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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…

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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…

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We introduce a new approach to deriving approximate analytical solutions of a harmonic oscillator damped by purely nonlinear, or combinations of linear and nonlinear damping forces. Our approach is based on choosing a suitable trial…

Classical Physics · Physics 2025-12-30 Karlo Lelas , Robert Pezer

In this paper, we devise a $\operatorname{prox}$-based semi-smooth Newton method for the non-differentiable TV-minimization problem. To this end, the primal-dual optimality conditions are reformulated as a nonlinear operator equation with…

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We propose and analyze an adaptive step-size variant of the Davis-Yin three operator splitting. This method can solve optimization problems composed by a sum of a smooth term for which we have access to its gradient and an arbitrary number…

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We investigate the dynamics of a lattice soliton on a monatomic chain in the presence of damping and external forces. We consider Stokes and hydrodynamical damping. In the quasi-continuum limit the discrete system leads to a damped and…

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Composite optimization problems, where the sum of a smooth and a merely lower semicontinuous function has to be minimized, are often tackled numerically by means of proximal gradient methods as soon as the lower semicontinuous part of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-05 Christian Kanzow , Patrick Mehlitz

We are concerned with the tensor equations whose coefficient tensor is an M-tensor. We first propose a Newton method for solving the equation with a positive constant term and establish its global and quadratic convergence. Then we extend…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-28 Dong-Hui Li Jie-Feng Xu , Hong-Bo Guan

We generalize Newton-type methods for minimizing smooth functions to handle a sum of two convex functions: a smooth function and a nonsmooth function with a simple proximal mapping. We show that the resulting proximal Newton-type methods…

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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

Variational Inequality (VI) problems have attracted great interest in the machine learning (ML) community due to their application in adversarial and multi-agent training. Despite its relevance in ML, the oft-used strong-monotonicity and…

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This paper considers the generalized continuation Newton method and thetrust-region updating strategy for the underdetermined system of nonlinear equations. Moreover, in order to improve its computational efficiency, the new method will not…

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We study stochastic second-order methods for solving general non-convex optimization problems. We propose using a special version of momentum to stabilize the stochastic gradient and Hessian estimates in Newton's method. We show that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-27 El Mahdi Chayti , Nikita Doikov , Martin Jaggi

An adaptive analogue of the Yu. E. Nesterov method for variational inequalities with a strongly monotone operator is proposed. Some estimates are obtained for the parameters determining the quality of the solution of the variational…

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This paper answers the question if a qualitatively heterogeneous passive networked system containing damped and undamped nodes shows consensus in the output of the nodes in the long run. While a standard Lyapunov analysis shows that the…

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We analyze the performance of a variant of Newton method with quadratic regularization for solving composite convex minimization problems. At each step of our method, we choose regularization parameter proportional to a certain power of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-12 Nikita Doikov , Konstantin Mishchenko , Yurii Nesterov

Stiff and chaotic differential equations are challenging for time-stepping numerical methods. For explicit methods, the required time step resolution significantly exceeds the resolution associated with the smoothness of the exact solution…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-28 Jan Scheffel

Adam has achieved strong empirical success, but its theory remains incomplete even in the deterministic full-batch setting, largely because adaptive preconditioning and momentum are tightly coupled. In this work, a convergent reformulation…

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This paper addresses a class of nonsmooth and nonconvex optimization problems defined on complete Riemannian manifolds. The objective function has a composite structure, combining convex, differentiable, and lower semicontinuous terms,…

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