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In this paper, we propose new methods to efficiently solve convex optimization problems encountered in sparse estimation, which include a new quasi-Newton method that avoids computing the Hessian matrix and improves efficiency, and we prove…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Ryosuke Shimmura , Joe Suzuki

In this paper, we propose a Newton method for unconstrained set optimization problems to find its weakly minimal solutions with respect to lower set-less ordering. The objective function of the problem under consideration is given by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-01 Debdas Ghosh , Anshika , Qamrul Hasan Ansari , Xiaopeng Zhao

We consider variants of trust-region and cubic regularization methods for non-convex optimization, in which the Hessian matrix is approximated. Under mild conditions on the inexact Hessian, and using approximate solution of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-15 Peng Xu , Fred Roosta , Michael W. Mahoney

This paper deals with the minimization of large sum of convex functions by Inexact Newton (IN) methods employing subsampled functions, gradients and Hessian approximations. The Conjugate Gradient method is used to compute the inexact Newton…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-15 Stefania Bellavia , Natasa Krejic , Natasa Krklec Jerinkic

This paper presents active-set methods for minimizing nonconvex twice-continuously differentiable functions subject to bound constraints. Within the faces of the feasible set, we employ descent methods with Armijo line search, utilizing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-29 Ernesto G. Birgin , Geovani N. Grapiglia , Diaulas S. Marcondes

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

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

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

Machine learning problems such as neural network training, tensor decomposition, and matrix factorization, require local minimization of a nonconvex function. This local minimization is challenged by the presence of saddle points, of which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-23 Santiago Paternain , Aryan Mokhtari , Alejandro Ribeiro

In recent years, various subspace algorithms have been developed to handle large-scale optimization problems. Although existing subspace Newton methods require fewer iterations to converge in practice, the matrix operations and full…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-05 Taisei Miyaishi , Ryota Nozawa , Pierre-Louis Poirion , Akiko Takeda

We develop a computationally efficient algorithm for the automatic regularization of nonlinear inverse problems based on the discrepancy principle. We formulate the problem as an equality constrained optimization problem, where the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-03 Jeffrey Cornelis , Wim Vanroose

In recent years, the proximal gradient method and its variants have been generalized to Riemannian manifolds for solving optimization problems with an additively separable structure, i.e., $f + h$, where $f$ is continuously differentiable,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-04 Wutao Si , P. -A. Absil , Wen Huang , Rujun Jiang , Simon Vary

We analyze the performance of a variant of Newton method with quadratic regularization for solving composite convex minimization problems. At each step of our method, we choose regularization parameter proportional to a certain power of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-12 Nikita Doikov , Konstantin Mishchenko , Yurii Nesterov

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

This paper describes a method for solving smooth nonconvex minimization problems subject to bound constraints with good worst-case complexity guarantees and practical performance. The method contains elements of two existing methods: the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-08 Yue Xie , Stephen J. Wright

In this paper we present GSSN, a globalized SCD semismooth* Newton method for solving nonsmooth nonconvex optimization problems. The global convergence properties of the method are ensured by the proximal gradient method, whereas locally…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-27 H. Gfrerer

We first investigate properties of M-tensor equations. In particular, we show that if the constant term of the equation is nonnegative, then finding a nonnegative solution of the equation can be done by finding a positive solution of a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-28 Dong-Hui Li , Hong-Bo Guan , Jie-Feng Xu

Newton-type methods enjoy fast local convergence and strong empirical performance, but achieving global guarantees comparable to first-order methods remains challenging. Even for simple strongly convex problems, no straightforward variant…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Alexander Lim , Fred Roosta

We show that Newton's method converges globally at a linear rate for objective functions whose Hessians are stable. This class of problems includes many functions which are not strongly convex, such as logistic regression. Our linear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-04 Sai Praneeth Karimireddy , Sebastian U. Stich , Martin Jaggi