English
Related papers

Related papers: A Noise-Tolerant Quasi-Newton Algorithm for Uncons…

200 papers

Nonlinear acceleration algorithms improve the performance of iterative methods, such as gradient descent, using the information contained in past iterates. However, their efficiency is still not entirely understood even in the quadratic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-22 Damien Scieur

This paper studies the convergence rates of the Broyden--Fletcher--Goldfarb--Shanno~(BFGS) method without line search. We show that the BFGS method with an adaptive step size [Gao and Goldfarb, Optimization Methods and Software,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Jianjiang Yu , Weiguo Gao , Luo Luo

We present a stochastic inexact Gauss-Newton method for the solution of nonlinear least-squares. To reduce the computational cost with respect to the classical method, at each iteration the proposed algorithm approximately minimizes the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-05 Stefania Bellavia , Greta Malaspina , Benedetta Morini

This paper presents a novel approach to solving large-scale minimax problems with nonsmooth regularizers. We propose a stochastic implicit proximal point algorithm with variance reduction techniques where stochastic oracles are selected in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-25 Kehan Zhu , Jiani Wang , Yu-Hong Dai

An algorithm is proposed, analyzed, and tested for minimizing locally Lipschitz objective functions that may be nonconvex and/or nonsmooth. The algorithm, which is built upon the gradient-sampling methodology, is designed specifically for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Albert S. Berahas , Frank E. Curtis , Lara Zebiane

We propose a novel algorithm for solving non-convex, nonlinear equality-constrained finite-sum optimization problems. The proposed algorithm incorporates an additional sampling strategy for sample size update into the well-known framework…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-05 Nataša Krejić , Nataša Krklec Jerinkić , Tijana Ostojić , Nemanja Vučićević

Using quasi-Newton methods in stochastic optimization is not a trivial task given the difficulty of extracting curvature information from the noisy gradients. Moreover, pre-conditioning noisy gradient observations tend to amplify the noise.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-02 Andre Carlon , Luis Espath , Raul Tempone

L-BFGS is the state-of-the-art optimization method for many large scale inverse problems. It has a small memory footprint and achieves superlinear convergence. The method approximates Hessian based on an initial approximation and an update…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-19 Hari Om Aggrawal , Jan Modersitzki

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

We consider convex and nonconvex constrained optimization with a partially separable objective function: agents minimize the sum of local objective functions, each of which is known only by the associated agent and depends on the variables…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-20 Loris Cannelli , Francisco Facchinei , Gesualdo Scutari , Vyacheslav Kungurtsev

In this paper, we introduce a new algorithm to deal with the stalling effect in the LMS algorithm used in adaptive filters. We modify the update rule of the tap weight vectors by adding noise, generated by a noise generator. The properties…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-20 Hamid Reza Shahdoosti

This paper proposes and develops new Newton-type methods to solve structured nonconvex and nonsmooth optimization problems with justifying their fast local and global convergence by means of advanced tools of variational analysis and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Pham Duy Khanh , Boris S. Mordukhovich , Vo Thanh Phat

In this paper, we propose a method that has foundations in the line search sequential quadratic programming paradigm for solving general nonlinear equality constrained optimization problems. The method employs a carefully designed modified…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-29 Albert S. Berahas , Raghu Bollapragada , Jiahao Shi

We propose a novel limited-memory stochastic block BFGS update for incorporating enriched curvature information in stochastic approximation methods. In our method, the estimate of the inverse Hessian matrix that is maintained by it, is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-04-01 Robert M. Gower , Donald Goldfarb , Peter Richtárik

Quasi-Newton (QN) methods provide an efficient alternative to second-order methods for minimizing smooth unconstrained problems. While QN methods generally compose a Hessian estimate based on one secant interpolation per iteration,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-11 Mokhwa Lee , Yifan Sun

This work studies the usage of well-known smoothed total variation regularization for solving an atmospheric tomography problem named as {\em GPS-tomography} in some quasi-Newton methods. That is we solve an unconstrained, convex, smooth…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-04-20 Erdem Altuntac

Unconstrained optimization problems become more common in scientific computing and engineering applications with the rapid development of artificial intelligence, and numerical methods for solving them more quickly and efficiently have been…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-17 Lin Li , Pengcheng Xie , Li Zhang

Iteratively reweighted least square (IRLS) is a popular approach to solve sparsity-enforcing regression problems in machine learning. State of the art approaches are more efficient but typically rely on specific coordinate pruning schemes.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-03 Clarice Poon , Gabriel Peyré

We consider a class of distributed optimization problem where the objective function consists of a sum of strongly convex and smooth functions and a (possibly nonsmooth) convex regularizer. A multi-agent network is assumed, where each agent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-01 Yichuan Li , Yonghai Gong , Nikolaos M. Freris , Petros Voulgaris , Dusan Stipanovic

The problem of minimizing an objective that can be written as the sum of a set of $n$ smooth and strongly convex functions is considered. The Incremental Quasi-Newton (IQN) method proposed here belongs to the family of stochastic and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-29 Aryan Mokhtari , Mark Eisen , Alejandro Ribeiro