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We introduce an inertial quasi-Newton Forward-Backward Splitting Algorithm to solve a class of monotone inclusion problems. While the inertial step is computationally cheap, in general, the bottleneck is the evaluation of the resolvent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-18 Shida Wang , Jalal Fadili , Peter Ochs

This paper addresses the challenge of developing efficient algorithms for large-scale nonconvex multiobjective optimization problems (MOPs). While quasi-Newton methods are effective, their traditional application to MOPs is computationally…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Hua Liu

We study the solution of symmetric positive-definite linear systems by way of families of full- and limited-memory methods. Our contributions are threefold. We first derive new relationships between the conjugate-gradient method (CG) and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-25 Johann Bourhis , Oihan Cordelier , Jean-Pierre Dussault , Oussama Mouhtal , Dominique Orban

The goal of this paper is to study approaches to bridge the gap between first-order and second-order type methods for composite convex programs. Our key observations are: i) Many well-known operator splitting methods, such as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-27 Xiantao Xiao , Yongfeng Li , Zaiwen Wen , Liwei Zhang

In this paper, we study the explicit superlinear convergence rates of quasi-Newton methods. We particularly focus on the classical Broyden's method for solving nonlinear equations. We establish its explicit (local) superlinear convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-13 Dachao Lin , Haishan Ye , Zhihua Zhang

Imperfect data (noise, outliers and partial overlap) and high degrees of freedom make non-rigid registration a classical challenging problem in computer vision. Existing methods typically adopt the $\ell_{p}$ type robust estimator to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Yuxin Yao , Bailin Deng , Weiwei Xu , Juyong Zhang

This paper studies a method, which has been proposed in the Physics literature by [8, 7, 10], for estimating the quasi-stationary distribution. In contrast to existing methods in eigenvector estimation, the method eliminates the need for…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-01-03 Jose Blanchet , Peter Glynn , Shuheng Zheng

Subgradient algorithms for training support vector machines have been quite successful for solving large-scale and online learning problems. However, they have been restricted to linear kernels and strongly convex formulations. This paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2011-11-04 Sangkyun Lee , Stephen J. Wright

In this paper, we establish global non-asymptotic convergence guarantees for the BFGS quasi-Newton method without requiring strong convexity or the Lipschitz continuity of the gradient or Hessian. Instead, we consider the setting where the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Qiujiang Jin , Aryan Mokhtari

We propose a Riemannian limited-memory BFGS method for optimization problems with Euclidean bounds. The method combines a limited-memory quasi-Newton update in the tangent space with a Riemannian adaptation of the generalized Cauchy point…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Mateusz Baran , Ronny Bergmann , Patryk Przybysz

We propose and discuss a new computational method for the numerical approximation of reachable sets for nonlinear control systems. It is based on the support vector machine algorithm and represents the set approximation as a sublevel set of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-12-11 Martin Rasmussen , Janosch Rieger , Kevin Webster

Optimization problems with composite functions consist of an objective function which is the sum of a smooth and a (convex) nonsmooth term. This particular structure is exploited by the class of proximal gradient methods and some of their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-17 Christian Kanzow , Theresa Lechner

In this paper, we introduce a stochastic projected subgradient method for weakly convex (i.e., uniformly prox-regular) nonsmooth, nonconvex functions---a wide class of functions which includes the additive and convex composite classes. At a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-19 Damek Davis , Benjamin Grimmer

Federated learning (FL) is a promising technology that enables edge devices/clients to collaboratively and iteratively train a machine learning model under the coordination of a central server. The most common approach to FL is first-order…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Shayan Mohajer Hamidi , Linfeng Ye

This paper concerns exact linesearch quasi-Newton methods for minimizing a quadratic function whose Hessian is positive definite. We show that by interpreting the method of conjugate gradients as a particular exact linesearch quasi-Newton…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-23 Anders Forsgren , Tove Odland

The main focus in this paper is exact linesearch methods for minimizing a quadratic function whose Hessian is positive definite. We give a class of limited-memory quasi-Newton Hessian approximations which generate search directions parallel…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-04 David Ek , Anders Forsgren

In this paper, we consider distributed algorithms for solving the empirical risk minimization problem under the master/worker communication model. We develop a distributed asynchronous quasi-Newton algorithm that can achieve superlinear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-11 Saeed Soori , Konstantin Mischenko , Aryan Mokhtari , Maryam Mehri Dehnavi , Mert Gurbuzbalaban

In this manuscript, we propose a general proximal quasi-Newton method tailored for nonconvex and nonsmooth optimization problems, where we do not require the sequence of the variable metric (or Hessian approximation) to be uniformly bounded…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-28 Xiaoxi Jia

In this work, we address the implementation and performance of inexact Newton-Krylov and quasi-Newton algorithms, more specifically the BFGS method, for the solution of the nonlinear elasticity equations, and compare them to a standard…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-21 Nicolás A. Barnafi , Luca F. Pavarino , Simone Scacchi

In this paper, we implement the Stochastic Damped LBFGS (SdLBFGS) for stochastic non-convex optimization. We make two important modifications to the original SdLBFGS algorithm. First, by initializing the Hessian at each step using an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Yingkai Li , Huidong Liu