Steepest Descent && Conjugate Gradient

April 25, 2022

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An Introduction to the Conjugate Gradient Method Without the Agonizing Pain

It is definitely the best paper to understand the steepest descent conjugate gradient method, which save me a lot of time, thanks god. And it is written in 1994, pretty cool, right? 🧐

Introduction #

Well, let’s begin with a short summary of this paper: