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Despite the broad use of fixed-point iterations throughout applied mathematics, the optimal convergence rate of general fixed-point problems with nonexpansive nonlinear operators has not been established. This work presents an acceleration…
The expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm is a well-known iterative method for computing maximum likelihood estimates from incomplete data. Despite its numerous advantages, a main drawback of the EM algorithm is its frequently observed…
Iterative Closest Point (ICP) is a widely used method for performing scan-matching and registration. Being simple and robust method, it is still computationally expensive and may be challenging to use in real-time applications with limited…
We give new convergence results of Anderson acceleration for the composite $\max$ fixed point problem. We prove that Anderson(1) and EDIIS(1) are q-linear convergent with a smaller q-factor than existing q-factors. Moreover, we propose a…
Iteratively reweighted L1 (IRL1) algorithm is a common algorithm for solving sparse optimization problems with nonconvex and nonsmooth regularization. The development of its acceleration algorithm, often employing Nesterov acceleration, has…
This paper proposes a new framework for computing low-rank solutions to nonlinear matrix equations arising from spatial discretization of nonlinear partial differential equations: low-rank Anderson acceleration (lrAA). lrAA is an adaptation…
We present a novel two-level sketching extension of the Alternating Anderson-Picard (AAP) method for accelerating fixed-point iterations in challenging single- and multi-physics simulations governed by discretized partial differential…
The Uzawa algorithm is an iterative method for the solution of saddle-point problems, which arise in many applications, including fluid dynamics. Viewing the Uzawa algorithm as a fixed- point iteration, we explore the use of Anderson…
Asynchronous iterative methods tolerate straggling processors by allowing workers to proceed with stale data, but at a cost: the iterates become inconsistent, potentially degrading convergence. We investigate whether convergence…
Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) and its many variants are the widespread optimization algorithms for training deep neural networks. However, SGD suffers from inevitable drawbacks, including vanishing gradients, lack of theoretical…
This paper examines a number of extrapolation and acceleration methods, and introduces a few modifications of the standard Shanks transformation that deal with general sequences. One of the goals of the paper is to lay out a general…
Regularized nonlinear acceleration (RNA) estimates the minimum of a function by post-processing iterates from an algorithm such as the gradient method. It can be seen as a regularized version of Anderson acceleration, a classical…
Fixed-point solvers are ubiquitous in nonlinear PDEs, yet their progress collapses whenever the Jacobian at the solution carries an eigenvalue arbitrarily close to one. We ask whether such stagnation can be removed without storing long…
This paper deals with a general class of algorithms for the solution of fixed-point problems that we refer to as \emph{Anderson--Pulay acceleration}. This family includes the DIIS technique and its variant sometimes called commutator-DIIS,…
Optimization plays a key role in machine learning. Recently, stochastic second-order methods have attracted much attention due to their low computational cost in each iteration. However, these algorithms might perform poorly especially if…
Recently, accelerated algorithms using the anchoring mechanism for minimax optimization and fixed-point problems have been proposed, and matching complexity lower bounds establish their optimality. In this work, we present the surprising…
The Newton's method for solving stationary Navier-Stokes equations (NSE) is known to convergent fast, however, may fail due to a bad initial guess. This work presents a simple-to-implement nonlinear preconditioning of Newton's iteration,…
This paper describes the design of a safeguarding scheme for Anderson acceleration to improve its practical performance and stability when used for first-order optimisation methods. We show how the combination of a non-expansiveness…
The coupled simulations of dynamic interactions between the well, hydraulic fractures and reservoir have significant importance in some areas of petroleum reservoir engineering. Several approaches to the problem of coupling between the…
We study the convergence of the Augmented Decomposition Algorithm (ADA) proposed in [32] for solving multi-block separable convex minimization problems subject to linear constraints. We show that the global convergence rate of the exact ADA…