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In this paper, a sequential search method for finding the global minimum of an objective function is presented, The descent gradient search is repeated until the global minimum is obtained. The global minimum is located by a process of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-06 Mohamed Tifroute , Anouar Lahmdani , Hassane Bouzahir

Gradient descent optimization algorithms, while increasingly popular, are often used as black-box optimizers, as practical explanations of their strengths and weaknesses are hard to come by. This article aims to provide the reader with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-16 Sebastian Ruder

We derive several numerical methods for designing optimized first-order algorithms in unconstrained convex optimization settings. Our methods are based on the Performance Estimation Problem (PEP) framework, which casts the worst-case…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Yassine Kamri , Julien M. Hendrickx , François Glineur

The paper proposes a new algorithm for solving global univariate optimization problems. The algorithm does not require convexity of the target function. For a broad variety of target functions after performing (if necessary) several…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-01-26 Sergey Nikitin

Finding gradients is a crucial step in training machine learning models. For quantum neural networks, computing gradients using the parameter-shift rule requires calculating the cost function twice for each adjustable parameter in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-31 Guang Ping He

Optimal control techniques are applied for the decomposition of unitary quantum operations into a sequence of single-qubit gates and entangling operations. To this end, we modify a gradient-ascent algorithm developed for systems of coupled…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-01-15 V. Nebendahl , H. Haffner , C. F. Roos

Currently available quantum computers suffer from constraints including hardware noise and a limited number of qubits. As such, variational quantum algorithms that utilise a classical optimiser in order to train a parameterised quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-18 Samuel Duffield , Marcello Benedetti , Matthias Rosenkranz

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are trained using stochastic gradient descent (SGD)-based optimizers. Recently, the adaptive moment estimation (Adam) optimizer has become very popular due to its adaptive momentum, which tackles the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-12 S. K. Roy , M. E. Paoletti , J. M. Haut , S. R. Dubey , P. Kar , A. Plaza , B. B. Chaudhuri

In this paper, we propose a new descent method, termed as multiobjective memory gradient method, for finding Pareto critical points of a multiobjective optimization problem. The main thought in this method is to select a combination of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-02 Wang Chen , Xinmin Yang , Yong Zhao

In the paper, we propose solving optimization problems (OPs) and understanding the Newton method from the optimal control view. We propose a new optimization algorithm based on the optimal control problem (OCP). The algorithm features…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Huanshui Zhang , Hongxia Wang

The efficient optimization of variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) is critical for their successful application in quantum computing. The Quantum Natural Gradient (QNG) method, which leverages the geometry of quantum state space, has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Mourad Halla

We use differential equations based approaches to provide some {\it \textbf{physics}} insights into analyzing the dynamics of popular optimization algorithms in machine learning. In particular, we study gradient descent, proximal gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-26 Lin F. Yang , R. Arora , V. Braverman , Tuo Zhao

In this work, we propose Natural Hypergradient Descent (NHGD), a new method for solving bilevel optimization problems. To address the computational bottleneck in hypergradient estimation--namely, the need to compute or approximate Hessian…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Deyi Kong , Zaiwei Chen , Shuzhong Zhang , Shancong Mou

Gradient-based algorithms are one of the methods of choice for the optimisation of Markov Decision Processes. In this article we will present a novel approximate Newton algorithm for the optimisation of such models. The algorithm has…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-08-05 Thomas Furmston , David Barber

We develop an adaptive method for quantum state preparation that utilizes randomness as an essential component and that does not require classical optimization. Instead, a cost function is minimized to prepare a desired quantum state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-10 Alicia B. Magann , Sophia E. Economou , Christian Arenz

We introduce two quantum algorithms for solving structured prediction problems. We first show that a stochastic gradient descent that uses the quantum minimum finding algorithm and takes its probabilistic failure into account solves the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-05 Behrooz Sepehry , Ehsan Iranmanesh , Michael P. Friedlander , Pooya Ronagh

In this work, we propose an optimization algorithm which we call norm-adapted gradient descent. This algorithm is similar to other gradient-based optimization algorithms like Adam or Adagrad in that it adapts the learning rate of stochastic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-14 David Sprunger

Quantum computing is a new way of data processing based on the concept of quantum mechanics. Quantum circuit design is a process of converting a quantum gate to a series of basic gates and is divided into two general categories based on the…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2017-03-16 Moein Sarvaghad-Moghaddam

Natural-gradient descent (NGD) on structured parameter spaces (e.g., low-rank covariances) is computationally challenging due to difficult Fisher-matrix computations. We address this issue by using \emph{local-parameter coordinates} to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-01-19 Wu Lin , Frank Nielsen , Mohammad Emtiyaz Khan , Mark Schmidt

Natural Gradient Descent (NGD) has emerged as a promising optimization algorithm for training neural network-based solvers for partial differential equations (PDEs), such as Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs). However, its practical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Ivan Bioli , Carlo Marcati , Giancarlo Sangalli