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This paper considers the problem of designing accelerated gradient-based algorithms for optimization and saddle-point problems. The class of objective functions is defined by a generalized sector condition. This class of functions contains…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-17 Dennis Gramlich , Christian Ebenbauer , Carsten W. Scherer

We address the challenge of estimating the learning rate for adaptive gradient methods used in training deep neural networks. While several learning-rate-free approaches have been proposed, they are typically tailored for steepest descent.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Min-Kook Suh , Seung-Woo Seo

Many descent algorithms for multiobjective optimization have been developed in the last two decades. Tanabe et al. (Comput Optim Appl 72(2):339--361, 2019) proposed a proximal gradient method for multiobjective optimization, which can solve…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-11 Hiroki Tanabe , Ellen H. Fukuda , Nobuo Yamashita

We study the local convergence rate of stochastic first-order methods under a local $\alpha$-Polyak-Lojasiewicz ($\alpha$-PL) condition in a neighborhood of a target connected component $\mathcal{M}$ of the local minimizer set. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Saeed Masiha , Saber Salehkaleybar , Niao He , Negar Kiyavash , Patrick Thiran

We study the convergence issue for inexact descent algorithm (employing general step sizes) for multiobjective optimizations on general Riemannian manifolds (without curvature constraints). Under the assumption of the local…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-23 Xiangmei Wang , Jinhua Wang , Chong Li

In the paper, we propose a class of efficient adaptive bilevel methods based on mirror descent for nonconvex bilevel optimization, where its upper-level problem is nonconvex possibly with nonsmooth regularization, and its lower-level…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-21 Feihu Huang

The problem of designing adaptive stepsize sequences for the gradient descent method applied to convex and locally smooth functions is studied. We take an adaptive control perspective and design update rules for the stepsize that make use…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-27 Andrea Iannelli

We consider an extension of the Newton-MR algorithm for nonconvex unconstrained optimization to the settings where Hessian information is approximated. Under a particular noise model on the Hessian matrix, we investigate the iteration and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-16 Alexander Lim , Fred Roosta

Polyak-{\L}ojasiewicz (PL) [Polyak, 1963] condition is a weaker condition than the strong convexity but suffices to ensure a global convergence for the Gradient Descent algorithm. In this paper, we study the lower bound of algorithms using…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-03 Pengyun Yue , Cong Fang , Zhouchen Lin

We propose a new adaptive algorithm for the approximation of the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation via a higher-order tangent plane scheme. We show that the adaptive approximation satisfies an energy inequality and demonstrate numerically,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-06 Jan Bohn , Willy Dörfler , Michael Feischl , Stefan Karch

We are concerned with a class of nonconvex and nonsmooth composite optimization problems, comprising a twice differentiable function and a prox-regular function. We establish a sufficient condition for the proximal mapping of a prox-regular…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Yuqia Wu , Pengcheng Wu , Yaohua Hu , Shaohua Pan , Xiaoqi Yang

In this paper, we propose a proximal gradient method and an accelerated proximal gradient method for solving composite optimization problems, where the objective function is the sum of a smooth and a convex, possibly nonsmooth, function. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Raghu Bollapragada , Shagun Gupta

Randomized smoothing is a widely adopted technique for optimizing nonsmooth objective functions. However, its efficiency analysis typically relies on global Lipschitz continuity, a condition rarely met in practical applications. To address…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-10 Jingfan Xia , Zhenwei Lin , Qi Deng

Recently some specific classes of non-smooth and non-Lipschitz convex optimization problems were selected by Yu.~Nesterov along with H.~Lu. We consider convex programming problems with similar smoothness conditions for the objective…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-07 Alexander Titov , Fedor Stonyakin , Mohammad Alkousa , Seydamet Ablaev , Alexander Gasnikov

We consider minimizing an objective function subject to constraints defined by the intersection of lower-level sets of convex functions. We study two cases: (i) strongly convex and Lipschitz-smooth objective function and (ii) convex but…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-29 Abhishek Chakraborty , Angelia Nedić

Stochastic gradient methods are dominant in nonconvex optimization especially for deep models but have low asymptotical convergence due to the fixed smoothness. To address this problem, we propose a simple yet effective method for improving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-25 Jun Li , Hongfu Liu , Bineng Zhong , Yue Wu , Yun Fu

In this work, we consider a sequence of stochastic optimization problems following a time-varying distribution via the lens of online optimization. Assuming that the loss function satisfies the Polyak-{\L}ojasiewicz condition, we apply…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-19 Yuen-Man Pun , Farhad Farokhi , Iman Shames

Linear convergence of first-order methods is typically characterized by global optimization conditions whose constants reflect worst-case geometry of the ambient space. In high-dimensional or structured problems, these global constants can…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Faris Chaudhry , Anthea Monod , Keisuke Yano

Policy gradient methods have been frequently applied to problems in control and reinforcement learning with great success, yet existing convergence analysis still relies on non-intuitive, impractical and often opaque conditions. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Matthew S. Zhang , Murat A. Erdogdu , Animesh Garg