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Classical convergence analyses for optimization algorithms rely on the widely-adopted uniform smoothness assumption. However, recent experimental studies have demonstrated that many machine learning problems exhibit non-uniform smoothness,…

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We propose some numerical schemes for forward-backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs) based on a new fundamental concept of transposition solutions. These schemes exploit time-splitting methods for the variation of constants…

In this work, we extend deep learning-based numerical methods to fully coupled forward-backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs) within a non-Markovian framework. Error estimates and convergence are provided. In contrast to the…

In Part I of this work, we have proposed a general framework of decentralized stochastic quasi-Newton methods, which converge linearly to the optimal solution under the assumption that the local Hessian inverse approximations have bounded…

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…

Non-asymptotic analysis of quasi-Newton methods have gained traction recently. In particular, several works have established a non-asymptotic superlinear rate of $\mathcal{O}((1/\sqrt{t})^t)$ for the (classic) BFGS method by exploiting the…

This work investigates a Bregman and inertial extension of the forward-reflected-backward algorithm [Y. Malitsky and M. Tam, SIAM J. Optim., 30 (2020), pp. 1451--1472] applied to structured nonconvex minimization problems under relative…