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We propose a novel trust region method for solving a class of nonsmooth, nonconvex composite-type optimization problems. The approach embeds inexact semismooth Newton steps for finding zeros of a normal map-based stationarity measure for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-04 Wenqing Ouyang , Andre Milzarek

We develop a trust-region method for minimizing the sum of a smooth term $f$ and a nonsmooth term $h$), both of which can be nonconvex. Each iteration of our method minimizes a possibly nonconvex model of $f + h$ in a trust region. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-04 Aleksandr Y. Aravkin , Robert Baraldi , Dominique Orban

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Chunming Tang , Shaohui Liang , Huangyue Chen

In this paper, we propose and analyze a trust-region model-based algorithm for solving unconstrained stochastic optimization problems. Our framework utilizes random models of an objective function $f(x)$, obtained from stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-26 Ruobing Chen , Matt Menickelly , Katya Scheinberg

We propose a derivative-free trust-region method based on finite-difference gradient approximations for smooth optimization problems with convex constraints. The proposed method does not require computing an approximate stationarity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Dânâ Davar , Geovani Nunes Grapiglia

The trust-region (TR) method is renowned historically for its robustness in nonconvex problems and extraordinary numerical performance, but the study of its performance in convex optimization is somehow limited. This paper complements the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-26 Yuntian Jiang , Chang He , Chuwen Zhang , Dongdong Ge , Bo Jiang , Yinyu Ye

In many important machine learning applications, the standard assumption of having a globally Lipschitz continuous gradient may fail to hold. This paper delves into a more general $(L_0, L_1)$-smoothness setting, which gains particular…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-07 Chenghan Xie , Chenxi Li , Chuwen Zhang , Qi Deng , Dongdong Ge , Yinyu Ye

We target the problem of finding a local minimum in non-convex finite-sum minimization. Towards this goal, we first prove that the trust region method with inexact gradient and Hessian estimation can achieve a convergence rate of order…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-06 Zebang Shen , Pan Zhou , Cong Fang , Alejandro Ribeiro

This paper studies stability and symmetry preserving $H^2$ optimal model reduction problems of linear systems which include linear gradient systems as a special case. The problem is formulated as a nonlinear optimization problem on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-13 Kazuhiro Sato , Hiroyuki Sato

Convex and nonconvex finite-sum minimization arises in many scientific computing and machine learning applications. Recently, first-order and second-order methods where objective functions, gradients and Hessians are approximated by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-12 Stefania Bellavia , Natasa Krejic , Benedetta Morini

We study optimization over Riemannian embedded submanifolds, where the objective function is relatively smooth in the ambient Euclidean space. Such problems have broad applications but are still largely unexplored. We introduce two…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-08 Chang He , Jiaxiang Li , Bo Jiang , Shiqian Ma , Shuzhong Zhang

An algorithm is proposed for solving stochastic and finite sum minimization problems. Based on a trust region methodology, the algorithm employs normalized steps, at least as long as the norms of the stochastic gradient estimates are within…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-27 Frank E. Curtis , Katya Scheinberg , Rui Shi

In this article, we consider solvers for large-scale trust-region subproblems when the quadratic model is defined by a limited-memory symmetric rank-one (L-SR1) quasi-Newton matrix. We propose a solver that exploits the compact…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-15 Johannes Brust , Jennifer B. Erway , Roummel F. Marcia

In this paper, we develop and analyze sub-sampled trust-region methods for solving finite-sum optimization problems. These methods employ subsampling strategies to approximate the gradient and Hessian of the objective function,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-24 Max L. N. Goncalves , Geovani N. Grapiglia

A trust-region algorithm is presented for finding approximate minimizers of smooth unconstrained functions whose values and derivatives are subject to random noise. It is shown that, under suitable probabilistic assumptions, the new method…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-03 S. Bellavia , G. Gurioli , B. Morini , Ph. L. Toint

The trust region method is an algorithm traditionally used in the field of derivative free optimization. The method works by iteratively constructing surrogate models (often linear or quadratic functions) to approximate the true objective…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-06-12 Ky Vu , Pierre-Louis Poirion , Claudia D'Ambrosio , Leo Liberti

In this letter we model the Haplotype assembly problem (HAP) as a maximization problem over an $(n-1)$-dimensional sphere. Due to nonconvexity of the feasible set, we propose a manifold optimization approach to solve the mentioned…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-11 Mohamad Mahdi Mohades , Mohammad Hossein Kahaei

Gradient descent methods are fundamental first-order optimization algorithms in both Euclidean spaces and Riemannian manifolds. However, the exact gradient is not readily available in many scenarios. This paper proposes a novel inexact…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-18 Juan Zhou , Kangkang Deng , Hongxia Wang , Zheng Peng

In this paper, we propose a Minimax Trust Region (MINIMAX-TR) algorithm and a Minimax Trust Region Algorithm with Contractions and Expansions(MINIMAX-TRACE) algorithm for solving nonconvex-strongly concave minimax problems. Both algorithms…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-16 Tongliang Yao , Zi Xu

The canonical tensor rank approximation problem (TAP) consists of approximating a real-valued tensor by one of low canonical rank, which is a challenging non-linear, non-convex, constrained optimization problem, where the constraint set…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-02 Paul Breiding , Nick Vannieuwenhoven