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In this paper we present a novel quasi-Newton algorithm for use in stochastic optimisation. Quasi-Newton methods have had an enormous impact on deterministic optimisation problems because they afford rapid convergence and computationally…

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Dual descent methods are commonly used to solve network optimization problems because their implementation can be distributed through the network. However, their convergence rates are typically very slow. This paper introduces a family of…

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Motivated by applications in optimization and machine learning, we consider stochastic quasi-Newton (SQN) methods for solving stochastic optimization problems. In the literature, the convergence analysis of these algorithms relies on strong…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-03-16 Farzad Yousefian , Angelia Nedić , Uday V. Shanbha

Approximate Newton methods are a standard optimization tool which aim to maintain the benefits of Newton's method, such as a fast rate of convergence, whilst alleviating its drawbacks, such as computationally expensive calculation or…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-08-07 Thomas Furmston , Guy Lever

The paper studies the solution of stochastic optimization problems in which approximations to the gradient and Hessian are obtained through subsampling. We first consider Newton-like methods that employ these approximations and discuss how…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-28 Raghu Bollapragada , Richard Byrd , Jorge Nocedal

In this article, we propose a Newton-based method for solving multiobjective interval optimization problems (MIOPs). We first provide a connection between weakly Pareto optimal points and Pareto critical points in the context of MIOPs.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-09 Tapas Mondal , Debdas Ghosh , Do Sang Kim

This study proposes a Newton based multiple objective optimization algorithm for hyperparameter search. The first order differential (gradient) is calculated using finite difference method and a gradient matrix with vectorization is formed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-09 Qinwu Xu

We develop an implementable stochastic proximal point (SPP) method for a class of weakly convex, composite optimization problems. The proposed stochastic proximal point algorithm incorporates a variance reduction mechanism and the resulting…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-27 Andre Milzarek , Fabian Schaipp , Michael Ulbrich

We propose a descent subgradient algorithm for unconstrained nonsmooth nonconvex multiobjective optimization problems. To find a descent direction, we present an iterative process that efficiently approximates the Goldstein subdifferential…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-24 Morteza Maleknia , Majid Soleimani-damaneh

Robust optimization provides a principled and unified framework to model many problems in modern operations research and computer science applications, such as risk measures minimization and adversarially robust machine learning. To use a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-04 Hao Hao , Peter Zhang

Optimization problems in disciplines such as machine learning are commonly solved with iterative methods. Gradient descent algorithms find local minima by moving along the direction of steepest descent while Newton's method takes into…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-20 Patrick Rebentrost , Maria Schuld , Leonard Wossnig , Francesco Petruccione , Seth Lloyd

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

Second-order Newton-type algorithms that leverage the exact Hessian or its approximation are central to solve nonlinear optimization problems. However, their applications in solving large-scale nonconvex problems are hindered by three…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Krishan Kumar , Ashutosh Sharma , Gauransh Dingwani , Nikhil Gupta , Vaishnavi Gupta , Ishan Bajaj

Quasi-Newton methods are widely used in practise for convex loss minimization problems. These methods exhibit good empirical performance on a wide variety of tasks and enjoy super-linear convergence to the optimal solution. For large-scale…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-06-10 Aurelien Lucchi , Brian McWilliams , Thomas Hofmann

We introduce a new framework for analyzing (Quasi-}Newton type methods applied to non-smooth optimization problems. The source of randomness comes from the evaluation of the (approximation) of the Hessian. We derive, using a variant of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-05 Titus Pinta

This paper introduces an efficient algorithm for computing the best approximation of a given matrix onto the intersection of linear equalities, inequalities and the doubly nonnegative cone (the cone of all positive semidefinite matrices…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-20 Ying Cui , Defeng Sun , Kim-Chuan Toh

In this article, we build on previous work to present an optimization algorithm for nonlinearly constrained multi-objective optimization problems. The algorithm combines a surrogate-assisted derivative-free trust-region approach with the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-20 Manuel Berkemeier , Sebastian Peitz

Quasi-convex optimization acts a pivotal part in many fields including economics and finance; the subgradient method is an effective iterative algorithm for solving large-scale quasi-convex optimization problems. In this paper, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-25 Yaohua Hu , Jiawen Li , Carisa Kwok Wai Yu

Constrained quasiconvex optimization problems appear in many fields, such as economics, engineering, and management science. In particular, fractional programming, which models ratio indicators such as the profit/cost ratio as fractional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-02 Kazuhiro Hishinuma , Hideaki Iiduka

This paper studies a class of simple bilevel optimization problems where we minimize a composite convex function at the upper-level subject to a composite convex lower-level problem. Existing methods either provide asymptotic guarantees for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-06 Jiulin Wang , Xu Shi , Rujun Jiang