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We present a family of algorithms, called descent algorithms, for optimizing convex and non-convex functions. We also introduce a new first-order algorithm, called rescaled gradient descent (RGD), and show that RGD achieves a faster…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-07 Ashia Wilson , Lester Mackey , Andre Wibisono

Conjugate gradient (CG) methods are widely acknowledged as efficient for minimizing continuously differentiable functions in Euclidean spaces. In recent years, various CG methods have been extended to Riemannian manifold optimization, but…

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Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) exhibits strong algorithmic regularization effects in practice and plays an important role in the generalization of modern machine learning. However, prior research has revealed instances where the…

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Tensors, which provide a powerful and flexible model for representing multi-attribute data and multi-way interactions, play an indispensable role in modern data science across various fields in science and engineering. A fundamental task is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Tian Tong , Cong Ma , Ashley Prater-Bennette , Erin Tripp , Yuejie Chi

The sparsity constrained rank-one matrix approximation problem is a difficult mathematical optimization problem which arises in a wide array of useful applications in engineering, machine learning and statistics, and the design of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-06-27 Ronny Luss , Marc Teboulle

We propose a Riemannian version of Nesterov's Accelerated Gradient algorithm (RAGD), and show that for geodesically smooth and strongly convex problems, within a neighborhood of the minimizer whose radius depends on the condition number as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-08 Hongyi Zhang , Suvrit Sra

Stein variational gradient descent (SVGD) is a particle-based inference algorithm that leverages gradient information for efficient approximate inference. In this work, we enhance SVGD by leveraging preconditioning matrices, such as the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-11-06 Dilin Wang , Ziyang Tang , Chandrajit Bajaj , Qiang Liu

The preconditioned conjugate gradient (PCG) algorithm is one of the most popular algorithms for solving large-scale linear systems Ax = b, where A is a symmetric positive definite matrix. Rather than computing residuals directly, it updates…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-19 Thomas Bake , Erin Carson , Yuxin Ma

In this paper, we investigate a general class of stochastic gradient descent (SGD) algorithms, called Conditioned SGD, based on a preconditioning of the gradient direction. Using a discrete-time approach with martingale tools, we establish…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-10-17 Rémi Leluc , François Portier

The performance of gradient-based optimization methods, such as standard gradient descent (GD), greatly depends on the choice of learning rate. However, it can require a non-trivial amount of user tuning effort to select an appropriate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Nikola Surjanovic , Alexandre Bouchard-Côté , Trevor Campbell

We develop an efficient stochastic variance reduced gradient descent algorithm to solve the affine rank minimization problem consists of finding a matrix of minimum rank from linear measurements. The proposed algorithm as a stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-08 Ningning Han , Juan Nie , Jian Lu , Michael K. Ng

In this paper a new Riemannian rank adaptive method (RRAM) is proposed for the low-rank tensor completion problem (LRTCP) formulated as a least-squares optimization problem on the algebraic variety of tensors of bounded tensor-train (TT)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-20 Charlotte Vermeylen , Marc Van Barel

In the Euclidean setting, the proximal gradient method and its accelerated variants are a class of efficient algorithms for optimization problems with decomposable objective. In this paper, we develop a Riemannian proximal gradient method…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-01 Wen Huang , Ke Wei

Many problems in data science can be treated as estimating a low-rank matrix from highly incomplete, sometimes even corrupted, observations. One popular approach is to resort to matrix factorization, where the low-rank matrix factors are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Tian Tong , Cong Ma , Yuejie Chi

This paper studies a recovery task of finding a low multilinear-rank tensor that fulfills some linear constraints in the general settings, which has many applications in computer vision and graphics. This problem is named as the low…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-10-08 Lei Yang , Zheng-Hai Huang , Yufan Li

The paper addresses the problem of learning a regression model parameterized by a fixed-rank positive semidefinite matrix. The focus is on the nonlinear nature of the search space and on scalability to high-dimensional problems. The…

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This paper proposes a Riemannian Multiobjective Proximal Gradient Method (RMPGM) for composite optimization problems on manifolds. Unlike scalarization-based approaches, the proposed framework directly handles vector-valued objectives and…

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We study the problem of estimating a low-rank positive semidefinite (PSD) matrix from a set of rank-one measurements using sensing vectors composed of i.i.d. standard Gaussian entries, which are possibly corrupted by arbitrary outliers.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-21 Yuanxin Li , Yue Sun , Yuejie Chi

Estimating a policy that maps states to actions is a central problem in reinforcement learning. Traditionally, policies are inferred from the so called value functions (VFs), but exact VF computation suffers from the curse of…

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We consider the problem of low rank matrix recovery in a stochastically noisy high dimensional setting. We propose a new estimator for the low rank matrix, based on the iterative hard thresholding method, and that is computationally…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-03-02 Alexandra Carpentier , Arlene K. H. Kim