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We present a novel two-level sketching extension of the Alternating Anderson-Picard (AAP) method for accelerating fixed-point iterations in challenging single- and multi-physics simulations governed by discretized partial differential…
Active set method aims to find the correct active set of the optimal solution and it is a powerful method for solving strictly convex quadratic problem with bound constraints. To guarantee the finite step convergence, the existing active…
Accelerated algorithms for minimizing smooth strongly convex functions usually require knowledge of the strong convexity parameter $\mu$. In the case of an unknown $\mu$, current adaptive techniques are based on restart schemes. When the…
In this paper, we study the robust linearization of nonlinear poromechanics of unsaturated materials. The model of interest couples the Richards equation with linear elasticity equations, employing the equivalent pore pressure. In practice…
Large-scale optimization problems require algorithms both effective and efficient. One such popular and proven algorithm is Stochastic Gradient Descent which uses first-order gradient information to solve these problems. This paper studies…
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…
In this paper, we propose and analyze a set of fully non-stationary Anderson acceleration algorithms with dynamic window sizes and optimized damping. Although Anderson acceleration (AA) has been used for decades to speed up nonlinear…
By analyzing accelerated proximal gradient methods under a local quadratic growth condition, we show that restarting these algorithms at any frequency gives a globally linearly convergent algorithm. This result was previously known only for…
Convex-nonconvex (CNC) regularization is a novel paradigm that employs a nonconvex penalty function while maintaining the convexity of the entire objective function. It has been successfully applied to problems in signal processing,…
Anderson acceleration (AA) is a well-known method for accelerating the convergence of iterative algorithms, with applications in various fields including deep learning and optimization. Despite its popularity in these areas, the…
In this paper, by combining the algorithm New Q-Newton's method - developed in previous joint work of the author - with Armijo's Backtracking line search, we resolve convergence issues encountered by Newton's method (e.g. convergence to a…
Solving symmetric positive semidefinite linear systems is an essential task in many scientific computing problems. While Jacobi-type methods, including the classical Jacobi method and the weighted Jacobi method, exhibit simplicity in their…
In this paper, we study greedy variants of quasi-Newton methods. They are based on the updating formulas from a certain subclass of the Broyden family. In particular, this subclass includes the well-known DFP, BFGS and SR1 updates. However,…
We introduce a generic scheme to solve nonconvex optimization problems using gradient-based algorithms originally designed for minimizing convex functions. Even though these methods may originally require convexity to operate, the proposed…
In this paper, we consider an unconstrained optimization model where the objective is a sum of a large number of possibly nonconvex functions, though overall the objective is assumed to be smooth and convex. Our bid to solving such model…
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…
Anderson acceleration (AA) has a long history of use and a strong recent interest due to its potential ability to dramatically improve the linear convergence of the fixed-point iteration. Most authors are simply using and analyzing the…
Various types of parameter restart schemes have been proposed for accelerated gradient algorithms to facilitate their practical convergence in convex optimization. However, the convergence properties of accelerated gradient algorithms under…
In this paper, we propose two novel non-stationary first-order primal-dual algorithms to solve nonsmooth composite convex optimization problems. Unlike existing primal-dual schemes where the parameters are often fixed, our methods use…
Optimization is important in machine learning problems, and quasi-Newton methods have a reputation as the most efficient numerical schemes for smooth unconstrained optimization. In this paper, we consider the explicit superlinear…