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This paper proposes a stochastic variant of a classic algorithm---the cubic-regularized Newton method [Nesterov and Polyak 2006]. The proposed algorithm efficiently escapes saddle points and finds approximate local minima for general…

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A new variant of Newton's method for empirical risk minimization is studied, where at each iteration of the optimization algorithm, the gradient and Hessian of the objective function are replaced by robust estimators taken from existing…

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We introduce a proximal limited--memory quasi--Newton scheme for minimizing the sum of a continuously differentiable function and a proper, lower semicontinuous and prox-bounded, possibly nonsmooth, function. Both functions might be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Simeon vom Dahl , Alberto De Marchi , Christian Kanzow

Second-order optimization methods are computationally expensive for large-scale problems. Recently, Doikov, Chayti, and Jaggi (ICML 2023) proposed the LazyCRN method that reduces computation by studying the gradient complexity of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-26 Lesi Chen , Chengchang Liu , Luo Luo , Jingzhao Zhang

Tikhonov regularization is a popular approach to obtain a meaningful solution for ill-conditioned linear least squares problems. A relatively simple way of choosing a good regularization parameter is given by Morozov's discrepancy…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-24 Jeffrey Cornelis , Nick Schenkels , Wim Vanroose

In this paper, we show that simple {Stochastic} subGradient Decent methods with multiple Restarting, named {\bf RSGD}, can achieve a \textit{linear convergence rate} for a class of non-smooth and non-strongly convex optimization problems…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-04-01 Tianbao Yang , Qihang Lin

We develop a Levenberg-Marquardt method for minimizing the sum of a smooth nonlinear least-squar es term $f(x) = \tfrac{1}{2} \|F(x)\|_2^2$ and a nonsmooth term $h$. Both $f$ and $h$ may be nonconvex. Steps are computed by minimizing the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-09 Aleksandr Y. Aravkin , Robert Baraldi , Dominique Orban

We study the convergence rate of the proximal-gradient homotopy algorithm applied to norm-regularized linear least squares problems, for a general class of norms. The homotopy algorithm reduces the regularization parameter in a series of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-28 Reza Eghbali , Maryam Fazel

This paper considers solving the unconstrained $\ell_q$-norm ($0\leq q<1$) regularized least squares ($\ell_q$-LS) problem for recovering sparse signals in compressive sensing. We propose two highly efficient first-order algorithms via…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-16 Fei Wen , Yuan Yang , Peilin Liu , Rendong Ying , Yipeng Liu

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

In this paper, we develop a novel primal-dual semismooth Newton method for solving linearly constrained multi-block convex composite optimization problems. First, a differentiable augmented Lagrangian (AL) function is constructed by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-17 Zhanwang Deng , Kangkang Deng , Jiang Hu , Zaiwen Wen

To overcome these obstacles and improve computational accuracy and efficiency, this paper presents the Randomized Radial Basis Function Neural Network (RRNN), an innovative approach explicitly crafted for solving multiscale elliptic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-23 Yuhang Wu , Ziyuan Liu , Wenjun Sun , Xu Qian

This paper proposes a universal algorithm for convex minimization problems of the composite form $g_0(x)+h(g_1(x),\dots, g_m(x)) + u(x)$. We allow each $g_j$ to independently range from being nonsmooth Lipschitz to smooth, from convex to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-15 Aaron Zoll , Benjamin Grimmer

In this paper, we consider the composite optimization problems over the Stiefel manifold. A successful method to solve this class of problems is the proximal gradient method proposed by Chen et al. Motivated by the proximal Newton-type…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-17 Qinsi Wang , Wei Hong Yang

We give an effective solution to the regularized optimization problem $g (\boldsymbol{x}) + h (\boldsymbol{x})$, where $\boldsymbol{x}$ is constrained on the unit sphere $\Vert \boldsymbol{x} \Vert_2 = 1$. Here $g (\cdot)$ is a smooth cost…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-19 Fang Bai , Adrien Bartoli

We consider the proximal-gradient method for minimizing an objective function that is the sum of a smooth function and a non-smooth convex function. A feature that distinguishes our work from most in the literature is that we assume that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-07 Yutong Dai , Daniel P. Robinson

Normalization methods such as batch [Ioffe and Szegedy, 2015], weight [Salimansand Kingma, 2016], instance [Ulyanov et al., 2016], and layer normalization [Baet al., 2016] have been widely used in modern machine learning. Here, we study the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Xiaoxia Wu , Edgar Dobriban , Tongzheng Ren , Shanshan Wu , Zhiyuan Li , Suriya Gunasekar , Rachel Ward , Qiang Liu

In this work, we consider ill-posed inverse problems in which the forward operator is continuous and weakly closed, and the sought solution belongs to a weakly closed constraint set. We propose a regularization method based on minimizing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Barbara Palumbo , Paolo Massa , Federico Benvenuto

We analyse the convergence of the gradient projection algorithm, which is finalized with the Newton method, to a stationary point for the problem of nonconvex constrained optimization $\min_{x \in S} f(x)$ with a proximally smooth set $S =…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-11 Maxim Balashov , Andrey Tremba

Composite minimization is a powerful framework in large-scale convex optimization, based on decoupling of the objective function into terms with structurally different properties and allowing for more flexible algorithmic design. We…

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