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We propose a quasi-Newton-type method for nonconvex optimization with Lipschitz continuous gradients and Hessians. The algorithm finds an $\varepsilon$-stationary point within $\tilde{\mathrm{O}}(d^{1/4} \varepsilon^{-13/8})$ gradient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-11 Naoki Marumo

A regularization algorithm allowing random noise in derivatives and inexact function values is proposed for computing approximate local critical points of any order for smooth unconstrained optimization problems. For an objective function…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-07 S. Bellavia , G. Gurioli , B. Morini , Ph. L. Toint

Consider the problem of minimizing the expected value of a (possibly nonconvex) cost function parameterized by a random (vector) variable, when the expectation cannot be computed accurately (e.g., because the statistics of the random…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2017-12-12 Yang Yang , Gesualdo Scutari , Daniel P. Palomar , Marius Pesavento

We study to what extent quantum algorithms can speed up solving convex optimization problems. Following the classical literature we assume access to a convex set via various oracles, and we examine the efficiency of reductions between the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-15 Joran van Apeldoorn , András Gilyén , Sander Gribling , Ronald de Wolf

Classical results show that gradient descent converges linearly to minimizers of smooth strongly convex functions. A natural question is whether there exists a locally nearly linearly convergent method for nonsmooth functions with quadratic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-18 Damek Davis , Liwei Jiang

We aim to solve a structured convex optimization problem, where a nonsmooth function is composed with a linear operator. When opting for full splitting schemes, usually, primal-dual type methods are employed as they are effective and also…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-17 Radu Ioan Bot , Axel Böhm

Motivated by emerging applications in machine learning, we consider an optimization problem in a general form where the gradient of the objective function is available through a biased stochastic oracle. We assume a bias-control parameter…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Yin Liu , Sam Davanloo Tajbakhsh

Hybrid quantum-classical optimization algorithms represent one of the most promising application for near-term quantum computers. In these algorithms the goal is to optimize an observable quantity with respect to some classical parameters,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-27 Leonardo Banchi , Gavin E. Crooks

Majorization-minimization schemes are a broad class of iterative methods targeting general optimization problems, including nonconvex, nonsmooth and stochastic. These algorithms minimize successively a sequence of upper bounds of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-11 Daniela Lupu , Ion Necoara

We analyze the global and local behavior of gradient-like flows under stochastic errors towards the aim of solving convex optimization problems with noisy gradient input. We first study the unconstrained differentiable convex case, using a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-12 Rodrigo Maulen-Soto , Jalal Fadili , Hedy Attouch

Constrained optimization plays a crucial role in the fields of quantum physics and quantum information science and becomes especially challenging for high-dimensional complex structure problems. One specific issue is that of quantum process…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-30 Daniel Volya , Andrey Nikitin , Prabhat Mishra

Motivated by recent increased interest in optimization algorithms for non-convex optimization in application to training deep neural networks and other optimization problems in data analysis, we give an overview of recent theoretical…

This paper deals with composite optimization problems having the objective function formed as the sum of two terms, one has Lipschitz continuous gradient along random subspaces and may be nonconvex and the second term is simple and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-10 I. Necoara , F. Chorobura

Frequently, when dealing with many machine learning models, optimization problems appear to be challenging due to a limited understanding of the constructions and characterizations of the objective functions in these problems. Therefore,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-27 A. V. Gasnikov , M. S. Alkousa , A. V. Lobanov , Y. V. Dorn , F. S. Stonyakin , I. A. Kuruzov , S. R. Singh

In this paper, we consider the problem of minimizing a smooth function on a Riemannian manifold and present a Riemannian gradient method with momentum. The proposed algorithm represents a substantial and nontrivial extension of a recently…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-05 Filippo Leggio , Diego Scuppa

We extend the traditional worst-case, minimax analysis of stochastic convex optimization by introducing a localized form of minimax complexity for individual functions. Our main result gives function-specific lower and upper bounds on the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-05-27 Yuancheng Zhu , Sabyasachi Chatterjee , John Duchi , John Lafferty

This paper is devoted to a new modification of a recently proposed adaptive stochastic mirror descent algorithm for constrained convex optimization problems in the case of several convex functional constraints. Algorithms, standard and its…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-22 Mohammad S. Alkousa

Using double-smoothing technique and stochastic mirror descent with inexact oracle we built an optimal algorithm (up to a multiplicative factor) for two-points gradient-free non-smooth stochastic convex programming. We investigate how much…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-15 Anastasia Bayandina , Alexander Gasnikov , Fariman Guliev , Anastasia Lagunovskaya

We design a non-convex second-order optimization algorithm that is guaranteed to return an approximate local minimum in time which scales linearly in the underlying dimension and the number of training examples. The time complexity of our…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-04-26 Naman Agarwal , Zeyuan Allen-Zhu , Brian Bullins , Elad Hazan , Tengyu Ma

This paper focuses on investigating an inexact stochastic model-based optimization algorithm that integrates preconditioning techniques for solving stochastic composite optimization problems. The proposed framework unifies and extends the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-12 Chenglong Bao , Yancheng Yuan , Shulan Zhu