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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

An inexact semismooth Newton method has been proposed for solving semi-linear elliptic optimal control problems in this paper. This method incorporates the generalized minimal residual (GMRES) method, a type of Krylov subspace method, to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-14 Shiqi Chen , Xuesong Chen

Second-order methods are provably faster than first-order methods, and their efficient implementations for large-scale optimization problems have attracted significant attention. Yet, optimization problems in ML often have nonsmooth…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Amal Alphonse , Pavel Dvurechensky , Clemens Sirotenko

Finding an $\epsilon$-stationary point of a nonconvex function with a Lipschitz continuous Hessian is a central problem in optimization. Regularized Newton methods are a classical tool and have been studied extensively, yet they still face…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-03 Yuhao Zhou , Jintao Xu , Bingrui Li , Chenglong Bao , Chao Ding , Jun Zhu

While there already exist randomized subspace Newton methods that restrict the search direction to a random subspace for a convex function, we propose a randomized subspace regularized Newton method for a non-convex function {and more…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Terunari Fuji , Pierre-Louis Poirion , Akiko Takeda

The goal of this paper is to study approaches to bridge the gap between first-order and second-order type methods for composite convex programs. Our key observations are: i) Many well-known operator splitting methods, such as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-27 Xiantao Xiao , Yongfeng Li , Zaiwen Wen , Liwei Zhang

Optimization problems with composite functions consist of an objective function which is the sum of a smooth and a (convex) nonsmooth term. This particular structure is exploited by the class of proximal gradient methods and some of their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-17 Christian Kanzow , Theresa Lechner

In the present paper, in order to fnd a singularity of a vector field defined on Riemannian manifolds, we present a new globalization strategy of Newton method and establish its global convergence with superlinear rate. In particular, this…

The problem of minimizing a sum of local convex objective functions over a networked system captures many important applications and has received much attention in the distributed optimization field. Most of existing work focuses on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-09 Fatemeh Mansoori , Ermin Wei

We propose a globally convergent Gauss-Newton algorithm for finding a local optimal solution of a non-convex and possibly non-smooth optimization problem. The algorithm that we present is based on a Gauss-Newton-type iteration for the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-08 Ilyes Mezghani , Quoc Tran-Dinh , Ion Necoara , Anthony Papavasiliou

In this paper, we study large-scale convex optimization algorithms based on the Newton method applied to regularized generalized self-concordant losses, which include logistic regression and softmax regression. We first prove that our new…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-22 Ulysse Marteau-Ferey , Francis Bach , Alessandro Rudi

In the paper, a Newton-type method for the solution of generalized equations (GEs) is derived, where the linearization concerns both the single-valued and the multi-valued part of the considered GE. The method is based on the new notion of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-22 H. Gfrerer , J. V. Outrata

We prove that solution operators of elliptic obstacle-type variational inequalities (or, more generally, locally Lipschitz continuous functions possessing certain pointwise-a.e. convexity properties) are Newton differentiable when…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-09 Constantin Christof , Gerd Wachsmuth

We introduce Newton-ADMM, a method for fast conic optimization. The basic idea is to view the residuals of consecutive iterates generated by the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) as a set of fixed point equations, and then…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-06-21 Alnur Ali , Eric Wong , J. Zico Kolter

Optimization on Riemannian manifolds widely arises in eigenvalue computation, density functional theory, Bose-Einstein condensates, low rank nearest correlation, image registration, and signal processing, etc. We propose an adaptive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-08 Jiang Hu , Andre Milzarek , Zaiwen Wen , Yaxiang Yuan

In [19], a general, inexact, efficient proximal quasi-Newton algorithm for composite optimization problems has been proposed and a sublinear global convergence rate has been established. In this paper, we analyze the convergence properties…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2017-10-18 Hiva Ghanbari , Katya Scheinberg

The paper proposes and develops new globally convergent algorithms of the generalized damped Newton type for solving important classes of nonsmooth optimization problems. These algorithms are based on the theory and calculations of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-20 Pham Duy Khanh , Boris Mordukhovich , Vo Thanh Phat , Dat Ba Tran

We propose a higher-order method for solving non-smooth optimization problems on manifolds. In order to obtain superlinear convergence, we apply a Riemannian Semi-smooth Newton method to a non-smooth non-linear primal-dual optimality system…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-17 Willem Diepeveen , Jan Lellmann

We analyze backward step control globalization for finding zeros of G\^ateaux-differentiable functions that map from a Banach space to a Hilbert space. The results include global convergence to a distinctive solution characterized by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-30 Andreas Potschka

Nowadays, analysing data from different classes or over a temporal grid has attracted a great deal of interest. As a result, various multiple graphical models for learning a collection of graphical models simultaneously have been derived by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-23 Ning Zhang , Yangjing Zhang , Defeng Sun , Kim-Chuan Toh