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The regularized Barzilai-Borwein (RBB) method represents a promising gradient-based optimization algorithm. In this paper, by splitting the gradient into two parts and analyzing the dynamical system of difference equations governing the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-29 Xin Xu

The Barzilai-Borwein (BB) step sizes have a profound impact on gradient descent methods. In this work, we propose two new gradient step sizes: one longer than the original long BB step size, and the other shorter than the original short BB…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Xin Xu

Learning representation from relative similarity comparisons, often called ordinal embedding, gains rising attention in recent years. Most of the existing methods are batch methods designed mainly based on the convex optimization, say, the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-01 Ke Ma , Jinshan Zeng , Jiechao Xiong , Qianqian Xu , Xiaochun Cao , Wei Liu , Yuan Yao

A trust-region algorithm is presented for finding approximate minimizers of smooth unconstrained functions whose values and derivatives are subject to random noise. It is shown that, under suitable probabilistic assumptions, the new method…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-03 S. Bellavia , G. Gurioli , B. Morini , Ph. L. Toint

This paper studies proximal gradient iterations for solving simple bilevel optimization problems where both the upper and the lower level cost functions are split as the sum of differentiable and (possibly nonsmooth) proximable functions.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-05 Puya Latafat , Andreas Themelis , Silvia Villa , Panagiotis Patrinos

The Barzilai-Borwein (BB) steplengths play great roles in practical gradient methods for solving unconstrained optimization problems. Motivated by the observation that the two well-known BB steplengths correspond to the ordinary and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-14 Shiru Li , Tao Zhang , Yong Xia

In this contribution we device and analyze improved variants of the non-conforming dual approach for trust-region reduced basis (TR-RB) approximation of PDE-constrained parameter optimization that has recently been introduced in [Keil et…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-22 Stefan Banholzer , Tim Keil , Luca Mechelli , Mario Ohlberger , Felix Schindler , Stefan Volkwein

The Trust Region Subproblem is a fundamental optimization problem that takes a pivotal role in Trust Region Methods. However, the problem, and variants of it, also arise in quite a few other applications. In this article, we present a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-19 Uria Mor , Boris Shustin , Haim Avron

The main goal of this work is equipping convex and nonconvex problems with Barzilai-Borwein (BB) step size. With the adaptivity of BB step sizes granted, they can fail when the objective function is not strongly convex. To overcome this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Bingcong Li , Georgios B. Giannakis

This paper is devoted to minimizing the sum of a smooth function and a nonsmooth $\ell_1$-regularized term. This problem as a special cases includes the $\ell_1$-regularized convex minimization problem in signal processing, compressive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-23 Yunhai Xiao , Soon-Yi Wu , Liqun Qi

We propose a trust-region stochastic sequential quadratic programming algorithm (TR-StoSQP) to solve nonlinear optimization problems with stochastic objectives and deterministic equality constraints. We consider a fully stochastic setting,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-30 Yuchen Fang , Sen Na , Michael W. Mahoney , Mladen Kolar

We propose a globally convergent trust-region bundle method for minimizing lower-$C^2$ functions using higher-order cutting-plane models. Under certain growth assumptions on the objective around its minimum, the method is able to compute…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-26 Bennet Gebken , Michael Ulbrich

We investigate a trust-region algorithm to solve a nonconvex optimization problem with $L^p$-regularization for $p\in(0,1)$. The algorithm relies on descent properties of a so-called generalized Cauchy point that can be obtained efficiently…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-22 Harbir Antil , Anna Lentz

Bayesian optimization is a powerful tool for solving real-world optimization tasks under tight evaluation budgets, making it well-suited for applications involving costly simulations or experiments. However, many of these tasks are also…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Paolo Ascia , Elena Raponi , Thomas Bäck , Fabian Duddeck

Real-world optimization problems often involve complex objective functions with costly evaluations. While Bayesian optimization (BO) with Gaussian processes is effective for these challenges, it suffers in high-dimensional spaces due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Nobuo Namura , Sho Takemori

There is emerging evidence that trust-region (TR) algorithms are very effective at solving derivative-free nonconvex stochastic optimization problems in which the objective function is a Monte Carlo (MC) estimate. A recent strand of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Giovanni Amici , Sara Shashaani , Pranav Jain

In this paper we consider the use of probabilistic or random models within a classical trust-region framework for optimization of deterministic smooth general nonlinear functions. Our method and setting differs from many stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-04-11 Afonso S. Bandeira , Katya Scheinberg , Luis Nunes Vicente

Historically speaking, it is hard to balance the global and local efficiency of second-order optimization algorithms. For instance, the classical Newton's method possesses excellent local convergence but lacks global guarantees, often…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Yuntian Jiang , Chuwen Zhang , Bo Jiang , Yinyu Ye

We propose a stochastic nonconvex optimization algorithm that achieves almost sure $\tilde{\mathcal{O}}(\epsilon^{-1.5})$ iteration complexity for problems with smooth objective functions and gradients only observable with noise. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Yunsoo Ha , Sara Shashaani , Quoc Tran-dinh

This paper considers the generalized continuation Newton method and thetrust-region updating strategy for the underdetermined system of nonlinear equations. Moreover, in order to improve its computational efficiency, the new method will not…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-26 Xin-long Luo , Hang Xiao