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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

RES, a regularized stochastic version of the Broyden-Fletcher-Goldfarb-Shanno (BFGS) quasi-Newton method is proposed to solve convex optimization problems with stochastic objectives. The use of stochastic gradient descent algorithms is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-06-18 Aryan Mokhtari , Alejandro Ribeiro

In 1-bit matrix completion, the aim is to estimate an underlying low-rank matrix from a partial set of binary observations. We propose a novel method for 1-bit matrix completion called Majorization-Minimization Gauss-Newton (MMGN). Our…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-09-25 Xiaoqian Liu , Xu Han , Eric C. Chi , Boaz Nadler

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

We introduce a notion of self-concordant smoothing for minimizing the sum of two convex functions, one of which is smooth and the other nonsmooth. The key highlight is a natural property of the resulting problem's structure that yields a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-01 Adeyemi D. Adeoye , Alberto Bemporad

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

An extension of the Gauss-Newton algorithm is proposed to find local minimizers of penalized nonlinear least squares problems, under generalized Lipschitz assumptions. Convergence results of local type are obtained, as well as an estimate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-03-03 Saverio Salzo , Silvia Villa

Channel estimation and extrapolation are fundamental issues in MIMO communication systems. In this paper, we proposed the quasi-Newton orthogonal matching pursuit (QNOMP) approach to overcome these issues with high efficiency while…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-12 Yi Zeng , Mingguang Han , Xiaoguang Li , Tiejun Li

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

Parameter estimation problems of mathematical models can often be formulated as nonlinear least squares problems. Typically these problems are solved numerically using iterative methods. The local minimiserobtained using these iterative…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-07 Yasunori Aoki , Ken Hayami , Kota Toshimoto , Yuichi Sugiyama

Newton's method has been an important approach for solving variational inequalities, quasi-Newton method is a good alternative choice to save computational cost. In this paper, we propose a new method for solving monotone variational…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Yuge Ye , Qingna Li , Deren Han

Over the years, computational imaging with accurate nonlinear physical models has garnered considerable interest due to its ability to achieve high-quality reconstructions. However, using such nonlinear models for reconstruction is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Tao Hong , Thanh-an Pham , Irad Yavneh , Michael Unser

We introduce a new framework for analyzing (Quasi-}Newton type methods applied to non-smooth optimization problems. The source of randomness comes from the evaluation of the (approximation) of the Hessian. We derive, using a variant of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-05 Titus Pinta

The purpose of this work is to investigate root finding problems defined on (quasi-)metric spaces, and ranging in Euclidean spaces. The motivation for this line of inquiry stems from recent models in biology and phylogenetics, where…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Titus Pinta

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

Non-linear least squares solvers are used across a broad range of offline and real-time model fitting problems. Most improvements of the basic Gauss-Newton algorithm tackle convergence guarantees or leverage the sparsity of the underlying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Huu Le , Christopher Zach , Edward Rosten , Oliver J. Woodford

In this article, we derive an iterative scheme through a quasi-Newton technique to capture robust weakly efficient points of uncertain multiobjective optimization problems under the upper set less relation. It is assumed that the set of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-21 K. Gupta , D. Ghosh , C. Tammer , X. Zhao , J. C. Yao

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

We develop a trust-region method for minimizing the sum of a smooth term $f$ and a nonsmooth term $h$), both of which can be nonconvex. Each iteration of our method minimizes a possibly nonconvex model of $f + h$ in a trust region. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-04 Aleksandr Y. Aravkin , Robert Baraldi , Dominique Orban

Recently algorithms incorporating second order curvature information have become popular in training neural networks. The Nesterov's Accelerated Quasi-Newton (NAQ) method has shown to effectively accelerate the BFGS quasi-Newton method by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Sota Yasuda , Shahrzad Mahboubi , S. Indrapriyadarsini , Hiroshi Ninomiya , Hideki Asai