthatinmanycasesitfindsasolutionevenifitstartsveryfaroffthefinalminimum.Forwell-behavedfunctionsandreasonablestartingparameters,theLMAtendstobeabitslowerthantheGNA.LMAcanalsobeviewedasGauss–Newtonusingatrustregionapproach.

TheLMAisaverypopularcurve-fittingalgorithmusedinmanysoftwareapplicationsforsolvinggenericcurve-fittingproblems.However,theLMAfindsonlyalocalminimum,notaglobalminimum.

Contents

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∙1CaveatEmptor

∙2Theproblem

∙3Thesolution

o3.1Choiceofdampingparameter

∙4Example

∙5Notes

∙6Seealso

∙7References

∙8Externallinks

o8.1Descriptions

o8.2Implementations

[edit]CaveatEmptor

Oneimportantlimitationthatisveryoftenover-lookedisthatitonlyoptimisesforresidualerrorsinthedependantvariable（y）.Ittherebyimplicitlyassumesthatanyerrorsintheindependentvariablearezerooratleastratioofthetwoissosmallastobenegligible.Thisisnotadefect,itisintentional,butitmustbetakenintoaccountwhendecidingwhethertousethistechniquetodoafit.Whilethismaybesuitableincontextofacontrolledexperimenttherearemanysituationswherethisassumptioncannotbemade.Insuchsituationseithernon-leastsquaresmethodsshouldbeusedortheleast-squaresfitshouldbedoneinproportiontotherelativeerrorsinthetwovariables,notsimplythevertical"y"error.Failingtorecognisethiscanleadtoafitwhichissignificantlyincorrectandfundamentallywrong.Itwillusuallyunderestimatetheslope.Thismayormaynotbeobvioustotheeye.

MicroSoftExcel'schartoffersatrendfitthathasthislimitationthatisundocumented.Usersoftenfallintothistrapassumingthefitiscorrectlycalculatedforallsituations.OpenOfficespreadsheetcopiedthisfeatureandpresentsthesameproblem.

[edit]Theproblem

TheprimaryapplicationoftheLevenberg–Marquardtalgorithmisintheleastsquarescurvefittingproblem:

givenasetofmempiricaldatumpairsofindependentanddependentvariables,（xi,yi）,optimizetheparametersβofthemodelcurvef（x,β）sothatthesumofthesquaresofthedeviations

becomesminimal.

[edit]Thesolution

Likeothernumericminimizationalgorithms,theLevenberg–Marquardtalgorithmisaniterativeprocedure.Tostartaminimization,theuserhastoprovideaninitialguessfortheparametervector,β.Inmanycases,anuninformedstandardguesslikeβT=（1,1,...,1）willworkfine;inothercases,thealgorithmconvergesonlyiftheinitialguessisalreadysomewhatclosetothefinalsolution.

Ineachiterationstep,theparametervector,β,isreplacedbyanewestimate,β+δ.Todetermineδ,thefunctions

areapproximatedbytheirlinearizations

where

isthegradient（row-vectorinthiscase）offwithrespecttoβ.

Atitsminimum,thesumofsquares,S（β）,thegradientofSwithrespecttoδwillbezero.Theabovefirst-orderapproximationof

gives

.

Orinvectornotation,

.

Takingthederivativewithrespecttoδandsettingtheresulttozerogives:

where

istheJacobianmatrixwhoseithrowequalsJi,andwhere

and

arevectorswithithcomponent

andyi,respectively.Thisisasetoflinearequationswhichcanbesolvedforδ.

Levenberg'scontributionistoreplacethisequationbya"dampedversion",

whereIistheidentitymatrix,givingastheincrement,δ,totheestimatedparametervector,β.

The（non-negative）dampingfactor,λ,isadjustedateachiteration.IfreductionofSisrapid,asmallervaluecanbeused,bringingthealgorithmclosertotheGauss–Newtonalgorithm,whereasifaniterationgivesinsufficientreductionintheresidual,λcanbeincreased,givingastepclosertothegradientdescentdirection.NotethatthegradientofSwithrespecttoβequals

.Therefore,forlargevaluesofλ,thestepwillbetakenapproximatelyinthedirectionofthegradient.Ifeitherthelengthofthecalculatedstep,δ,orthereductionofsumofsquaresfromthelatestparametervector,β+δ,fallbelowpredefinedlimits,iterationstopsandthelastparametervector,β,isconsideredtobethesolution.

Levenberg'salgorithmhasthedisadvantagethatifthevalueofdampingfactor,λ,islarge,invertingJTJ + λIisnotusedatall.Marquardtprovidedtheinsightthatwecanscaleeachcomponentofthegradientaccordingtothecurvaturesothatthereislargermovementalongthedirectionswherethegradientissmaller.Thisavoidsslowconvergenceinthedirectionofsmallgradient.Therefore,Marquardtreplacedtheidentitymatrix,I,withthediagonalmatrixconsistingofthediagonalelementsofJTJ,resultingintheLevenberg–Marquardtalgorithm:

.

AsimilardampingfactorappearsinTikhonovregularization,whichisusedtosolvelinearill-posedproblems,aswellasinridgeregression,anestimationtechniqueinstatistics.

[edit]Choiceofdampingparameter

Variousmore-or-lessheuristicargumentshavebeenputforwardforthebestchoiceforthedampingparameterλ.Theoreticalargumentsexistshowingwhysomeofthesechoicesguaranteedlocalconvergenceofthealgorithm;howeverthesechoicescanmaketheglobalconvergenceofthealgorithmsufferfromtheundesirablepropertiesofsteepest-descent,inparticularveryslowconvergenceclosetotheoptimum.

Theabsolutevaluesofanychoicedependsonhowwell-scaledtheinitialproblemis.Marquardtrecommendedstartingwithavalueλ0andafactorν>1.Initiallysettingλ=λ0andcomputingtheresidualsumofsquaresS（β）afteronestepfromthestartingpointwiththedampingfactorofλ=λ0andsecondlywithλ0/ν.Ifbothoftheseareworsethantheinitialpointthenthedampingisincreasedbysuccessivemultiplicationbyνuntilabetterpointisfoundwithanewdampingfactorofλ0νkforsomek.

Ifuseofthedampingfactorλ/νresultsinareductioninsquaredresidualthenthisistakenasthenewvalueofλ（andthenewoptimumlocationistakenasthatobtainedwiththisdampingfactor）andtheprocesscontinues;ifusingλ/νresultedinaworseresidual,butusingλresultedinabetterresidualthenλisleftunchangedandthenewoptimumistakenasthevalueobtainedwithλasdampingfactor.

[edit]Example

PoorFit

BetterFit

BestFit

Inthisexamplewetrytofitthefunctiony=acos（bX）+bsin（aX）usingtheLevenberg–MarquardtalgorithmimplementedinGNUOctaveastheleasqrfunction.The3graphsFig1,2,3showprogressivelybetterfittingfortheparametersa=100,b=102usedintheinitialcurve.OnlywhentheparametersinFig3arechosenclosesttotheoriginal,arethecurvesfittingexactly.ThisequationisanexampleofverysensitiveinitialconditionsfortheLevenberg–Marquardtalgorithm.Onereasonforthissensitivityistheexistenceofmultipleminima—thefunctioncos（βx）hasminimaatparametervalue

and

[edit]Notes

1.^ThealgorithmwasfirstpublishedbyKennethLevenberg,whileworkingattheFrankfordArmyArsenal.ItwasrediscoveredbyDonaldMarquardtwhoworkedasastatisticianatDuPontandindependentlybyGirard,WynnandMorrison.

[edit]Seealso

∙Trustregion

[edit]References

∙KennethLevenberg（1944）."AMethodfortheSolutionofCertainNon-LinearProblemsinLeastSquares".TheQuarterlyofAppliedMathematics2:

164–168. 

∙A.Girard（1958）.Rev.Opt37:

225,397. 

∙C.G.Wynne（1959）."LensDesigningbyElectronicDigitalComputer:

I".Proc.Phys.Soc.London73（5）:

777.doi:

10.1088/0370-1328/73/5/310. 

∙JorjeJ.MoréandDanielC.Sorensen（1983）."ComputingaTrust-RegionStep".SIAMJ.Sci.Stat.Comput.（4）:

553–572. 

∙D.D.Morrison（1960）.JetPropulsionLaboratorySeminarproceedings. 

∙DonaldMarquardt（1963）."AnAlgorithmforLeast-SquaresEstimationofNonlinearParameters".SIAMJournalonAppliedMathematics11

（2）:

431–441.doi:

10.1137/0111030. 

∙PhilipE.GillandWalterMurray（1978）.