@TECHREPORT\{IMM2006-04504, author = "T. K. Jensen and P. C. Hansen", title = "Iterative regularization with minimum-residual methods", year = "2006", keywords = "Iterative regularization, discrete ill-posed problems, {GMRES,} {RRGMRES,} {MINRES,} {MR-II,} Krylov subspaces", number = "", series = "IMM-Technical Report-2006-04", institution = "Informatics and Mathematical Modelling, Technical University of Denmark, {DTU}", address = "Richard Petersens Plads, Building 321, {DK-}2800 Kgs. Lyngby", type = "", url = "http://www2.compute.dtu.dk/pubdb/pubs/4504-full.html", abstract = "We study the regularization properties of iterative minimum-residual methods applied to discrete ill-posed problems. In these methods, the projection onto the underlying Krylov subspace acts as a regularizer, and the emphasis of this work is on the role played by the basis vectors of these Krylov subspaces. We provide a combination of theory and numerical examples, and our analysis confirms the experience that {MINRES} and {MR-II} can work as general regularization methods. We also demonstrate theoretically and experimentally that the same is not true, in general, for {GMRES} and {RRGMRES} - their success as regularization methods is highly problem dependent." }