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In this paper, we study structured quasi-Newton methods for optimization problems with orthogonality constraints. Note that the Riemannian Hessian of the objective function requires both the Euclidean Hessian and the Euclidean gradient. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-05 Jiang Hu , Bo Jiang , Lin Lin , Zaiwen Wen , Yaxiang Yuan

We introduce a notion of self-concordant smoothing for minimizing the sum of two convex functions, one of which is smooth and the other nonsmooth. The key highlight is a natural property of the resulting problem's structure that yields a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-01 Adeyemi D. Adeoye , Alberto Bemporad

Finding roots of equations is at the heart of most computational science. A well-known and widely used iterative algorithm is the Newton's method. However, its convergence depends heavily on the initial guess, with poor choices often…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-09 Ankush Aggarwal , Sanjay Pant

The paper proposes and justifies a new algorithm of the proximal Newton type to solve a broad class of nonsmooth composite convex optimization problems without strong convexity assumptions. Based on advanced notions and techniques of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-02 Boris S. Mordukhovich , Xiaoming Yuan , Shangzhi Zeng , Jin Zhang

Quasi-Newton methods are widely used for solving convex optimization problems due to their ease of implementation, practical efficiency, and strong local convergence guarantees. However, their global convergence is typically established…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-28 Artem Agafonov , Vladislav Ryspayev , Samuel Horváth , Alexander Gasnikov , Martin Takáč , Slavomir Hanzely

We construct two optimal Newton-Secant like iterative methods for solving non-linear equations. The proposed classes have convergence order four and eight and cost only three and four function evaluations per iteration, respectively. These…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-10-21 Mehdi Salimi , Taher Lotfi , Somayeh Sharifi , Stefan Siegmund

An inexact Newton type method for numerical minimization of convex piecewise quadratic functions is considered and its convergence is analyzed. Earlier, a similar method was successfully applied to optimizaton problems arising in numerical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-11 Alexander I. Golikov , Igor E. Kaporin

Fixed-point or Newton-methods are typically employed for the numerical solution of nonlinear systems arising from discretization of nonlinear magnetic field problems. We here discuss an alternative strategy which uses local Quasi-Newton…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-11 Herbert Egger , Felix Engertsberger , Lukas Domenig , Klaus Roppert , Manfred Kaltenbacher

In path-following methods for conic programming knowledge of the performance of the (damped) Newton method at finite distances from the minimizer of a self-concordant function is crucial for the tuning of the parameters of the method. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-28 Roland Hildebrand

Newton's Method is widely used to find the solution of complex non-linear simulation problems in Computer Graphics. To guarantee a descent direction, it is common practice to clamp the negative eigenvalues of each element Hessian prior to…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-26 José Antonio Fernández-Fernández , Fabian Löschner , Jan Bender

In this paper, we propose objective-function-free (OFF) variants of the proximal Newton method for nonconvex composite optimization problems and the regularized Newton method for unconstrained optimization problems, respectively, using…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Hong Zhu

This paper proposes and justifies two globally convergent Newton-type methods to solve unconstrained and constrained problems of nonsmooth optimization by using tools of variational analysis and generalized differentiation. Both methods are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-27 Pham Duy Khanh , Boris Mordukhovich , Vo Thanh Phat , Dat Ba Tran

Despite their popularity in the field of continuous optimisation, second-order quasi-Newton methods are challenging to apply in machine learning, as the Hessian matrix is intractably large. This computational burden is exacerbated by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Elre T. Oldewage , Ross M. Clarke , José Miguel Hernández-Lobato

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

We study a semismooth Newton-type method for the nearest doubly stochastic matrix problem where both differentiability and nonsingularity of the Jacobian can fail. The optimality conditions for this problem are formulated as a system of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-21 Hao Hu , Haesol Im , Xinxin Li , Henry Wolkowicz

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

Despite the impressive numerical performance of the quasi-Newton and Anderson/nonlinear acceleration methods, their global convergence rates have remained elusive for over 50 years. This study addresses this long-standing issue by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-16 Damien Scieur

We consider the finite-sum optimization problem, where each component function is strongly convex and has Lipschitz continuous gradient and Hessian. The recently proposed incremental quasi-Newton method is based on BFGS update and achieves…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-06 Zhuanghua Liu , Luo Luo , Bryan Kian Hsiang Low

This paper proposes a nonmonotone proximal quasi-Newton algorithm for unconstrained convex multiobjective composite optimization problems. To design the search direction, we minimize the max-scalarization of the variations of the Hessian…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-04 Xiaoxue Jiang

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