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A central challenge to many fields of science and engineering involves minimizing non-convex error functions over continuous, high dimensional spaces. Gradient descent or quasi-Newton methods are almost ubiquitously used to perform such…

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In this paper, we study greedy variants of quasi-Newton methods. They are based on the updating formulas from a certain subclass of the Broyden family. In particular, this subclass includes the well-known DFP, BFGS and SR1 updates. However,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-02 Anton Rodomanov , Yurii Nesterov

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 regularized Hessian-free Newton-type method for minimizing smooth convex functions with Lipschitz continuous Hessians. The algorithm constructs an approximate Hessian by finite differences and selects the regularization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Leandro Farias Maia , Antonio Victor B. Nascimento , Paulo Sergio M. Santos , Gilson N. Silva

In this paper, we present the compact representation for matrices belonging to the the Broyden class of quasi-Newton updates, where each update may be either rank-one or rank-two. This work extends previous results solely for the restricted…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-24 Omar DeGuchy , Jennifer B. Erway , Roummel F. Marcia

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

In this paper, we study and prove the non-asymptotic superlinear convergence rate of the Broyden class of quasi-Newton algorithms which includes the Davidon--Fletcher--Powell (DFP) method and the Broyden--Fletcher--Goldfarb--Shanno (BFGS)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-02 Qiujiang Jin , Aryan Mokhtari

We present a new theoretical analysis of local superlinear convergence of classical quasi-Newton methods from the convex Broyden class. As a result, we obtain a significant improvement in the currently known estimates of the convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-02 Anton Rodomanov , Yurii Nesterov

Quasi branch and bound is a recently introduced generalization of branch and bound, where lower bounds are replaced by a relaxed notion of quasi-lower bounds, required to be lower bounds only for sub-cubes containing a minimizer. This paper…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-29 Nadav Dym

In this work we introduce and study novel Quasi Newton minimization methods based on a Hessian approximation Broyden Class-\textit{type} updating scheme, where a suitable matrix $\tilde{B}_k$ is updated instead of the current Hessian…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-22 S. Cipolla , C. Di Fiore , P. Zellini

This paper is concerned with the convergence of a two-step modified Newton method for solving the nonlinear system arising from the minimal nonnegative solution of nonsymmetric algebraic Riccati equations from neutron transport theory. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Juan Liang , Yonghui Ling

Finding an $\epsilon$-stationary point of a nonconvex function with a Lipschitz continuous Hessian is a central problem in optimization. Regularized Newton methods are a classical tool and have been studied extensively, yet they still face…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-03 Yuhao Zhou , Jintao Xu , Bingrui Li , Chenglong Bao , Chao Ding , Jun Zhu

Machine learning (ML) problems are often posed as highly nonlinear and nonconvex unconstrained optimization problems. Methods for solving ML problems based on stochastic gradient descent are easily scaled for very large problems but may…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-24 Jennifer B. Erway , Joshua Griffin , Roummel F. Marcia , Riadh Omheni

We develop a globalized Proximal Newton method for composite and possibly non-convex minimization problems in Hilbert spaces. Additionally, we impose less restrictive assumptions on the composite objective functional considering…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-02 Bastian Pötzl , Anton Schiela , Patrick Jaap

In this paper, we propose the first Quasi-Newton method with a global convergence rate of $O(k^{-1})$ for general convex functions. Quasi-Newton methods, such as BFGS, SR-1, are well-known for their impressive practical performance.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-30 Dmitry Kamzolov , Klea Ziu , Artem Agafonov , Martin Takáč

In this paper, we consider high-dimensional nonconvex square-root-loss regression problems and introduce a proximal majorization-minimization (PMM) algorithm for these problems. Our key idea for making the proposed PMM to be efficient is to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-28 Peipei Tang , Chengjing Wang , Defeng Sun , Kim-Chuan Toh

The focus in this work is on interior-point methods for inequality-constrained quadratic programs, and particularly on the system of nonlinear equations to be solved for each value of the barrier parameter. Newton iterations give high…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-24 David Ek , Anders Forsgren

This paper proposes an improved quasi-Newton penalty decomposition algorithm for the minimization of continuously differentiable functions, possibly nonconvex, over sparse symmetric sets. The method solves a sequence of penalty subproblems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Ahmad Mousavi , Morteza Kimiaei , Saman Babaie-Kafaki , Vyacheslav Kungurtsev

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

Tuning step sizes is crucial for the stability and efficiency of optimization algorithms. While adaptive coordinate-wise step sizes have been shown to outperform scalar step size in first-order methods, their use in second-order methods is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Wei Lin , Qingyu Song , Hong Xu