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In this paper, we propose AdaBB, an adaptive gradient method based on the Barzilai-Borwein stepsize. The algorithm is line-search-free and parameter-free, and essentially provides a convergent variant of the Barzilai-Borwein method for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-17 Danqing Zhou , Shiqian Ma , Junfeng Yang

In this paper, we incorporate the Barzilai-Borwein step size into gradient descent methods used to train deep networks. This allows us to adapt the learning rate using a two-point approximation to the secant equation which quasi-Newton…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Antonio Robles-Kelly , Asef Nazari

In this paper, we propose a class of super-schemes for efficiently solving nonlinear unconstrained optimization problems. The proposed approach introduces two novel choices of step-size parameters, leading to efficient descent directions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-24 Tugal Zhanlav , Lkhamsuren Altangerel , Khuder Otgondorj

We investigate stochastic gradient methods and stochastic counterparts of the Barzilai-Borwein steplengths and their application to finite-sum minimization problems. Our proposal is based on the Trust-Region-ish (TRish) framework introduced…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-01 Stefania Bellavia , Benedetta Morini , Mahsa Yousefi

We develop a Trust Region method with Regularized Barzilai-Borwein step-size obtained in a previous paper for solving large-scale unconstrained optimization problems. Simultaneously, the non-monotone technique is combined to formulate an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-24 Xin Xu , Congpei An

The recent literature on first order methods for smooth optimization shows that significant improvements on the practical convergence behaviour can be achieved with variable stepsize and scaling for the gradient, making this class of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-17 Silvia Bonettini , Alessandro Benfenati , Valeria Ruggiero

We consider a distributed multi-agent optimization problem over a time-invariant undirected graph, where each agent possesses a local objective function and all agents collaboratively minimize the average of all objective functions through…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-19 Juan Gao , Xinwei Liu , Yu-Hong Dai , Yakui Huang , Peng Yang

The Barzilai and Borwein (BB) gradient method is one of the most widely-used line-search gradient methods. It computes the step-size for the current iterate by using the information carried in the previous iteration. Recently, William Kahan…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-11 Yifeng Meng , Chungen Shen , Linuo Xue , Lei-Hong Zhang

Due to simplicity, computational cheapness, and efficiency, the Barzilai and Borwein (BB) gradient method has received a significant amount of attention in different fields of optimization. In the first part of this paper, based on spectral…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-29 Behzad Azmi , Karl Kunisch

We develop a novel stepsize based on \BB method for solving some challenging optimization problems efficiently, named regularized \BB (RBB) stepsize. We indicate that RBB stepsize is the close solution to a $\ell_{2}^{2}$-regularized least…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-04 Congpei An , Xin Xu

A new type of stepsize, which was recently introduced by Liu and Liu (Optimization, 67(3), 427-440, 2018), is called approximately optimal stepsize and is quit efficient for gradient method. Interestingly, all gradient methods can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-25 Zexian Liu , Hongwei Liu

The regularized Barzilai-Borwein (RBB) method represents a promising gradient-based optimization algorithm. In this paper, by splitting the gradient into two parts and analyzing the dynamical system of difference equations governing the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-29 Xin Xu

One of the major issues in stochastic gradient descent (SGD) methods is how to choose an appropriate step size while running the algorithm. Since the traditional line search technique does not apply for stochastic optimization algorithms,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-05-24 Conghui Tan , Shiqian Ma , Yu-Hong Dai , Yuqiu Qian

In this paper, we consider the unconstrained multiobjective optimization problem. In recent years, researchers pointed out that the steepest decent method may generate small stepsize which leads to slow convergence rates. To address the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-12 Yingxue Yang

Selecting an effective step-size is a fundamental challenge in first-order optimization, especially for problems with non-Euclidean geometries. This paper presents a novel adaptive step-size strategy for optimization algorithms that rely on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Abbas Khademi , Antonio Silveti-Falls

A crucial task in system identification problems is the selection of the most appropriate model class, and is classically addressed resorting to cross-validation or using asymptotic arguments. As recently suggested in the literature, this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-09 Silvia Bonettini , Alessandro Chiuso , Marco Prato

We present an adaptive step-size method, which does not include line-search techniques, for solving a wide class of nonconvex multiobjective programming problems on an unbounded constraint set. We also prove convergence of a general…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-12 Nguyen Anh Minh , Le Dung Muu , Tran Ngoc Thang

We propose a novel Rayleigh quotient based sparse quadratic dimension reduction method - named QUADRO (Quadratic Dimension Reduction via Rayleigh Optimization) - for analyzing high- dimensional data. Unlike in the linear setting where…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-07-30 Jianqing Fan , Zheng Tracy Ke , Han Liu , Lucy Xia

This work considers stepsize schedules for gradient descent on smooth convex objectives. We extend the existing literature and propose a unified technique for constructing stepsizes with analytic bounds for an arbitrary number of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Zehao Zhang , Rujun Jiang

A new stepsize for gradient method is proposed. Combining it with the exact line search stepsizes, the gradient method achieves the optimal solution in 5 steps for 3 dimensional quadratic function minimization problem. The new stepsize is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-16 Yixin Xie , Jin-Peng Liu , Cong Sun , Ya-Xiang Yuan