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The trust region method is an algorithm traditionally used in the field of derivative free optimization. The method works by iteratively constructing surrogate models (often linear or quadratic functions) to approximate the true objective…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-06-12 Ky Vu , Pierre-Louis Poirion , Claudia D'Ambrosio , Leo Liberti

Adaptive regularized framework using cubics has emerged as an alternative to line-search and trust-region algorithms for smooth nonconvex optimization, with an optimal complexity amongst second-order methods. In this paper, we propose and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-30 El houcine Bergou , Youssef Diouane , Serge Gratton

Optimizing industrial processes often involves gray-box models that couple algebraic glass-box equations with black-box components lacking analytic derivatives. Such systems challenge derivative-based solvers. The classical trust-region…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Gul Hameed , Tao Chen , Antonio del Rio Chanona , Lorenz T. Biegler , Michael Short

A parametric class of trust-region algorithms for constrained nonconvex optimization is analyzed, where the objective function is never computed. By defining appropriate first-order stationarity criteria, we are able to extend the Adagrad…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-04 Serge Gratton , Sadok Jerad , Philippe L. Toint

We introduce two multifidelity trust-region methods based on the Magical Trust Region (MTR) framework. MTR augments the classical trust-region step with a secondary, informative direction. In our approaches, the secondary ``magical''…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Andrea Angino , Matteo Aurina , Alena Kopaničáková , Matthias Voigt , Marco Donatelli , Rolf Krause

In this paper, we consider a class of structured nonconvex nonsmooth optimization problems, in which the objective function is formed by the sum of a possibly nonsmooth nonconvex function and a differentiable function whose gradient is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-01 Tan Nhat Pham , Minh N. Dao , Rakibuzzaman Shah , Nargiz Sultanova , Guoyin Li , Syed Islam

The incremental aggregated gradient algorithm is popular in network optimization and machine learning research. However, the current convergence results require the objective function to be strongly convex. And the existing convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-14 Tao Sun , Yuejiao Sun , Dongsheng Li , Qing Liao

In this paper, we propose a new and efficient nonmonotone adaptive trust region algorithm to solve unconstrained optimization problems. This algorithm incorporates two novelties: it benefits from a radius dependent shrinkage parameter for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-11 Ahmad Kamandi , Keyvan Amini

This paper investigates numerical solution methods for the Schatten-$p$ quasi-norm regularized problem with $p \in [0,1]$, which has been widely studied for finding low-rank solutions of linear inverse problems and gained successful…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Weiping Shen , Linglingzhi Zhu , Yaohua Hu , Chong Li , Xiaoqi Yang

The Proximal Point Method (PPM) (Rockafellar, 1976) is a fundamental tool for nonsmooth convex optimization. However, its convergence is not linear under general convexity in the absence of strong convexity or other structural assumptions.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-06 Hanmin Li , Kaja Gruntkowska , Peter Richtárik

This paper explores numerical methods for solving a convex differentiable semi-infinite program. We introduce a primal-dual gradient method which performs three updates iteratively: a momentum gradient ascend step to update the constraint…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-23 Yao Yao , Qihang Lin , Tianbao Yang

There is emerging evidence that trust-region (TR) algorithms are very effective at solving derivative-free nonconvex stochastic optimization problems in which the objective function is a Monte Carlo (MC) estimate. A recent strand of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Giovanni Amici , Sara Shashaani , Pranav Jain

In this paper, we set forth a new vision of reinforcement learning developed by us over the past few years, one that yields mathematically rigorous solutions to longstanding important questions that have remained unresolved: (i) how to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-05-28 Sridhar Mahadevan , Bo Liu , Philip Thomas , Will Dabney , Steve Giguere , Nicholas Jacek , Ian Gemp , Ji Liu

Nonconvex and nonsmooth optimization problems are frequently encountered in much of statistics, business, science and engineering, but they are not yet widely recognized as a technology in the sense of scalability. A reason for this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-19 Bo Jiang , Tianyi Lin , Shiqian Ma , Shuzhong Zhang

Worst-case complexity guarantees for nonconvex optimization algorithms have been a topic of growing interest. Multiple frameworks that achieve the best known complexity bounds among a broad class of first- and second-order strategies have…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-23 Frank E. Curtis , Daniel P. Robinson , Clément Royer , Stephen J. Wright

In the paper, we introduce several accelerate iterative algorithms for solving the multiple-set split common fixed-point problem of quasi-nonexpansive operators in real Hilbert space. Based on primal-dual method, we construct several…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-08 Chenzheng Guo , Jing Zhao

Solving the trust-region subproblem (TRS) plays a key role in numerical optimization and many other applications. The generalized Lanczos trust-region (GLTR) method is a well-known Lanczos type approach for solving a large-scale TRS. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-13 Zhongxiao Jia , Fa Wang

We examine a method for solving an infinite-dimensional tensor eigenvalue problem $H x = \lambda x$, where the infinite-dimensional symmetric matrix $H$ exhibits a translational invariant structure. We provide a formulation of this type of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-04 Roel Van Beeumen , Lana Periša , Daniel Kressner , Chao Yang

In this work, in the context of Linear and Quadratic Programming, we interpret Primal Dual Regularized Interior Point Methods (PDR-IPMs) in the framework of the Proximal Point Method. The resulting Proximal Stabilized IPM (PS-IPM) is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-05 Stefano Cipolla , Jacek Gondzio

We propose, analyze, and test a proximal-gradient method for solving regularized optimization problems with general constraints. The method employs a decomposition strategy to compute trial steps and uses a merit function to determine step…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-16 Frank E. Curtis , Xiaoyi Qu , Daniel P. Robinson