A family of spectral conjugate gradient algorithms derived by least-squares approximations based on a modified quasi--Newton update with application to a revised robust binary classification model

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2609.13526v1
• Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2026 20:51:14 GMT
• Title: A family of spectral conjugate gradient algorithms derived by least-squares approximations based on a modified quasi--Newton update with application to a revised robust binary classification model
• Abstract summary: We develop a spectral three-term modification of the classic Hestenes--Stiefel conjugate gradient algorithm.<n>We discuss how a modified secant equation can be extracted from our modification scheme, yielding a memoryless BFGS updating formula.<n>We put our algorithm to the test in comparison with the three other conjugate gradient algorithms.
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• Abstract: We develop a spectral three-term modification of the classic Hestenes--Stiefel conjugate gradient algorithm, preserving its anti-jamming characteristic and, simultaneously, taking care of the sufficient descent property. We discuss how a modified secant equation can be extracted from our modification scheme, yielding a memoryless BFGS updating formula. Then, the spectral parameter of our method is obtained by steering its direction toward the given BFGS direction within a least-squares context. Using our technical improvements, we outline the general framework of our algorithm and discuss its theoretical features, including the descent and convergence properties, without the convexity assumption. We put our algorithm to the test in comparison with the three other conjugate gradient algorithms on a set of CUTEr unconstrained optimization test models, comparing the outputs using the Dolan--More measure. Next, we provide a concise evaluation of the results, highlighting the practical advantages of our algorithm. As a real-world case study, we introduce a reduced quadratic surface SVM with the rescaled loss for robust binary classification and apply the proposed algorithm to assess its accuracy and training time against several other SVMs.

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