Background

Hybrid regularization methods have been proposed as effective approaches for solving large-scale ill-posed inverse problems. These methods restrict the solution to lie in a Krylov subspace, but they are hindered by semi-convergence behavior, in that the quality of the solution first increases and then decreases. Hybrid methods apply a standard regularization technique, such as Tikhonov regularization, to the projected problem at each iteration. Thus, regularization in hybrid methods is achieved both by Krylov filtering and by appropriate choice of a regularization parameter at each iteration.

For more information, take a look at this scientific poster.


Software Download

Here we provide three MATLAB implementations of Golub-Kahan based hybrid regularization. Included with the above archives are examples:
* Using HyBR with problems from Regularization Tools
* Using HyBR with image deblurring problems from RestoreTools
* Using LSQR and LSMR codes from Systems Optimization Laboratory


Acknowledgements

We are grateful to Professor Per Christian Hansen for allowing us to include Regularization Tools with our codes.

This work has been supported by the National Science Foundation under Grants DMS 05-11454 and CCF 05-14214, and by the DOE under a Computational Sciences Graduate Research Fellowship. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation or the Department of Energy.