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While there already exist randomized subspace Newton methods that restrict the search direction to a random subspace for a convex function, we propose a randomized subspace regularized Newton method for a non-convex function {and more…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Terunari Fuji , Pierre-Louis Poirion , Akiko Takeda

Newton's method is the most widespread high-order method, demanding the gradient and the Hessian of the objective function. However, one of the main disadvantages of Newtons method is its lack of global convergence and high iteration cost.…

Quasi-Newton methods are widely used for solving convex optimization problems due to their ease of implementation, practical efficiency, and strong local convergence guarantees. However, their global convergence is typically established…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-28 Artem Agafonov , Vladislav Ryspayev , Samuel Horváth , Alexander Gasnikov , Martin Takáč , Slavomir Hanzely

In this paper, a globally convergent Newton-type proximal gradient method is developed for composite multi-objective optimization problems where each objective function can be represented as the sum of a smooth function and a nonsmooth…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-25 Md Abu Talhamainuddin Ansary

In this paper, we provide the universal first-order methods of Composite Optimization with new complexity analysis. It delivers some universal convergence guarantees, which are not linked directly to any parametric problem class. However,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-26 Yurii Nesterov

In this paper we propose third-order methods for composite convex optimization problems in which the smooth part is a three-times continuously differentiable function with Lipschitz continuous third-order derivatives. The methods are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-28 Geovani Nunes Grapiglia , Yurii Nesterov

In this paper, we propose the first Quasi-Newton method with a global convergence rate of $O(k^{-1})$ for general convex functions. Quasi-Newton methods, such as BFGS, SR-1, are well-known for their impressive practical performance.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-30 Dmitry Kamzolov , Klea Ziu , Artem Agafonov , Martin Takáč

Successive quadratic approximations, or second-order proximal methods, are useful for minimizing functions that are a sum of a smooth part and a convex, possibly nonsmooth part that promotes regularization. Most analyses of iteration…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-25 Ching-pei Lee , Stephen J. Wright

This paper proposes and develops a new Newton-type algorithm to solve subdifferential inclusions defined by subgradients of extended-real-valued prox-regular functions. The proposed algorithm is formulated in terms of the second-order…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-16 Pham Duy Khanh , Boris Mordukhovich , Vo Thanh Phat

Newton's method for finding an unconstrained minimizer for strictly convex functions, generally speaking, does not converge from any starting point. We introduce and study the damped regularized Newton's method (DRNM). It converges globally…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-06-27 Roman Polyak

In this paper, we propose a third-order Newton's method which in each iteration solves a semidefinite program as a subproblem. Our approach is based on moving to the local minimum of the third-order Taylor expansion at each iteration,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-08 Olha Silina , Jeffrey Zhang

Large scale optimization problems are ubiquitous in machine learning and data analysis and there is a plethora of algorithms for solving such problems. Many of these algorithms employ sub-sampling, as a way to either speed up the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-02-29 Farbod Roosta-Khorasani , Michael W. Mahoney

We consider convex optimization problems with the objective function having Lipshitz-continuous $p$-th order derivative, where $p\geq 1$. We propose a new tensor method, which closes the gap between the lower…

We propose the Adaptive Levenberg-Marquardt Third-Order Newton Method (ALMTON) for unconstrained nonconvex optimization, providing the first globally convergent realization of the unregularized third-order Newton method. Unlike the standard…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Yubo Cai , Wenqi Zhu , Coralia Cartis , Gioele Zardini

An algorithm for solving smooth nonconvex optimization problems is proposed that, in the worst-case, takes $\mathcal{O}(\epsilon^{-3/2})$ iterations to drive the norm of the gradient of the objective function below a prescribed positive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-16 Frank E. Curtis , Daniel P. Robinson , Mohammadreza Samadi

High-order tensor methods that employ Taylor-based local models (of degree $p\ge 3$) within adaptive regularization frameworks have been recently proposed for both convex and nonconvex optimization problems. They have been shown to have…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-19 Wenqi Zhu , Coralia Cartis

This paper investigates the global convergence of stepsized Newton methods for convex functions with H\"older continuous Hessians or third derivatives. We propose several simple stepsize schedules with fast global convergence guarantees, up…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-21 Slavomír Hanzely , Farshed Abdukhakimov , Martin Takáč

A regularization algorithm allowing random noise in derivatives and inexact function values is proposed for computing approximate local critical points of any order for smooth unconstrained optimization problems. For an objective function…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-07 S. Bellavia , G. Gurioli , B. Morini , Ph. L. Toint

Newton's method is a fundamental technique in optimization with quadratic convergence within a neighborhood around the optimum. However reaching this neighborhood is often slow and dominates the computational costs. We exploit two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-24 Hadi Daneshmand , Aurelien Lucchi , Thomas Hofmann

The cubic regularized Newton method of Nesterov and Polyak has become increasingly popular for non-convex optimization because of its capability of finding an approximate local solution with second-order guarantee. Several recent works…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-29 Junyu Zhang , Lin Xiao , Shuzhong Zhang