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Despite the impressive numerical performance of the quasi-Newton and Anderson/nonlinear acceleration methods, their global convergence rates have remained elusive for over 50 years. This study addresses this long-standing issue by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-16 Damien Scieur

Designing efficient quasi-Newton methods is an important problem in nonlinear optimization and the solution of systems of nonlinear equations. From the perspective of the matrix approximation process, this paper presents a unified framework…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-15 Zhenyuan Ji

Update formulas for the Hessian approximations in quasi-Newton methods such as BFGS can be derived as analytical solutions to certain nearest-matrix problems. In this article, we propose a similar idea for deriving new limited memory…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-06 Erik Berglund , Mikael Johansson

Quasi-Newton techniques approximate the Newton step by estimating the Hessian using the so-called secant equations. Some of these methods compute the Hessian using several secant equations but produce non-symmetric updates. Other…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-09 Damien Scieur , Lewis Liu , Thomas Pumir , Nicolas Boumal

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

Four decades after their invention, quasi-Newton methods are still state of the art in unconstrained numerical optimization. Although not usually interpreted thus, these are learning algorithms that fit a local quadratic approximation to…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2012-06-22 Philipp Hennig , Martin Kiefel

We consider the use of a curvature-adaptive step size in gradient-based iterative methods, including quasi-Newton methods, for minimizing self-concordant functions, extending an approach first proposed for Newton's method by Nesterov. This…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-13 Wenbo Gao , Donald Goldfarb

{A defining characteristic of Newton's method is local superlinear convergence within a neighbourhood of a strict local minimum. However, outside this neighborhood Newton's method can converge slowly or even diverge. A common approach to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-19 Betty Shea , Mark Schmidt

Quasi-Newton algorithms are among the most popular iterative methods for solving unconstrained minimization problems, largely due to their favorable superlinear convergence property. However, existing results for these algorithms are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-26 Ruichen Jiang , Qiujiang Jin , Aryan Mokhtari

We present two sampled quasi-Newton methods (sampled LBFGS and sampled LSR1) for solving empirical risk minimization problems that arise in machine learning. Contrary to the classical variants of these methods that sequentially build…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-29 Albert S. Berahas , Majid Jahani , Peter Richtárik , Martin Takáč

Stochastic gradient descent and other first-order variants, such as Adam and AdaGrad, are commonly used in the field of deep learning due to their computational efficiency and low-storage memory requirements. However, these methods do not…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-19 Aditya Ranganath , Mukesh Singhal , Roummel Marcia

Quasi-Newton methods refer to a class of algorithms at the interface between first and second order methods. They aim to progress as substantially as second order methods per iteration, while maintaining the computational complexity of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-14 Shida Wang , Jalal Fadili , Peter Ochs

Quasi-Newton methods are ubiquitous in deterministic local search due to their efficiency and low computational cost. This class of methods uses the history of gradient evaluations to approximate second-order derivatives. However, only…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-24 André Carlon , Luis Espath , Raúl Tempone

In this work we introduce and study novel Quasi Newton minimization methods based on a Hessian approximation Broyden Class-\textit{type} updating scheme, where a suitable matrix $\tilde{B}_k$ is updated instead of the current Hessian…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-22 S. Cipolla , C. Di Fiore , P. Zellini

In this paper, we propose two regularized proximal quasi-Newton methods with symmetric rank-1 update of the metric (SR1 quasi-Newton) to solve non-smooth convex additive composite problems. Both algorithms avoid using line search or other…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-22 Shida Wang , Jalal Fadili , Peter Ochs

In this work, we investigate stochastic quasi-Newton methods for minimizing a finite sum of cost functions over a decentralized network. In Part I, we develop a general algorithmic framework that incorporates stochastic quasi-Newton…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-22 Jiaojiao Zhang , Huikang Liu , Anthony Man-Cho So , Qing Ling

Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithms allow artificial agents to improve their action selections so as to increase rewarding experiences in their environments. Deep Reinforcement Learning algorithms require solving a nonconvex and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Jacob Rafati , Roummel F. Marcia

We investigate quasi-Newton methods for minimizing a strictly convex quadratic function which is subject to errors in the evaluation of the gradients. The methods all give identical behavior in exact arithmetic, generating minimizers of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-26 Shen Peng , Gianpiero Canessa , David Ek , Anders Forsgren

It is well known that the conjugate gradient method and a quasi-Newton method, using any well-defined update matrix from the one-parameter Broyden family of updates, produce identical iterates on a quadratic problem with positive-definite…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-07-07 Anders Forsgren , Tove Odland

The main focus in this paper is exact linesearch methods for minimizing a quadratic function whose Hessian is positive definite. We give a class of limited-memory quasi-Newton Hessian approximations which generate search directions parallel…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-04 David Ek , Anders Forsgren