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This article explores how to effectively incorporate curvature information generated using SIMD-parallel forward-mode Algorithmic Differentiation (AD) into unconstrained Quasi-Newton (QN) minimization of a smooth objective function, $f$.…

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This paper aims to build a probabilistic framework for Howard's policy iteration algorithm using the language of forward-backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs). As opposed to conventional formulations based on partial…

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In this paper, we propose an adaptive forward-backward-forward splitting algorithm for finding a zero of a pseudo-monotone operator which is split as a sum of three operators: the first is continuous single-valued, the second is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-04 Flavia Chorobura , Ion Necoara , Jean-Christophe Pesquet

The proximal bundle method (PBM) is a fundamental and computationally effective algorithm for solving nonsmooth optimization problems. In this paper, we present the first variant of the PBM for smooth objectives, achieving an accelerated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-30 David Fersztand , Xu Andy Sun

We propose and study a weakly convergent variant of the forward--backward algorithm for solving structured monotone inclusion problems. Our algorithm features a per-iteration deviation vector which provides additional degrees of freedom.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-15 Hamed Sadeghi , Sebastian Banert , Pontus Giselsson

We propose a new deep learning algorithm for solving high-dimensional parabolic integro-differential equations (PIDEs) and forward-backward stochastic differential equations with jumps (FBSDEJs). This novel algorithm can be viewed as an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Wansheng Wang , Jiangtao Pan , Jie Wang , Zaijun Ye

In this paper, we propose variants of forward-backward splitting method for solving the system of splitting inclusion problem. We propose a conceptual algorithm containing three variants, each having a different projection steps. The…

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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…

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In this paper, we develop a splitting algorithm incorporating Bregman distances to solve a broad class of linearly constrained composite optimization problems, whose objective function is the separable sum of possibly nonconvex nonsmooth…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-01 Tan Nhat Pham , Minh N. Dao , Andrew Eberhard , Nargiz Sultanova

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-06 Erik Berglund , Jiaojiao Zhang , Mikael Johansson

The aim of this paper is to develop and analyze numerical schemes for approximately solving the backward problem of subdiffusion equation involving a fractional derivative in time with order $\alpha\in(0,1)$. After using quasi-boundary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-28 Zhengqi Zhang , Zhi Zhou

This work addresses weight optimization problem for fully-connected feed-forward neural networks. Unlike existing approaches that are based on back-propagation (BP) and chain rule gradient-based optimization (which implies iterative…

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In nonsmooth optimization, a negative subgradient is not necessarily a descent direction, making the design of convergent descent methods based on zeroth-order and first-order information a challenging task. The well-studied bundle methods…

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In this paper, we introduce the Quasi-Quadratic Gradient (QQG), a novel search direction designed to accelerate the BFGS method within the quasi-Newton framework. By defining the QQG as the product of the inverse Hessian approximation and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-28 John Chiang

In this paper we study stochastic quasi-Newton methods for nonconvex stochastic optimization, where we assume that only stochastic information of the gradients of the objective function is available via a stochastic first-order oracle…

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We propose a Bregman inertial forward-reflected-backward (BiFRB) method for nonconvex composite problems. Our analysis relies on a novel approach that imposes general conditions on implicit merit function parameters, which yields a stepsize…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-05 Xianfu Wang , Ziyuan Wang

This paper adapts a recently developed regularized stochastic version of the Broyden, Fletcher, Goldfarb, and Shanno (BFGS) quasi-Newton method for the solution of support vector machine classification problems. The proposed method is shown…

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While first-order methods are popular for solving optimization problems that arise in large-scale deep learning problems, they come with some acute deficiencies. To diminish such shortcomings, there has been recent interest in applying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Mahsa Yousefi , Angeles Martinez

Gradient-based hyperparameter optimization has earned a widespread popularity in the context of few-shot meta-learning, but remains broadly impractical for tasks with long horizons (many gradient steps), due to memory scaling and gradient…

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In this paper we present a novel sampling-based numerical scheme designed to solve a certain class of stochastic optimal control problems, utilizing forward and backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs). By means of a nonlinear…

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