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In the first part of this paper, we establish a conditional optimality result for an adaptive mixed finite element method for the stationary Stokes problem discretized by the standard Taylor-Hood elements, under the assumption of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-10-14 Tsogtgerel Gantumur

A class of second-order algorithms is proposed for minimizing smooth nonconvex functions that alternates between regularized Newton and negative curvature steps in an iteration-dependent subspace. In most cases, the Hessian matrix is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-22 Serge Gratton , Sadok Jerad , Philippe L. Toint

Quasi-Newton methods form an important class of methods for solving nonlinear optimization problems. In such methods, first order information is used to approximate the second derivative. The aim is to mimic the fast convergence that can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-20 Aban Ansari-Önnestam , Anders Forsgren

Bilevel optimization, addressing challenges in hierarchical learning tasks, has gained significant interest in machine learning. The practical implementation of the gradient descent method to bilevel optimization encounters computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Sheng Fang , Yong-Jin Liu , Wei Yao , Chengming Yu , Jin Zhang

This paper presents a novel variant of the Broyden quasi-Newton secant-type method aimed at solving constrained mixed generalized equations, which can include functions that are not necessarily differentiable. The proposed method integrates…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-11 P. C. da Silva Junior , O. P. Ferreira , G. N. Silva

Global convergence of an online (stochastic) limited memory version of the Broyden-Fletcher- Goldfarb-Shanno (BFGS) quasi-Newton method for solving optimization problems with stochastic objectives that arise in large scale machine learning…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-09-09 Aryan Mokhtari , Alejandro Ribeiro

Optimization is important in machine learning problems, and quasi-Newton methods have a reputation as the most efficient numerical schemes for smooth unconstrained optimization. In this paper, we consider the explicit superlinear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-13 Dachao Lin , Haishan Ye , Zhihua Zhang

In this paper, we modify the adaptive cubic regularization method for large-scale unconstrained optimization problem by using a real positive definite scalar matrix to approximate the exact Hessian. Combining with the nonmonotone technique,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-17 Yutao Zheng , Bing Zheng

Newton's method is the most widespread high-order method, demanding the gradient and the Hessian of the objective function. However, one of the main disadvantages of Newtons method is its lack of global convergence and high iteration cost.…

Though quasi-Newton methods have been extensively studied in the literature, they either suffer from local convergence or use a series of line searches for global convergence which is not acceptable in the distributed setting. In this work,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-01 Yubo Du , Keyou You

In this paper, we consider an unconstrained optimization model where the objective is a sum of a large number of possibly nonconvex functions, though overall the objective is assumed to be smooth and convex. Our bid to solving such model…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-15 Xi Chen , Bo Jiang , Tianyi Lin , Shuzhong Zhang

We present PNKH-B, a projected Newton-Krylov method for iteratively solving large-scale optimization problems with bound constraints. PNKH-B is geared toward situations in which function and gradient evaluations are expensive, and the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-25 Kelvin Kan , Samy Wu Fung , Lars Ruthotto

Accelerating the convergence of second-order optimization, particularly Newton-type methods, remains a pivotal challenge in algorithmic research. In this paper, we extend previous work on the \textbf{Quadratic Gradient (QG)} and rigorously…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-01 John Chiang

We consider concave minimization problems over non-convex sets.Optimization problems with this structure arise in sparse principal component analysis. We analyze both a gradient projection algorithm and an approximate Newton algorithm where…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2019-04-09 William W. Hager , Dzung T. Phan , Jia-Jie Zhu

Quasi-Newton methods are widely used for solving convex optimization problems due to their ease of implementation, practical efficiency, and strong local convergence guarantees. However, their global convergence is typically established…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-28 Artem Agafonov , Vladislav Ryspayev , Samuel Horváth , Alexander Gasnikov , Martin Takáč , Slavomir Hanzely

In this paper, we study Newton-conjugate gradient (Newton-CG) methods for minimizing a nonconvex function $f$ whose Hessian is $(H_f,\nu)$-H\"older continuous with modulus $H_f>0$ and exponent $\nu\in(0,1]$. Recently proposed Newton-CG…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Ziyang Zeng , Junyu Zhang , Chuan He

In this paper, we propose a quasi Newton method to solve the robust counterpart of an uncertain multiobjective optimization problem under an arbitrary finite uncertainty set. Here the robust counterpart of an uncertain multiobjective…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-12 Shubham kumar , Nihar Kumar Mahato , Md Abu T Ansary , Debdas Ghosh

An algorithm is devised for solving minimization problems with equality constraints. The algorithm uses first-order derivatives of both the objective function and the constraints. The step is computed as a sum between a steepest-descent…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-11-15 Cristian Barbarosie , Sérgio Lopes , Anca-Maria Toader

This paper presents modified memoryless quasi-Newton methods based on the spectral-scaling Broyden family on Riemannian manifolds. The method involves adding one parameter to the search direction of the memoryless self-scaling Broyden…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-05 Hiroyuki Sakai , Hideaki Iiduka

We study the variational inference problem of minimizing a regularized R\'enyi divergence over an exponential family. We propose to solve this problem with a Bregman proximal gradient algorithm. We propose a sampling-based algorithm to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-10-17 Thomas Guilmeau , Emilie Chouzenoux , Víctor Elvira