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We introduce a new framework for analyzing (Quasi-}Newton type methods applied to non-smooth optimization problems. The source of randomness comes from the evaluation of the (approximation) of the Hessian. We derive, using a variant of…

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We propose a communication efficient quasi-Newton method for large-scale multi-agent convex composite optimization. We assume the setting of a network of agents that cooperatively solve a global minimization problem with strongly convex…

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A quasi-Newton method with cubic regularization is designed for solving Riemannian unconstrained nonconvex optimization problems. The proposed algorithm is fully adaptive with at most ${\cal O} (\epsilon_g^{-3/2})$ iterations to achieve a…

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Tuning step sizes is crucial for the stability and efficiency of optimization algorithms. While adaptive coordinate-wise step sizes have been shown to outperform scalar step size in first-order methods, their use in second-order methods is…

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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…

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We adapt the quasi-monotone method from [2] for composite convex minimization in the stochastic setting. For the proposed numerical scheme we derive the optimal convergence rate in terms of the last iterate, rather than on average as it is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-09 Vyacheslav Kungurtsev , Vladimir Shikhman

Quasi-Newton methods employ an update rule that gradually improves the Hessian approximation using the already available gradient evaluations. We propose higher-order secant updates which generalize this idea to higher-order derivatives,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-07 Karl Welzel , Raphael A. Hauser

We consider the problem of how to learn a step-size policy for the Limited-Memory Broyden-Fletcher-Goldfarb-Shanno (L-BFGS) algorithm. This is a limited computational memory quasi-Newton method widely used for deterministic unconstrained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Lucas N. Egidio , Anders Hansson , Bo Wahlberg

This paper presents modified memoryless quasi-Newton methods based on the spectral-scaling Broyden family on Riemannian manifolds. The method involves adding one parameter to the search direction of the memoryless self-scaling Broyden…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-05 Hiroyuki Sakai , Hideaki Iiduka

In this article, we derive an iterative scheme through a quasi-Newton technique to capture robust weakly efficient points of uncertain multiobjective optimization problems under the upper set less relation. It is assumed that the set of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-21 K. Gupta , D. Ghosh , C. Tammer , X. Zhao , J. C. Yao

Recently several methods were proposed for sparse optimization which make careful use of second-order information [10, 28, 16, 3] to improve local convergence rates. These methods construct a composite quadratic approximation using Hessian…

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In this paper, we propose a quasi-Newton method for solving smooth and monotone nonlinear equations, including unconstrained minimization and minimax optimization as special cases. For the strongly monotone setting, we establish two global…

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The forward-backward splitting method (FBS) for minimizing a nonsmooth composite function can be interpreted as a (variable-metric) gradient method over a continuously differentiable function which we call forward-backward envelope (FBE).…

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In this paper, we propose new methods to efficiently solve convex optimization problems encountered in sparse estimation, which include a new quasi-Newton method that avoids computing the Hessian matrix and improves efficiency, and we prove…

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Over the years, computational imaging with accurate nonlinear physical models has garnered considerable interest due to its ability to achieve high-quality reconstructions. However, using such nonlinear models for reconstruction is…

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In this work, we study the convergence and performance of nonlinear solvers for the Bidomain equations after decoupling the ordinary and partial differential equations of the cardiac system. Firstly, we provide a rigorous proof of the…

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We formulate natural gradient variational inference (VI), expectation propagation (EP), and posterior linearisation (PL) as extensions of Newton's method for optimising the parameters of a Bayesian posterior distribution. This viewpoint…

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Power grid operators typically solve large-scale, nonconvex optimal power flow (OPF) problems throughout the day to determine optimal setpoints for generators while adhering to physical constraints. Despite being at the heart of many OPF…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-03 Kyri Baker

In multiclass softmax cross-entropy, the full generalized Gauss-Newton (GGN) curvature couples all output logits through the softmax covariance, making curvature-vector products harder to scale as the number of classes grows. We show that…

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