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Grover's algorithm is a fundamental quantum algorithm that achieves a quadratic speedup for unstructured search problems of size $N$. Recent studies have reformulated this task as a maximization problem on the unitary manifold and solved it…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-06 Zhijian Lai , Dong An , Jiang Hu , Zaiwen Wen

We present an iterative root finding method for harmonic mappings in the complex plane, which is a generalization of Newton's method for analytic functions. The complex formulation of the method allows an analysis in a complex variables…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2020-10-26 Olivier Sète , Jan Zur

We study the problem of computing the largest root of a real rooted polynomial $p(x)$ to within error $\varepsilon $ given only black box access to it, i.e., for any $x \in {\mathbb R}$, the algorithm can query an oracle for the value of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-01-05 Anand Louis , Santosh S. Vempala

Optimization problems in disciplines such as machine learning are commonly solved with iterative methods. Gradient descent algorithms find local minima by moving along the direction of steepest descent while Newton's method takes into…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-20 Patrick Rebentrost , Maria Schuld , Leonard Wossnig , Francesco Petruccione , Seth Lloyd

We propose a new globally convergent stochastic second order method. Our starting point is the development of a new Sketched Newton-Raphson (SNR) method for solving large scale nonlinear equations of the form $F(x)=0$ with $F:\mathbb{R}^p…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-10 Rui Yuan , Alessandro Lazaric , Robert M. Gower

Optimization problems with composite functions consist of an objective function which is the sum of a smooth and a (convex) nonsmooth term. This particular structure is exploited by the class of proximal gradient methods and some of their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-17 Christian Kanzow , Theresa Lechner

This study proposes a cubic regularization of the Newton method for generating weakly efficient points of unconstrained vector optimization problems under no convexity assumption on the objective function. It is observed that at a given…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Debdas Ghosh

This paper is devoted to studying the global and finite convergence of the semi-smooth Newton method for solving a piecewise linear system that arises in cone-constrained quadratic programming problems and absolute value equations. We first…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-24 Nicolas F. Armijo , Yunier Bello-Cruz , Gabriel Haeser

We study the problem of minimizing the sum of three convex functions: a differentiable, twice-differentiable and a non-smooth term in a high dimensional setting. To this effect we propose and analyze a randomized block cubic Newton (RBCN)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-09 Nikita Doikov , Peter Richtárik

A zero-finding technique for solving nonlinear equations more efficiently than they usually are with traditional iterative methods in which the order of convergence is improved is presented. The key idea in deriving this procedure is to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-06-07 Miquel Grau-Sánchez , José Luis Díaz-Barrero

{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

We propose a distributed cubic regularization of the Newton method for solving (constrained) empirical risk minimization problems over a network of agents, modeled as undirected graph. The algorithm employs an inexact, preconditioned Newton…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-21 Amir Daneshmand , Gesualdo Scutari , Pavel Dvurechensky , Alexander Gasnikov

To overcome these obstacles and improve computational accuracy and efficiency, this paper presents the Randomized Radial Basis Function Neural Network (RRNN), an innovative approach explicitly crafted for solving multiscale elliptic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-23 Yuhang Wu , Ziyuan Liu , Wenjun Sun , Xu Qian

Real root finding of polynomial equations is a basic problem in computer algebra. This task is usually divided into two parts: isolation and refinement. In this paper, we propose two algorithms LZ1 and LZ2 to refine real roots of univariate…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2012-11-20 Ye Liang

In this paper methods for simultaneous finding all roots of generalized polynomials are developed. These methods are related to the case when the roots are multiple. They possess cubic rate of convergence and they are as labour-consuming as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 A. I. Iliev

We are concerned with the tensor equations whose coefficient tensor is an M-tensor. We first propose a Newton method for solving the equation with a positive constant term and establish its global and quadratic convergence. Then we extend…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-28 Dong-Hui Li Jie-Feng Xu , Hong-Bo Guan

Superlinear convergence has been an elusive goal for black-box nonsmooth optimization. Even in the convex case, the subgradient method is very slow, and while some cutting plane algorithms, including traditional bundle methods, are popular…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-30 Adrian Lewis , Calvin Wylie

We discuss a recursive family of iterative methods for the numerical approximation of roots of nonlinear functions in one variable. These methods are based on Newton-Cotes closed quadrature rules. We prove that when a quadrature rule with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-09-10 Mario M. Graça , Pedro M. Lima

In this paper, we propose a Newton method for unconstrained set optimization problems to find its weakly minimal solutions with respect to lower set-less ordering. The objective function of the problem under consideration is given by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-01 Debdas Ghosh , Anshika , Qamrul Hasan Ansari , Xiaopeng Zhao

In this paper, we propose a new method that combines the inexact Newton method with a procedure to obtain a feasible inexact projection for solving constrained smooth and nonsmooth equations. The local convergence theorems are established…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-19 Fabiana R. de Oliveira , Orizon P. Ferreira