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Bayesian optimization is a popular and versatile approach that is well suited to solve challenging optimization problems. Their popularity comes from their effective minimization of expensive function evaluations, their capability to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-14 André L. Marchildon , David W. Zingg

The BFGS quasi-Newton methodology, popular for smooth minimization, has also proved surprisingly effective in nonsmooth optimization. Through a variety of simple examples and computational experiments, we explore how the BFGS matrix update…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-20 Jiayi Guo , Adrian S. Lewis

This paper proposes a novel stochastic version of damped and regularized BFGS method for addressing the above problems.

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-11 H. Chen , H. C. Wu , S. C. Chan , W. H. Lam

In this paper, we present a generic framework to extend existing uniformly optimal convex programming algorithms to solve more general nonlinear, possibly nonconvex, optimization problems. The basic idea is to incorporate a local search…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-10-27 Saeed Ghadimi , Guanghui Lan , Hongchao Zhang

In this paper, we introduce a new variant of the BFGS method designed to perform well when gradient measurements are corrupted by noise. We show that by treating the secant condition with a penalty method approach motivated by regularized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-11 Brian Irwin , Eldad Haber

We derive nonlinear acceleration methods based on the limited memory BFGS (L-BFGS) update formula for accelerating iterative optimization methods of alternating least squares (ALS) type applied to canonical polyadic (CP) and Tucker tensor…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-28 Hans De Sterck , Alexander J. M. Howse

We integrate the diagonal quasi-Newton update approach with the enhanced BFGS formula proposed by Wei, Z., Yu, G., Yuan, G., Lian, Z. \cite{b1}, incorporating extrapolation techniques and inertia acceleration technology. This method,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Zhenhua Luo , Gonglin Yuan , Hongtruong Pham

The question of how to incorporate curvature information in stochastic approximation methods is challenging. The direct application of classical quasi- Newton updating techniques for deterministic optimization leads to noisy curvature…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-02-19 R. H. Byrd , S. L. Hansen , J. Nocedal , Y. Singer

In this paper we study stochastic quasi-Newton methods for nonconvex stochastic optimization, where we assume that noisy information about the gradients of the objective function is available via a stochastic first-order oracle (SFO). We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-23 Xiao Wang , Shiqian Ma , Donald Goldfarb , Wei Liu

Classical theory for quasi-Newton schemes has focused on smooth deterministic unconstrained optimization while recent forays into stochastic convex optimization have largely resided in smooth, unconstrained, and strongly convex regimes.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-03 Afrooz Jalilzadeh , Angelia Nedich , Uday V. Shanbhag , Farzad Yousefian

We present a modified limited memory BFGS (L-BFGS) method that converges globally and linearly for nonconvex objective functions. Its distinguishing feature is that it turns into L-BFGS if the iterates cluster at a point near which the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-12 Florian Mannel

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

The development of nonlinear optimization algorithms capable of performing reliably in the presence of noise has garnered considerable attention lately. This paper advocates for strategies to create noise-tolerant nonlinear optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-04 Yuchen Lou , Shigeng Sun , Jorge Nocedal

We consider the finite-sum optimization problem, where each component function is strongly convex and has Lipschitz continuous gradient and Hessian. The recently proposed incremental quasi-Newton method is based on BFGS update and achieves…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-06 Zhuanghua Liu , Luo Luo , Bryan Kian Hsiang Low

We propose a novel algorithm, termed soft quasi-Newton (soft QN), for optimization in the presence of bounded noise. Traditional quasi-Newton algorithms are vulnerable to such perturbations. To develop a more robust quasi-Newton method, we…

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

This paper addresses a class of general nonsmooth and nonconvex composite optimization problems subject to nonlinear equality constraints. We assume that a part of the objective function and the functional constraints exhibit local…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-04 Lahcen El Bourkhissi , Ion Necoara , Panagiotis Patrinos , Quoc Tran-Dinh

The problem of interest is the minimization of a nonlinear function subject to nonlinear equality constraints using a sequential quadratic programming (SQP) method. The minimization must be performed while observing only noisy evaluations…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-12 Figen Oztoprak , Richard Byrd , Jorge Nocedal

The limited memory BFGS (L-BFGS) method is widely used for large-scale unconstrained optimization, but its behavior on nonsmooth problems has received little attention. L-BFGS can be used with or without "scaling"; the use of scaling is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-03 Azam Asl , Michael L. Overton

In this paper, we establish global non-asymptotic convergence guarantees for the BFGS quasi-Newton method without requiring strong convexity or the Lipschitz continuity of the gradient or Hessian. Instead, we consider the setting where the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Qiujiang Jin , Aryan Mokhtari

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