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We introduce the proximal optimal transport divergence, a novel discrepancy measure that interpolates between information divergences and optimal transport distances via an infimal convolution formulation. This divergence provides a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-11 Ricardo Baptista , Panagiota Birmpa , Markos A. Katsoulakis , Luc Rey-Bellet , Benjamin J. Zhang

In this paper, we propose a Newton method for unconstrained set optimization problems to find its weakly minimal solutions with respect to lower set-less ordering. The objective function of the problem under consideration is given by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-01 Debdas Ghosh , Anshika , Qamrul Hasan Ansari , Xiaopeng Zhao

In this paper, we propose objective-function-free (OFF) variants of the proximal Newton method for nonconvex composite optimization problems and the regularized Newton method for unconstrained optimization problems, respectively, using…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Hong Zhu

We study distributed algorithms for expected loss minimization where the datasets are large and have to be stored on different machines. Often we deal with minimizing the average of a set of convex functions where each function is the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Samira Sheikhi

It is well known that Newton's method can have trouble converging if the initial guess is too far from the solution. Such a problem particularly occurs when this method is used to solve nonlinear elliptic partial differential equations…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-10 Joubine Aghili , Emmanuel Franck , Romain Hild , Victor Michel-Dansac , Vincent Vigon

We present a genetic programming approach to automatically discover convergence acceleration methods for discrete ordinates solutions of neutron transport problems in slab geometry. Classical acceleration methods such as Aitken's…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Japan K. Patel , Barry D. Ganapol , Anthony Magliari , Matthew C. Schmidt , Todd A. Wareing

The goal of this paper is to study approaches to bridge the gap between first-order and second-order type methods for composite convex programs. Our key observations are: i) Many well-known operator splitting methods, such as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-27 Xiantao Xiao , Yongfeng Li , Zaiwen Wen , Liwei Zhang

This paper presents a novel framework for goal-oriented optimal static sensor placement and dynamic sensor steering in PDE-constrained inverse problems, utilizing a Bayesian approach accelerated by low-rank approximations. The framework is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-09 Marco Mattuschka , Noah An der Lan , Max von Danwitz , Daniel Wolff , Alexander Popp

We consider the reconstruction of moving sources using partial measured data. A two-step deterministic-statistical approach is proposed. In the first step, an approximate direct sampling method is developed to obtain the locations of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-07 Yanfang Liu , Yukun Guo , Jiguang Sun

In this paper, we propose and analyze some practical Newton methods for electronic structure calculations. We show the convergence and the local quadratic convergence rate for the Newton method when the Newton search directions are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-28 Xiaoying Dai , Liwei Zhang , Aihui Zhou

We study the fundamental computational problem of approximating optimal transport (OT) equations using neural differential equations (Neural ODEs). More specifically, we develop a novel framework for approximating unbalanced optimal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Minh-Nhat Phung , Minh-Binh Tran

We propose a semismooth Newton algorithm for pathwise optimization (SNAP) for the LASSO and Enet in sparse, high-dimensional linear regression. SNAP is derived from a suitable formulation of the KKT conditions based on Newton derivatives.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-10-10 Jian Huang , Yuling Jiao , Xiliang Lu , Yueyong Shi , Qinglong Yang

End-to-end trained neural networks (NNs) are a compelling approach to autonomous vehicle control because of their ability to learn complex tasks without manual engineering of rule-based decisions. However, challenging road conditions,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Alexander Amini , Ava Soleimany , Sertac Karaman , Daniela Rus

This paper studies the numerical solution of strictly convex unconstrained optimization problems by linesearch Newton-CG methods. We focus on methods employing inexact evaluations of the objective function and inexact and possibly random…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-16 Stefania Bellavia , Eugenio Fabrizi , Benedetta Morini

Score-based diffusion models are a highly effective method for generating samples from a distribution of images. We consider scenarios where the training data comes from a noisy version of the target distribution, and present an efficiently…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-30 Dennis Elbrächter , Giovanni S. Alberti , Matteo Santacesaria

We propose a parallel stochastic Newton method (PSN) for minimizing unconstrained smooth convex functions. We analyze the method in the strongly convex case, and give conditions under which acceleration can be expected when compared to its…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-19 Mojmír Mutný , Peter Richtárik

Semi-discrete optimal transport (SOT), which maps a continuous probability measure to a discrete one, is a fundamental problem with wide-ranging applications. Entropic regularization is often employed to solve the SOT problem, leading to a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-01 Moaad Khamlich , Francesco Romor , Gianluigi Rozza

Neural network-based optimal transport (OT) is a recent and fruitful direction in the generative modeling community. It finds its applications in various fields such as domain translation, image super-resolution, computational biology and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Roman Tarasov , Petr Mokrov , Milena Gazdieva , Evgeny Burnaev , Alexander Korotin

Operator learning is a rising field of scientific computing where inputs or outputs of a machine learning model are functions defined in infinite-dimensional spaces. In this paper, we introduce NEON (Neural Epistemic Operator Networks), an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Leonardo Ferreira Guilhoto , Paris Perdikaris

We consider the problem of minimizing a sum of $n$ functions over a convex parameter set $\mathcal{C} \subset \mathbb{R}^p$ where $n\gg p\gg 1$. In this regime, algorithms which utilize sub-sampling techniques are known to be effective. In…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-12-03 Murat A. Erdogdu , Andrea Montanari