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In this paper, we present a new modified Newton method a use of Haar wavelet formula for solving non-linear equations. This new method do not require the use of the second-order derivative. It is shown that the new method has third-order of…

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In this paper, we use Proximal Cubic regularized Newton Methods (PCNM) to optimize the sum of a smooth convex function and a non-smooth convex function, where we use inexact gradient and Hessian, and an inexact subsolver for the cubic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-27 Chaobing Song , Ji Liu , Yong Jiang

This paper addresses the optimization problem of minimizing non-convex continuous functions, which is relevant in the context of high-dimensional machine learning applications characterized by over-parametrization. We analyze a randomized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Jim Zhao , Aurelien Lucchi , Nikita Doikov

We show that Newton's method converges globally at a linear rate for objective functions whose Hessians are stable. This class of problems includes many functions which are not strongly convex, such as logistic regression. Our linear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-04 Sai Praneeth Karimireddy , Sebastian U. Stich , Martin Jaggi

We develop a randomized Newton's method for solving differential equations, based on a fully connected neural network discretization. In particular, the randomized Newton's method randomly chooses equations from the overdetermined nonlinear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-09 Qipin Chen , Wenrui Hao

We propose a new globally convergent stochastic second order method. Our starting point is the development of a new Sketched Newton-Raphson (SNR) method for solving large scale nonlinear equations of the form $F(x)=0$ with $F:\mathbb{R}^p…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-10 Rui Yuan , Alessandro Lazaric , Robert M. Gower

Finite elasticity problems commonly include material and geometric nonlinearities and are solved using various numerical methods. However, for highly nonlinear problems, achieving convergence is relatively difficult and requires small load…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-01 Yue Mei , Daniel E. Hurtado , Sanjay Pant , Ankush Aggarwal

We analyze the performance of a variant of Newton method with quadratic regularization for solving composite convex minimization problems. At each step of our method, we choose regularization parameter proportional to a certain power of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-12 Nikita Doikov , Konstantin Mishchenko , Yurii Nesterov

Second-order methods are of great importance for composite convex optimization problems due to their local super-linear convergence rates (under appropriate assumptions). However, the presence of even a simple nonsmooth function in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-19 Dan Garber

A Newton-type active set algorithm for large-scale minimization subject to polyhedral constraints is proposed. The algorithm consists of a gradient projection step, a second-order Newton-type step in the null space of the constraint matrix,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-12 William W. Hager , Davoud Ataee Tarzanagh

We propose a new first-order optimisation algorithm to solve high-dimensional non-smooth composite minimisation problems. Typical examples of such problems have an objective that decomposes into a non-smooth empirical risk part and a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-07-07 Niao He , Zaid Harchaoui

This paper proposes a squared smoothing Newton method via the Huber smoothing function for solving semidefinite programming problems (SDPs). We first study the fundamental properties of the matrix-valued mapping defined upon the Huber…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-10 Ling Liang , Defeng Sun , Kim-Chuan Toh

In this paper, we propose a descent method for composite optimization problems with linear operators. Specifically, we first design a structure-exploiting preconditioner tailored to the linear operator so that the resulting preconditioned…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Jian Chen , Xinmin Yang

We describe stochastic Newton and stochastic quasi-Newton approaches to efficiently solve large linear least-squares problems where the very large data sets present a significant computational burden (e.g., the size may exceed computer…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-27 Julianne Chung , Matthias Chung , J. Tanner Slagel , Luis Tenorio

We are interested in finding a solution to the tensor complementarity problem with a strong M-tensor, which we call the M-tensor complementarity problem. We propose a lower dimensional linear equation approach to solve that problem. At each…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-28 Dong-Hui Li , Cui-Dan Chen , Hong-Bo Guan

In this paper a robust second-order method is developed for the solution of strongly convex l1-regularized problems. The main aim is to make the proposed method as inexpensive as possible, while even difficult problems can be efficiently…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-01-13 Kimon Fountoulakis , Jacek Gondzio

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

Generated Jacobian Equations have been introduced by Trudinger [Disc. cont. dyn. sys (2014), pp. 1663-1681] as a generalization of Monge-Amp{\`e}re equations arising in optimal transport. In this paper, we introduce and study a damped…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Anatole Gallouët , Quentin Merigot , Boris Thibert

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

We propose an algorithm for computing the projection of a symmetric second-order tensor onto the cone of negative semidefinite symmetric tensors with respect to the inner product defined by an assigned positive definite symmetric…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-04 Cristina Padovani , Margherita Porcelli