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We propose a novel algorithm, termed soft quasi-Newton (soft QN), for optimization in the presence of bounded noise. Traditional quasi-Newton algorithms are vulnerable to such perturbations. To develop a more robust quasi-Newton method, we…

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…

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Newton's method is a fundamental technique in optimization with quadratic convergence within a neighborhood around the optimum. However reaching this neighborhood is often slow and dominates the computational costs. We exploit two…

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We consider a variable metric and inexact version of the FISTA-type algorithm considered in (Chambolle, Pock, 2016, Calatroni, Chambolle, 2019) for the minimization of the sum of two (possibly strongly) convex functions. The proposed…

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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…

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The quadratic penalty alternating minimization (AM) method is widely used for solving the convex $\ell_1$ total variation (TV) image deblurring problem. However, quadratic penalty AM for solving the nonconvex nonsmooth $\ell_p$, $0 < p < 1$…

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