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The trust region subproblem (TRS) is to minimize a possibly nonconvex quadratic function over a Euclidean ball. There are typically two cases for (TRS), the so-called ``easy case'' and ``hard case''. Even in the ``easy case'', the sequence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-13 Mengmeng Song , Yong Xia , Jinyang Zheng

In this paper, we study second-order algorithms for solving nonconvex-strongly concave minimax problems, which have attracted much attention in recent years in many fields, especially in machine learning.We propose a gradient norm…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-17 Jun-Lin Wang , Zi Xu

Majorization-minimization algorithms consist of successively minimizing a sequence of upper bounds of the objective function so that along the iterations the objective function decreases. Such a simple principle allows to solve a large…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-04 Ion Necoara , Daniela Lupu

In this paper, a globally convergent trust region proximal gradient method is developed for composite multi-objective optimization problems where each objective function can be represented as the sum of a smooth function and a nonsmooth…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-28 Md Abu Talhamainuddin Ansary

We present an algorithm for the minimization of a nonconvex quadratic function subject to linear inequality constraints and a two-sided bound on the 2-norm of its solution. The algorithm minimizes the objective using an active-set method by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-28 Nikitas Rontsis , Paul J. Goulart , Yuji Nakatsukasa

We propose a novel algorithm, TR-SVR, for solving unconstrained stochastic optimization problems. This method builds on the trust-region framework, which effectively balances local and global exploration in optimization tasks. TR-SVR…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-03 Xinshou Zheng

We consider the minimization problem with the truncated quadratic regularization with gradient operator, which is a nonsmooth and nonconvex problem. We cooperated the classical preconditioned iterations for linear equations into the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-04 Shengxiang Deng , Hongpeng Sun

We introduce a new convex optimization problem, termed quadratic decomposable submodular function minimization. The problem is closely related to decomposable submodular function minimization and arises in many learning on graphs and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-12 Pan Li , Niao He , Olgica Milenkovic

In this paper, we propose a Minimax Trust Region (MINIMAX-TR) algorithm and a Minimax Trust Region Algorithm with Contractions and Expansions(MINIMAX-TRACE) algorithm for solving nonconvex-strongly concave minimax problems. Both algorithms…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-16 Tongliang Yao , Zi Xu

This paper presents an algorithmic framework for the minimization of strictly convex quadratic functions. The framework is flexible and generic. At every iteration the search direction is a linear combination of the negative gradient, as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-08 Liam MacDonald , Rua Murray , Rachael Tappenden

We propose a stochastic first-order trust-region method with inexact function and gradient evaluations for solving finite-sum minimization problems. Using a suitable reformulation of the given problem, our method combines the inexact…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-25 Stefania Bellavia , Natasa Krejic , Benedetta Morini , Simone Rebegoldi

In this paper we present a method for the regularized solution of nonlinear inverse problems, based on Ivanov regularization (also called method of quasi solutions or constrained least squares regularization). This leads to the minimization…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-09-11 Barbara Kaltenbacher , Franz Rendl , Elena Resmerita

It is well-known that the quadratic convex reformulation (QCR) technique can speed up some general-purpose solvers such as CPLEX and Gurobi. Recently, the method of quadratic nonconvex reformulation (QNR) was proposed, which provides an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Cheng Lu , Yu Fei , Jing Zhou , Zhibin Deng , Guangtai Qu

In an effort to develop an alternative approach to traditional sparse reformulations, we will provide a new type of convex reformulation of a large class of stochastic quadratically constrained quadratic optimization problems that is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-31 Markus Gabl

High-order tensor methods for solving both convex and nonconvex optimization problems have generated significant research interest, leading to algorithms with optimal global rates of convergence and local rates that are faster than Newton's…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-25 Wenqi Zhu , Coralia Cartis

The generalized Lanczos trust-region (GLTR) method is one of the most popular approaches for solving large-scale trust-region subproblem (TRS). Recently, Jia and Wang [Z. Jia and F. Wang, \emph{SIAM J. Optim., 31 (2021), pp. 887--914}]…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-27 Bo Feng , Gang Wu

In this paper we consider a nonconvex optimization problem with nonlinear equality constraints. We assume that both, the objective function and the functional constraints, are locally smooth. For solving this problem, we propose a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-02 Lahcen El Bourkhissi , Ion Necoara

In this paper, we present sufficient conditions ensuring that the sum of the image of quadratic functions and the nonnegative orthant is convex. The hidden convexity of the trust-region problem with linear inequality constraints is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Nguyen Quang Huy , Nguyen Huy Hung , Tran Van Nghi , Hoang Ngoc Tuan , Nguyen Van Tuyen

Trust-region (TR) type method, based on a quadratic model such as the trust-region subproblem (TRS) and $ p $-regularization subproblem ($p$RS), is arguably one of the most successful methods for unconstrained minimization. In this paper,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-07 Liaoyuan Zeng , Ting Kei Pong

Motivated by TRACE algorithm [Curtis et al. 2017], we propose a trust region algorithm for finding second order stationary points of a linearly constrained non-convex optimization problem. We show the convergence of the proposed algorithm…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-16 Maher Nouiehed , Meisam Razaviyayn