<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 7:19 AM, Michael White <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mrwhite@umn.edu" target="_blank">mrwhite@umn.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hello,<div><br></div><div>I am not quite sure how to use the L-BFGS implementation in PETSc with a preconditioner that approximates the Jacobian. As far as I understand it, L-BFGS is like Newton's Method but doesn't require the user to input the Jacobian matrix. However, for my application, I do have a good preconditioner that approximates the Jacobian matrix. My question is where to input such a preconditioner. I have 3 possible guesses about the correct way to do it.</div><div><br></div><div>1. Use SNESSetJacobian to provide a function which computes the preconditioner. I'm unsure if this information is even used though, since L-BFGS builds its own approximation to the inverse Jacobian as it goes.</div><div><br></div><div>2. Use SNESQNSetScaleType with SNES_QN_SCALE_JACOBIAN to set my preconditioner as an initial approximation to the Jacobian somehow?</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This is the intent, but we have no tests of this in PETSc, so let me know if this works. Jed Brown and Peter Brune have a paper</div><div>where they do this and it has the options they used.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>3. Use an SNESSetNPC with my preconditioner as a linear preconditioner?</div><div><br></div><div>Anyone that could point me in the right direction would be greatly appreciated.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Why are you using L-BFGS if you have a good Jacobian preconditioner? You could do Newton with that</div><div>preconditioning matrix and MF application of the Jacobian.</div><div><br></div><div> Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div> Matt</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Best regards,</div><div>Michael White</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>
</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.<br>-- Norbert Wiener</div>
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