Related papers: Regularized Barzilai-Borwein method
In this paper, we consider to improve the stochastic variance reduce gradient (SVRG) method via incorporating the curvature information of the objective function. We propose to reduce the variance of stochastic gradients using the…
Variable metric proximal gradient methods with different metric selections have been widely used in composite optimization. Combining the Barzilai-Borwein (BB) method with a diagonal selection strategy for the metric, the diagonal BB…
Variable metric proximal gradient (VM-PG) is a widely used class of convex optimization method. Lately, there has been a lot of research on the theoretical guarantees of VM-PG with different metric selections. However, most such metric…
It is widely accepted that the stepsize is of great significance to gradient method. Two efficient gradient methods with approximately optimal stepsizes mainly based on regularization models are proposed for unconstrained optimization. More…
Based on differences of points and differences of gradients over the most recent three iterations, together with the Taylor's theorem, two forms of the quasi-Newton equations at the recent iteration are constructed. By using the two forms…
Barzilai-Borwein (BB) steplength is a popular choice in gradient descent method. By observing that the two existing BB steplengths correspond to the ordinary and the data least squares, respectively, we employ the third kind of least…
We investigate stochastic gradient methods and stochastic counterparts of the Barzilai-Borwein steplengths and their application to finite-sum minimization problems. Our proposal is based on the Trust-Region-ish (TRish) framework introduced…
We propose a family of spectral gradient methods, whose stepsize is determined by a convex combination of the long Barzilai-Borwein (BB) stepsize and the short BB stepsize. Each member of the family is shown to share certain quasi-Newton…
Learning representation from relative similarity comparisons, often called ordinal embedding, gains rising attention in recent years. Most of the existing methods are based on semi-definite programming (\textit{SDP}), which is generally…
Stochastic variance reduced methods have shown strong performance in solving finite-sum problems. However, these methods usually require the users to manually tune the step-size, which is time-consuming or even infeasible for some…
In this paper, we consider the unconstrained multiobjective optimization problem. In recent years, researchers pointed out that the steepest decent method may generate small stepsize which leads to slow convergence rates. To address the…
This paper considers the online scenario using the Barzilai-Borwein Quasi-Newton Method. In an online optimization problem, an online agent uses a certain algorithm to decide on an objective at each time step after which a possible loss is…
We develop a Sequential Quadratic Optimization (SQP) algorithm for minimizing a stochastic objective function subject to deterministic equality constraints. The method utilizes two different stepsizes, one which exclusively scales the…
In this paper, we propose a class of super-schemes for efficiently solving nonlinear unconstrained optimization problems. The proposed approach introduces two novel choices of step-size parameters, leading to efficient descent directions…
This paper studies optimization problems over multi-agent systems, in which all agents cooperatively minimize a global objective function expressed as a sum of local cost functions. Each agent in the systems uses only local computation and…
Adaptive cubic regularization methods for solving nonconvex problems need the efficient computation of the trial step, involving the minimization of a cubic model. We propose a new approach in which this model is minimized in a low…
The Reduced Basis (RB) method is a well established method for the model order reduction of problems formulated as parametrized partial differential equations. One crucial requirement for the application of RB schemes is the availability of…
In this paper, we suggest a new framework for analyzing primal subgradient methods for nonsmooth convex optimization problems. We show that the classical step-size rules, based on normalization of subgradient, or on the knowledge of optimal…
The variance reduction class of algorithms including the representative ones, SVRG and SARAH, have well documented merits for empirical risk minimization problems. However, they require grid search to tune parameters (step size and the…
We introduce a new algorithm, extended regularized dual averaging (XRDA), for solving regularized stochastic optimization problems, which generalizes the regularized dual averaging (RDA) method. The main novelty of the method is that it…