Questions tagged [least-squares]

I have an optimization problem of the following form $$\text{minimize} \,\|Qa-b\|_2 \quad \text{ subject to } Q \succeq 0$$ where $a,b \in \mathbb{R}^n$ are given and the $n \times n$ square matrix ...

Given tall matrices $A$ and $Y$ and the following overdetermined linear system in square matrix $X$ $$AX=Y$$ is there an explicit formula for the least-squares solution if $X$ is constrained to be ...