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Optimization plays a key role in machine learning. Recently, stochastic second-order methods have attracted much attention due to their low computational cost in each iteration. However, these algorithms might perform poorly especially if…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-10-25 Haishan Ye , Zhihua Zhang

A class of second-order algorithms is proposed for minimizing smooth nonconvex functions that alternates between regularized Newton and negative curvature steps in an iteration-dependent subspace. In most cases, the Hessian matrix is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-22 Serge Gratton , Sadok Jerad , Philippe L. Toint

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

A high-order Newton multigrid method is proposed for steady-state shallow water flows in open channels with regular and irregular geometries. The method integrates a finite volume discretization with third-order weighted essentially…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Zhicheng Hu , Guanghan Li , Chunwu Wang , Xiaowen Wang

This manuscript presents a novel and reliable third-order iterative procedure for computing the zeros of solutions to second-order ordinary differential equations. By approximating the solution of the related Riccati differential equation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-08 Dhivya Prabhu K , Sanjeev Singh , Antony Vijesh

This paper presents a regularized Newton method (RNM) with generalized regularization terms for unconstrained convex optimization problems. The generalized regularization includes quadratic, cubic, and elastic net regularizations as special…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-11 Yuya Yamakawa , Nobuo Yamashita

We introduce a new framework for analyzing (Quasi-}Newton type methods applied to non-smooth optimization problems. The source of randomness comes from the evaluation of the (approximation) of the Hessian. We derive, using a variant of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-05 Titus Pinta

High-order tensor methods that employ local Taylor models of degree $p$ within adaptive regularization frameworks (AR$p$) have recently received significant attention, due to their optimal/improved global and local rates of convergence, for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Coralia Cartis , Raphael Hauser , Yang Liu , Karl Welzel , Wenqi Zhu

We introduce a quadratically convergent semismooth Newton method for nonlinear semidefinite programming that eliminates the need for the generalized Jacobian regularity, a common yet stringent requirement in existing approaches. Our…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Fuxiaoyue Feng , Chao Ding , Xudong Li

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

We study finite-sum non-convex optimization $\min_{x\in\mathbb{R}^d} F(x) \;=\; \frac{1}{n}\sum_{i=1}^n f_i(x)$ and analyze a variance-reduced cubic Newton method based on EMA-smoothed SARAH estimators for both gradient and Hessian…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Dmitry Pasechnyuk-Vilensky , Dmitry Kamzolov , Martin Takáč

In this work, we develop first-order (Hessian-free) and zero-order (derivative-free) implementations of the Cubically regularized Newton method for solving general non-convex optimization problems. For that, we employ finite difference…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Nikita Doikov , Geovani Nunes Grapiglia

This paper is concerned with the numerical solution of nonlinear ill-posed operator equations involving convex constraints. We study a Newton-type method which consists in applying linear Tikhonov regularization with convex constraints to…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2015-04-01 Robert Stück , Martin Burger , Thorsten Hohage

Optimization on Riemannian manifolds widely arises in eigenvalue computation, density functional theory, Bose-Einstein condensates, low rank nearest correlation, image registration, and signal processing, etc. We propose an adaptive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-08 Jiang Hu , Andre Milzarek , Zaiwen Wen , Yaxiang Yuan

This paper aims to develop a Newton-type method to solve a class of nonconvex composite programs. In particular, the nonsmooth part is possibly nonconvex. To tackle the nonconvexity, we develop a notion of strong prox-regularity which is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-10 Jiang Hu , Kangkang Deng , Jiayuan Wu , Quanzheng Li

In this paper we will discuss two variants of an inexact feasible interior point algorithm for convex quadratic programming. We will consider two different neighbourhoods: a (small) one induced by the use of the Euclidean norm which yields…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-08-30 Jacek Gondzio

The ground state energy of a many-electron system can be approximated by an variational approach in which the total energy of the system is minimized with respect to one and two-body reduced density matrices (RDM) instead of many-electron…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-01 Yongfeng Li , Zaiwen Wen , Chao Yang , Yaxiang Yuan

In this paper, we present an efficient semismooth Newton method, named SSNCP, for solving a class of semidefinite programming problems. Our approach is rooted in an equivalent semismooth system derived from the saddle point problem induced…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-24 Zhanwang Deng , Jiang Hu , Kangkang Deng , Zaiwen Wen

We propose stochastic optimization algorithms that can find local minima faster than existing algorithms for nonconvex optimization problems, by exploiting the third-order smoothness to escape non-degenerate saddle points more efficiently.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-19 Yaodong Yu , Pan Xu , Quanquan Gu

Distributed optimization is widely used in large-scale and privacy-preserving machine learning, where each agent stores a local objective and communicates only with its neighbors in a connected network. We study decentralized second-order…