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We propose a new stochastic L-BFGS algorithm and prove a linear convergence rate for strongly convex and smooth functions. Our algorithm draws heavily from a recent stochastic variant of L-BFGS proposed in Byrd et al. (2014) as well as a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-04-15 Philipp Moritz , Robert Nishihara , Michael I. Jordan

This paper proposes a novel dynamical system called the Multiobjective Balanced Gradient Flow (MBGF), offering a dynamical perspective for normalized gradient methods in a class of multi-objective optimization problems. Under certain…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Yingdong Yin

Generalized matrix-fractional (GMF) functions are a class of matrix support functions introduced by Burke and Hoheisel as a tool for unifying a range of seemingly divergent matrix optimization problems associated with inverse problems,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-07 James V. Burke , Yuan Gao , Tim Hoheisel

A convergent algorithm for nonnegative matrix factorization with orthogonality constraints imposed on both factors is proposed in this paper. This factorization concept was first introduced by Ding et al. with intent to further improve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-16 Andri Mirzal

Traditional Collaborative Filtering (CF) based methods are applied to understand the personal preferences of users/customers for items or products from the rating matrix. Usually, the rating matrix is sparse in nature. So there are some…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Supriyo Mandal , Abyayananda Maiti

Matrix factorization is a very common machine learning technique in recommender systems. Bayesian Matrix Factorization (BMF) algorithms would be attractive because of their ability to quantify uncertainty in their predictions and avoid…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Tom Vander Aa , Xiangju Qin , Paul Blomstedt , Roel Wuyts , Wilfried Verachtert , Samuel Kaski

Deep learning, despite its remarkable achievements, is still a young field. Like the early stages of many scientific disciplines, it is marked by the discovery of new phenomena, ad-hoc design decisions, and the lack of a uniform and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Bruno Gavranović

The backpropagation algorithm, despite its widespread use in neural network learning, may not accurately emulate the human cortex's learning process. Alternative strategies, such as the Forward-Forward Algorithm (FFA), offer a closer match…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Desmond Y. M. Tang

Recent diffusion and flow matching models have demonstrated strong capabilities in image generation and editing by progressively removing noise through iterative sampling. While this enables flexible inversion for semantic-preserving edits,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Yasong Dai , Zeeshan Hayder , David Ahmedt-Aristizabal , Hongdong Li

Federated Bayesian neural networks require fixing a prior on the model parameters together with a likelihood. Eliciting meaningful priors on the weight space of modern overparameterized models is notoriously difficult, and misspecification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Boning Zhang , Matteo Zecchin , Mingzhao Guo , Dongzhu Liu , Osvaldo Simeone

We present a forward-backward-based algorithm to minimize a sum of a differentiable function and a nonsmooth function, both being possibly nonconvex. The main contribution of this work is to consider the challenging case where the nonsmooth…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-02 Audrey Repetti , Yves Wiaux

We introduce a relaxed inertial forward-backward-forward (RIFBF) splitting algorithm for approaching the set of zeros of the sum of a maximally monotone operator and a single-valued monotone and Lipschitz continuous operator. This work aims…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-24 Radu Ioan Bot , Michael Sedlmayer , Phan Tu Vuong

Non-negative Matrix Factorization(NMF) algorithm can only be used to find low rank approximation of original non-negative data while Concept Factorization(CF) algorithm extends matrix factorization to single non-linear kernel space,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Fei Li , Liang Du , Chaohong Ren

We propose a federated algorithm for reconstructing images using multimodal tomographic data sourced from dispersed locations, addressing the challenges of traditional unimodal approaches that are prone to noise and reduced image quality.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-13 Geunyeong Byeon , Minseok Ryu , Zichao Wendy Di , Kibaek Kim

Fine-grained visual classification (FGVC) aims to classify sub-classes of objects in the same super-class (e.g., species of birds, models of cars). For the FGVC tasks, the essential solution is to find discriminative subtle information of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Chenyu Guo , Jiyang Xie , Kongming Liang , Xian Sun , Zhanyu Ma

If unaligned multimodal medical images can be simultaneously aligned and fused using a single-stage approach within a unified processing framework, it will not only achieve mutual promotion of dual tasks but also help reduce the complexity…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-16 Huafeng Li , Dayong Su , Qing Cai , Yafei Zhang

Federated multi-view clustering has been proposed to mine the valuable information within multi-view data distributed across different devices and has achieved impressive results while preserving the privacy. Despite great progress, most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Guoqing Chao , Zhenghao Zhang , Lei Meng , Jie Wen , Dianhui Chu

Understanding of the pathophysiology of obstructive lung disease (OLD) is limited by available methods to examine the relationship between multi-omic molecular phenomena and clinical outcomes. Integrative factorization methods for…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-12-01 Sarah Samorodnitsky , Chris H. Wendt , Eric F. Lock

Recent demands on data privacy have called for federated learning (FL) as a new distributed learning paradigm in massive and heterogeneous networks. Although many FL algorithms have been proposed, few of them have considered the matrix…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Shuai Wang , Tsung-Hui Chang

After the tremendous development of neural networks trained by backpropagation, it is a good time to develop other algorithms for training neural networks to gain more insights into networks. In this paper, we propose a new algorithm for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Benyamin Ghojogh , Fakhri Karray , Mark Crowley