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Many important machine learning applications involve regularized nonconvex bi-level optimization. However, the existing gradient-based bi-level optimization algorithms cannot handle nonconvex or nonsmooth regularizers, and they suffer from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Ziyi Chen , Bhavya Kailkhura , Yi Zhou

In convex optimization, there is an {\em acceleration} phenomenon in which we can boost the convergence rate of certain gradient-based algorithms. We can observe this phenomenon in Nesterov's accelerated gradient descent, accelerated mirror…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-09-14 Andre Wibisono , Ashia C. Wilson

In this paper, we consider Nesterov's Accelerated Gradient method for solving Nonlinear Inverse and Ill-Posed Problems. Known to be a fast gradient-based iterative method for solving well-posed convex optimization problems, this method also…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-13 Simon Hubmer , Ronny Ramlau

This paper deals with a second order dynamical system with a Tikhonov regularization term in connection to the minimization problem of a convex Fr\'echet differentiable function. The fact that beside the asymptotically vanishing damping we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-08 Szilárd Csaba László

Despite their frequent slow convergence, proximal gradient schemes are widely used in large-scale optimization tasks due to their tremendous stability, scalability, and ease of computation. In this paper, we develop and investigate a…

Computation · Statistics 2025-08-19 Nicholas C. Henderson , Ravi Varadhan

In a Hilbert framework, for convex differentiable optimization, we consider accelerated gradient methods obtained by combining temporal scaling and averaging techniques with Tikhonov regularization. We start from the continuous steepest…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-21 Hedy Attouch , Zaki Chbani , Hassan Riahi

We investigate the strong convergence properties of a Nesterov type algorithm with two Tikhonov regularization terms in connection to the minimization problem of a smooth convex function $f.$ We show that the generated sequences converge…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-10 Mikhail Karapetyants , Szilárd Csaba László

In this work we propose a differential geometric motivation for Nesterov's accelerated gradient method (AGM) for strongly-convex problems. By considering the optimization procedure as occurring on a Riemannian manifold with a natural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Aaron Defazio

We study the connections between ordinary differential equations and optimization algorithms in a non-Euclidean setting. We propose a novel accelerated algorithm for minimising convex functions over a convex constrained set. This algorithm…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Paul Dobson , Jesus María Sanz-Serna , Konstantinos C. Zygalakis

The {\it forward-backward algorithm} is a powerful tool for solving optimization problems with a {\it additively separable} and {\it smooth} + {\it nonsmooth} structure. In the convex setting, a simple but ingenious acceleration scheme…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-18 Hedy Attouch , Juan Peypouquet

A novel dynamical inertial Newton system, which is called Hessian-driven Nesterov accelerated gradient (H-NAG) flow is proposed. Convergence of the continuous trajectory are established via tailored Lyapunov function, and new first-order…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-25 Long Chen , Hao Luo

Nesterov's well-known scheme for accelerating gradient descent in convex optimization problems is adapted to accelerating stationary iterative solvers for linear systems. Compared with classical Krylov subspace acceleration methods, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-10 Tao Hong , Irad Yavneh

Gradient-based optimization algorithms can be studied from the perspective of limiting ordinary differential equations (ODEs). Motivated by the fact that existing ODEs do not distinguish between two fundamentally different…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-05 Bin Shi , Simon S. Du , Michael I. Jordan , Weijie J. Su

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

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

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

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

We formulate two classes of first-order algorithms more general than previously studied for minimizing smooth and strongly convex or, respectively, smooth and convex functions. We establish sufficient conditions, via new discrete Lyapunov…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-21 Penghui Fu , Zhiqiang Tan

We introduce a generic scheme for accelerating first-order optimization methods in the sense of Nesterov, which builds upon a new analysis of the accelerated proximal point algorithm. Our approach consists of minimizing a convex objective…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-10-27 Hongzhou Lin , Julien Mairal , Zaid Harchaoui

Although Nesterov's accelerated gradient (NAG) methods have been studied from various perspectives, it remains unclear why the most popular forms of NAG must handle convex and strongly convex objective functions separately. Motivated by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-10 Jungbin Kim , Insoon Yang