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In this paper, a globally convergent trust region proximal gradient method is developed for composite multi-objective optimization problems where each objective function can be represented as the sum of a smooth function and a nonsmooth…
This paper proposes an algorithm for solving structured optimization problems, which covers both the backward-backward and the Douglas-Rachford algorithms as special cases, and analyzes its convergence. The set of fixed points of the…
This paper describes a flexible framework for generalized low-rank tensor estimation problems that includes many important instances arising from applications in computational imaging, genomics, and network analysis. The proposed estimator…
High-order tensor methods for solving both convex and nonconvex optimization problems have generated significant research interest, leading to algorithms with optimal global rates of convergence and local rates that are faster than Newton's…
Nonconvex optimization problems arise in many areas of computational science and engineering and are (approximately) solved by a variety of algorithms. Existing algorithms usually only have local convergence or subsequence convergence of…
In this paper, we consider the problem of learning high-dimensional tensor regression problems with low-rank structure. One of the core challenges associated with learning high-dimensional models is computation since the underlying…
We propose a general theory for studying the \xl{landscape} of nonconvex \xl{optimization} with underlying symmetric structures \tz{for a class of machine learning problems (e.g., low-rank matrix factorization, phase retrieval, and deep…
Eigensolvers involving complex moments can determine all the eigenvalues in a given region in the complex plane and the corresponding eigenvectors of a regular linear matrix pencil. The complex moment acts as a filter for extracting…
Constrained least squares regression is an essential tool for high-dimensional data analysis. Given a partition $\mathcal{G}$ of input variables, this paper considers a particular class of nonconvex constraint functions that encourage the…
We investigate a trust-region algorithm to solve a nonconvex optimization problem with $L^p$-regularization for $p\in(0,1)$. The algorithm relies on descent properties of a so-called generalized Cauchy point that can be obtained efficiently…
In this contribution, we study the numerical behavior of the Generalized Minimal Residual (GMRES) method for solving singular linear systems. It is known that GMRES determines a least squares solution without breakdown if the coefficient…
A subgradient method is presented for solving general convex optimization problems, the main requirement being that a strictly-feasible point is known. A feasible sequence of iterates is generated, which converges to within user-specified…
This paper considers general rank-constrained optimization problems that minimize a general objective function $f(X)$ over the set of rectangular $n\times m$ matrices that have rank at most $r$. To tackle the rank constraint and also to…
Many problems in robotics, such as estimating the state from noisy sensor data or aligning two point clouds, can be posed and solved as least-squares problems. Unfortunately, vanilla nonminimal solvers for least-squares problems are…
This work presents PANTR, an efficient solver for nonconvex constrained optimization problems, that is well-suited as an inner solver for an augmented Lagrangian method. The proposed scheme combines forward-backward iterations with…
We develop a trust-region method for efficiently minimizing the sum of a smooth function, a nonsmooth convex function, and the composition of a finite-valued support function with a smooth function. Optimization problems with this structure…
In this paper, we develop a regularized higher-order Taylor based method for solving composite (e.g., nonlinear least-squares) problems. At each iteration, we replace each smooth component of the objective function by a higher-order Taylor…
In this paper, we develop a new Randomized Global Generalized Minimum Residual (RGlGMRES) algorithm for efficiently computing solutions to large scale linear systems with multiple right hand sides.The proposed method builds on a recently…
We present a new framework for solving general topology optimization (TO) problems that find an optimal material distribution within a design space to maximize the performance of a structure while satisfying design constraints. These…
We consider the minimization of a cost function $f$ on a manifold $M$ using Riemannian gradient descent and Riemannian trust regions (RTR). We focus on satisfying necessary optimality conditions within a tolerance $\varepsilon$.…