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We introduce the "continuized" Nesterov acceleration, a close variant of Nesterov acceleration whose variables are indexed by a continuous time parameter. The two variables continuously mix following a linear ordinary differential equation…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Raphaël Berthier , Francis Bach , Nicolas Flammarion , Pierre Gaillard , Adrien Taylor

We study Nesterov's accelerated gradient method with constant step-size and momentum parameters in the stochastic approximation setting (unbiased gradients with bounded variance) and the finite-sum setting (where randomness is due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Mahmoud Assran , Michael Rabbat

We study the algorithmic stability of Nesterov's accelerated gradient method. For convex quadratic objectives, Chen et al. (2018) proved that the uniform stability of the method grows quadratically with the number of optimization steps, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Amit Attia , Tomer Koren

Nesterov's accelerated gradient (AG) is a popular technique to optimize objective functions comprising two components: a convex loss and a penalty function. While AG methods perform well for convex penalties, such as the LASSO, convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-04 Kai Yang , Masoud Asgharian , Sahir Bhatnagar

Various distributed gradient descent algorithms for multi-agent optimization have incorporated the Nesterov accelerated gradient method, where the use of momentum enhances convergence rates. These algorithms have found broad applications in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Zihao Ren , Lei Wang , Guodong Shi

In convex optimization, continuous-time counterparts have been a fruitful tool for analyzing momentum algorithms. Fewer such examples are available when the function to minimize is non-convex. In several cases, discrepancies arise between…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-07 Julien Hermant , Jean-François Aujol , Charles Dossal , Lorick Huang , Aude Rondepierre

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-10-25 Haishan Ye , Zhihua Zhang

In this paper, we generalize the well-known Nesterov's accelerated gradient (AG) method, originally designed for convex smooth optimization, to solve nonconvex and possibly stochastic optimization problems. We demonstrate that by properly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-10-15 Saeed Ghadimi , Guanghui Lan

We derive a second-order ordinary differential equation (ODE) which is the limit of Nesterov's accelerated gradient method. This ODE exhibits approximate equivalence to Nesterov's scheme and thus can serve as a tool for analysis. We show…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-10-29 Weijie Su , Stephen Boyd , Emmanuel J. Candes

A novel method which is called the Chebyshev inertial iteration for accelerating the convergence speed of fixed-point iterations is presented. The Chebyshev inertial iteration can be regarded as a valiant of the successive over relaxation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-09 Tadashi Wadayama , Satoshi Takabe

Anderson acceleration (or Anderson mixing) is an efficient acceleration method for fixed point iterations $x_{t+1}=G(x_t)$, e.g., gradient descent can be viewed as iteratively applying the operation $G(x) \triangleq x-\alpha\nabla f(x)$. It…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-03 Zhize Li , Jian Li

We propose a new method for unconstrained optimization of a smooth and strongly convex function, which attains the optimal rate of convergence of Nesterov's accelerated gradient descent. The new algorithm has a simple geometric…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-06-30 Sébastien Bubeck , Yin Tat Lee , Mohit Singh

We derive an equivalent form of Halpern's fixed-point iteration scheme for solving a co-coercive equation (also called a root-finding problem), which can be viewed as a Nesterov's accelerated interpretation. We show that one method is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Quoc Tran-Dinh

In this technical note, we are concerned with the problem of solving variational inequalities with improved convergence rates. Motivated by Nesterov's accelerated gradient method for convex optimization, we propose a Nesterov's accelerated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-21 Shaolin Tan , Jinhu Lu

Solving symmetric positive semidefinite linear systems is an essential task in many scientific computing problems. While Jacobi-type methods, including the classical Jacobi method and the weighted Jacobi method, exhibit simplicity in their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Ling Liang , Qiyuan Pang , Kim-Chuan Toh , Haizhao Yang

In this paper, we study a bilinear saddle point problem of the form $\min_{x}\max_{y} F(x) + \langle Ax, y \rangle - G(y)$, where $F$ and $G$ are $\mu_F$- and $\mu_G$-strongly convex functions, respectively. By incorporating Nesterov…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-11 Xin He , Ya-Ping Fang

Nesterov's accelerated gradient descent method (AGD) is a seminal deterministic first-order method known to achieve the optimal order of iteration complexity for solving convex smooth optimization problems. Two distinct sequences of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Yan Wu , Yipeng Zhang , Lu Liu , Yuyuan Ouyang

The continuous-time model of Nesterov's momentum provides a thought-provoking perspective for understanding the nature of the acceleration phenomenon in convex optimization. One of the main ideas in this line of research comes from the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-13 Peiyuan Zhang , Antonio Orvieto , Hadi Daneshmand

Over the past two decades, descent methods have received substantial attention within the multiobjective optimization field. Nonetheless, both theoretical analyses and empirical evidence reveal that existing first-order methods for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-13 Jian Chen , Liping Tang , Xinmin Yang

We introduce a generic scheme for accelerating gradient-based optimization methods in the sense of Nesterov. The approach, called Catalyst, builds upon the inexact accelerated proximal point algorithm for minimizing a convex objective…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-20 Hongzhou Lin , Julien Mairal , Zaid Harchaoui