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We propose a computer-assisted approach to the analysis of the worst-case convergence of nonlinear conjugate gradient methods (NCGMs). Those methods are known for their generally good empirical performances for large-scale optimization,…

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Consider composite nonconvex optimization problems where the objective function consists of a smooth nonconvex term (with Lipschitz-continuous gradient) and a convex (possibly nonsmooth) term. Existing parameter-free methods for such…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-08 Zilong Ye , Shiqian Ma , Junfeng Yang , Danqing Zhou

Conjugate gradient (CG) methods are a class of important methods for solving linear equations and nonlinear optimization problems. In this paper, we propose a new stochastic CG algorithm with variance reduction and we prove its linear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Xiao-Bo Jin , Xu-Yao Zhang , Kaizhu Huang , Guang-Gang Geng

The conjugate gradient (CG) method is widely used for solving nonlinear unconstrained optimization problems because it requires less memory to implement. In this paper, we propose a new parameter of the Dai Liao conjugacy condition of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Ahmad Alhawarat

The proximal gradient method is a standard approach for solving composite minimization problems in which the objective function is the sum of a continuously differentiable function and a lower semicontinuous, extended-valued function. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-02 Xiaoxi Jia , Kai Wang

A new spectral conjugate subgradient method is presented to solve nonsmooth unconstrained optimization problems. The method combines the spectral conjugate gradient method for smooth problems with the spectral subgradient method for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-10 Milagros Loreto , Thomas Humphries , Chella Raghavan , Kenneth Wu , Sam Kwak

In this paper, we propose a new estimation methodology based on a projected non-linear conjugate gradient (PNCG) algorithm with an efficient line search technique. We develop a general PNCG algorithm for a survival model incorporating a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-07-07 Suvra Pal , Souvik Roy

The subgradient method is one of the most fundamental algorithmic schemes for nonsmooth optimization. The existing complexity and convergence results for this method are mainly derived for Lipschitz continuous objective functions. In this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-01 Xiao Li , Lei Zhao , Daoli Zhu , Anthony Man-Cho So

In this paper, we study Newton-conjugate gradient (Newton-CG) methods for minimizing a nonconvex function $f$ whose Hessian is $(H_f,\nu)$-H\"older continuous with modulus $H_f>0$ and exponent $\nu\in(0,1]$. Recently proposed Newton-CG…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Ziyang Zeng , Junyu Zhang , Chuan He

This article presents nonlinear conjugate gradient methods for finding local weakly minimal points of set-valued optimization problems under a lower set less ordering relation. The set-valued objective function of the optimization problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-31 Debdas Ghosh , Ravi Raushan , Zai-Yun Peng , Jen-Chih Yao

The conjugate gradient (CG) method is an efficient iterative method for solving large-scale strongly convex quadratic programming (QP). In this paper we propose some generalized CG (GCG) methods for solving the $\ell_1$-regularized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-02-15 Zhaosong Lu , Xiaojun Chen

In this paper, we present a conditional gradient type (CGT) method for solving a class of composite optimization problems where the objective function consists of a (weakly) smooth term and a (strongly) convex regularization term. While…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-03 Saeed Ghadimi

Gradient algorithms are classical in adaptive control and parameter estimation. For instantaneous quadratic cost functions they lead to a linear time-varying dynamic system that converges exponentially under persistence of excitation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-06 Juan G. Rueda-Escobedo , Jaime A. Moreno

This paper introduces a subgradient extragradient algorithm with a conjugate gradient-type direction to solve pseudomonotone variational inequality problems in Hilbert spaces. The algorithm features a self-adaptive strategy that eliminates…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-07 Ibrahim Arzuka , Parin Chaipunya , Poom Kumam

We propose a single time-scale stochastic subgradient method for constrained optimization of a composition of several nonsmooth and nonconvex functions. The functions are assumed to be locally Lipschitz and differentiable in a generalized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-22 Andrzej Ruszczynski

In this article, we develop an efficient algorithm based on three special variants of the nonlinear conjugate gradient method, namely, the Polak--Ribiere--Polyak, Hestenes--Stiefel, and Liu--Story schemes for computing Pareto critical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Tapas Mondal , Debdulal Ghosh , Zai-Yun Peng , Yong Zhao

This work studies a composite minimization problem involving a differentiable function q and a nonsmooth function h, both of which may be nonconvex. This problem is ubiquitous in signal processing and machine learning yet remains…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-22 Yiming Zhou , Wei Dai

In this paper, we explore a specific optimization problem that involves the combination of a differentiable nonconvex function and a nondifferentiable function. The differentiable component lacks a global Lipschitz continuous gradient,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-05 Qingsong Wang , Zehui Liu , Chunfeng Cui , Deren Han

The adaptive $s$-step CG algorithm is a solver for sparse, symmetric positive definite linear systems designed to reduce the synchronization cost per iteration while still achieving a user-specified accuracy requirement. In this work, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-08-13 Erin C. Carson

We consider the problem of minimizing a Lipschitz differentiable function over a class of sparse symmetric sets that has wide applications in engineering and science. For this problem, it is known that any accumulation point of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-12-01 Zhaosong Lu