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This paper presents a computationally fast algorithm for estimating, both, the system and observation noise covariances of nonlinear dynamics, that can be used in an ensemble Kalman filtering framework. The new method is a modification of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-04-21 Yicun Zhen , John Harlim

In this paper, we propose a unified view of gradient-based algorithms for stochastic convex composite optimization by extending the concept of estimate sequence introduced by Nesterov. More precisely, we interpret a large class of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-09-07 Andrei Kulunchakov , Julien Mairal

We study the connections between ordinary differential equations and optimization algorithms in a non-Euclidean setting. We propose a novel accelerated algorithm for minimising convex functions over a convex constrained set. This algorithm…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Paul Dobson , Jesus María Sanz-Serna , Konstantinos C. Zygalakis

In this paper, we introduce a novel class of embedded exponential-type low-regularity integrators (ELRIs) for solving the KdV equation and establish their optimal convergence results under rough initial data. The schemes are explicit and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-18 Yifei Wu , Xiaofei Zhao

In this paper, we study the stochastic gradient descent (SGD) method for the nonconvex nonsmooth optimization, and propose an accelerated SGD method by combining the variance reduction technique with Nesterov's extrapolation technique.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-18 Feihu Huang , Songcan Chen

Mathematical modeling and simulation of complex physical systems based on partial differential equations (PDEs) have been widely used in engineering and industrial applications. To enable reliable predictions, it is crucial yet challenging…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-20 Han Gao , Jian-Xun Wang

We present Nesterov-type acceleration techniques for Alternating Least Squares (ALS) methods applied to canonical tensor decomposition. While Nesterov acceleration turns gradient descent into an optimal first-order method for convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-03 Drew Mitchell , Nan Ye , Hans De Sterck

A novel dynamical inertial Newton system, which is called Hessian-driven Nesterov accelerated gradient (H-NAG) flow is proposed. Convergence of the continuous trajectory are established via tailored Lyapunov function, and new first-order…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-25 Long Chen , Hao Luo

Bayesian experimental design (BED) offers a principled framework for optimizing data acquisition by leveraging probabilistic inference. However, practical implementations of BED are often compromised by model discrepancy, i.e., the mismatch…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Huchen Yang , Xinghao Dong , Jin-Long Wu

Global ocean models exhibit biases in the mean state and variability, particularly at coarse resolution, where mesoscale eddies are unresolved. To address these biases, parameterization coefficients are typically tuned ad hoc. Here, we…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Pavel Perezhogin , Alistair Adcroft , Laure Zanna

Nesterov's Accelerated Gradient (NAG) for optimization has better performance than its continuous time limit (noiseless kinetic Langevin) when a finite step-size is employed \citep{shi2021understanding}. This work explores the sampling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Ruilin Li , Hongyuan Zha , Molei Tao

We propose an adaptive optimization algorithm for solving unconstrained scaled gradient flow problems that achieves fast convergence by controlling the optimization trajectory shape and the discretization step sizes. Under a broad class of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-21 Aayushya Agarwal , Carmel Fiscko , Soummya Kar , Larry Pileggi , Bruno Sinopoli

We propose AdaNAG, an adaptive accelerated gradient method based on Nesterov's accelerated gradient method. AdaNAG is line-search-free, parameter-free, and achieves the accelerated convergence rates $f(x_k) - f_\star =…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Jaewook J. Suh , Shiqian Ma

The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) has found widespread use in solving separable convex optimization problems. In this paper, by employing Nesterov extrapolation technique, we propose two families of accelerated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-13 X. He , N. J. Huang , Y. P. Fang

Optimization plays a key role in machine learning. Recently, stochastic second-order methods have attracted much attention due to their low computational cost in each iteration. However, these algorithms might perform poorly especially if…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-10-25 Haishan Ye , Zhihua Zhang

We show that accelerated optimization methods can be seen as particular instances of multi-step integration schemes from numerical analysis, applied to the gradient flow equation. In comparison with recent advances in this vein, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-23 Damien Scieur , Vincent Roulet , Francis Bach , Alexandre d'Aspremont

In this paper, we design a regularization-free algorithm for high-dimensional support vector machines (SVMs) by integrating over-parameterization with Nesterov's smoothing method, and provide theoretical guarantees for the induced implicit…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-10-27 Yang Sui , Xin He , Yang Bai

We propose to use the ensemble Kalman smoother (EnKS) as linear least squares solver in the Gauss-Newton method for the large nonlinear least squares in incremental 4DVAR. The ensemble approach is naturally parallel over the ensemble…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2017-03-10 Jan Mandel , Elhoucine Bergou , Serge Gratton

We propose a class of \textit{Euler-Lagrange} equations indexed by a pair of parameters ($\alpha,r$) that generalizes Nesterov's accelerated gradient methods for convex ($\alpha=1$) and strongly convex ($\alpha=0$) functions from a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Xu Cheng , Jiaqi Liu , Zaijiu Shang

Electromigration (EM) induced stress evolution is a major reliability challenge in nanometer-scale VLSI interconnects. Accurate EM analysis requires solving stress-governing partial differential equations over large interconnect trees,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Sheldon X. -D. Tan , Haotian Lu