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In this paper, we develop a new adaptive regularization method for minimizing a composite function, which is the sum of a $p$th-order ($p \ge 1$) Lipschitz continuous function and a simple, convex, and possibly nonsmooth function. We use a…

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Solving inverse problems \(Ax = y\) is central to a variety of practically important fields such as medical imaging, remote sensing, and non-destructive testing. The most successful and theoretically best-understood method is convex…

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Low-rank modeling has many important applications in computer vision and machine learning. While the matrix rank is often approximated by the convex nuclear norm, the use of nonconvex low-rank regularizers has demonstrated better empirical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Quanming Yao , James T. Kwok , Taifeng Wang , Tie-Yan Liu

Proximal operations are among the most common primitives appearing in both practical and theoretical (or high-level) optimization methods. This basic operation typically consists in solving an intermediary (hopefully simpler) optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-30 Mathieu Barré , Adrien Taylor , Francis Bach

We propose an adaptive regularization scheme in a variational framework where a convex composite energy functional is optimized. We consider a number of imaging problems including denoising, segmentation and motion estimation, which are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-01 Byung-Woo Hong , Ja-Keoung Koo , Hendrik Dirks , Martin Burger

Approximations of optimization problems arise in computational procedures and sensitivity analysis. The resulting effect on solutions can be significant, with even small approximations of components of a problem translating into large…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-10 Johannes O. Royset

We consider a framework for the construction of iterative schemes for operator equations that combine low-rank approximation in tensor formats and adaptive approximation in a basis. Under fairly general assumptions, we obtain a rigorous…

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An algorithm is proposed, analyzed, and tested experimentally for solving stochastic optimization problems in which the decision variables are constrained to satisfy equations defined by deterministic, smooth, and nonlinear functions. It is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-09 Frank E. Curtis , Daniel P. Robinson , Baoyu Zhou

We present an adaptive regularization algorithm that can be effectively applied to the optimization problem in deep learning framework. Our regularization algorithm aims to take into account the fitness of data to the current state of model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Junghee Cho , Junseok Kwon , Byung-Woo Hong

Difference of convex (DC) functions cover a broad family of non-convex and possibly non-smooth and non-differentiable functions, and have wide applications in machine learning and statistics. Although deterministic algorithms for DC…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-05 Yi Xu , Qi Qi , Qihang Lin , Rong Jin , Tianbao Yang

We consider the Adaptive Regularization with Cubics approach for solving nonconvex optimization problems and propose a new variant based on inexact Hessian information chosen dynamically. The theoretical analysis of the proposed procedure…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-04 Stefania Bellavia , Gianmarco Gurioli , Benedetta Morini

Iterative regularization exploits the implicit bias of an optimization algorithm to regularize ill-posed problems. Constructing algorithms with such built-in regularization mechanisms is a classic challenge in inverse problems but also in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-02 Cesare Molinari , Mathurin Massias , Lorenzo Rosasco , Silvia Villa

The Inexact Restoration approach has proved to be an adequate tool for handling the problem of minimizing an expensive function within an arbitrary feasible set by using different degrees of precision in the objective function. The Inexact…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-28 Ernesto G. Birgin , Natasa Krejić , José Mario Martínez

In this paper, we propose objective-function-free (OFF) variants of the proximal Newton method for nonconvex composite optimization problems and the regularized Newton method for unconstrained optimization problems, respectively, using…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Hong Zhu

We tackle the problem of building adaptive estimation procedures for ill-posed inverse problems. For general regularization methods depending on tuning parameters, we construct a penalized method that selects the optimal smoothing sequence…

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In this work, we develop first-order (Hessian-free) and zero-order (derivative-free) implementations of the Cubically regularized Newton method for solving general non-convex optimization problems. For that, we employ finite difference…

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The use of convex regularizers allows for easy optimization, though they often produce biased estimation and inferior prediction performance. Recently, nonconvex regularizers have attracted a lot of attention and outperformed convex ones.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-14 Quanming Yao , James. T Kwok

The paper proposes a novel regularization procedure for machine learning. The proposed high-order regularization (HR) provides new insight into regularization, which is widely used to train a neural network that can be utilized to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Xinghua Liu , Ming Cao

Optimization methods that make use of derivatives of the objective function up to order $p > 2$ are called tensor methods. Among them, ones that minimize a regularized $p$th-order Taylor expansion at each step have been shown to possess…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-30 Karl Welzel , Yang Liu , Raphael A. Hauser , Coralia Cartis

Regularization-based approaches for injecting constraints in Machine Learning (ML) were introduced to improve a predictive model via expert knowledge. We tackle the issue of finding the right balance between the loss (the accuracy of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Michele Lombardi , Federico Baldo , Andrea Borghesi , Michela Milano