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This paper introduces a novel optimization algorithm designed for nonlinear least-squares problems. The method is derived by preconditioning the gradient descent direction using the Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) of the Jacobian. This…

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In this paper we analyze a zeroth-order proximal stochastic gradient method suitable for the minimization of weakly convex stochastic optimization problems. We consider nonsmooth and nonlinear stochastic composite problems, for which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-21 Spyridon Pougkakiotis , Dionysios S. Kalogerias

Rank deficient Hankel matrices are at the core of several applications. However, in practice, the coefficients of these matrices are noisy due to e.g. measurements errors and computational errors, so generically the involved matrices are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-15 Antonio Fazzi , Nicola Guglielmi , Ivan Markovsky

Optimization algorithms for solving nonconvex inverse problem have attracted significant interests recently. However, existing methods require the nonconvex regularization to be smooth or simple to ensure convergence. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Qingchao Zhang , Xiaojing Ye , Hongcheng Liu , Yunmei Chen

Stochastic gradient algorithms estimate the gradient based on only one or a few samples and enjoy low computational cost per iteration. They have been widely used in large-scale optimization problems. However, stochastic gradient algorithms…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2015-07-13 Pinghua Gong , Jieping Ye

Incremental methods are widely utilized for solving finite-sum optimization problems in machine learning and signal processing. In this paper, we study a family of incremental methods -- including incremental subgradient, incremental…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-26 Xiao Li , Zhihui Zhu , Anthony Man-Cho So , Jason D Lee

Semi-supervised clustering problems focus on clustering data with labels. In this paper,we consider the semi-supervised hypergraph problems. We use the hypergraph related tensor to construct an orthogonal constrained optimization model. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-21 Jingya Chang , Dongdong Liu , Min Xi

Regularization is a widely recognized technique in mathematical optimization. It can be used to smooth out objective functions, refine the feasible solution set, or prevent overfitting in machine learning models. Due to its simplicity and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-31 Filip Nikolovski , Irena Stojkovska , Katerina Hadzi-Velkova Saneva , Zoran Hadzi-Velkov

In this paper, we propose a simple variant of the original stochastic variance reduction gradient (SVRG), where hereafter we refer to as the variance reduced stochastic gradient descent (VR-SGD). Different from the choices of the snapshot…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-04-18 Fanhua Shang

This paper presents an efficient gradient projection-based method for structural topological optimization problems characterized by a nonlinear objective function which is minimized over a feasible region defined by bilateral bounds and a…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Zhi Zeng , Fulei Ma

This paper is devoted to the class of paraconvex functions and presents some of its fundamental properties, characterization, and examples that can be used for their recognition and optimization. Next, the convergence analysis of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-06 Morteza Rahimi , Susan Ghaderi , Yves Moreau , Masoud Ahookhosh

Over the past decade, various matrix completion algorithms have been developed. Thresholded singular value decomposition (SVD) is a popular technique in implementing many of them. A sizable number of studies have shown its theoretical and…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-05-10 Juhee Cho , Donggyu Kim , Karl Rohe

In the paper, we generalize the approach Gasnikov et. al, 2017, which allows to solve (stochastic) convex optimization problems with an inexact gradient-free oracle, to the convex-concave saddle-point problem. The proposed approach works,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-13 Aleksandr Beznosikov , Abdurakhmon Sadiev , Alexander Gasnikov

3D reconstruction in large-scale scenes is a fundamental task in 3D perception, but the inherent trade-off between accuracy and computational efficiency remains a significant challenge. Existing methods either prioritize speed and produce…

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We propose a novel algorithmic framework of Variable Metric Over-Relaxed Hybrid Proximal Extra-gradient (VMOR-HPE) method with a global convergence guarantee for the maximal monotone operator inclusion problem. Its iteration complexities…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-03 Li Shen , Peng Sun , Yitong Wang , Wei Liu , Tong Zhang

This paper studies the complexity of projected gradient descent methods for a class of strongly convex constrained optimization problems where the objective function is expressed as a summation of $m$ component functions, each possessing a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Xiaojun Chen , C. T. Kelley , Lei Wang

The low-rank matrix recovery problem often arises in various fields, including signal processing, machine learning, and imaging science. The Riemannian gradient descent (RGD) algorithm has proven to be an efficient algorithm for solving…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-05 Fengmiao Bian , Jian-Feng Cai , Rui Zhang

Complex object wave recovery from single-shot interference pattern is an important practical problem in interferometry and digital holography. The most popular single-shot interferogram analysis method involves Fourier filtering of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-28 Sunaina , Mansi Butola , Kedar Khare

We present a method for solving general nonconvex-strongly-convex bilevel optimization problems. Our method -- the \emph{Restarted Accelerated HyperGradient Descent} (\texttt{RAHGD}) method -- finds an $\epsilon$-first-order stationary…

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