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Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-23 Anirban Roychowdhury

We propose a novel limited-memory stochastic block BFGS update for incorporating enriched curvature information in stochastic approximation methods. In our method, the estimate of the inverse Hessian matrix that is maintained by it, is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-04-01 Robert M. Gower , Donald Goldfarb , Peter Richtárik

We present an efficient quasi-Newton orbital solver optimized to reduce the number of gradient (Fock matrix) evaluations. The solver optimizes orthogonal orbitals by sequences of unitary rotations generated by the (preconditioned)…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-12-20 Samuel A. Slattery , Kshitijkumar Surjuse , Edward F. Valeev

Minimax problems have gained tremendous attentions across the optimization and machine learning community recently. In this paper, we introduce a new quasi-Newton method for minimax problems, which we call $J$-symmetric quasi-Newton method.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-20 Azam Asl , Haihao Lu , Jinwen Yang

We consider stochastic second-order methods for minimizing smooth and strongly-convex functions under an interpolation condition satisfied by over-parameterized models. Under this condition, we show that the regularized subsampled Newton…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Si Yi Meng , Sharan Vaswani , Issam Laradji , Mark Schmidt , Simon Lacoste-Julien

Stochastic gradient descent and other first-order variants, such as Adam and AdaGrad, are commonly used in the field of deep learning due to their computational efficiency and low-storage memory requirements. However, these methods do not…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-19 Aditya Ranganath , Mukesh Singhal , Roummel Marcia

This paper presents a finite difference quasi-Newton method for the minimization of noisy functions. The method takes advantage of the scalability and power of BFGS updating, and employs an adaptive procedure for choosing the differencing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-09 Albert S. Berahas , Richard H. Byrd , Jorge Nocedal

We consider stochastic zero-order optimization problems, which arise in settings from simulation optimization to reinforcement learning. We propose an adaptive sampling quasi-Newton method where we estimate the gradients of a stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-31 Raghu Bollapragada , Stefan M. Wild

In this paper we present a novel quasi-Newton algorithm for use in stochastic optimisation. Quasi-Newton methods have had an enormous impact on deterministic optimisation problems because they afford rapid convergence and computationally…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-04 Adrian Wills , Thomas Schön

In this paper, we propose a quasi Newton method to solve the robust counterpart of an uncertain multiobjective optimization problem under an arbitrary finite uncertainty set. Here the robust counterpart of an uncertain multiobjective…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-12 Shubham kumar , Nihar Kumar Mahato , Md Abu T Ansary , Debdas Ghosh

The quasi-Newton Broyden-Fletcher-Goldfarb-Shanno (BFGS) method has proven to be very reliable and efficient for the minimization of smooth objective functions since its inception in the 1960s. Recently, it was observed empirically that it…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-25 Yuchen Xie , Andreas Waechter

The BFGS quasi-Newton methodology, popular for smooth minimization, has also proved surprisingly effective in nonsmooth optimization. Through a variety of simple examples and computational experiments, we explore how the BFGS matrix update…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-20 Jiayi Guo , Adrian S. Lewis

We consider the problem of minimizing a continuous function that may be nonsmooth and nonconvex, subject to bound constraints. We propose an algorithm that uses the L-BFGS quasi-Newton approximation of the problem's curvature together with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-12-23 Nitish Shirish Keskar , Andreas Waechter

We introduce some new proximal quasi-Newton methods for unconstrained multiobjective optimization problems (in short, UMOP), where each objective function is the sum of a twice continuously differentiable strongly convex function and a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-08 Jian-Wen Peng , Jie Ren

Recently algorithms incorporating second order curvature information have become popular in training neural networks. The Nesterov's Accelerated Quasi-Newton (NAQ) method has shown to effectively accelerate the BFGS quasi-Newton method by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Sota Yasuda , Shahrzad Mahboubi , S. Indrapriyadarsini , Hiroshi Ninomiya , Hideki Asai

In this paper, based on function information, we propose a modified BFGS-type method for nonconvex multiobjective optimization problems (MFQNMO). In the multiobjective quasi-Newton method (QNMO), each iteration involves separately…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-14 Yingxue Yang

For general large-scale optimization problems compact representations exist in which recursive quasi-Newton update formulas are represented as compact matrix factorizations. For problems in which the objective function contains additional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-02 Johannes J. Brust , Zichao , Di , Sven Leyffer , Cosmin G. Petra

Four decades after their invention, quasi-Newton methods are still state of the art in unconstrained numerical optimization. Although not usually interpreted thus, these are learning algorithms that fit a local quadratic approximation to…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2012-06-22 Philipp Hennig , Martin Kiefel

This paper proposes a novel class of block quasi-Newton methods for convex optimization which we call symmetric rank-$k$ (SR-$k$) methods. Each iteration of SR-$k$ incorporates the curvature information with~$k$ Hessian-vector products…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-25 Chengchang Liu , Cheng Chen , Luo Luo

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-28 Raghu Bollapragada , Stefan M. Wild