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We introduce a two-level trust-region method (TLTR) for solving unconstrained nonlinear optimization problems. Our method uses a composite iteration step, which is based on two distinct search directions. The first search direction is…
We study theoretical runtime guarantees for a class of optimization problems that occur in a wide variety of inference problems. these problems are motivated by the lasso framework and have applications in machine learning and computer…
Classical trust region methods were designed to solve problems in which function and gradient information are exact. This paper considers the case when there are bounded errors (or noise) in the above computations and proposes a simple…
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…
A stochastic second-order trust region method is proposed, which can be viewed as a second-order extension of the trust-region-ish (TRish) algorithm proposed by Curtis et al. (INFORMS J. Optim. 1(3) 200-220, 2019). In each iteration, a…
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…
The trust-region (TR) method is renowned historically for its robustness in nonconvex problems and extraordinary numerical performance, but the study of its performance in convex optimization is somehow limited. This paper complements the…
A trust-region algorithm is presented for finding approximate minimizers of smooth unconstrained functions whose values and derivatives are subject to random noise. It is shown that, under suitable probabilistic assumptions, the new method…
The trust-region problem, which minimizes a nonconvex quadratic function over a ball, is a key subproblem in trust-region methods for solving nonlinear optimization problems. It enjoys many attractive properties such as an exact…
This article presents a validation of a recently proposed strongly polynomial-time algorithm for the general linear programming problem. The proposed algorithm is an implicit reduction procedure that combines primal and dual linear…
We introduce a particular optimization problem that minimizes the sum of a non-convex quadratic function and logarithmic barrier-functions in a $\ell_\infty$-trust-region (i.e. cube). Our paper covers three topics. We explain the relevance…
We propose a novel trust region method for solving a class of nonsmooth, nonconvex composite-type optimization problems. The approach embeds inexact semismooth Newton steps for finding zeros of a normal map-based stationarity measure for…
We develop a stochastic trust-region algorithm for minimizing the sum of a possibly nonconvex Lipschitz-smooth function that can only be evaluated stochastically and a nonsmooth, deterministic, convex function. This algorithm, which we call…
We study a new linear up to quadratic time algorithm for linear regression in the absence of strong assumptions on the underlying distributions of samples, and in the presence of outliers. The goal is to design a procedure which comes with…
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…
This paper investigates a new class of non-convex optimization, which provides a unified framework for linear precoding in single/multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channels with arbitrary input distributions. The new…
We investigate a trust-region algorithm to solve a nonconvex optimization problem with $L^p$-regularization for $p\in(0,1)$. The algorithm relies on descent properties of a so-called generalized Cauchy point that can be obtained efficiently…
In this article, we consider solvers for large-scale trust-region subproblems when the quadratic model is defined by a limited-memory symmetric rank-one (L-SR1) quasi-Newton matrix. We propose a solver that exploits the compact…
This work presents PANTR, an efficient solver for nonconvex constrained optimization problems, that is well-suited as an inner solver for an augmented Lagrangian method. The proposed scheme combines forward-backward iterations with…
Worst-case complexity guarantees for nonconvex optimization algorithms have been a topic of growing interest. Multiple frameworks that achieve the best known complexity bounds among a broad class of first- and second-order strategies have…