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Motivated by applications in optimization and machine learning, we consider stochastic quasi-Newton (SQN) methods for solving stochastic optimization problems. In the literature, the convergence analysis of these algorithms relies on strong…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-03-16 Farzad Yousefian , Angelia Nedić , Uday V. Shanbha

We propose a communication- and computation-efficient distributed optimization algorithm using second-order information for solving ERM problems with a nonsmooth regularization term. Current second-order and quasi-Newton methods for this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-29 Ching-pei Lee , Cong Han Lim , Stephen J. Wright

Interior Point Methods (IPM) rely on the Newton method for solving systems of nonlinear equations. Solving the linear systems which arise from this approach is the most computationally expensive task of an interior point iteration. If, due…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-27 J. Gondzio , F. N. C. Sobral

Since the late 1950's when quasi-Newton methods first appeared, they have become one of the most widely used and efficient algorithmic paradigms for unconstrained optimization. Despite their immense practical success, there is little theory…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-05 Dmitry Kovalev , Robert M. Gower , Peter Richtárik , Alexander Rogozin

We introduce a quasi-Newton method with block updates called Block BFGS. We show that this method, performed with inexact Armijo-Wolfe line searches, converges globally and superlinearly under the same convexity assumptions as BFGS. We also…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-04 Wenbo Gao , Donald Goldfarb

We propose a modified BFGS algorithm for multiobjective optimization problems with global convergence, even in the absence of convexity assumptions on the objective functions. Furthermore, we establish the superlinear convergence of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-12 L. F. Prudente , D. R. Souza

Global convergence of an online (stochastic) limited memory version of the Broyden-Fletcher- Goldfarb-Shanno (BFGS) quasi-Newton method for solving optimization problems with stochastic objectives that arise in large scale machine learning…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-09-09 Aryan Mokhtari , Alejandro Ribeiro

We present an efficient quasi-Newton orbital solver optimized to reduce the number of gradient (Fock matrix) evaluations. The solver optimizes orthogonal orbitals by sequences of unitary rotations generated by the (preconditioned)…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-12-20 Samuel A. Slattery , Kshitijkumar Surjuse , Edward F. Valeev

We propose a Riemannian limited-memory BFGS method for optimization problems with Euclidean bounds. The method combines a limited-memory quasi-Newton update in the tangent space with a Riemannian adaptation of the generalized Cauchy point…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Mateusz Baran , Ronny Bergmann , Patryk Przybysz

The classical convergence analysis of quasi-Newton methods assumes that the function and gradients employed at each iteration are exact. In this paper, we consider the case when there are (bounded) errors in both computations and establish…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-29 Yuchen Xie , Richard Byrd , Jorge Nocedal

We integrate the diagonal quasi-Newton update approach with the enhanced BFGS formula proposed by Wei, Z., Yu, G., Yuan, G., Lian, Z. \cite{b1}, incorporating extrapolation techniques and inertia acceleration technology. This method,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Zhenhua Luo , Gonglin Yuan , Hongtruong Pham

Motivated by applications arising from sensor networks and machine learning, we consider the problem of minimizing a finite sum of nondifferentiable convex functions where each component function is associated with an agent and a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-22 Harshal D. Kaushik , Farzad Yousefian

We present two sampled quasi-Newton methods (sampled LBFGS and sampled LSR1) for solving empirical risk minimization problems that arise in machine learning. Contrary to the classical variants of these methods that sequentially build…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-29 Albert S. Berahas , Majid Jahani , Peter Richtárik , Martin Takáč

This paper deals with regularized Newton methods, a flexible class of unconstrained optimization algorithms that is competitive with line search and trust region methods and potentially combines attractive elements of both. The particular…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-13 Daniel Steck , Christian Kanzow

In this paper, we introduce the Quasi-Quadratic Gradient (QQG), a novel search direction designed to accelerate the BFGS method within the quasi-Newton framework. By defining the QQG as the product of the inverse Hessian approximation and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-28 John Chiang

The popular BFGS quasi-Newton minimization algorithm under reasonable conditions converges globally on smooth convex functions. This result was proved by Powell in 1976: we consider its implications for functions that are not smooth. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-21 Jiayi Guo , Adrian Lewis

In this paper, we introduce several new quasi-Newton methods for the composite multiobjective optimization problems (in short, CMOP) with Armijo line search. These multiobjective versions of quasi-Newton methods include BFGS quasi-Newnon…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-12 Jian-Wen Peng , Jen-Chih Yao

The standard L-BFGS method relies on gradient approximations that are not dominated by noise, so that search directions are descent directions, the line search is reliable, and quasi-Newton updating yields useful quadratic models of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-31 Raghu Bollapragada , Dheevatsa Mudigere , Jorge Nocedal , Hao-Jun Michael Shi , Ping Tak Peter Tang

Superlinear convergence has been an elusive goal for black-box nonsmooth optimization. Even in the convex case, the subgradient method is very slow, and while some cutting plane algorithms, including traditional bundle methods, are popular…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-30 Adrian Lewis , Calvin Wylie

This paper proposes a nonmonotone proximal quasi-Newton algorithm for unconstrained convex multiobjective composite optimization problems. To design the search direction, we minimize the max-scalarization of the variations of the Hessian…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-04 Xiaoxue Jiang