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In this paper, we present a third-order iterative method based on Potra-Pt{\'a}k method to compute the approximate multiple roots of nonlinear equations. The method requires two evaluations of the function and one evaluation of its first…

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Motion planning for robotic systems with complex dynamics is a challenging problem. While recent sampling-based algorithms achieve asymptotic optimality by propagating random control inputs, their empirical convergence rate is often poor,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Joaquim Ortiz-Haro , Wolfgang Hoenig , Valentin N. Hartmann , Marc Toussaint

First-order stochastic methods are the state-of-the-art in large-scale machine learning optimization owing to efficient per-iteration complexity. Second-order methods, while able to provide faster convergence, have been much less explored…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-01 Naman Agarwal , Brian Bullins , Elad Hazan

In this paper, the coupled fractional Ginzburg-Landau equations are first time investigated numerically. A linearized implicit finite difference scheme is proposed. The scheme involves three time levels, is unconditionally stable and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-01 Dongdong He , Kejia Pan

Q-learning is a stochastic approximation version of the classic value iteration. The literature has established that Q-learning suffers from both maximization bias and slower convergence. Recently, multi-step algorithms have shown practical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Antony Vijesh , Shreyas S R

The objective of this research is to explore a convex feasibility problem, which consists of a monotone variational inequality problem and a fixed point problem. We introduce four inertial extragradient algorithms that are motivated by the…

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An algorithm for unconstrained non-convex optimization is described, which does not evaluate the objective function and in which minimization is carried out, at each iteration, within a randomly selected subspace. It is shown that this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-31 S. Bellavia , S. Gratton , B. Morini , Ph. L. Toint

This paper presents an inverse optimality method to solve the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation for a class of nonlinear problems for which the cost is quadratic and the dynamics are affine in the input. The method is inverse optimal because…

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This paper offers a matrix-free first-order numerical method to solve large-scale conic optimization problems. Solving systems of linear equations pose the most computationally challenging part in both first-order and second-order numerical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-11 Muhammad Adil , Ramtin Madani , Sasan Tavakkol , Ali Davoudi

In this paper we present a first-order method that admits near-optimal convergence rates for convex/concave min-max problems while requiring a simple and intuitive analysis. Similarly to the seminal work of Nemirovski and the recent…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Volkan Cevher , Georgios Piliouras , Ryann Sim , Stratis Skoulakis

A parametric class of trust-region algorithms for constrained nonconvex optimization is analyzed, where the objective function is never computed. By defining appropriate first-order stationarity criteria, we are able to extend the Adagrad…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-04 Serge Gratton , Sadok Jerad , Philippe L. Toint

In this article, we introduce and study accelerated Landweber methods for linear ill-posed problems obtained by an alteration of the coefficients in the three-term recurrence relation of the \nu-methods. The residual polynomials of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-12-21 Wolfgang Erb

We propose and analyze several inexact regularized Newton-type methods for finding a global saddle point of convex-concave unconstrained min-max optimization problems. Compared to first-order methods, our understanding of second-order…

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We provide an overview of primal-dual algorithms for nonsmooth and non-convex-concave saddle-point problems. This flows around a new analysis of such methods, using Bregman divergences to formulate simplified conditions for convergence.

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-03 Tuomo Valkonen

We study the existing algorithms that solve the multidimensional martingale optimal transport. Then we provide a new algorithm based on entropic regularization and Newton's method. Then we provide theoretical convergence rate results and we…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-12-31 Hadrien De March

We present a globally convergent SQP-type method with the least constraint violation for nonlinear semidefinite programming. The proposed algorithm employs a two-phase strategy coupled with a line search technique. In the first phase, a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-03 Wenhao Fu , Zhongwen Chen

We propose a stochastic recursive momentum method for Riemannian non-convex optimization that achieves a near-optimal complexity of $\tilde{\mathcal{O}}(\epsilon^{-3})$ to find $\epsilon$-approximate solution with one sample. That is, our…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-12 Andi Han , Junbin Gao

In this paper we study a nonconvex-strongly-concave constrained minimax problem. Specifically, we propose a first-order augmented Lagrangian method for solving it, whose subproblems are nonconvex-strongly-concave unconstrained minimax…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-06 Zhaosong Lu , Sanyou Mei

In this work, we construct a novel numerical method for solving the multi-marginal optimal transport problems with Coulomb cost. This type of optimal transport problems arises in quantum physics and plays an important role in understanding…

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