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As application demands for online convex optimization accelerate, the need for designing new methods that simultaneously cover a large class of convex functions and impose the lowest possible regret is highly rising. Known online…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Saeed Masoudian , Ali Arabzadeh , Mahdi Jafari Siavoshani , Milad Jalal , Alireza Amouzad

We propose a distributed, cubic-regularized Newton method for large-scale convex optimization over networks. The proposed method requires only local computations and communications and is suitable for federated learning applications over…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-08 César A. Uribe , Ali Jadbabaie

It is well-known that accelerated gradient first order methods possess optimal complexity estimates for the class of convex smooth minimization problems. In many practical situations, it makes sense to work with inexact gradients. However,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-02 Ilya Kuruzov , Fedor Stonyakin

We introduce a notion of inexact model of a convex objective function, which allows for errors both in the function and in its gradient. For this situation, a gradient method with an adaptive adjustment of some parameters of the model is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-12 Fedor S. Stonyakin

In this paper, we study Newton-conjugate gradient (Newton-CG) methods for minimizing a nonconvex function $f$ whose Hessian is $(H_f,\nu)$-H\"older continuous with modulus $H_f>0$ and exponent $\nu\in(0,1]$. Recently proposed Newton-CG…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Ziyang Zeng , Junyu Zhang , Chuan He

Accelerating the convergence of second-order optimization, particularly Newton-type methods, remains a pivotal challenge in algorithmic research. In this paper, we extend previous work on the \textbf{Quadratic Gradient (QG)} and rigorously…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-01 John Chiang

Classical analysis of convex and non-convex optimization methods often requires the Lipshitzness of the gradient, which limits the analysis to functions bounded by quadratics. Recent work relaxed this requirement to a non-uniform smoothness…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-06 Haochuan Li , Jian Qian , Yi Tian , Alexander Rakhlin , Ali Jadbabaie

Quasi-Newton methods are widely used for solving convex optimization problems due to their ease of implementation, practical efficiency, and strong local convergence guarantees. However, their global convergence is typically established…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-28 Artem Agafonov , Vladislav Ryspayev , Samuel Horváth , Alexander Gasnikov , Martin Takáč , Slavomir Hanzely

This monograph covers some recent advances in a range of acceleration techniques frequently used in convex optimization. We first use quadratic optimization problems to introduce two key families of methods, namely momentum and nested…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-26 Alexandre d'Aspremont , Damien Scieur , Adrien Taylor

This paper introduces new parameter-free first-order methods for convex optimization problems in which the objective function exhibits H\"{o}lder smoothness. Inspired by the recently proposed distance-over-gradient (DOG) technique, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Yijin Ren , Haifeng Xu , Qi Deng

In a Hilbert setting, for convex differentiable optimization, we consider accelerated gradient dynamics combining Tikhonov regularization with Hessian-driven damping. The Tikhonov regularization parameter is assumed to tend to zero as time…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-01 Hedy Attouch , Aicha Balhag , Zaki Chbani , Hassan Riahi

Despite their frequent slow convergence, proximal gradient schemes are widely used in large-scale optimization tasks due to their tremendous stability, scalability, and ease of computation. In this paper, we develop and investigate a…

Computation · Statistics 2025-08-19 Nicholas C. Henderson , Ravi Varadhan

Newton's method may exhibit slower convergence than vanilla Gradient Descent in its initial phase on strongly convex problems. Classical Newton-type multilevel methods mitigate this but, like Gradient Descent, achieve only linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-25 Nick Tsipinakis , Panos Parpas , Matthias Voigt

Newton's method may exhibit slower convergence than vanilla Gradient Descent in its initial phase on strongly convex problems. Classical Newton-type multilevel methods mitigate this but, like Gradient Descent, achieve only linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-05 Nick Tsipinakis , Panagiotis Tigkas , Panos Parpas

In this paper, an efficient modified Newton type algorithm is proposed for nonlinear unconstrianed optimization problems. The modified Hessian is a convex combination of the identity matrix (for steepest descent algorithm) and the Hessian…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-10-09 Yaguang Yang

We propose a framework to use Nesterov's accelerated method for constrained convex optimization problems. Our approach consists of first reformulating the original problem as an unconstrained optimization problem using a continuously…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-12 Priyank Srivastava , Jorge Cortes

We develop two new proximal alternating penalty algorithms to solve a wide range class of constrained convex optimization problems. Our approach mainly relies on a novel combination of the classical quadratic penalty, alternating…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-20 Quoc Tran-Dinh

In machine learning research, the proximal gradient methods are popular for solving various optimization problems with non-smooth regularization. Inexact proximal gradient methods are extremely important when exactly solving the proximal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Bin Gu , De Wang , Zhouyuan Huo , Heng Huang

In this paper, we propose a proximal gradient method and an accelerated proximal gradient method for solving composite optimization problems, where the objective function is the sum of a smooth and a convex, possibly nonsmooth, function. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Raghu Bollapragada , Shagun Gupta

A novel regularization technique, AdaCubic, is proposed that adapts the weight of the cubic term. The heart of AdaCubic is an auxiliary optimization problem with cubic constraints that dynamically adjusts the weight of the cubic term in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Ioannis Tsingalis , Constantine Kotropoulos , Corentin Briat