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We propose several new nonsmooth Newton methods for solving convex composite optimization problems with polyhedral regularizers, while avoiding the computation of complicated second-order information on these functions. Under the…

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We study the problem of minimizing the sum of three convex functions: a differentiable, twice-differentiable and a non-smooth term in a high dimensional setting. To this effect we propose and analyze a randomized block cubic Newton (RBCN)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-09 Nikita Doikov , Peter Richtárik

In this work, we study the iteration complexity of gradient methods for minimizing convex quadratic functions regularized by powers of Euclidean norms. We show that, due to the uniform convexity of the objective, gradient methods have…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-28 Daniel Berg Thomsen , Nikita Doikov

We propose a regularized Hessian-free Newton-type method for minimizing smooth convex functions with Lipschitz continuous Hessians. The algorithm constructs an approximate Hessian by finite differences and selects the regularization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Leandro Farias Maia , Antonio Victor B. Nascimento , Paulo Sergio M. Santos , Gilson N. Silva

In this paper, we propose an inexact proximal Newton-type method for nonconvex composite problems. We establish the global convergence rate of the order $\mathcal{O}(k^{-1/2})$ in terms of the minimal norm of the KKT residual mapping and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-26 Hong Zhu

An inexact Newton type method for numerical minimization of convex piecewise quadratic functions is considered and its convergence is analyzed. Earlier, a similar method was successfully applied to optimizaton problems arising in numerical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-11 Alexander I. Golikov , Igor E. Kaporin

In this paper we consider the composite self-concordant (CSC) minimization problem, which minimizes the sum of a self-concordant function $f$ and a (possibly nonsmooth) proper closed convex function $g$. The CSC minimization is the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-07-04 Zhaosong Lu

We study the composite convex optimization problems with a Quasi-Self-Concordant smooth component. This problem class naturally interpolates between classic Self-Concordant functions and functions with Lipschitz continuous Hessian.…

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This paper presents a stochastic block-coordinate proximal Newton method for minimizing the sum of a blockwise Lipschitz-continuously differentiable function and a separable nonsmooth convex function. At each iteration, the method randomly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-25 Hong Zhu , Xun Qian

Newton's method is the most widespread high-order method, demanding the gradient and the Hessian of the objective function. However, one of the main disadvantages of Newtons method is its lack of global convergence and high iteration cost.…

We propose a DC proximal Newton algorithm for solving nonconvex regularized sparse learning problems in high dimensions. Our proposed algorithm integrates the proximal Newton algorithm with multi-stage convex relaxation based on the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-16 Xingguo Li , Lin F. Yang , Jason Ge , Jarvis Haupt , Tong Zhang , Tuo Zhao

A convergence analysis is developed for the regularized Newton method for training neural networks (NNs) in the overparameterized limit. As the number of hidden units tends to infinity, the NN training dynamics converge in probability to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Konstantin Riedl , Konstantinos Spiliopoulos , Justin Sirignano

Adaptive cubic regularization methods for solving nonconvex problems need the efficient computation of the trial step, involving the minimization of a cubic model. We propose a new approach in which this model is minimized in a low…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-02 Stefania Bellavia , Davide Palitta , Margherita Porcelli , Valeria Simoncini

We propose a stochastic variance-reduced cubic regularized Newton method for non-convex optimization. At the core of our algorithm is a novel semi-stochastic gradient along with a semi-stochastic Hessian, which are specifically designed for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Dongruo Zhou , Pan Xu , Quanquan Gu

The problem of minimizing a sum of local convex objective functions over a networked system captures many important applications and has received much attention in the distributed optimization field. Most of existing work focuses on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-09 Fatemeh Mansoori , Ermin Wei

In [19], a general, inexact, efficient proximal quasi-Newton algorithm for composite optimization problems has been proposed and a sublinear global convergence rate has been established. In this paper, we analyze the convergence properties…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2017-10-18 Hiva Ghanbari , Katya Scheinberg

The paper proposes and justifies a new algorithm of the proximal Newton type to solve a broad class of nonsmooth composite convex optimization problems without strong convexity assumptions. Based on advanced notions and techniques of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-02 Boris S. Mordukhovich , Xiaoming Yuan , Shangzhi Zeng , Jin Zhang

In this paper, we modify and apply the recently introduced Mixed Newton Method, which is originally designed for minimizing real-valued functions of complex variables, to the minimization of real-valued functions of real variables by…

In this paper, we propose objective-function-free (OFF) variants of the proximal Newton method for nonconvex composite optimization problems and the regularized Newton method for unconstrained optimization problems, respectively, using…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Hong Zhu

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