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In this article, we build on previous work to present an optimization algorithm for nonlinearly constrained multi-objective optimization problems. The algorithm combines a surrogate-assisted derivative-free trust-region approach with the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-20 Manuel Berkemeier , Sebastian Peitz

There is a recent proliferation of research on the integration of machine learning and optimization. One expansive area within this research stream is predictive-model embedded optimization, which proposes the use of pre-trained predictive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Chenbo Shi , Mohsen Emadikhiav , Leonardo Lozano , David Bergman

Classical trust region methods were designed to solve problems in which function and gradient information are exact. This paper considers the case when there are bounded errors (or noise) in the above computations and proposes a simple…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-05 Shigeng Sun , Jorge Nocedal

This paper addresses some trust-region methods equipped with nonmonotone strategies for solving nonlinear unconstrained optimization problems. More specifically, the importance of using nonmonotone techniques in nonlinear optimization is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-01-12 Masoud Ahookhosh , Susan Ghaderi

In this work, we present a heretofore unseen application of Ising machines to perform trust region-based optimisation with box constraints. This is done by considering a specific form of opto-electronic oscillator-based coherent Ising…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Sayantan Pramanik , Kaumudibikash Goswami , Sourav Chatterjee , M Girish Chandra

In this work, we present a trust-region optimization framework that employs Hermite kernel surrogate models. The method targets optimization problems with computationally demanding objective functions, for which direct optimization is often…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-03 Sven Ullmann , Tobias Ehring , Robin Herkert , Bernard Haasdonk

Density functional theory calculations use a significant fraction of current supercomputing time. The resources required scale with the problem size, internal workings of the code and the number of iterations to convergence, the latter…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-09-22 Laurence Marks

Stochastic minimax optimization has drawn much attention over the past decade due to its broad applications in machine learning, signal processing and game theory. In some applications, the probability distribution of uncertainty depends on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-17 Yan Gao , Yongchao Liu , Zili Luo

Concise complexity analyses are presented for simple trust region algorithms for solving unconstrained optimization problems. In contrast to a traditional trust region algorithm, the algorithms considered in this paper require certain…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-23 Frank E. Curtis , Zachary Lubberts , Daniel P. Robinson

The problem we consider is a multi-objective optimization problem, in which the goal is to find an optimal value of a vector function representing various criteria. The aim of this work is to develop an algorithm which utilizes the trust…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Nataša Krejić , Nataša Krklec Jerinkić , Luka Rutešić

In this paper we consider the use of probabilistic or random models within a classical trust-region framework for optimization of deterministic smooth general nonlinear functions. Our method and setting differs from many stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-04-11 Afonso S. Bandeira , Katya Scheinberg , Luis Nunes Vicente

Solving stochastic optimal control problems with quadratic control costs can be viewed as approximating a target path space measure, e.g. via gradient-based optimization. In practice, however, this optimization is challenging in particular…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Denis Blessing , Julius Berner , Lorenz Richter , Carles Domingo-Enrich , Yuanqi Du , Arash Vahdat , Gerhard Neumann

We present an adaptive trust-region method for unconstrained optimization that allows inexact solutions to the trust-region subproblems. Our method is a simple variant of the classical trust-region method of \citet{sorensen1982newton}. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-27 Fadi Hamad , Oliver Hinder

Non-monotone trust-region methods are known to provide additional benefits for scalar and multi-objective optimization, such as enhancing the probability of convergence and improving the speed of convergence. For optimization of set-valued…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-24 Suprova Ghosh , Debdas Ghosh , Zai-Yun Peng , Xian-Jun Long

The trust-region (TR) method is renowned historically for its robustness in nonconvex problems and extraordinary numerical performance, but the study of its performance in convex optimization is somehow limited. This paper complements the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-26 Yuntian Jiang , Chang He , Chuwen Zhang , Dongdong Ge , Bo Jiang , Yinyu Ye

We propose a trust-region type method for a class of nonsmooth nonconvex optimization problems where the objective function is a summation of a (probably nonconvex) smooth function and a (probably nonsmooth) convex function. The model…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-26 Ziang Chen , Andre Milzarek , Zaiwen Wen

Convex and nonconvex finite-sum minimization arises in many scientific computing and machine learning applications. Recently, first-order and second-order methods where objective functions, gradients and Hessians are approximated by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-12 Stefania Bellavia , Natasa Krejic , Benedetta Morini

In this paper, we solve the l2-l1 sparse recovery problem by transforming the objective function of this problem into an unconstrained differentiable function and apply a limited-memory trust-region method. Unlike gradient projection-type…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-03-01 Lasith Adhikari , Jennifer B. Erway , Shelby Lockhart , Roummel F. Marcia

Trust-region (TR) and adaptive regularization using cubics (ARC) have proven to have some very appealing theoretical properties for non-convex optimization by concurrently computing function value, gradient, and Hessian matrix to obtain the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Liu Liu , Xuanqing Liu , Cho-Jui Hsieh , Dacheng Tao

Historically speaking, it is hard to balance the global and local efficiency of second-order optimization algorithms. For instance, the classical Newton's method possesses excellent local convergence but lacks global guarantees, often…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Yuntian Jiang , Chuwen Zhang , Bo Jiang , Yinyu Ye