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In this article, we propose a Newton-based method for solving multiobjective interval optimization problems (MIOPs). We first provide a connection between weakly Pareto optimal points and Pareto critical points in the context of MIOPs.…

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Despite the fact that the loss functions of deep neural networks are highly non-convex, gradient-based optimization algorithms converge to approximately the same performance from many random initial points. One thread of work has focused on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Charles G. Frye , James Simon , Neha S. Wadia , Andrew Ligeralde , Michael R. DeWeese , Kristofer E. Bouchard

In the paper, we propose solving optimization problems (OPs) and understanding the Newton method from the optimal control view. We propose a new optimization algorithm based on the optimal control problem (OCP). The algorithm features…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Huanshui Zhang , Hongxia Wang

The global minimum point of an optimization problem is of interest in engineering fields and it is difficult to be found, especially for a nonconvex large-scale optimization problem. In this article, we consider a new memetic algorithm for…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Xin-long Luo , Hang Xiao , Sen Zhang

Numerically locating the critical points of non-convex surfaces is a long-standing problem central to many fields. Recently, the loss surfaces of deep neural networks have been explored to gain insight into outstanding questions in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-31 Charles G. Frye , Neha S. Wadia , Michael R. DeWeese , Kristofer E. Bouchard

This study proposes a Newton based multiple objective optimization algorithm for hyperparameter search. The first order differential (gradient) is calculated using finite difference method and a gradient matrix with vectorization is formed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-09 Qinwu Xu

When training neural networks with custom objectives, such as ranking losses and shortest-path losses, a common problem is that they are, per se, non-differentiable. A popular approach is to continuously relax the objectives to provide…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Felix Petersen , Christian Borgelt , Tobias Sutter , Hilde Kuehne , Oliver Deussen , Stefano Ermon

In this paper, we consider variants of Newton-MR algorithm for solving unconstrained, smooth, but non-convex optimization problems. Unlike the overwhelming majority of Newton-type methods, which rely on conjugate gradient algorithm as the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-02 Yang Liu , Fred Roosta

Machine Learning models incorporating multiple layered learning networks have been seen to provide effective models for various classification problems. The resulting optimization problem to solve for the optimal vector minimizing the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-03 Vyacheslav Kungurtsev , Tomas Pevny

Optimization problems in disciplines such as machine learning are commonly solved with iterative methods. Gradient descent algorithms find local minima by moving along the direction of steepest descent while Newton's method takes into…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-20 Patrick Rebentrost , Maria Schuld , Leonard Wossnig , Francesco Petruccione , Seth Lloyd

This paper considers robust solutions to a class of nonlinear least squares problems using min-max optimization approach. We give an explicit formula for the value function of the inner maximization problem and show the existence of global…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-03 Xiaojun Chen , Carl Kelley

The proximal point algorithm is a widely used tool for solving a variety of convex optimization problems such as finding zeros of maximally monotone operators, fixed points of nonexpansive mappings, as well as minimizing convex functions.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-19 Laurentiu Leustean , Adriana Nicolae , Andrei Sipos

We consider minimization of a smooth nonconvex objective function using an iterative algorithm based on Newton's method and the linear conjugate gradient algorithm, with explicit detection and use of negative curvature directions for the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-14 Clément W. Royer , Michael O'Neill , Stephen J. Wright

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 develop optimization methods which offer new trade-offs between the number of gradient and Hessian computations needed to compute the critical point of a non-convex function. We provide a method that for any twice-differentiable $f\colon…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-24 Deeksha Adil , Brian Bullins , Aaron Sidford , Chenyi Zhang

We derive several numerical methods for designing optimized first-order algorithms in unconstrained convex optimization settings. Our methods are based on the Performance Estimation Problem (PEP) framework, which casts the worst-case…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Yassine Kamri , Julien M. Hendrickx , François Glineur

In this paper, we propose a new descent method, termed as multiobjective memory gradient method, for finding Pareto critical points of a multiobjective optimization problem. The main thought in this method is to select a combination of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-02 Wang Chen , Xinmin Yang , Yong Zhao

In this article we develop a max-strategy improvement algorithm for computing least fixpoints of operators on on the reals that are point-wise maxima of finitely many monotone and order-concave operators. Computing the uniquely determined…

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In this paper, we consider high-dimensional nonconvex square-root-loss regression problems and introduce a proximal majorization-minimization (PMM) algorithm for these problems. Our key idea for making the proposed PMM to be efficient is to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-28 Peipei Tang , Chengjing Wang , Defeng Sun , Kim-Chuan Toh

Current state-of-the-art multi-objective optimization solvers, by computing gradients of all $m$ objective functions per iteration, produce after $k$ iterations a measure of proximity to critical conditions that is upper-bounded by…

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