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We extend the well-known BFGS quasi-Newton method and its memory-limited variant LBFGS to the optimization of nonsmooth convex objectives. This is done in a rigorous fashion by generalizing three components of BFGS to subdifferentials: the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2010-11-30 Jin Yu , S. V. N. Vishwanathan , Simon Guenter , Nicol N. Schraudolph

We introduce some new proximal quasi-Newton methods for unconstrained multiobjective optimization problems (in short, UMOP), where each objective function is the sum of a twice continuously differentiable strongly convex function and a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-08 Jian-Wen Peng , Jie Ren

The ability to efficiently solve topology optimization problems is of great importance for many practical applications. Hence, there is a demand for efficient solution algorithms. In this paper, we propose novel quasi-Newton methods for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Sebastian Blauth , Kevin Sturm

This paper studies the complexity of finding approximate stationary points for the smooth nonconvex-strongly-concave (NC-SC) saddle point problem: $\min_x\max_yf(x,y)$. Under the standard first-order smoothness conditions where $f$ is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-10 Nuozhou Wang , Junyu Zhang , Shuzhong Zhang

In this paper, we study structured quasi-Newton methods for optimization problems with orthogonality constraints. Note that the Riemannian Hessian of the objective function requires both the Euclidean Hessian and the Euclidean gradient. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-05 Jiang Hu , Bo Jiang , Lin Lin , Zaiwen Wen , Yaxiang Yuan

This work concerns the local convergence theory of Newton and quasi-Newton methods for convex-composite optimization: minimize f(x):=h(c(x)), where h is an infinite-valued proper convex function and c is C^2-smooth. We focus on the case…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-19 James V. Burke , Abraham Engle

In this article, we propose a quasi-Newton method for unconstrained set optimization problems to find its weakly minimal solutions with respect to lower set-less ordering. The set-valued objective mapping under consideration is given by a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-10 Debdas Ghosh , Anshika , Jen-Chih Yao , Xiaopeng Zhao

This paper presents a novel variant of the Broyden quasi-Newton secant-type method aimed at solving constrained mixed generalized equations, which can include functions that are not necessarily differentiable. The proposed method integrates…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-11 P. C. da Silva Junior , O. P. Ferreira , G. N. Silva

We investigate a primal-dual (PD) method for the saddle point problem (SPP) that uses a linear approximation of the primal function instead of the standard proximal step, resulting in a linearized PD (LPD) method. For convex-strongly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-19 Mohammad Khalafi , Digvijay Boob

Four decades after their invention, quasi-Newton methods are still state of the art in unconstrained numerical optimization. Although not usually interpreted thus, these are learning algorithms that fit a local quadratic approximation to…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2012-06-22 Philipp Hennig , Martin Kiefel

We extend the Frank-Wolfe (FW) optimization algorithm to solve constrained smooth convex-concave saddle point (SP) problems. Remarkably, the method only requires access to linear minimization oracles. Leveraging recent advances in FW…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-07 Gauthier Gidel , Tony Jebara , Simon Lacoste-Julien

This paper focuses on solving a stochastic saddle point problem (SPP) under an overparameterized regime for the case, when the gradient computation is impractical. As an intermediate step, we generalize Same-sample Stochastic Extra-gradient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-05 Ekaterina Statkevich , Sofiya Bondar , Darina Dvinskikh , Alexander Gasnikov , Aleksandr Lobanov

We propose a new stochastic proximal quasi-Newton method for minimizing the sum of two convex functions in the particular context that one of the functions is the average of a large number of smooth functions and the other one is nonsmooth.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Yongcun Song , Zimeng Wang , Xiaoming Yuan , Hangrui Yue

This paper addresses the challenge of developing efficient algorithms for large-scale nonconvex multiobjective optimization problems (MOPs). While quasi-Newton methods are effective, their traditional application to MOPs is computationally…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Hua Liu

We consider strongly-convex-strongly-concave saddle-point problems with general non-bilinear objective and different condition numbers with respect to the primal and the dual variables. First, we consider such problems with smooth composite…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-15 Vladislav Tominin , Yaroslav Tominin , Ekaterina Borodich , Dmitry Kovalev , Alexander Gasnikov , Pavel Dvurechensky

We study the problem of finding an $\epsilon$-first-order stationary point (FOSP) of a smooth function, given access only to gradient information. The best-known gradient query complexity for this task, assuming both the gradient and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-04 Ruichen Jiang , Aryan Mokhtari , Francisco Patitucci

We consider stochastic strongly-convex-strongly-concave (SCSC) saddle point (SP) problems which frequently arise in applications ranging from distributionally robust learning to game theory and fairness in machine learning. We focus on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-17 Yassine Laguel , Necdet Serhat Aybat , Mert Gürbüzbalaban

The paper proposes and justifies a new algorithm of the proximal Newton type to solve a broad class of nonsmooth composite convex optimization problems without strong convexity assumptions. Based on advanced notions and techniques of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-02 Boris S. Mordukhovich , Xiaoming Yuan , Shangzhi Zeng , Jin Zhang

In this paper, we study the problem of escaping from saddle points in smooth nonconvex optimization problems subject to a convex set $\mathcal{C}$. We propose a generic framework that yields convergence to a second-order stationary point of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-10 Aryan Mokhtari , Asuman Ozdaglar , Ali Jadbabaie

We consider saddle point problems which objective functions are the average of $n$ strongly convex-concave individual components. Recently, researchers exploit variance reduction methods to solve such problems and achieve linear-convergence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Luo Luo , Cheng Chen , Yujun Li , Guangzeng Xie , Zhihua Zhang