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It is well-known by now that the BFGS method is an effective method for minimizing nonsmooth functions. However, despite its popularity, theoretical convergence results are almost non-existent. One of the difficulties when analyzing the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Bennet Gebken

Nonlinear eigenvalue problems (NEPs) present significant challenges due to their inherent complexity and the limitations of traditional linear eigenvalue theory. This paper addresses these challenges by introducing a nonlinear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-18 Ronald Katende

Quasi-Newton methods are well known techniques for large-scale numerical optimization. They use an approximation of the Hessian in optimization problems or the Jacobian in system of nonlinear equations. In the Interior Point context,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-13 Jacek Gondzio , Francisco N. C. Sobral

An extension of the Gauss-Newton algorithm is proposed to find local minimizers of penalized nonlinear least squares problems, under generalized Lipschitz assumptions. Convergence results of local type are obtained, as well as an estimate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-03-03 Saverio Salzo , Silvia Villa

As we all known, the nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) is a dimension reduction method that has been widely used in image processing, text compressing and signal processing etc. In this paper, an algorithm for nonnegative matrix…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-05-27 Shu-Zhen Lai , Hou-Biao Li , Zu-Tao Zhang

We present a hybrid algorithm between an evolution strategy and a quasi Newton method. The design is based on the Hessian Estimation Evolution Strategy, which iteratively estimates the inverse square root of the Hessian matrix of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-19 Tobias Glasmachers

We consider the class of optimization problems arising from computationally intensive L1-regularized M-estimators, where the function or gradient values are very expensive to compute. A particular instance of interest is the L1-regularized…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-01-26 Kai Zhong , Ian E. H. Yen , Inderjit S. Dhillon , Pradeep Ravikumar

Variational inequalities represent a broad class of problems, including minimization and min-max problems, commonly found in machine learning. Existing second-order and high-order methods for variational inequalities require precise…

It has recently been shown that many of the existing quasi-Newton algorithms can be formulated as learning algorithms, capable of learning local models of the cost functions. Importantly, this understanding allows us to safely start…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-04-06 Adrian G. Wills , Thomas B. Schön

Motivated by applications in optimization and machine learning, we consider stochastic quasi-Newton (SQN) methods for solving stochastic optimization problems. In the literature, the convergence analysis of these algorithms relies on strong…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-03-16 Farzad Yousefian , Angelia Nedić , Uday V. Shanbha

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 investigate quasi-Newton methods for minimizing a strictly convex quadratic function which is subject to errors in the evaluation of the gradients. The methods all give identical behavior in exact arithmetic, generating minimizers of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-26 Shen Peng , Gianpiero Canessa , David Ek , Anders Forsgren

In this paper, we introduce several new quasi-Newton methods for the composite multiobjective optimization problems (in short, CMOP) with Armijo line search. These multiobjective versions of quasi-Newton methods include BFGS quasi-Newnon…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-12 Jian-Wen Peng , Jen-Chih Yao

Broyden's method is a general method commonly used for nonlinear systems of equations, when very little information is available about the problem. We develop an approach based on Broyden's method for nonlinear eigenvalue problems. Our…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-22 Elias Jarlebring

We study the local convergence of classical quasi-Newton methods for nonlinear optimization. Although it was well established a long time ago that asymptotically these methods converge superlinearly, the corresponding rates of convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-02 Anton Rodomanov , Yurii Nesterov

A quasi-Newton method with cubic regularization is designed for solving Riemannian unconstrained nonconvex optimization problems. The proposed algorithm is fully adaptive with at most ${\cal O} (\epsilon_g^{-3/2})$ iterations to achieve a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-21 Mauricio S. Louzeiro , Gilson N. Silva , Jinyun Yuan , Daoping Zhang

We establish a general convergence theory of the Rayleigh--Ritz method and the refined Rayleigh--Ritz method for computing some simple eigenpair $(\lambda_{*},x_{*})$ of a given analytic regular nonlinear eigenvalue problem (NEP). In terms…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Zhongxiao Jia , Qingqing Zheng

We introduce some new proximal quasi-Newton methods for unconstrained multiobjective optimization problems (in short, UMOP), where each objective function is the sum of a twice continuously differentiable strongly convex function and a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-08 Jian-Wen Peng , Jie Ren

In this paper, we consider the problem of efficiently computing the eigenvalues of limited-memory quasi-Newton matrices that exhibit a compact formulation. In addition, we produce a compact formula for quasi-Newton matrices generated by any…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-07-14 Jennifer B. Erway , Roummel F. Marcia

Update formulas for the Hessian approximations in quasi-Newton methods such as BFGS can be derived as analytical solutions to certain nearest-matrix problems. In this article, we propose a similar idea for deriving new limited memory…

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