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The paper starts with a concise description of the recently developed semismooth* Newton method for the solution of general inclusions. This method is then applied to a class of variational inequalities of the second kind. As a result, one…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-23 Helmut Gfrerer , Jiri V. Outrata , Jan Valdman

In this paper, we consider the tensor eigenvalue complementarity problem which is closely related to the optimality conditions for polynomial optimization, as well as a class of differential inclusions with nonconvex processes. By…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-10-30 Zhongming Chen , Liqun Qi

In this paper, we propose a quasi-Newton method for solving smooth and monotone nonlinear equations, including unconstrained minimization and minimax optimization as special cases. For the strongly monotone setting, we establish two global…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-04 Ruichen Jiang , Aryan Mokhtari

The doubly nonnegative (DNN) cone, being the set of all positive semidefinite matrices whose elements are nonnegative, is a popular approximation of the computationally intractable completely positive cone. The major difficulty for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-02 Ying Cui , Ling Liang , Defeng Sun , Kim-Chuan Toh

Local superlinear convergence of the semismooth Newton method usually necessitates assumptions on the uniform invertibility of the utilized, generalized Jacobian matrices, such as, e.g., BD- or CD-regularity. For certain composite-type…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Wenqing Ouyang , Andre Milzarek

In 2020, Yamakawa and Okuno proposed a stabilized sequential quadratic semidefinite programming (SQSDP) method for solving, in particular, degenerate nonlinear semidefinite optimization problems. The algorithm is shown to converge globally…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-04 Kosuke Okabe , Yuya Yamakawa , Ellen H. Fukuda

We propose LeAP-SSN (Levenberg--Marquardt Adaptive Proximal Semismooth Newton method), a semismooth Newton-type method with a simple, parameter-free globalisation strategy that guarantees convergence from arbitrary starting points in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-25 Amal Alphonse , Pavel Dvurechensky , Ioannis P. A. Papadopoulos , Clemens Sirotenko

We develop a new method for equality constrained optimization problems based on a sequential cubic programming framework. Each iteration utilizes a step decomposition based on the Jacobian of the constraints into a normal and a tangential…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-06 Nikos Dimou , Michael J. O'Neill

In this paper, we propose two regularized proximal quasi-Newton methods with symmetric rank-1 update of the metric (SR1 quasi-Newton) to solve non-smooth convex additive composite problems. Both algorithms avoid using line search or other…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-22 Shida Wang , Jalal Fadili , Peter Ochs

This paper extends the SQP-approach of the well-known bundle-Newton method for nonsmooth unconstrained minimization to the nonlinearly constrained case. Instead of using a penalty function or a filter or an improvement function to deal with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-06-29 Hannes Fendl , Hermann Schichl

We present a derivative-based algorithm for nonlinearly constrained optimization problems that is tolerant of inaccuracies in the data. The algorithm solves a semi-smooth set of nonlinear equations that are equivalent to the first-order…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-21 Jason E. Hicken , Pengfei Meng , Alp Dener

We consider the problem of finding the best approximation point from a polyhedral set, and its applications, in particular to solving large-scale linear programs. The classical projection problem has many various and many applications. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-12 Yair Censor , Walaa M. Moursi , Tyler Weames , Henry Wolkowicz

Nonlinear equations are challenging to solve due to their inherently nonlinear nature. As analytical solutions typically do not exist, numerical methods have been developed to tackle their solutions. In this article, we give a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Nhat A. Nghiem , Tzu-Chieh Wei

We study a class of monotone inclusions called "self-concordant inclusion" which covers three fundamental convex optimization formulations as special cases. We develop a new generalized Newton-type framework to solve this inclusion. Our…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-07-25 Quoc Tran-Dinh , Tianxiao Sun , Shu Lu

This study proposes a cubic regularization of the Newton method for generating weakly efficient points of unconstrained vector optimization problems under no convexity assumption on the objective function. It is observed that at a given…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Debdas Ghosh

We propose several new nonsmooth Newton methods for solving convex composite optimization problems with polyhedral regularizers, while avoiding the computation of complicated second-order information on these functions. Under the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Tran T. A. Nghia , Nghia V. Vo , Khoa V. H. Vu

We propose a randomized second-order method for optimization known as the Newton Sketch: it is based on performing an approximate Newton step using a randomly projected or sub-sampled Hessian. For self-concordant functions, we prove that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-05-12 Mert Pilanci , Martin J. Wainwright

We study a variant of Newton's algorithm applied to under-determined systems of non-smooth equations. The notion of regularity employed in our work is based on Newton differentiability, which generalizes semi-smoothness. The classic notion…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-28 Titus Pinta

We present two new remarkably simple stochastic second-order methods for minimizing the average of a very large number of sufficiently smooth and strongly convex functions. The first is a stochastic variant of Newton's method (SN), and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Dmitry Kovalev , Konstantin Mishchenko , Peter Richtárik

We present a quasi-Newton method for unconstrained stochastic optimization. Most existing literature on this topic assumes a setting of stochastic optimization in which a finite sum of component functions is a reasonable approximation of an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Matt Menickelly , Stefan M. Wild , Miaolan Xie