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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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…