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In this article, we propose a novel regularization method for a class of nonlinear inverse problems that is inspired by an application in quantitative magnetic resonance imaging (qMRI). The latter is a special instance of a general…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-16 Guozhi Dong , Michael Hintermüller , Clemens Sirotenko

In this work, we develop first-order (Hessian-free) and zero-order (derivative-free) implementations of the Cubically regularized Newton method for solving general non-convex optimization problems. For that, we employ finite difference…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Nikita Doikov , Geovani Nunes Grapiglia

Sparse learning has recently received increasing attention in many areas including machine learning, statistics, and applied mathematics. The mixed-norm regularization based on the l1q norm with q>1 is attractive in many applications of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-07-17 Jie Wang , Jun Liu , Jieping Ye

The $\ell_{1\text{-}2}$ regularization method has a strong sparsity promoting capability in approaching sparse solutions of linear inverse problems and gained successful applications in various mathematics and applied science fields. This…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-04 Yaohua Hu , Hao Wang , Xiaoqi Yang

We develop and analyze an inexact regularized alternating projection method for nonconvex feasibility problems. Such a method employs inexact projections on one of the two sets, according to a set of well-defined conditions. We prove the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-28 Stefania Bellavia , Simone Rebegoldi , Mattia Silei

This paper addresses the problem of localization, which is inherently non-convex and non-smooth in a federated setting where the data is distributed across a multitude of devices. Due to the decentralized nature of federated environments,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Reza Mirzaeifard , Naveen K. D. Venkategowda , Stefan Werner

Minimizing finite sums of functions is a central problem in optimization, arising in numerous practical applications. Such problems are commonly addressed using first-order optimization methods. However, these procedures cannot be used in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Marco Rando , Cheik Traoré , Cesare Molinari , Lorenzo Rosasco , Silvia Villa

In this paper, we consider high-dimensional nonconvex square-root-loss regression problems and introduce a proximal majorization-minimization (PMM) algorithm for these problems. Our key idea for making the proposed PMM to be efficient is to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-28 Peipei Tang , Chengjing Wang , Defeng Sun , Kim-Chuan Toh

We consider distributed stochastic optimization problems that are solved with master/workers computation architecture. Statistical arguments allow to exploit statistical similarity and approximate this problem by a finite-sum problem, for…

This paper focuses on regularisation methods using models up to the third order to search for up to second-order critical points of a finite-sum minimisation problem. The variant presented belongs to the framework of [3]: it employs random…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-05 Stefania Bellavia , Gianmarco Gurioli , Benedetta Morini , Philippe L. Toint

A zero-finding technique for solving nonlinear equations more efficiently than they usually are with traditional iterative methods in which the order of convergence is improved is presented. The key idea in deriving this procedure is to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-06-07 Miquel Grau-Sánchez , José Luis Díaz-Barrero

For regularized optimization that minimizes the sum of a smooth term and a regularizer that promotes structured solutions, inexact proximal-Newton-type methods, or successive quadratic approximation (SQA) methods, are widely used for their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-02 Ching-pei Lee

In this paper, we propose and analyze a fast two-point gradient algorithm for solving nonlinear ill-posed problems, which is based on the sequential subspace optimization method. A complete convergence analysis is provided under the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-06 Guangyu Gao , Bo Han , Shanshan Tong

We consider the minimization problem with the truncated quadratic regularization with gradient operator, which is a nonsmooth and nonconvex problem. We cooperated the classical preconditioned iterations for linear equations into the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-04 Shengxiang Deng , Hongpeng Sun

This paper introduces new solvers for the computation of low-rank approximate solutions to large-scale linear problems, with a particular focus on the regularization of linear inverse problems. Although Krylov methods incorporating explicit…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-05 Silvia Gazzola , Chang Meng , James Nagy

In this paper, we propose a Newton method for unconstrained set optimization problems to find its weakly minimal solutions with respect to lower set-less ordering. The objective function of the problem under consideration is given by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-01 Debdas Ghosh , Anshika , Qamrul Hasan Ansari , Xiaopeng Zhao

Regularization techniques are widely employed in optimization-based approaches for solving ill-posed inverse problems in data analysis and scientific computing. These methods are based on augmenting the objective with a penalty function,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-08 Yong Sheng Soh , Venkat Chandrasekaran

We study finite-sum non-convex optimization $\min_{x\in\mathbb{R}^d} F(x) \;=\; \frac{1}{n}\sum_{i=1}^n f_i(x)$ and analyze a variance-reduced cubic Newton method based on EMA-smoothed SARAH estimators for both gradient and Hessian…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Dmitry Pasechnyuk-Vilensky , Dmitry Kamzolov , Martin Takáč

Low rank approximation is a commonly occurring problem in many computer vision and machine learning applications. There are two common ways of optimizing the resulting models. Either the set of matrices with a given rank can be explicitly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Marcus Valtonen Örnhag , Carl Olsson , Anders Heyden

Typically, the sequence of points generated by an optimization algorithm may have multiple limit points. Under convexity assumptions, however, (sub)gradient methods are known to generate a convergent sequence of points. In this paper, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-16 Andrea Cristofari