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Update formulas for the Hessian approximations in quasi-Newton methods such as BFGS can be derived as analytical solutions to certain nearest-matrix problems. In this article, we propose a similar idea for deriving new limited memory…

Designing efficient quasi-Newton methods is an important problem in nonlinear optimization and the solution of systems of nonlinear equations. From the perspective of the matrix approximation process, this paper presents a unified framework…

It is well known that the conjugate gradient method and a quasi-Newton method, using any well-defined update matrix from the one-parameter Broyden family of updates, produce identical iterates on a quadratic problem with positive-definite…

The main focus in this paper is exact linesearch methods for minimizing a quadratic function whose Hessian is positive definite. We give a class of limited-memory quasi-Newton Hessian approximations which generate search directions parallel…

We develop and analyze a broad family of stochastic/randomized algorithms for inverting a matrix. We also develop specialized variants maintaining symmetry or positive definiteness of the iterates. All methods in the family converge…

In this paper, we study greedy variants of quasi-Newton methods. They are based on the updating formulas from a certain subclass of the Broyden family. In particular, this subclass includes the well-known DFP, BFGS and SR1 updates. However,…

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…

Non-asymptotic analysis of quasi-Newton methods have gained traction recently. In particular, several works have established a non-asymptotic superlinear rate of $\mathcal{O}((1/\sqrt{t})^t)$ for the (classic) BFGS method by exploiting the…

We investigate quasi-Newton methods for minimizing a strictly convex quadratic function which is subject to errors in the evaluation of the gradients. The methods all give identical behavior in exact arithmetic, generating minimizers of…

We consider the use of a curvature-adaptive step size in gradient-based iterative methods, including quasi-Newton methods, for minimizing self-concordant functions, extending an approach first proposed for Newton's method by Nesterov. This…

Using quasi-Newton methods in stochastic optimization is not a trivial task given the difficulty of extracting curvature information from the noisy gradients. Moreover, pre-conditioning noisy gradient observations tend to amplify the noise.…

Newton's method is an ubiquitous tool to solve equations, both in the archimedean and non-archimedean settings -- for which it does not really differ. Broyden was the instigator of what is called "quasi-Newton methods". These methods use an…

We propose an extension of quasi-Newton methods, and investigate the convergence and the robustness properties of the proposed update formulae for the approximate Hessian matrix. Fletcher has studied a variational problem which derives the…

Gradient-based algorithms are one of the methods of choice for the optimisation of Markov Decision Processes. In this article we will present a novel approximate Newton algorithm for the optimisation of such models. The algorithm has…

We present a JAX implementation of the Self-Scaled Broyden family of quasi-Newton methods, fully compatible with JAX and building on the Optimistix~\cite{rader_optimistix_2024} optimisation library. The implementation includes BFGS, DFP,…

This paper concerns exact linesearch quasi-Newton methods for minimizing a quadratic function whose Hessian is positive definite. We show that by interpreting the method of conjugate gradients as a particular exact linesearch quasi-Newton…

In this paper, we propose a novel adaptive-rank method for simulating multi-scale BGK equations, based on a greedy sampling strategy. The method adaptively selects important rows and columns of the solution matrix and updates them using a…

Recently several methods were proposed for sparse optimization which make careful use of second-order information [10, 28, 16, 3] to improve local convergence rates. These methods construct a composite quadratic approximation using Hessian…

This paper adapts a recently developed regularized stochastic version of the Broyden, Fletcher, Goldfarb, and Shanno (BFGS) quasi-Newton method for the solution of support vector machine classification problems. The proposed method is shown…

Minimax problems have gained tremendous attentions across the optimization and machine learning community recently. In this paper, we introduce a new quasi-Newton method for minimax problems, which we call $J$-symmetric quasi-Newton method.…