R: Solving and Optimizing Large-Scale Nonlinear Systems

BB-package {BB} | R Documentation

## Solving and Optimizing Large-Scale Nonlinear Systems

### Description

Non-monotone Barzilai-Borwein spectral methods for the solution and optimization of large-scale nonlinear systems.

### Details

A tutorial style introduction to this package is available in a vignette, which can be viewed with vignette("BB").

The main functions in this package are:

    BBsolve A wrapper function to provide a robust stategy for solving large
            systems of nonlinear equations. It calls dfsane with different
    	algorithm control settings, until a successfully converged solution
    	is obtained.

    BBoptim A wrapper function to provide a robust stategy for real valued function
            optimization. It calls spg with different algorithm control settings,
    	until a successfully converged solution is obtained.

    dfsane  function for solving large systems of nonlinear equations using a
            derivative-free spectral approach

    sane	function for solving large systems of nonlinear equations using
            spectral approach

    spg	function for spectral projected gradient method for large-scale
            optimization with simple constraints

### Author(s)

Ravi Varadhan

### References

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Birgin EG, Martinez JM, and Raydan M (2000): Nonmonotone spectral projected gradient methods on convex sets, SIAM J Optimization, 10, 1196-1211.

Birgin EG, Martinez JM, and Raydan M (2001): SPG: software for convex-constrained optimization, ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software.

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W LaCruz, JM Martinez, and M Raydan (2006), Spectral residual method without gradient information for solving large-scale nonlinear systems of equations, Mathematics of Computation, 75, 1429-1448.

M Raydan (1997), Barzilai-Borwein gradient method for large-scale unconstrained minimization problem, SIAM J of Optimization, 7, 26-33.

R Varadhan and C Roland (2008), Simple and globally-convergent methods for accelerating the convergence of any EM algorithm, Scandinavian J Statistics, doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9469.2007.00585.x.

R Varadhan and PD Gilbert (2009), BB: An R Package for Solving a Large System of Nonlinear Equations and for Optimizing a High-Dimensional Nonlinear Objective Function, J. Statistical Software, 32:4, http://www.jstatsoft.org/v32/i04/

[Package BB version 2014.10-1 Index]