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Newton's method may exhibit slower convergence than vanilla Gradient Descent in its initial phase on strongly convex problems. Classical Newton-type multilevel methods mitigate this but, like Gradient Descent, achieve only linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-25 Nick Tsipinakis , Panos Parpas , Matthias Voigt

Newton's method may exhibit slower convergence than vanilla Gradient Descent in its initial phase on strongly convex problems. Classical Newton-type multilevel methods mitigate this but, like Gradient Descent, achieve only linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-05 Nick Tsipinakis , Panagiotis Tigkas , Panos Parpas

This paper focuses on the minimization of a sum of a twice continuously differentiable function $f$ and a nonsmooth convex function. An inexact regularized proximal Newton method is proposed by an approximation to the Hessian of $f$…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-09 Ruyu Liu , Shaohua Pan , Yuqia Wu , Xiaoqi Yang

We introduce new multilevel methods for solving large-scale unconstrained optimization problems. Specifically, the philosophy of multilevel methods is applied to Newton-type methods that regularize the Newton sub-problem using second order…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-16 Nick Tsipinakis , Panos Parpas

We consider the problem of minimizing a continuous function that may be nonsmooth and nonconvex, subject to bound constraints. We propose an algorithm that uses the L-BFGS quasi-Newton approximation of the problem's curvature together with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-12-23 Nitish Shirish Keskar , Andreas Waechter

In this work, we study the convergence and performance of nonlinear solvers for the Bidomain equations after decoupling the ordinary and partial differential equations of the cardiac system. Firstly, we provide a rigorous proof of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-28 Nicolás A. Barnafi , Ngoc Mai Monica Huynh , Luca F. Pavarino , Simone Scacchi

We consider stochastic zero-order optimization problems, which arise in settings from simulation optimization to reinforcement learning. We propose an adaptive sampling quasi-Newton method where we estimate the gradients of a stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-31 Raghu Bollapragada , Stefan M. Wild

In this paper, we introduce a quasi-Newton method optimized for efficiently solving quasi-linear elliptic equations and systems, with a specific focus on GPU-based computation. By approximating the Jacobian matrix with a combination of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-25 Wenrui Hao , Sun Lee , Xiangxiong Zhang

In this paper, we introduce several new quasi-Newton methods for the composite multiobjective optimization problems (in short, CMOP) with Armijo line search. These multiobjective versions of quasi-Newton methods include BFGS quasi-Newnon…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-12 Jian-Wen Peng , Jen-Chih Yao

Quasi-Newton methods employ an update rule that gradually improves the Hessian approximation using the already available gradient evaluations. We propose higher-order secant updates which generalize this idea to higher-order derivatives,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-07 Karl Welzel , Raphael A. Hauser

In this paper, we propose an inexact proximal Newton-type method for nonconvex composite problems. We establish the global convergence rate of the order $\mathcal{O}(k^{-1/2})$ in terms of the minimal norm of the KKT residual mapping and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-26 Hong Zhu

We provide a numerically robust and fast method capable of exploiting the local geometry when solving large-scale stochastic optimisation problems. Our key innovation is an auxiliary variable construction coupled with an inverse Hessian…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-14 Adrian Wills , Thomas Schön

Under the hypothesis that an initial point is a quasi-regular point, we use a majorant condition to present a new semi-local convergence analysis of an extension of the Gauss-Newton method for solving convex composite optimization problems.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-07-20 Orizon Perreira Ferreira , Max Leandro Nobre Gonçalves , Paulo Roberto Oliveira

Solving an optimization problem whose objective function is the sum of two convex functions has received considerable interests in the context of image processing recently. In particular, we are interested in the scenario when a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-16 Dai-Qiang Chen

The ability to efficiently solve topology optimization problems is of great importance for many practical applications. Hence, there is a demand for efficient solution algorithms. In this paper, we propose novel quasi-Newton methods for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Sebastian Blauth , Kevin Sturm

This work studies the usage of well-known smoothed total variation regularization for solving an atmospheric tomography problem named as {\em GPS-tomography} in some quasi-Newton methods. That is we solve an unconstrained, convex, smooth…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-04-20 Erdem Altuntac

In this paper, we consider a large class of nonlinear equations derived from first-order type methods for solving composite optimization problems. Traditional approaches to establishing superlinear convergence rates of semismooth…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-31 Jiang Hu , Tonghua Tian , Shaohua Pan , Zaiwen Wen

Incremental methods are widely utilized for solving finite-sum optimization problems in machine learning and signal processing. In this paper, we study a family of incremental methods -- including incremental subgradient, incremental…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-26 Xiao Li , Zhihui Zhu , Anthony Man-Cho So , Jason D Lee

We introduce iR2N, a modified proximal quasi-Newton method for minimizing the sum of a smooth function $f$ and a lower semi-continuous prox-bounded function $h$, allowing inexact evaluations of $f$, its gradient, and the associated proximal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-17 Nathan Allaire , Sébastien Le Digabel , Dominique Orban

Newton's method is the most widespread high-order method, demanding the gradient and the Hessian of the objective function. However, one of the main disadvantages of Newtons method is its lack of global convergence and high iteration cost.…