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We introduce a two-level trust-region method (TLTR) for solving unconstrained nonlinear optimization problems. Our method uses a composite iteration step, which is based on two distinct search directions. The first search direction is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-10 Andrea Angino , Alena Kopaničáková , Rolf Krause

Optimization with matrix gradient orthogonalization has recently demonstrated impressive results in the training of deep neural networks (Jordan et al., 2024; Liu et al., 2025). In this paper, we provide a theoretical analysis of this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Dmitry Kovalev

An efficient proximal-gradient-based method, called proximal extrapolated gradient method, is designed for solving monotone variational inequality in Hilbert space. The proposed method extends the acceptable range of parameters to obtain…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-05 Xiaokai Chang , Sanyang Liu , Jianchao Bai , Jun Yang

Accelerated proximal gradient methods have recently been developed for solving quasi-static incremental problems of elastoplastic analysis with some different yield criteria. It has been demonstrated through numerical experiments that these…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-13 Yoshihiro Kanno

We consider Riemannian inequality-constrained optimization problems. Such problems inherit the benefits of Riemannian approach developed in the unconstrained setting and naturally arise from applications in control, machine learning, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Mitsuaki Obara , Takayuki Okuno , Akiko Takeda

Stochastic variational inference allows for fast posterior inference in complex Bayesian models. However, the algorithm is prone to local optima which can make the quality of the posterior approximation sensitive to the choice of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-05-29 Lucas Theis , Matthew D. Hoffman

The difficulty of minimizing a nonconvex function is in part explained by the presence of saddle points. This slows down optimization algorithms and impacts worst-case complexity guarantees. However, many nonconvex problems of interest…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-22 Florentin Goyens , Clément W. Royer

A trust-region algorithm using inexact function and derivatives values is introduced for solving unconstrained smooth optimization problems. This algorithm uses high-order Taylor models and allows the search of strong approximate minimizers…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-14 C. Cartis , N. I. M. Gould , Ph. L. Toint

The proximal gradient algorithm has been popularly used for convex optimization. Recently, it has also been extended for nonconvex problems, and the current state-of-the-art is the nonmonotone accelerated proximal gradient algorithm.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-24 Quanming Yao , James T. Kwok , Fei Gao , Wei Chen , Tie-Yan Liu

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

Classical trust region methods were designed to solve problems in which function and gradient information are exact. This paper considers the case when there are bounded errors (or noise) in the above computations and proposes a simple…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-05 Shigeng Sun , Jorge Nocedal

This paper introduces a new proximal stochastic gradient method with variance reduction and stabilization for minimizing the sum of a convex stochastic function and a group sparsity-inducing regularization function. Since the method may be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-15 Yutong Dai , Guanyi Wang , Frank E. Curtis , Daniel P. Robinson

We develop a stochastic trust-region algorithm for minimizing the sum of a possibly nonconvex Lipschitz-smooth function that can only be evaluated stochastically and a nonsmooth, deterministic, convex function. This algorithm, which we call…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-06 Robert J. Baraldi , Aurya Javeed , Drew P. Kouri , Katya Scheinberg

Under interpolation-type assumptions such as the strong growth condition, stochastic optimization methods can attain convergence rates comparable to full-batch methods, but their performance, particularly for SGD, remains highly sensitive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Aike Yang , Hao Wang

This paper investigates a category of constrained fractional optimization problems that emerge in various practical applications. The objective function for this category is characterized by the ratio of a numerator and denominator, both…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Yizun Lin , Jian-Feng Cai , Zhao-Rong Lai , Cheng Li

Many large-scale and distributed optimization problems can be brought into a composite form in which the objective function is given by the sum of a smooth term and a nonsmooth regularizer. Such problems can be solved via a proximal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-26 Sepideh Hassan-Moghaddam , Mihailo R. Jovanović

We propose a novel algorithm, TR-SVR, for solving unconstrained stochastic optimization problems. This method builds on the trust-region framework, which effectively balances local and global exploration in optimization tasks. TR-SVR…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-03 Xinshou Zheng

Adaptive trust-region methods attempt to maintain strong convergence guarantees without depending on conservative estimates of problem properties such as Lipschitz constants. However, on close inspection, one can show existing adaptive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-06 Fadi Hamad , Oliver Hinder

Incremental gradient and incremental proximal methods are a fundamental class of optimization algorithms used for solving finite sum problems, broadly studied in the literature. Yet, without strong convexity, their convergence guarantees…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-01 Xufeng Cai , Jelena Diakonikolas

This paper considers an explicit continuation method and the trust-region updating strategy for the unconstrained optimization problem. Moreover, in order to improve its computational efficiency and robustness, the new method uses the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-16 Xin-long Luo , Hang Xiao , Jia-hui Lv , Sen Zhang