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The problem of minimizing a sum of local convex objective functions over a networked system captures many important applications and has received much attention in the distributed optimization field. Most of existing work focuses on…

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A new, fast second-order method is proposed that achieves the optimal $\mathcal{O}\left(|\log(\epsilon)|\epsilon^{-3/2}\right)$ complexity to obtain first-order $\epsilon$-stationary points. Crucially, this is deduced without assuming the…

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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…

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When training neural networks with custom objectives, such as ranking losses and shortest-path losses, a common problem is that they are, per se, non-differentiable. A popular approach is to continuously relax the objectives to provide…

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Starting with far field data of time-harmonic acoustic or electromagnetic waves radiated by a collection of compactly supported sources in two-dimensional free space, we develop criteria and algorithms for the recovery of the far field…

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{A defining characteristic of Newton's method is local superlinear convergence within a neighbourhood of a strict local minimum. However, outside this neighborhood Newton's method can converge slowly or even diverge. A common approach to…

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The paper studies the solution of stochastic optimization problems in which approximations to the gradient and Hessian are obtained through subsampling. We first consider Newton-like methods that employ these approximations and discuss how…

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In this paper, we study gradient-based classical extremum seeking (ES) for uncertain n-dimensional (nD) static quadratic maps in the presence of known large constant distinct input delays and large output constant delay with a small…

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The von Neumann algorithm is a simple coordinate-descent algorithm to determine whether the origin belongs to a polytope generated by a finite set of points. When the origin is in the of the polytope, the algorithm generates a sequence of…

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We consider minimization of a sum of convex objective functions where the components of the objective are available at different nodes of a network and nodes are allowed to only communicate with their neighbors. The use of distributed…

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A general class of Newton algorithms on Gra{\ss}mann and Lagrange-Gra{\ss}mann manifolds is introduced, that depends on an arbitrary pair of local coordinates. Local quadratic convergence of the algorithm is shown under a suitable condition…

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At the heart of Newton based optimization methods is a sequence of symmetric linear systems. Each consecutive system in this sequence is similar to the next, so solving them separately is a waste of computational effort. Here we describe…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-12-30 Robert Mansel Gower , Jacek Gondzio

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

Newton-type methods are typically analyzed under Lipschitz continuity of the Hessian, an assumption that can fail for objectives with higher-order or polynomial growth. We introduce a class of nonlinearly preconditioned Newton methods that…

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In this manuscript, we address continuous unconstrained multi-objective optimization problems and we discuss descent type methods for the reconstruction of the Pareto set. Specifically, we analyze the class of Front Descent methods, which…

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This paper proposes and develops new Newton-type methods to solve structured nonconvex and nonsmooth optimization problems with justifying their fast local and global convergence by means of advanced tools of variational analysis and…

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We demonstrate that a graph-based search algorithm-relying on the construction of an approximate neighborhood graph-can directly work with challenging non-metric and/or non-symmetric distances without resorting to metric-space mapping…

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One of the most important problems in the field of distributed optimization is the problem of minimizing a sum of local convex objective functions over a networked system. Most of the existing work in this area focus on developing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-08 Fatemeh Mansoori , Ermin Wei

An iterative formula based on Newton Method alone is presented for the iterative solutions of equations that ensures convergence in cases where the traditional Newton Method may fail to converge to the desired root. In addition, the method…

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We consider an inverse elastic scattering problem of simultaneously reconstructing a rigid obstacle and the excitation sources using near-field measurements. A two-phase numerical method is proposed to achieve the co-inversion of multiple…

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