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The standard L-BFGS method relies on gradient approximations that are not dominated by noise, so that search directions are descent directions, the line search is reliable, and quasi-Newton updating yields useful quadratic models of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-31 Raghu Bollapragada , Dheevatsa Mudigere , Jorge Nocedal , Hao-Jun Michael Shi , Ping Tak Peter Tang

We propose a new stochastic L-BFGS algorithm and prove a linear convergence rate for strongly convex and smooth functions. Our algorithm draws heavily from a recent stochastic variant of L-BFGS proposed in Byrd et al. (2014) as well as a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-04-15 Philipp Moritz , Robert Nishihara , Michael I. Jordan

There has been much recent interest in finding unconstrained local minima of smooth functions, due in part of the prevalence of such problems in machine learning and robust statistics. A particular focus is algorithms with good complexity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-12 Clément W. Royer , Stephen J. Wright

The problem of minimization of the sum of two convex functions has various theoretical and real-world applications. One of the popular methods for solving this problem is the proximal gradient method (proximal forward-backward algorithm). A…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-12 Daniel Reem , Simeon Reich , Alvaro De Pierro

For optimization problems on Riemannian manifolds, many types of globally convergent algorithms have been proposed, and they are often equipped with the Riemannian version of the Armijo line search for global convergence. Such existing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-11 Hiroyuki Sato , Yuya Yamakawa , Kensuke Aihara

We propose an L-BFGS optimization algorithm on Riemannian manifolds using minibatched stochastic variance reduction techniques for fast convergence with constant step sizes, without resorting to linesearch methods designed to satisfy Wolfe…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-23 Anirban Roychowdhury

A generalized conditional gradient method for minimizing the sum of two convex functions, one of them differentiable, is presented. This iterative method relies on two main ingredients: First, the minimization of a partially linearized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-01 Karl Kunisch , Daniel Walter

We consider the problem of minimizing the sum of a Lipschitz differentiable convex function $f$ and a proper closed convex function $h$ that admits efficient linear minimization oracles, subject to multiple smooth convex inequality…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Xiaozhou Wang , Ting Kei Pong , Zev Woodstock

In this paper, by using tools of second-order variational analysis, we study the popular forward-backward splitting method with Beck-Teboulle's line-search for solving convex optimization problem where the objective function can be split…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-19 Yunier Bello-Cruz , G. Li , T. T. A. Nghia

The subgradient method is one of the most fundamental algorithmic schemes for nonsmooth optimization. The existing complexity and convergence results for this method are mainly derived for Lipschitz continuous objective functions. In this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-01 Xiao Li , Lei Zhao , Daoli Zhu , Anthony Man-Cho So

The classical line search for learning rate (LR) tuning in the stochastic gradient descent (SGD) algorithm can tame the convergence slowdown due to data-sampling noise. In a federated setting, wherein the client heterogeneity introduces a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Geetika , Somya Tyagi , Bapi Chatterjee

This paper investigates two inexact Levenberg-Marquardt (LM) methods for solving systems of nonlinear equations. Both approaches compute approximate search directions by solving the LM linear system inexactly, subject to specific…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-23 Bas Symoens , Morteza Rahimi , Masoud Ahookhosh

RES, a regularized stochastic version of the Broyden-Fletcher-Goldfarb-Shanno (BFGS) quasi-Newton method is proposed to solve convex optimization problems with stochastic objectives. The use of stochastic gradient descent algorithms is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-06-18 Aryan Mokhtari , Alejandro Ribeiro

This paper addresses smooth convexly constrained optimization problems where the Euclidean projection onto the feasible set is computationally tractable. Although momentum techniques like Polyak's heavy-ball are known for accelerating…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Federica Donnini , Pierluigi Mansueto

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

The Conditional Gradient Method is generalized to a class of non-smooth non-convex optimization problems with many applications in machine learning. The proposed algorithm iterates by minimizing so-called model functions over the constraint…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-25 Yura Malitsky , Peter Ochs

This paper proposes a framework of L-BFGS based on the (approximate) second-order information with stochastic batches, as a novel approach to the finite-sum minimization problems. Different from the classical L-BFGS where stochastic batches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Jie Liu , Yu Rong , Martin Takac , Junzhou Huang

We propose approximately exact line search (AELS), which uses only function evaluations to select a step size within a constant fraction of the exact line search minimizer of a unimodal objective. We bound the number of iterations and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-13 Sara Fridovich-Keil , Benjamin Recht

In this paper, we consider the problem of minimizing the sum of two convex functions subject to linear linking constraints. The classical alternating direction type methods usually assume that the two convex functions have relatively easy…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-07-10 Tianyi Lin , Shiqian Ma , Shuzhong Zhang

This paper presents and investigates an inexact proximal gradient method for solving composite convex optimization problems characterized by an objective function composed of a sum of a full-domain differentiable convex function and a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-16 Yunier Bello-Cruz , Max L. N. Gonçalves , Jefferson G. Melo , Cassandra Mohr