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Optimization methods that make use of derivatives of the objective function up to order $p > 2$ are called tensor methods. Among them, ones that minimize a regularized $p$th-order Taylor expansion at each step have been shown to possess…

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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

The unconstrained minimization of a sufficiently smooth objective function $f(x)$ is considered, for which derivatives up to order $p$, $p\geq 2$, are assumed to be available. An adaptive regularization algorithm is proposed that uses…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-31 Coralia Cartis , Nicholas I. M. Gould , Philippe L. Toint

In this paper, we propose objective-function-free (OFF) variants of the proximal Newton method for nonconvex composite optimization problems and the regularized Newton method for unconstrained optimization problems, respectively, using…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Hong Zhu

In this paper we consider stochastic composite convex optimization problems with the objective function satisfying a stochastic bounded gradient condition, with or without a quadratic functional growth property. These models include the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-10 Ion Necoara

This paper aims at developing two versions of the generalized Newton method to compute not merely arbitrary local minimizers of nonsmooth optimization problems but just those, which possess an important stability property known as tilt…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-01 Boris Mordukhovich , Ebrahim Sarabi

We extend the standard notion of self-concordance to non-convex optimization and develop a family of second-order algorithms with global convergence guarantees. In particular, two function classes -- \textit{weakly self-concordant}…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Donald Goldfarb , Lexiao Lai , Tianyi Lin , Jiayu Zhang

For the composite multi-objective optimization problem composed of two nonsmooth terms, a smoothing method is used to overcome the nonsmoothness of the objective function, making the objective function contain at most one nonsmooth term.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-18 Huang Chengzhi

With the advancement of modern applications, an increasing number of composite optimization problems arise whose smooth component does not possess a globally Lipschitz continuous gradient. This setting prevents the direct use of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Lei Yang , Jingjing Hu , Tianxiang Liu

Currently, existing tensor recovery methods fail to recognize the impact of tensor scale variations on their structural characteristics. Furthermore, existing studies face prohibitive computational costs when dealing with large-scale…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Wenjin Qin , Hailin Wang , Jingyao Hou , Jianjun Wang

This work investigates a dynamical system functioning as a nonsmooth adaptation of the continuous Newton method, aimed at minimizing the sum of a primal lower-regular and a locally Lipschitz function, both potentially nonsmooth. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-10 Juan Guillermo Garrido , Pedro Pérez-Aros , Emilio Vilches

In this paper, we develop a new concept of Global Curvature Bound for an arbitrary nonlinear operator between abstract metric spaces. We use this notion to characterize the global complexity of high-order algorithms solving composite…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Nikita Doikov , Yurii Nesterov

In this work, we develop first-order (Hessian-free) and zero-order (derivative-free) implementations of the Cubically regularized Newton method for solving general non-convex optimization problems. For that, we employ finite difference…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Nikita Doikov , Geovani Nunes Grapiglia

In this paper, we design and analyze a Hybrid-High Order (HHO) approximation for a class of quasilinear elliptic problems of nonmonotone type. The proposed method has several advantages, for instance, it supports arbitrary order of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-01 Thirupathi Gudi , Gouranga Mallik , Tamal Pramanick

This paper develops and analyzes an accelerated proximal descent method for finding stationary points of nonconvex composite optimization problems. The objective function is of the form $f+h$ where $h$ is a proper closed convex function,…

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In a Hilbert setting, we introduce a new dynamical system and associated algorithms for solving monotone inclusions by rapid methods. Given a maximal monotone operator $A$, the evolution is governed by the time dependent operator $I -(I +…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-04-20 Hedy Attouch , Maicon Marques Alves , Benar F. Svaiter

We consider a composite optimization problem where the sum of a continuously differentiable and a merely lower semicontinuous function has to be minimized. The proximal gradient algorithm is the classical method for solving such a problem…

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Many optimization problems arising in high-dimensional statistics decompose naturally into a sum of several terms, where the individual terms are relatively simple but the composite objective function can only be optimized with iterative…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-06-30 Rina Foygel Barber , Emil Y. Sidky

This paper addresses black-box smooth optimization problems, where the objective and constraint functions are not explicitly known but can be queried. The main goal of this work is to generate a sequence of feasible points converging…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-25 Baiwei Guo , Yuning Jiang , Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate , Maryam Kamgarpour

We propose a method for solving constrained fixed point problems involving compositions of Lipschitz pseudo contractive and firmly nonexpansive operators in Hilbert spaces. Each iteration of the method uses separate evaluations of these…

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