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The regularized Barzilai-Borwein (RBB) method represents a promising gradient-based optimization algorithm. In this paper, by splitting the gradient into two parts and analyzing the dynamical system of difference equations governing the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-29 Xin Xu

In this paper, we incorporate the Barzilai-Borwein step size into gradient descent methods used to train deep networks. This allows us to adapt the learning rate using a two-point approximation to the secant equation which quasi-Newton…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Antonio Robles-Kelly , Asef Nazari

The imbalances and conditioning of the objective functions influence the performance of first-order methods for multiobjective optimization problems (MOPs). The latter is related to the metric selected in the direction-finding subproblems.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-14 Jian Chen , Liping Tang , Xinmin Yang

The Barzilai-Borwein (BB) steplengths play great roles in practical gradient methods for solving unconstrained optimization problems. Motivated by the observation that the two well-known BB steplengths correspond to the ordinary and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-14 Shiru Li , Tao Zhang , Yong Xia

We investigate stochastic gradient methods and stochastic counterparts of the Barzilai-Borwein steplengths and their application to finite-sum minimization problems. Our proposal is based on the Trust-Region-ish (TRish) framework introduced…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-01 Stefania Bellavia , Benedetta Morini , Mahsa Yousefi

Learning representation from relative similarity comparisons, often called ordinal embedding, gains rising attention in recent years. Most of the existing methods are based on semi-definite programming (\textit{SDP}), which is generally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Ke Ma , Jinshan Zeng , Qianqian Xu , Xiaochun Cao , Wei Liu , Yuan Yao

An efficient proximal-gradient-based method, called proximal extrapolated gradient method, is designed for solving monotone variational inequality in Hilbert space. The proposed method extends the acceptable range of parameters to obtain…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-05 Xiaokai Chang , Sanyang Liu , Jianchao Bai , Jun Yang

In this paper, we consider the unconstrained multiobjective optimization problem. In recent years, researchers pointed out that the steepest decent method may generate small stepsize which leads to slow convergence rates. To address the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-12 Yingxue Yang

StochAstic Recursive grAdient algoritHm (SARAH), originally proposed for convex optimization and also proven to be effective for general nonconvex optimization, has received great attention due to its simple recursive framework for updating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-21 Zhuang Yang , Zengping Chen , Cheng Wang

We develop a novel stepsize based on \BB method for solving some challenging optimization problems efficiently, named regularized \BB (RBB) stepsize. We indicate that RBB stepsize is the close solution to a $\ell_{2}^{2}$-regularized least…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-04 Congpei An , Xin Xu

We propose a new stepsize for the gradient method. It is shown that this new stepsize will converge to the reciprocal of the largest eigenvalue of the Hessian, when Dai-Yang's asymptotic optimal gradient method (Computational Optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-13 Yakui Huang , Yu-Hong Dai , Xin-Wei Liu , Hongchao Zhang

We study the use of inverse harmonic Rayleigh quotients with target for the stepsize selection in gradient methods for nonlinear unconstrained optimization problems. This provides not only an elegant and flexible framework to parametrize…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-21 Giulia Ferrandi , Michiel E. Hochstenbach , Natasa Krejic

The mini-batch versions of StochAstic Recursive grAdient algoritHm and Semi-Stochastic Gradient Descent method, employed the random Barzilai-Borwein step sizes (shorted as MB-SARAH-RBB and mS2GD-RBB), have surged into prominence through…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-24 Jiangshan Wang , Yiming Yang , Zheng Peng

Barzilai-Borwein (BB) steplength is a popular choice in gradient descent method. By observing that the two existing BB steplengths correspond to the ordinary and the data least squares, respectively, we employ the third kind of least…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-15 Shiru Li , Yong Xia

In this paper, we propose a new non-monotone conjugate gradient method for solving unconstrained nonlinear optimization problems. We first modify the non-monotone line search method by introducing a new trigonometric function to calculate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-15 Sajad Fathi Hafshejani , Daya Gaur , Shahadat Hossain , Robert Benkoczi

The inexact adaptive stepsizes for the conjugate gradient method and the quasi-Newton method are very rare. The exact stepsizes in the gradient method, the conjugate gradient method and the quasi-Newton method for strictly convex quadratic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-23 Zexian Liu

This paper addresses the challenge of developing efficient algorithms for large-scale nonconvex multiobjective optimization problems (MOPs). While quasi-Newton methods are effective, their traditional application to MOPs is computationally…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Hua Liu

Stochastic gradient methods for minimizing nonconvex composite objective functions typically rely on the Lipschitz smoothness of the differentiable part, but this assumption fails in many important problem classes like quadratic inverse…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Kuangyu Ding , Jingyang Li , Kim-Chuan Toh

The growth in sizes of large-scale systems and data in machine learning have made distributed optimization a naturally appealing technique to solve decision problems in different contexts. In such methods, each agent iteratively carries out…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Iyanuoluwa Emiola

We investigate the stochastic gradient descent (SGD) method where the step size lies within a banded region instead of being given by a fixed formula. The optimal convergence rate under mild conditions and large initial step size is proved.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-10 Xiaoyu Wang , Ya-xiang Yuan