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In this paper, we develop convergence analysis of a modified line search method for objective functions whose value is computed with noise and whose gradient estimates are inexact and possibly random. The noise is assumed to be bounded in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-05 Albert S. Berahas , Liyuan Cao , Katya Scheinberg

We consider minimization of a smooth nonconvex objective function using an iterative algorithm based on Newton's method and the linear conjugate gradient algorithm, with explicit detection and use of negative curvature directions for the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-14 Clément W. Royer , Michael O'Neill , Stephen J. Wright

This paper describes a method for solving smooth nonconvex minimization problems subject to bound constraints with good worst-case complexity guarantees and practical performance. The method contains elements of two existing methods: the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-08 Yue Xie , Stephen J. Wright

We consider variants of a recently-developed Newton-CG algorithm for nonconvex problems \citep{royer2018newton} in which inexact estimates of the gradient and the Hessian information are used for various steps. Under certain conditions on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-12 Zhewei Yao , Peng Xu , Fred Roosta , Stephen J. Wright , Michael W. Mahoney

The paper studies the solution of stochastic optimization problems in which approximations to the gradient and Hessian are obtained through subsampling. We first consider Newton-like methods that employ these approximations and discuss how…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-28 Raghu Bollapragada , Richard Byrd , Jorge Nocedal

This paper presents and investigates an inexact proximal gradient method for solving composite convex optimization problems characterized by an objective function composed of a sum of a full-domain differentiable convex function and a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-16 Yunier Bello-Cruz , Max L. N. Gonçalves , Jefferson G. Melo , Cassandra Mohr

In this paper we consider a nonconvex unconstrained optimization problem minimizing a twice differentiable objective function with H\"older continuous Hessian. Specifically, we first propose a Newton-conjugate gradient (Newton-CG) method…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-15 Chuan He , Heng Huang , Zhaosong Lu

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 paper describes an extension of the BFGS and L-BFGS methods for the minimization of a nonlinear function subject to errors. This work is motivated by applications that contain computational noise, employ low-precision arithmetic, or…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-10 Hao-Jun Michael Shi , Yuchen Xie , Richard Byrd , Jorge Nocedal

In this paper, we propose objective-function-free (OFF) variants of the proximal Newton method for nonconvex composite optimization problems and the regularized Newton method for unconstrained optimization problems, respectively, using…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Hong Zhu

Many practical optimization problems involve objective function values that are corrupted by unavoidable numerical errors. In smooth nonconvex optimization, quasi-Newton methods combined with line search are widely used due to their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-12 Hiroki Hamaguchi , Naoki Marumo , Akiko Takeda

This paper proposes and develops new Newton-type methods to solve structured nonconvex and nonsmooth optimization problems with justifying their fast local and global convergence by means of advanced tools of variational analysis and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Pham Duy Khanh , Boris S. Mordukhovich , Vo Thanh Phat

In this paper, we present a generic framework to extend existing uniformly optimal convex programming algorithms to solve more general nonlinear, possibly nonconvex, optimization problems. The basic idea is to incorporate a local search…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-10-27 Saeed Ghadimi , Guanghui Lan , Hongchao Zhang

Unconstrained optimization problems become more common in scientific computing and engineering applications with the rapid development of artificial intelligence, and numerical methods for solving them more quickly and efficiently have been…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-17 Lin Li , Pengcheng Xie , Li Zhang

This paper deals with the minimization of large sum of convex functions by Inexact Newton (IN) methods employing subsampled functions, gradients and Hessian approximations. The Conjugate Gradient method is used to compute the inexact Newton…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-15 Stefania Bellavia , Natasa Krejic , Natasa Krklec Jerinkic

This paper introduces and develops novel coderivative-based Newton methods with Wolfe linesearch conditions to solve various classes of problems in nonsmooth optimization. We first propose a generalized regularized Newton method with Wolfe…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-04 Miantao Chao , Boris S. Mordukhovich , Zijian Shi , Jin Zhang

In this work, we present a globalized stochastic semismooth Newton method for solving stochastic optimization problems involving smooth nonconvex and nonsmooth convex terms in the objective function. We assume that only noisy gradient and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-12 Andre Milzarek , Xiantao Xiao , Shicong Cen , Zaiwen Wen , Michael Ulbrich

In this paper we analyze several new methods for solving nonconvex optimization problems with the objective function formed as a sum of two terms: one is nonconvex and smooth, and another is convex but simple and its structure is known.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-06-25 A. Patrascu , I. Necoara

The main focus in this paper is exact linesearch methods for minimizing a quadratic function whose Hessian is positive definite. We give a class of limited-memory quasi-Newton Hessian approximations which generate search directions parallel…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-04 David Ek , Anders Forsgren

In this paper, we investigate accelerated first-order methods for smooth convex optimization problems under inexact information on the gradient of the objective. The noise in the gradient is considered to be additive with two possibilities:…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-10 Vasin Artem , Alexander Gasnikov , Pavel Dvurechensky , Vladimir Spokoiny
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