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This paper provides the first proof that Anderson acceleration (AA) improves the convergence rate of general fixed point iterations. AA has been used for decades to speed up nonlinear solvers in many applications, however a rigorous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-22 Claire Evans , Sara Pollock , Leo G. Rebholz , Mengying Xiao

We prove non asymptotic linear convergence rates for the constrained Anderson acceleration extrapolation scheme. These guarantees come from new upper bounds on the constrained Chebyshev problem, which consists in minimizing the maximum…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-30 Mathieu Barré , Adrien Taylor , Alexandre d'Aspremont

This work proposes a general strategy for solving possibly nonlinear problems arising from implicit time discretizations as a sequence of explicit solutions. The resulting sequence may exhibit instabilities similar to those of the base…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Nicolas A. Barnafi , Felipe Galarce , Pablo Brubeck

In this paper we develop convergence and acceleration theory for Anderson acceleration applied to Newton's method for nonlinear systems in which the Jacobian is singular at a solution. For these problems, the standard Newton algorithm…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-27 Matt Dallas , Sara Pollock

In this paper we study general $l_p$ regularized unconstrained minimization problems. In particular, we derive lower bounds for nonzero entries of first- and second-order stationary points, and hence also of local minimizers of the $l_p$…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-10-02 Zhaosong Lu

Anderson mixing has been heuristically applied to reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms for accelerating convergence and improving the sampling efficiency of deep RL. Despite its heuristic improvement of convergence, a rigorous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Ke Sun , Yafei Wang , Yi Liu , Yingnan Zhao , Bo Pan , Shangling Jui , Bei Jiang , Linglong Kong

We present Nesterov-type acceleration techniques for Alternating Least Squares (ALS) methods applied to canonical tensor decomposition. While Nesterov acceleration turns gradient descent into an optimal first-order method for convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-03 Drew Mitchell , Nan Ye , Hans De Sterck

Anderson acceleration (AA) is a technique for accelerating the convergence of fixed-point iterations. In this paper, we apply AA to a sequence of functions and modify the norm in its internal optimization problem to the $\mathcal{H}^{-s}$…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-14 Yunan Yang , Alex Townsend , Daniel Appelö

We exploit analogies between first-order algorithms for constrained optimization and non-smooth dynamical systems to design a new class of accelerated first-order algorithms for constrained optimization. Unlike Frank-Wolfe or projected…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-02 Michael Muehlebach , Michael I. Jordan

Despite the impressive numerical performance of the quasi-Newton and Anderson/nonlinear acceleration methods, their global convergence rates have remained elusive for over 50 years. This study addresses this long-standing issue by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-16 Damien Scieur

Alternating minimization (AM) procedures are practically efficient in many applications for solving convex and non-convex optimization problems. On the other hand, Nesterov's accelerated gradient is theoretically optimal first-order method…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-16 Sergey Guminov , Pavel Dvurechensky , Nazarii Tupitsa , Alexander Gasnikov

Acceleration of first order methods is mainly obtained via inertial techniques \`a la Nesterov, or via nonlinear extrapolation. The latter has known a recent surge of interest, with successful applications to gradient and proximal gradient…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-29 Quentin Bertrand , Mathurin Massias

Optimization plays a key role in machine learning. Recently, stochastic second-order methods have attracted much attention due to their low computational cost in each iteration. However, these algorithms might perform poorly especially if…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-10-25 Haishan Ye , Zhihua Zhang

In this paper, we consider solving a class of nonconvex and nonsmooth problems frequently appearing in signal processing and machine learning research. The traditional alternating direction method of multipliers encounters troubles in both…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Tao Sun , Hao Jiang , Lizhi Cheng , Wei Zhu

Anderson acceleration (AA) as an efficient technique for speeding up the convergence of fixed-point iterations may be designed for accelerating an optimization method. We propose a novel optimization algorithm by adapting Anderson…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-17 Hailiang Liu , Jia-Hao He , Xuping Tian

Anderson acceleration (AA) is a popular method for accelerating fixed-point iterations, but may suffer from instability and stagnation. We propose a globalization method for AA to improve stability and achieve unified global and local…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-03 Wenqing Ouyang , Jiong Tao , Andre Milzarek , Bailin Deng

Despite their frequent slow convergence, proximal gradient schemes are widely used in large-scale optimization tasks due to their tremendous stability, scalability, and ease of computation. In this paper, we develop and investigate a…

Computation · Statistics 2025-08-19 Nicholas C. Henderson , Ravi Varadhan

The state-of-art seismic imaging techniques treat inversion tasks such as FWI and LSRTM as PDE-constrained optimization problems. Due to the large-scale nature, gradient-based optimization algorithms are preferred in practice to update the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-16 Yunan Yang

Anderson acceleration (AA) is widely used for accelerating the convergence of nonlinear fixed-point methods $x_{k+1}=q(x_{k})$, $x_k \in \mathbb{R}^n$, but little is known about how to quantify the convergence acceleration provided by AA.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-27 Hans De Sterck , Yunhui He , Oliver A. Krzysik

Augmented Lagrangian method (ALM) has been popularly used for solving constrained optimization problems. Practically, subproblems for updating primal variables in the framework of ALM usually can only be solved inexactly. The convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-28 Yangyang Xu