Description of The Method
As in Newton's method, one uses a second order approximation to find the minimum of a function . The Taylor series of around an iterate is:
where is the gradient and an approximation to the Hessian matrix. The gradient of this approximation (with respect to ) is
and setting this gradient to zero provides the Newton step:
The Hessian approximation is chosen to satisfy
which is called the secant equation (the Taylor series of the gradient itself). In more than one dimension is under determined. In one dimension, solving for and applying the Newton's step with the updated value is equivalent to the secant method. The various quasi-Newton methods differ in their choice of the solution to the secant equation (in one dimension, all the variants are equivalent). Most methods (but with exceptions, such as Broyden's method) seek a symmetric solution ; furthermore, the variants listed below can be motivated by finding an update that is as close as possible to in some norm; that is, where is some positive definite matrix matrix that defines the norm. An approximate initial value of is often sufficient to achieve rapid convergence. The unknown is updated applying the Newton's step calculated using the current approximate Hessian matrix
- , with chosen to satisfy the Wolfe conditions;
- ;
- The gradient computed at the new point, and
is used to update the approximate Hessian, or directly its inverse using the Sherman-Morrison formula.
- A key property of the BFGS and DFP updates is that if is positive definite and is chosen to satisfy the Wolfe conditions then is also positive definite.
The most popular update formulas are:
| Method | ||
|---|---|---|
| DFP | ||
| BFGS |  |
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| Broyden | ||
| Broyden family | ||
| SR1 |
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