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Quasi-Newton methods are widely used in practise for convex loss minimization problems. These methods exhibit good empirical performance on a wide variety of tasks and enjoy super-linear convergence to the optimal solution. For large-scale…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-06-10 Aurelien Lucchi , Brian McWilliams , Thomas Hofmann

In recent years, various subspace algorithms have been developed to handle large-scale optimization problems. Although existing subspace Newton methods require fewer iterations to converge in practice, the matrix operations and full…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-05 Taisei Miyaishi , Ryota Nozawa , Pierre-Louis Poirion , Akiko Takeda

In this paper, a globally convergent Newton-type proximal gradient method is developed for composite multi-objective optimization problems where each objective function can be represented as the sum of a smooth function and a nonsmooth…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-25 Md Abu Talhamainuddin Ansary

Our work considers the optimization of the sum of a non-smooth convex function and a finite family of composite convex functions, each one of which is composed of a convex function and a bounded linear operator. This type of problem is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-30 Yu-Chao Tang , Chuan-Xi Zhu , Meng Wen , Ji-Gen Peng

Proximal algorithms have gained popularity in recent years in large-scale and distributed optimization problems. One such problem is the phase retrieval problem, for which proximal operators have been proposed recently. The phase retrieval…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-16 Biel Roig-Solvas , Lee Makowski , Dana H. Brooks

We present a quasi-Newton method for unconstrained stochastic optimization. Most existing literature on this topic assumes a setting of stochastic optimization in which a finite sum of component functions is a reasonable approximation of an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Matt Menickelly , Stefan M. Wild , Miaolan Xie

The classical multi-set split feasibility problem seeks a point in the intersection of finitely many closed convex domain constraints, whose image under a linear mapping also lies in the intersection of finitely many closed convex range…

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This paper investigates a category of constrained fractional optimization problems that emerge in various practical applications. The objective function for this category is characterized by the ratio of a numerator and denominator, both…

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Recent work has shown a variety of ways in which machine learning can be used to accelerate the solution of constrained optimization problems. Increasing demand for real-time decision-making capabilities in applications such as artificial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Ethan King , James Kotary , Ferdinando Fioretto , Jan Drgona

This paper proposes an accelerated proximal point method for maximally monotone operators. The proof is computer-assisted via the performance estimation problem approach. The proximal point method includes various well-known convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-25 Donghwan Kim

Dual descent methods are commonly used to solve network optimization problems because their implementation can be distributed through the network. However, their convergence rates are typically very slow. This paper introduces a family of…

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In this paper, the proximal point algorithm for quasi-convex minimization problem in nonpositive curvature metric spaces is studied. We prove $\Delta$-convergence of the generated sequence to a critical point (which is defined in the text)…

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We consider unconstrained stochastic optimization problems with no available gradient information. Such problems arise in settings from derivative-free simulation optimization to reinforcement learning. We propose an adaptive sampling…

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In this paper we analyze a class of nonconvex optimization problem from the viewpoint of abstract convexity. Using the respective generalizations of the subgradient we propose an abstract notion proximal operator and derive a number of…

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We propose a DC proximal Newton algorithm for solving nonconvex regularized sparse learning problems in high dimensions. Our proposed algorithm integrates the proximal Newton algorithm with multi-stage convex relaxation based on the…

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Composite minimization involves a collection of smooth functions which are aggregated in a nonsmooth manner. In the convex setting, we design an algorithm by linearizing each smooth component in accordance with its main curvature. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-26 Jérôme Bolte , Zheng Chen , Edouard Pauwels

We consider the class of optimization problems arising from computationally intensive L1-regularized M-estimators, where the function or gradient values are very expensive to compute. A particular instance of interest is the L1-regularized…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-01-26 Kai Zhong , Ian E. H. Yen , Inderjit S. Dhillon , Pradeep Ravikumar

In this paper we propose a linear scalarization proximal point algorithm for solving arbitrary lower semicontinuous quasiconvex multiobjective minimization problems. Under some natural assumptions and using the condition that the proximal…