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This paper concerns the composite problem of minimizing the sum of a twice continuously differentiable function $f$ and a nonsmooth convex function. For this class of nonconvex and nonsmooth problems, by leveraging a practical inexactness…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Ruyu Liu , Shaohua Pan , Yitian Qian

In this paper we consider the cubic regularization (CR) method for minimizing a twice continuously differentiable function. While the CR method is widely recognized as a globally convergent variant of Newton's method with superior iteration…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-30 Man-Chung Yue , Zirui Zhou , Anthony Man-Cho So

In this paper, we generalize (accelerated) Newton's method with cubic regularization under inexact second-order information for (strongly) convex optimization problems. Under mild assumptions, we provide global rate of convergence of these…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-17 Saeed Ghadimi , Han Liu , Tong Zhang

Momentum is a popular technique to accelerate the convergence in practical training, and its impact on convergence guarantee has been well-studied for first-order algorithms. However, such a successful acceleration technique has not yet…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-28 Zhe Wang , Yi Zhou , Yingbin Liang , Guanghui Lan

Cubic-regularized Newton's method (CR) is a popular algorithm that guarantees to produce a second-order stationary solution for solving nonconvex optimization problems. However, existing understandings of the convergence rate of CR are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-23 Yi Zhou , Zhe Wang , Yingbin Liang

In this paper, we study the iteration complexity of cubic regularization of Newton method for solving composite minimization problems with uniformly convex objective. We introduce the notion of second-order condition number of a certain…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-21 Nikita Doikov , Yurii Nesterov

This study proposes a cubic regularization of the Newton method for generating weakly efficient points of unconstrained vector optimization problems under no convexity assumption on the objective function. It is observed that at a given…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Debdas Ghosh

This paper addresses the optimization problem of minimizing non-convex continuous functions, which is relevant in the context of high-dimensional machine learning applications characterized by over-parametrization. We analyze a randomized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Jim Zhao , Aurelien Lucchi , Nikita Doikov

We study a Newton-like method for the minimization of an objective function that is the sum of a smooth convex function and an l-1 regularization term. This method, which is sometimes referred to in the literature as a proximal Newton…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-09-16 Richard H. Byrd , Jorge Nocedal , Figen Oztoprak

Successive quadratic approximations, or second-order proximal methods, are useful for minimizing functions that are a sum of a smooth part and a convex, possibly nonsmooth part that promotes regularization. Most analyses of iteration…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-25 Ching-pei Lee , Stephen J. Wright

We consider variants of a recently-developed Newton-CG algorithm for nonconvex problems \citep{royer2018newton} in which inexact estimates of the gradient and the Hessian information are used for various steps. Under certain conditions on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-12 Zhewei Yao , Peng Xu , Fred Roosta , Stephen J. Wright , Michael W. Mahoney

We here adapt an extended version of the adaptive cubic regularisation method with dynamic inexact Hessian information for nonconvex optimisation in [3] to the stochastic optimisation setting. While exact function evaluations are still…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-15 Stefania Bellavia , Gianmarco Gurioli

This paper focuses on the minimization of a sum of a twice continuously differentiable function $f$ and a nonsmooth convex function. An inexact regularized proximal Newton method is proposed by an approximation to the Hessian of $f$…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-09 Ruyu Liu , Shaohua Pan , Yuqia Wu , Xiaoqi Yang

In this paper, we propose a cubic regularized Newton (CRN) method for solving convex-concave saddle point problems (SPP). At each iteration, a cubic regularized saddle point subproblem is constructed and solved, which provides a search…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-25 Kevin Huang , Junyu Zhang , Shuzhong Zhang

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

The cubic regularization method (CR) and its adaptive version (ARC) are popular Newton-type methods in solving unconstrained non-convex optimization problems, due to its global convergence to local minima under mild conditions. The main aim…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-13 Yihang Gao , Michael K. Ng

Cubic regularization (CR) is an optimization method with emerging popularity due to its capability to escape saddle points and converge to second-order stationary solutions for nonconvex optimization. However, CR encounters a high sample…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-10 Zhe Wang , Yi Zhou , Yingbin Liang , Guanghui Lan

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

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 algorithm for solving smooth nonconvex optimization problems is proposed that, in the worst-case, takes $\mathcal{O}(\epsilon^{-3/2})$ iterations to drive the norm of the gradient of the objective function below a prescribed positive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-16 Frank E. Curtis , Daniel P. Robinson , Mohammadreza Samadi
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