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Many strategic decision-making problems, such as environment design for warehouse robots, can be naturally formulated as bi-level reinforcement learning (RL), where a leader agent optimizes its objective while a follower solves a Markov…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Mikoto Kudo , Takumi Tanabe , Akifumi Wachi , Youhei Akimoto

The (gradient-based) bilevel programming framework is widely used in hyperparameter optimization and has achieved excellent performance empirically. Previous theoretical work mainly focuses on its optimization properties, while leaving the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Fan Bao , Guoqiang Wu , Chongxuan Li , Jun Zhu , Bo Zhang

We study the feature-based newsvendor problem, in which a decision-maker has access to historical data consisting of demand observations and exogenous features. In this setting, we investigate feature selection, aiming to derive sparse,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Breno Serrano , Stefan Minner , Maximilian Schiffer , Thibaut Vidal

Bilevel optimization aims to optimize an outer objective function that depends on the solution to an inner optimization problem. It is routinely used in Machine Learning, notably for hyperparameter tuning. The conventional method to compute…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Zhenzhang Ye , Gabriel Peyré , Daniel Cremers , Pierre Ablin

Bilevel optimization is a hierarchical framework where an upper-level optimization problem is constrained by a lower-level problem, commonly used in machine learning applications such as hyperparameter optimization. Existing bilevel…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Yuman Wu , Xiaochuan Gong , Jie Hao , Mingrui Liu

In optimization-based image restoration models, the correct selection of hyperparameters is crucial for achieving superior performance. However, current research typically involves manual tuning of these hyperparameters, which is highly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Hang Xie , Xuewen Li , Peili Li , Qiuyu Wang

We propose a geometry-aware strategy for training neural preconditioners tailored to parametrized linear systems arising from the discretization of mixed-dimensional partial differential equations (PDEs). These systems are typically…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Nunzio Dimola , Alessandro Coclite , Paolo Zunino

This paper introduces and studies the convergence properties of a new class of explicit $\epsilon$-subgradient methods for the task of minimizing a convex function over the set of minimizers of another convex minimization problem. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-03 Elias Salomão Helou , Lucas Eduardo Azevedo Simões

Bilevel optimization has arisen as a powerful tool in modern machine learning. However, due to the nested structure of bilevel optimization, even gradient-based methods require second-order derivative approximations via Jacobian- or/and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Daouda Sow , Kaiyi Ji , Yingbin Liang

This paper deals with the definition and optimization of augmentation spaces for faster convergence of the conjugate gradient method in the resolution of sequences of linear systems. Using advanced convergence results from the literature,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-02-01 Pierre Gosselet , Christian Rey , Julien Pebrel

In this paper, we study a class of bilevel optimization problems where the lower-level problem is a convex composite optimization model, which arises in various applications, including bilevel hyperparameter selection for regularized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Xiaoning Bai , Shangzhi Zeng , Jin Zhang , Lezhi Zhang

This paper introduces new solvers for the computation of low-rank approximate solutions to large-scale linear problems, with a particular focus on the regularization of linear inverse problems. Although Krylov methods incorporating explicit…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-05 Silvia Gazzola , Chang Meng , James Nagy

We explore anisotropic regularisation methods in the spirit of [Holler & Kunisch, 14]. Based on ground truth data, we propose a bilevel optimisation strategy to compute the optimal regularisation parameters of such a model for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-02-04 Martin Benning , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Tuomo Valkonen , Verner Vlačić

Solving inverse problems, such as parameter estimation and optimal control, is a vital part of science. Many experiments repeatedly collect data and rely on machine learning algorithms to quickly infer solutions to the associated inverse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Philipp Holl , Vladlen Koltun , Nils Thuerey

Bilevel Optimization Programming is used to model complex and conflicting interactions between agents, for example in Robust AI or Privacy-preserving AI. Integrating bilevel mathematical programming within deep learning is thus an essential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Francesco Alesiani

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

We propose a block Krylov subspace version of the GCRO-DR method proposed in [Parks et al.; SISC 2005], which is an iterative method allowing for the efficient minimization of the the residual over an augmented Krylov subspace. We offer a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Michael L. Parks , Kirk M. Soodhalter , Daniel B. Szyld

Recovering high-resolution images from limited sensory data typically leads to a serious ill-posed inverse problem, demanding inversion algorithms that effectively capture the prior information. Learning a good inverse mapping from training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Morteza Mardani , Qingyun Sun , Shreyas Vasawanala , Vardan Papyan , Hatef Monajemi , John Pauly , David Donoho

Several problems in machine learning, statistics, and other fields rely on computing eigenvectors. For large scale problems, the computation of these eigenvectors is typically performed via iterative schemes such as subspace iteration or…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-03 Vasileios Charisopoulos , Austin R. Benson , Anil Damle

In recent years, bilevel approaches have become very popular to efficiently estimate high-dimensional hyperparameters of machine learning models. However, to date, binary parameters are handled by continuous relaxation and rounding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Sara Venturini , Marianna de Santis , Jordan Patracone , Francesco Rinaldi , Saverio Salzo , Martin Schmidt