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We present a method for solving general nonconvex-strongly-convex bilevel optimization problems. Our method -- the \emph{Restarted Accelerated HyperGradient Descent} (\texttt{RAHGD}) method -- finds an $\epsilon$-first-order stationary…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-04 Haikuo Yang , Luo Luo , Chris Junchi Li , Michael I. Jordan

Implicit regularization refers to the tendency of local search algorithms to converge to low-dimensional solutions, even when such structures are not explicitly enforced. Despite its ubiquity, the mechanism underlying this behavior remains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Jianhao Ma , Geyu Liang , Salar Fattahi

Anderson Acceleration (AA) is a popular acceleration technique to enhance the convergence of fixed-point iterations. The analysis of AA approaches typically focuses on the convergence behavior of a corresponding fixed-point residual, while…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-26 Wenqing Ouyang , Yang Liu , Andre Milzarek

Robust principal component analysis (RPCA) is a widely used tool for dimension reduction. In this work, we propose a novel non-convex algorithm, coined Iterated Robust CUR (IRCUR), for solving RPCA problems, which dramatically improves the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-02-09 HanQin Cai , Keaton Hamm , Longxiu Huang , Jiaqi Li , Tao Wang

In algorithms for solving optimization problems constrained to a smooth manifold, retractions are a well-established tool to ensure that the iterates stay on the manifold. More recently, it has been demonstrated that retractions are a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-11 Axel Séguin , Gianluca Ceruti , Daniel Kressner

This paper is about randomized iterative algorithms for solving a linear system of equations $X \beta = y$ in different settings. Recent interest in the topic was reignited when Strohmer and Vershynin (2009) proved the linear convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-06-23 Aaditya Ramdas

In Iterative Learning Control (ILC), a sequence of feedforward control actions is generated at each iteration on the basis of partial model knowledge and past measurements with the goal of steering the system toward a desired reference…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-12 Efe C. Balta , Andrea Iannelli , Roy S. Smith , John Lygeros

Many scientific applications require the evaluation of the action of the matrix function over a vector and the most common methods for this task are those based on the Krylov subspace. Since the orthogonalization cost and memory requirement…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Nicolas L. Guidotti , Per-Gunnar Martinsson , Juan A. Acebrón , José Monteiro

Reinforcement fine-tuning (RFT) is a proliferating paradigm for LMM training. Analogous to high-level reasoning tasks, RFT is similarly applicable to low-level vision domains, including image quality assessment (IQA). Existing RFT-based IQA…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Ziheng Jia , Jiaying Qian , Zicheng Zhang , Zijian Chen , Xiongkuo Min

Iterative algorithms are instrumental in modern numerical simulation for solving systems arising from the discretization of PDEs. They face however significant challenges in industrial applications, such as slow convergence, limit cycle…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Jeremy Kalfoun , Guillaume Pierrot , John Cagnol

Iterative regularization is a classic idea in regularization theory, that has recently become popular in machine learning. On the one hand, it allows to design efficient algorithms controlling at the same time numerical and statistical…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-10 Vassilis Apidopoulos , Tomaso Poggio , Lorenzo Rosasco , Silvia Villa

We propose a novel analysis framework for non-descent-type optimization methodologies in nonconvex scenarios based on the Kurdyka-Lojasiewicz property. Our framework allows covering a broad class of algorithms, including those commonly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-05 Junwen Qiu , Bohao Ma , Xiao Li , Andre Milzarek

We present a class of algorithms based on rational Krylov methods to compute the action of a generalized matrix function on a vector. These algorithms incorporate existing methods based on the Golub-Kahan bidiagonalization as a special…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-27 Angelo Alberto Casulli , Igor Simunec

Neural operators serve as fast, data-driven surrogates for scientific modeling but typically rely on a monolithic, single-pass inference procedure that struggles to resolve high-frequency details, a limitation known as spectral bias. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Xiaotian Liu , Shuyuan Shang , Xiaopeng Wang , Pu Ren , Yaoqing Yang

We cast Amari's natural gradient in statistical learning as a specific case of Kalman filtering. Namely, applying an extended Kalman filter to estimate a fixed unknown parameter of a probabilistic model from a series of observations, is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-08-29 Yann Ollivier

We consider standard gradient descent, gradient flow and conjugate gradients as iterative algorithms for minimising a penalised ridge criterion in linear regression. While it is well known that conjugate gradients exhibit fast numerical…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-30 Laura Hucker , Markus Reiß , Thomas Stark

This survey concerns subspace recycling methods, a popular class of iterative methods that enable effective reuse of subspace information in order to speed up convergence and find good initial guesses over a sequence of linear systems with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-30 Kirk M. Soodhalter , Eric de Sturler , Misha Kilmer

Motivated by applications to distributed optimization over networks and large-scale data processing in machine learning, we analyze the deterministic incremental aggregated gradient method for minimizing a finite sum of smooth functions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-16 Mert Gurbuzbalaban , Asuman Ozdaglar , Pablo Parrilo

Iterative solvers for large-scale linear systems such as Krylov subspace methods can diverge when the linear system is ill-conditioned, thus significantly reducing the applicability of these iterative methods in practice for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-24 Vasileios Kalantzis , Mark S. Squillante , Chai Wah Wu

The Arnoldi-Tikhonov method is a well-established regularization technique for solving large-scale ill-posed linear inverse problems. This method leverages the Arnoldi decomposition to reduce computational complexity by projecting the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-02 Davide Bianchi , Marco Donatelli , Davide Furchì , Lothar Reichel