
On the uniqueness of local minima for general abstract nonlinear least-squares problems
Chavent, Guy (1988), On the uniqueness of local minima for general abstract nonlinear least-squares problems, Inverse Problems, 4, 2. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0266-5611/4/2/007
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Chavent, GuyAbstract (EN)
The effectiveness of the inversion of a mapping phi defined on a set C by nonlinear least-squares techniques relies on, among other things, the uniqueness of local minima of the least-squares criterion, which ensures that the numerical optimisation algorithm (if they do) converges towards the global minimum of the least-squares functional. The author defines a number y depending only on C and phi which, if the size of phi (C) is not too large with respect to its curvature, is strictly positive, thus yielding the uniqueness of all local minima having a value smaller than y. The condition y>0 requires neither convexity of C nor any monotonic property of phi , but involves the computation of an infimum over delta C* delta C of first and second derivatives of phi . Numerical applications to the estimation of two parameters in a parabolic equation are given.Subjects / Keywords
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