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We analyze the convergence of the Conjugate Gradient (CG) method in exact arithmetic, when the coefficient matrix $A$ is symmetric positive semidefinite and the system is consistent. To do so, we diagonalize $A$ and decompose the algorithm…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-12 Ken Hayami

The linear conjugate gradient method is an efficient iterative method for the convex quadratic minimization problems $ \mathop {\min }\limits_{x \in { \mathbb R^n}} f(x) =\dfrac{1}{2}x^TAx+b^Tx $, where $ A \in R^{n \times n} $ is symmetric…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-02 Zexian Liu , Qiao Li

Conjugate gradient (CG) methods are a class of important methods for solving linear equations and nonlinear optimization problems. In this paper, we propose a new stochastic CG algorithm with variance reduction and we prove its linear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Xiao-Bo Jin , Xu-Yao Zhang , Kaizhu Huang , Guang-Gang Geng

We study the convergence of Nesterov Accelerated Gradient (NAG) minimization algorithmapplied to a class of non convex functions called strongly quasar convex functions. We show thatNAG can achieve an accelerated convergence speed at the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Julien Hermant , Jean-François Aujol , Charles Dossal , Aude Rondepierre

This work studies a composite minimization problem involving a differentiable function q and a nonsmooth function h, both of which may be nonconvex. This problem is ubiquitous in signal processing and machine learning yet remains…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-22 Yiming Zhou , Wei Dai

We study the trade-offs between convergence rate and robustness to gradient errors in designing a first-order algorithm. We focus on gradient descent (GD) and accelerated gradient (AG) methods for minimizing strongly convex functions when…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-07 Necdet Serhat Aybat , Alireza Fallah , Mert Gurbuzbalaban , Asuman Ozdaglar

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

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 constrained gradient method (CGM) has recently been proposed to solve convex optimization and monotone variational inequality (VI) problems with general functional constraints. While existing literature has established convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-24 Danqing Zhou , Hongmei Chen , Shiqian Ma , Junfeng Yang

In this paper, we introduce an inertial version of the Proximal Incremental Aggregated Gradient method (PIAG) for minimizing the sum of smooth convex component functions and a possibly nonsmooth convex regularization function.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-19 Xiaoya Zhang , Wei Peng , Hui Zhang , Wei Zhu

This paper analyzes the iteration-complexity of a quadratic penalty accelerated inexact proximal point method for solving linearly constrained nonconvex composite programs. More specifically, the objective function is of the form $f + h$…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-17 Weiwei Kong , Jefferson G. Melo , Renato D. C. Monteiro

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

The Conjugate Gradient method (CGM) is known to be the fastest generic iterative method for solving linear systems with symmetric sign definite matrices. In this paper, we modify this method so that it could find fundamental solitary waves…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-13 Taras I. Lakoba

Quasar convexity is a condition that allows some first-order methods to efficiently minimize a function even when the optimization landscape is non-convex. Previous works develop near-optimal accelerated algorithms for minimizing this class…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-16 Jun-Kun Wang , Andre Wibisono

This paper considers the problem of understanding the behavior of a general class of accelerated gradient methods on smooth nonconvex functions. Motivated by some recent works that have proposed effective algorithms, based on Polyak's heavy…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Rishabh Dixit , Mert Gurbuzbalaban , Waheed U. Bajwa

In this paper, we propose Nesterov Accelerated Shuffling Gradient (NASG), a new algorithm for the convex finite-sum minimization problems. Our method integrates the traditional Nesterov's acceleration momentum with different shuffling…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-14 Trang H. Tran , Katya Scheinberg , Lam M. Nguyen

We develop subgradient- and gradient-based methods for minimizing strongly convex functions under a notion which generalizes the standard Euclidean strong convexity. We propose a unifying framework for subgradient methods which yields two…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-19 Masaru Ito

We focus on the problem of minimizing the sum of smooth component functions (where the sum is strongly convex) and a non-smooth convex function, which arises in regularized empirical risk minimization in machine learning and distributed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-08 Nuri Denizcan Vanli , Mert Gurbuzbalaban , Asu Ozdaglar

Gradient sampling (GS) has proved to be an effective methodology for the minimization of objective functions that may be nonconvex and/or nonsmooth. The most computationally expensive component of a contemporary GS method is the need to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-10 Frank E. Curtis , Minhan Li

We study the problem of minimizing a strongly convex, smooth function when we have noisy estimates of its gradient. We propose a novel multistage accelerated algorithm that is universally optimal in the sense that it achieves the optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-29 Necdet Serhat Aybat , Alireza Fallah , Mert Gurbuzbalaban , Asuman Ozdaglar