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We study the trust-region subproblem (TRS) of minimizing a nonconvex quadratic function over the unit ball with additional conic constraints. Despite having a nonconvex objective, it is known that the classical TRS and a number of its…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-21 Nam Ho-Nguyen , Fatma Kilinc-Karzan

Worst-case complexity guarantees for nonconvex optimization algorithms have been a topic of growing interest. Multiple frameworks that achieve the best known complexity bounds among a broad class of first- and second-order strategies have…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-23 Frank E. Curtis , Daniel P. Robinson , Clément Royer , Stephen J. Wright

Constrained optimization problems where both the objective and constraints may be nonsmooth and nonconvex arise across many learning and data science settings. In this paper, we show for any Lipschitz, weakly convex objectives and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-17 Zhichao Jia , Benjamin Grimmer

We consider optimization problems in which the goal is find a $k$-dimensional subspace of $\mathbb{R}^n$, $k<<n$, which minimizes a convex and smooth loss. Such problems generalize the fundamental task of principal component analysis (PCA)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-27 Dan Garber , Ron Fisher

In this paper, we propose a first second-order scheme based on arbitrary non-Euclidean norms, incorporated by Bregman distances. They are introduced directly in the Newton iterate with regularization parameter proportional to the square…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-07 Nikita Doikov , Yurii Nesterov

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

The trust-region (TR) method is renowned historically for its robustness in nonconvex problems and extraordinary numerical performance, but the study of its performance in convex optimization is somehow limited. This paper complements the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-26 Yuntian Jiang , Chang He , Chuwen Zhang , Dongdong Ge , Bo Jiang , Yinyu Ye

We consider an effective new method for solving trust-region and norm-regularization problems that arise as subproblems in many optimization applications. We show that the solutions to such subproblems effectively lie in a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Hussam Al Daas , Nicholas I. M. Gould

In this work, we generalized and unified two recent completely different works of~\cite{shi2015large} and~\cite{cartis2012adaptive} respectively into one by proposing the cyclic incremental Newton-type gradient descent with cubic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-18 Ziqiang Shi

In this paper, we propose the first Quasi-Newton method with a global convergence rate of $O(k^{-1})$ for general convex functions. Quasi-Newton methods, such as BFGS, SR-1, are well-known for their impressive practical performance.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-30 Dmitry Kamzolov , Klea Ziu , Artem Agafonov , Martin Takáč

In this paper, we use Proximal Cubic regularized Newton Methods (PCNM) to optimize the sum of a smooth convex function and a non-smooth convex function, where we use inexact gradient and Hessian, and an inexact subsolver for the cubic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-27 Chaobing Song , Ji Liu , Yong Jiang

Adaptive regularized framework using cubics has emerged as an alternative to line-search and trust-region algorithms for smooth nonconvex optimization, with an optimal complexity amongst second-order methods. In this paper, we propose and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-30 El houcine Bergou , Youssef Diouane , Serge Gratton

It is well-known that accelerated gradient first order methods possess optimal complexity estimates for the class of convex smooth minimization problems. In many practical situations, it makes sense to work with inexact gradients. However,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-02 Ilya Kuruzov , Fedor Stonyakin

We present two new remarkably simple stochastic second-order methods for minimizing the average of a very large number of sufficiently smooth and strongly convex functions. The first is a stochastic variant of Newton's method (SN), and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Dmitry Kovalev , Konstantin Mishchenko , Peter Richtárik

We propose a novel trust region method for solving a class of nonsmooth, nonconvex composite-type optimization problems. The approach embeds inexact semismooth Newton steps for finding zeros of a normal map-based stationarity measure for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-04 Wenqing Ouyang , Andre Milzarek

We propose several new nonsmooth Newton methods for solving convex composite optimization problems with polyhedral regularizers, while avoiding the computation of complicated second-order information on these functions. Under the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Tran T. A. Nghia , Nghia V. Vo , Khoa V. H. Vu

We here adapt an extended version of the adaptive cubic regularisation method with dynamic inexact Hessian information for nonconvex optimisation in [3] to the stochastic optimisation setting. While exact function evaluations are still…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-15 Stefania Bellavia , Gianmarco Gurioli

In this paper, we generalize (accelerated) Newton's method with cubic regularization under inexact second-order information for (strongly) convex optimization problems. Under mild assumptions, we provide global rate of convergence of these…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-17 Saeed Ghadimi , Han Liu , Tong Zhang

Optimization models with non-convex constraints arise in many tasks in machine learning, e.g., learning with fairness constraints or Neyman-Pearson classification with non-convex loss. Although many efficient methods have been developed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-24 Runchao Ma , Qihang Lin , Tianbao Yang

Majorization-minimization algorithms consist of successively minimizing a sequence of upper bounds of the objective function so that along the iterations the objective function decreases. Such a simple principle allows to solve a large…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-04 Ion Necoara , Daniela Lupu