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Although ADAM is a very popular algorithm for optimizing the weights of neural networks, it has been recently shown that it can diverge even in simple convex optimization examples. Several variants of ADAM have been proposed to circumvent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-25 Anas Barakat , Pascal Bianchi

We study the iteration complexity of Lipschitz convex optimization problems satisfying a general error bound. We show that for this class of problems, subgradient descent with either Polyak stepsizes or decaying stepsizes achieves minimax…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-17 Alex L. Wang

Monotone variational inequalities (VIs) provide a unifying framework for convex minimization, equilibrium computation, and convex-concave saddle-point problems. Extragradient-type methods are among the most effective first-order algorithms…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Lingqing Shen , Fatma Kılınç-Karzan

In this work, we will establish that the Langevin Monte-Carlo algorithm can learn depth-2 neural nets of any size and for any data and we give non-asymptotic convergence rates for it. We achieve this via showing that in q-Renyi divergence,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Dibyakanti Kumar , Samyak Jha , Anirbit Mukherjee

A central goal in online learning is to achieve adaptivity to unknown problem characteristics, such as environmental changes captured by gradient variation (GV), function curvature (universal online learning, UOL), and gradient scales…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Kei Takemura , Ryuta Matsuno , Keita Sakuma

We propose an Adagrad-like algorithm for multi-objective unconstrained optimization that relies on the computation of a common descent direction only. Unlike classical local algorithms for multi-objective optimization, our approach does not…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-06 Marianna De Santis , Gabriele Eichfelder , Margherita Porcelli

We analyze the constant step size subgradient method on nonsmooth, nonconvex functions. We identify geometric assumptions on the objective function under which i) its domain admits a partition (stratification) into smooth manifolds (strata)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Evgenii Chzhen , Sholom Schechtman

The regret bound of an optimization algorithms is one of the basic criteria for evaluating the performance of the given algorithm. By inspecting the differences between the regret bounds of traditional algorithms and adaptive one, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-07-07 HyoungSeok Kim , JiHoon Kang , WooMyoung Park , SukHyun Ko , YoonHo Cho , DaeSung Yu , YoungSook Song , JungWon Choi

Shuffling-type gradient methods are favored in practice for their simplicity and rapid empirical performance. Despite extensive development of convergence guarantees under various assumptions in recent years, most require the Lipschitz…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Qi He , Peiran Yu , Ziyi Chen , Heng Huang

Random hyperspherical harmonics are Gaussian Laplace eigenfunctions on the unit $d$-dimensional sphere ($d\ge 2$). We study the convergence in Total Variation distance for their nonlinear statistics in the high energy limit, i.e., for…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-11-14 Lucia Caramellino , Giacomo Giorgio , Maurizia Rossi

Universal methods for optimization are designed to achieve theoretically optimal convergence rates without any prior knowledge of the problem's regularity parameters or the accurarcy of the gradient oracle employed by the optimizer. In this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Kimon Antonakopoulos , Dong Quan Vu , Vokan Cevher , Kfir Y. Levy , Panayotis Mertikopoulos

This paper is devoted to a new modification of a recently proposed adaptive stochastic mirror descent algorithm for constrained convex optimization problems in the case of several convex functional constraints. Algorithms, standard and its…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-22 Mohammad S. Alkousa

We identify and analyze a fundamental limitation of the classical projected subgradient method in nonsmooth convex optimization: the inevitable failure caused by the absence of valid subgradients at boundary points. We show that, under…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Zhihan Zhu , Yanhao Zhang , Yong Xia

This paper is concerned with convergence of stochastic gradient algorithms with momentum terms in the nonconvex setting. A class of stochastic momentum methods, including stochastic gradient descent, heavy ball, and Nesterov's accelerated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-01 Zixuan Wang , Shanjian Tang

Learning operators between infinitely dimensional spaces is an important learning task arising in wide applications in machine learning, imaging science, mathematical modeling and simulations, etc. This paper studies the nonparametric…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-01-04 Hao Liu , Haizhao Yang , Minshuo Chen , Tuo Zhao , Wenjing Liao

We show that adaptive proximal gradient methods for convex problems are not restricted to traditional Lipschitzian assumptions. Our analysis reveals that a class of linesearch-free methods is still convergent under mere local H\"older…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-08 Konstantinos A. Oikonomidis , Emanuel Laude , Puya Latafat , Andreas Themelis , Panagiotis Patrinos

In this note, we show a sublinear nonergodic convergence rate for the algorithm developed in [Bai, et al. Generalized symmetric ADMM for separable convex optimization. Comput. Optim. Appl. 70, 129-170 (2018)], as well as its linear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-06-20 Jianchao Bai , Xiaokai Chang , Jicheng Li , Fengmin Xu

Proving algorithm-dependent generalization error bounds for gradient-type optimization methods has attracted significant attention recently in learning theory. However, most existing trajectory-based analyses require either restrictive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Xuanyuan Luo , Luo Bei , Jian Li

We show that Newton's method converges globally at a linear rate for objective functions whose Hessians are stable. This class of problems includes many functions which are not strongly convex, such as logistic regression. Our linear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-04 Sai Praneeth Karimireddy , Sebastian U. Stich , Martin Jaggi

Approximating the invariant measure and the expectation of the functionals for parabolic stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs) with non-globally Lipschitz coefficients is an active research area and is far from being well…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-06-03 Jianbo Cui , Jialin Hong , Liying Sun