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We consider the minimization of a continuous function over the intersection of a regular cone with an affine set via a new class of adaptive first- and second-order optimization methods, building on the Hessian-barrier techniques introduced…

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We describe inexact proximal Newton-like methods for solving degenerate regularized optimization problems and for the broader problem of finding a zero of a generalized equation that is the sum of a continuous map and a maximal monotone…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Ching-pei Lee , Stephen J. Wright

We propose a novel framework for analyzing convergence rates of stochastic optimization algorithms with adaptive step sizes. This framework is based on analyzing properties of an underlying generic stochastic process, in particular by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-23 Jose Blanchet , Coralia Cartis , Matt Menickelly , Katya Scheinberg

Reinforcement learning (RL) policies represented in Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces (RKHS) offer powerful representational capabilities. While second-order optimization methods like Newton's method demonstrate faster convergence than…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Yixian Zhang , Huaze Tang , Chao Wang , Wenbo Ding

In this paper we study the auxiliary problems that appear in $p$-order tensor methods for unconstrained minimization of convex functions with $\nu$-H\"{o}lder continuous $p$th derivatives. This type of auxiliary problems corresponds to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-07 Geovani Nunes Grapiglia , Yurii Nesterov

In this paper, we establish for the first time the oracle complexity of a Riemannian inexact augmented Lagrangian (RiAL) method with the classical dual update for solving a class of Riemannian nonsmooth composite problems. By using the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-03 Meng Xu , Bo Jiang , Ya-Feng Liu , Anthony Man-Cho So

For solving linear ill-posed problems regularization methods are required when the right hand side is with some noise. In the present paper regularized solutions are obtained by implicit iteration methods in Hilbert scales. % By exploiting…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-20 Qinian Jin , Ulrich Tautenhahn

Matrix-valued optimization tasks, including those involving symmetric positive definite (SPD) matrices, arise in a wide range of applications in machine learning, data science and statistics. Classically, such problems are solved via…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-15 Andrew Cheng , Melanie Weber

We present iDARR, a scalable iterative Data-Adaptive RKHS Regularization method, for solving ill-posed linear inverse problems. The method searches for solutions in subspaces where the true solution can be identified, with the data-adaptive…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-02 Haibo Li , Jinchao Feng , Fei Lu

We develop a globalized Proximal Newton method for composite and possibly non-convex minimization problems in Hilbert spaces. Additionally, we impose less restrictive assumptions on the composite objective functional considering…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-02 Bastian Pötzl , Anton Schiela , Patrick Jaap

This paper studies large-scale optimization problems on Riemannian manifolds whose objective function is a finite sum of negative log-probability losses. Such problems arise in various machine learning and signal processing applications. By…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-18 Jiang Hu , Ruicheng Ao , Anthony Man-Cho So , Minghan Yang , Zaiwen Wen

This paper analyzes the convergence for a large class of Riemannian stochastic approximation (SA) schemes, which aim at tackling stochastic optimization problems. In particular, the recursions we study use either the exponential map of the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-05-20 Alain Durmus , Pablo Jiménez , Éric Moulines , Salem Said , Hoi-To Wai

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

This paper presents regularity results and associated high-order numerical methods for one-dimensional Fractional-Laplacian boundary-value problems. On the basis of a factorization of solutions as a product of a certain edge-singular weight…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-09 Gabriel Acosta , Juan Pablo Borthagaray , Oscar Bruno , Martín Maas

Oblique decision trees combine the transparency of trees with the power of multivariate decision boundaries, but learning high-quality oblique splits is NP-hard, and practical methods still rely on slow search or theory-free heuristics. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Hongyi Li , Han Lin , Jun Xu

We analyze the problem of global reconstruction of functions as accurately as possible, based on partial information in the form of a truncated power series at some point, and additional analyticity properties. This situation occurs…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2022-05-30 Ovidiu Costin , Gerald V. Dunne

Popular machine learning estimators involve regularization parameters that can be challenging to tune, and standard strategies rely on grid search for this task. In this paper, we revisit the techniques of approximating the regularization…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-28 Eugene Ndiaye , Tam Le , Olivier Fercoq , Joseph Salmon , Ichiro Takeuchi

Machine learning (ML) problems are often posed as highly nonlinear and nonconvex unconstrained optimization problems. Methods for solving ML problems based on stochastic gradient descent are easily scaled for very large problems but may…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-24 Jennifer B. Erway , Joshua Griffin , Roummel F. Marcia , Riadh Omheni

In this work, we develop new optimization algorithms that use approximate second-order information combined with the gradient regularization technique to achieve fast global convergence rates for both convex and non-convex objectives. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-17 Andrei Semenov , Martin Jaggi , Nikita Doikov

In the present work we studied a subfield of Applied Mathematics called Riemannian Optimization. The main goal of this subfield is to generalize algorithms, theorems and tools from Mathematical Optimization to the case in which the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-25 Caio O. da Silva