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Minimizing loss functions is central to machine-learning training. Although first-order methods dominate practical applications, higher-order techniques such as Newton's method can deliver greater accuracy and faster convergence, yet are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Giuseppe Carrino , Elena Loli Piccolomini , Elisa Riccietti , Theo Mary

Most existing work uses dual decomposition and subgradient methods to solve Network Utility Maximization (NUM) problems in a distributed manner, which suffer from slow rate of convergence properties. This work develops an alternative…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Ermin Wei , Asuman Ozdaglar , Ali Jadbabaie

A q-Gauss-Newton algorithm is an iterative procedure that solves nonlinear unconstrained optimization problems based on minimization of the sum squared errors of the objective function residuals. Main advantage of the algorithm is that it…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-28 Danijela Protic , Miomir Stankovic

This paper studies stochastic minimization of a finite-sum loss $ F (\mathbf{x}) = \frac{1}{N} \sum_{\xi=1}^N f(\mathbf{x};\xi) $. In many real-world scenarios, the Hessian matrix of such objectives exhibits a low-rank structure on a batch…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Yu Liu , Weibin Peng , Tianyu Wang , Jiajia Yu

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

Finding an $\epsilon$-stationary point of a nonconvex function with a Lipschitz continuous Hessian is a central problem in optimization. Regularized Newton methods are a classical tool and have been studied extensively, yet they still face…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-03 Yuhao Zhou , Jintao Xu , Bingrui Li , Chenglong Bao , Chao Ding , Jun Zhu

Adaptive cubic regularization methods have emerged as a credible alternative to linesearch and trust-region for smooth nonconvex optimization, with optimal complexity amongst second-order methods. Here we consider a general/new class of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-20 Coralia Cartis , Nicholas I. M. Gould , Philippe L. Toint

In this paper, two numerical approaches based on the Newton iteration method with spectral algorithms are introduced to solve the Thomas-Fermi equation. That Thomas-Fermi equation is a nonlinear singular ordinary differential equation (ODE)…

The object of the present work is to present the new classes of third-order and fourth-order iterative methods for solving nonlinear equations. Our third-order method includes methods of Weerakoon \cite{Weerakoon}, Homeier \cite{Homeier2},…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-07-31 J. P. Jaiswal

We address the numerical solution of second-order Mean Field Game problems through Newton iterations in infinite dimensions, introduced in [14], where quadratic convergence of the method was rigorously established. Building upon this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Elisabetta Carlini , Ahmad Zorkot

High-order methods for convex and nonconvex optimization, particularly $p$th-order Adaptive Regularization Methods (AR$p$), have attracted significant research interest by naturally incorporating high-order Taylor models into adaptive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-30 Wenqi Zhu , Coralia Cartis

In the first part of this paper, we prove that, under some natural non-degeneracy assumptions, the Greedy Parabolic Target-Following Method, based on {\em universal tangent direction} has a favorable local behavior. In view of its global…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Yurii Nesterov

There are thousands of papers on rootfinding for nonlinear scalar equations. Here is one more, to talk about an apparently new method, which I call ``Inverse Cubic Iteration'' (ICI) in analogy to the Inverse Quadratic Iteration in Richard…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-15 Robert M. Corless

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

This paper pursues a twofold goal. First, we introduce and study in detail a new notion of variational analysis called generalized metric subregularity, which is a far-going extension of the conventional metric subregularity conditions. Our…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-21 Guoyin Li , Boris Mordukhovich , Jiangxing Zhu

In this paper we present a new steepest-descent type algorithm for convex optimization problems. Our algorithm pieces the unknown into sub-blocs of unknowns and considers a partial optimization over each sub-bloc. In quadratic optimization,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-01-15 Mohamed Kamel Riahi

For solving linear ill-posed problems regularization methods are required when the right hand side is with some noise. In the present paper regularized solutions are obtained by implicit iteration methods in Hilbert scales. % By exploiting…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-20 Qinian Jin , Ulrich Tautenhahn

An inexact Newton type method for numerical minimization of convex piecewise quadratic functions is considered and its convergence is analyzed. Earlier, a similar method was successfully applied to optimizaton problems arising in numerical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-11 Alexander I. Golikov , Igor E. Kaporin

We explore computational aspects of maximum likelihood estimation of the mixture proportions of a nonparametric finite mixture model -- a convex optimization problem with old roots in statistics and a key member of the modern data analysis…

Computation · Statistics 2023-12-11 Haoyue Wang , Shibal Ibrahim , Rahul Mazumder

We present a proximal augmented Lagrangian based solver for general convex quadratic programs (QPs), relying on semismooth Newton iterations with exact line search to solve the inner subproblems. The exact line search reduces in this case…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-02 Ben Hermans , Andreas Themelis , Panagiotis Patrinos