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This paper deals with regularized Newton methods, a flexible class of unconstrained optimization algorithms that is competitive with line search and trust region methods and potentially combines attractive elements of both. The particular…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-13 Daniel Steck , Christian Kanzow

We integrate the diagonal quasi-Newton update approach with the enhanced BFGS formula proposed by Wei, Z., Yu, G., Yuan, G., Lian, Z. \cite{b1}, incorporating extrapolation techniques and inertia acceleration technology. This method,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Zhenhua Luo , Gonglin Yuan , Hongtruong Pham

Quasi-Newton methods are widely used for solving convex optimization problems due to their ease of implementation, practical efficiency, and strong local convergence guarantees. However, their global convergence is typically established…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-28 Artem Agafonov , Vladislav Ryspayev , Samuel Horváth , Alexander Gasnikov , Martin Takáč , Slavomir Hanzely

Quasi-Newton methods still face significant challenges in training large-scale neural networks due to additional compute costs in the Hessian related computations and instability issues in stochastic training. A well-known method, L-BFGS…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Yue Niu , Zalan Fabian , Sunwoo Lee , Mahdi Soltanolkotabi , Salman Avestimehr

We propose a communication efficient quasi-Newton method for large-scale multi-agent convex composite optimization. We assume the setting of a network of agents that cooperatively solve a global minimization problem with strongly convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-18 Yichuan Li , Petros G. Voulgaris , Nikolaos M. Freris

We present a modified limited memory BFGS (L-BFGS) method that converges globally and linearly for nonconvex objective functions. Its distinguishing feature is that it turns into L-BFGS if the iterates cluster at a point near which the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-12 Florian Mannel

In a recent study, Ansary (Optim Methods Softw 38(3):570-590,2023) proposed a Newton-type proximal gradient method for nonlinear multiobjective optimization problems (NPGMO). However, the favorable convergence properties typically…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-22 Jian Chen , Xiaoxue Jiang , Liping Tang , Xinmin Yang

Inverse problems span across diverse fields. In medical contexts, computed tomography (CT) plays a crucial role in reconstructing a patient's internal structure, presenting challenges due to artifacts caused by inherently ill-posed inverse…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-01 Ishak Ayad , Nicolas Larue , Maï K. Nguyen

While first-order methods are popular for solving optimization problems that arise in large-scale deep learning problems, they come with some acute deficiencies. To diminish such shortcomings, there has been recent interest in applying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Mahsa Yousefi , Angeles Martinez

We propose a novel algorithm, termed soft quasi-Newton (soft QN), for optimization in the presence of bounded noise. Traditional quasi-Newton algorithms are vulnerable to such perturbations. To develop a more robust quasi-Newton method, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-06 Erik Berglund , Jiaojiao Zhang , Mikael Johansson

Constrained quasiconvex optimization problems appear in many fields, such as economics, engineering, and management science. In particular, fractional programming, which models ratio indicators such as the profit/cost ratio as fractional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-02 Kazuhiro Hishinuma , Hideaki Iiduka

Designing efficient quasi-Newton methods is an important problem in nonlinear optimization and the solution of systems of nonlinear equations. From the perspective of the matrix approximation process, this paper presents a unified framework…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-15 Zhenyuan Ji

In this paper, we establish global non-asymptotic convergence guarantees for the BFGS quasi-Newton method without requiring strong convexity or the Lipschitz continuity of the gradient or Hessian. Instead, we consider the setting where the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Qiujiang Jin , Aryan Mokhtari

An algorithm framework is proposed for minimizing nonsmooth functions. The framework is variable-metric in that, in each iteration, a step is computed using a symmetric positive definite matrix whose value is updated as in a quasi-Newton…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-05 Frank E. Curtis , Daniel P. Robinson , Baoyu Zhou

We present an efficient quasi-Newton orbital solver optimized to reduce the number of gradient (Fock matrix) evaluations. The solver optimizes orthogonal orbitals by sequences of unitary rotations generated by the (preconditioned)…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-12-20 Samuel A. Slattery , Kshitijkumar Surjuse , Edward F. Valeev

We propose a new algorithm for the optimization of convex functions over a polyhedral set in Rn. The algorithm extends the spectral projected-gradient method with limited-memory BFGS iterates restricted to the present face whenever…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-18 Ewout van den Berg

This paper proposes and justifies two globally convergent Newton-type methods to solve unconstrained and constrained problems of nonsmooth optimization by using tools of variational analysis and generalized differentiation. Both methods are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-27 Pham Duy Khanh , Boris Mordukhovich , Vo Thanh Phat , Dat Ba Tran

In this work, we present a globalized stochastic semismooth Newton method for solving stochastic optimization problems involving smooth nonconvex and nonsmooth convex terms in the objective function. We assume that only noisy gradient and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-12 Andre Milzarek , Xiantao Xiao , Shicong Cen , Zaiwen Wen , Michael Ulbrich

We propose a new stochastic proximal quasi-Newton method for minimizing the sum of two convex functions in the particular context that one of the functions is the average of a large number of smooth functions and the other one is nonsmooth.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Yongcun Song , Zimeng Wang , Xiaoming Yuan , Hangrui Yue

We consider the use of a curvature-adaptive step size in gradient-based iterative methods, including quasi-Newton methods, for minimizing self-concordant functions, extending an approach first proposed for Newton's method by Nesterov. This…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-13 Wenbo Gao , Donald Goldfarb