A fast solver for the first biharmonic boundary value problem.
The solutions to the Rational Covariance Extension Problem (RCEP) are parameterized by the spectral zeros. The rational filter with a specified numerator solving the RCEP can be determined from a known convex optimization problem. However, this optimization problem may become ill-conditioned for some parameter values. A modification of the optimization problem to avoid the ill-conditioning is proposed and the modified problem is solved efficiently by a continuation method.
In this contribution, we propose a new hybrid method for minimization of nonlinear least squares. This method is based on quasi-Newton updates, applied to an approximation of the Jacobian matrix , such that . This property allows us to solve a linear least squares problem, minimizing instead of solving the normal equation , where is the required direction vector. Computational experiments confirm the efficiency of the new method.