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The method of nonlinear conjugate gradients (NCG) is widely used in practice for unconstrained optimization, but it satisfies weak complexity bounds at best when applied to smooth convex functions. In contrast, Nesterov's accelerated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-04 Sahar Karimi , Stephen Vavasis

A novel three-term Polak-Ribi\`{e}re-Polyak conjugate gradient method is proposed for solving vector optimization problems. It should be emphasized that this is the first extension of three-term conjugate gradient methods from scalar…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-09 Guangxuan Lin , Shouqiang Du

This paper introduces a nonlinear conjugate gradient method (NCGM) for addressing the robust counterpart of uncertain multiobjective optimization problems (UMOPs). Here, the robust counterpart is defined as the minimum across objective-wise…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-04 Shubham Kumar , Nihar Kumar Mahato , Debdas Ghosh

Iterative methods for nonlinear monotone equations do not require the differentiability assumption on the residual function. This special property of the methods makes them suitable for solving large-scale nonsmooth monotone equations. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-09 Hassan Mohammad

The nonlinear conjugate gradient methods are known to be an effective approach for standard unconstrained optimization problems especially for large-scale problems. This paper proposes a proximal nonlinear conjugate gradient method, which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Shodai Hamana , Yasushi Narushima

In this article, we develop an efficient algorithm based on three special variants of the nonlinear conjugate gradient method, namely, the Polak--Ribiere--Polyak, Hestenes--Stiefel, and Liu--Story schemes for computing Pareto critical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Tapas Mondal , Debdulal Ghosh , Zai-Yun Peng , Yong Zhao

In this paper, in order to find critical points of vector-valued functions with respect to the partial order induced by a closed, convex, and pointed cone with nonempty interior, we propose a nonlinear modified Polak-Ribiere-Polyak type…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-15 Yushan Bai , Jiawei Chen , Kaiping Liu

In this paper, we propose a modified nonlinear conjugate gradient (NCG) method for functions with a non-Lipschitz continuous gradient. First, we present a new formula for the conjugate coefficient \beta_k in NCG, conducting a search…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-19 Bingjie Li , Tianhao Ni , Zhenyue Zhang

It is well known that search directions in nonlinear conjugate gradient (CG) can sometimes become nearly dependent, causing a dramatic slow-down in the convergence rate. We provide a theoretical analysis of this loss of independence. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-07-29 Sahar Karimi , Stephen Vavasis

A new spectral conjugate subgradient method is presented to solve nonsmooth unconstrained optimization problems. The method combines the spectral conjugate gradient method for smooth problems with the spectral subgradient method for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-10 Milagros Loreto , Thomas Humphries , Chella Raghavan , Kenneth Wu , Sam Kwak

We develop subgradient- and gradient-based methods for minimizing strongly convex functions under a notion which generalizes the standard Euclidean strong convexity. We propose a unifying framework for subgradient methods which yields two…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-19 Masaru Ito

Performance analysis of first-order algorithms with inexact oracles has gained recent attention due to various emerging applications in which obtaining exact gradients is impossible or computationally expensive. Previous research has…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Yin Liu , Sam Davanloo Tajbakhsh

The article proposes a Caputo fractional conjugate gradient (CFCG) method for unconstrained optimization problems which is applicable to smooth as well as non-smooth problmes. The proposed method uses a non-adaptive version of the Caputo…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-22 Barsha Shawa , Md Abu Talhamainuddin Ansary

Nonlinear conjugate gradients are among the most popular techniques for solving continuous optimization problems. Although these schemes have long been studied from a global convergence standpoint, their worst-case complexity properties…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-01 Rémi Chan--Renous-Legoubin , Clément W. Royer

We study the worst-case convergence rates of the proximal gradient method for minimizing the sum of a smooth strongly convex function and a non-smooth convex function whose proximal operator is available. We establish the exact worst-case…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-03 Adrien B. Taylor , Julien M. Hendrickx , François Glineur

Proximal gradient methods are a popular tool for the solution of structured, nonsmooth minimization problems. In this work, we investigate an extension of the former to general Banach spaces and provide worst-case convergence rates for,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Gerd Wachsmuth , Daniel Walter

This paper presents a general description of a parameter estimation inverse problem for systems governed by nonlinear differential equations. The inverse problem is presented using optimal control tools with state constraints, where the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-28 Mohamed Kamel Riahi , Issam Al Qattan

In this paper, we consider a class of possibly nonconvex, nonsmooth and non-Lipschitz optimization problems arising in many contemporary applications such as machine learning, variable selection and image processing. To solve this class of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-29 Lei Yang

A scaled conjugate gradient method that accelerates existing adaptive methods utilizing stochastic gradients is proposed for solving nonconvex optimization problems with deep neural networks. It is shown theoretically that, whether with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Naoki Sato , Koshiro Izumi , Hideaki Iiduka

In 1963, Polyak proposed a simple condition that is sufficient to show a global linear convergence rate for gradient descent. This condition is a special case of the \L{}ojasiewicz inequality proposed in the same year, and it does not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Hamed Karimi , Julie Nutini , Mark Schmidt
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