1. On the Convergence of an Efficient Algorithm for Kullback–Leibler Approximation of Spectral Densities.
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Ferrante, Augusto, Ramponi, Federico, and Ticozzi, Francesco
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SPECTRAL energy distribution ,STOCHASTIC convergence ,APPROXIMATION theory ,MATHEMATICAL optimization ,VARIATIONAL principles ,DENSITY functionals ,ROBUST control ,ALGORITHMS ,INTERPOLATION - Abstract
This paper deals with a method for the approximation of a spectral density function among the solutions of a generalized moment problem à la Byrnes/Georgiou/Lindquist. The approximation is pursued with respect to the Kullback–Leibler pseudo-distance, which gives rise to a convex optimization problem. After developing the variational analysis, we discuss the properties of an efficient algorithm for the solution of the corresponding dual problem, based on the iteration of a nonlinear map in a bounded subset of the dual space. Our main result is the proof of local convergence of the latter, established as a consequence of the central manifold theorem. Supported by numerical evidence, we conjecture that, in the mentioned bounded set, the convergence is actually global. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2011
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