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In many contemporary optimization problems such as those arising in machine learning, it can be computationally challenging or even infeasible to evaluate an entire function or its derivatives. This motivates the use of stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-01 El-houcine Bergou , Youssef Diouane , Vladimir Kunc , Vyacheslav Kungurtsev , Clément W. Royer

In this paper, we propose a globally convergent method for solving constrained nonlinear systems. The method combines an efficient Newton conditional gradient method with a derivative-free and nonmonotone linesearch strategy. The global…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-06 M. L. N. Gonçalves , F. R. Oliveira

In this paper, we present CT-AGD (Curvature-Tuned Accelerated Gradient Descent), an optimization method for non-convex optimization problems in deep learning training tasks. CT-AGD is a general boosting procedure that accelerates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Manuel Graca , L. Miguel Silveira , Arlindo Oliveira , Frank Liu

Recent progress on deep learning relies heavily on the quality and efficiency of training algorithms. In this paper, we develop a fast training method motivated by the nonlinear Conjugate Gradient (CG) framework. We propose the Conjugate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Zhiyong Hao , Yixuan Jiang , Huihua Yu , Hsiao-Dong Chiang

We propose a descent subgradient algorithm for unconstrained nonsmooth nonconvex multiobjective optimization problems. To find a descent direction, we present an iterative process that efficiently approximates the Goldstein subdifferential…

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In this work, we consider smooth unconstrained optimization problems and we deal with the class of gradient methods with momentum, i.e., descent algorithms where the search direction is defined as a linear combination of the current…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-04 Matteo Lapucci , Giampaolo Liuzzi , Stefano Lucidi , Davide Pucci , Marco Sciandrone

There introduce Particle Optimized Gradient Descent (POGD), an algorithm based on the gradient descent but integrates the particle swarm optimization (PSO) principle to achieve the iteration. From the experiments, this algorithm has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Feihu Han , Sida Xing , Sui Yang Khoo

Gradient-related first-order methods have become the workhorse of large-scale numerical optimization problems. Many of these problems involve nonconvex objective functions with multiple saddle points, which necessitates an understanding of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-10 Rishabh Dixit , Mert Gurbuzbalaban , Waheed U. Bajwa

Large-scale non-convex sparsity-constrained problems have recently gained extensive attention. Most existing deterministic optimization methods (e.g., GraSP) are not suitable for large-scale and high-dimensional problems, and thus…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Fanhua Shang , Bingkun Wei , Hongying Liu , Yuanyuan Liu , Jiacheng Zhuo

Optimization problems with convex quadratic cost and polyhedral constraints are ubiquitous in signal processing, automatic control and decision-making. We consider here an enlarged problem class that allows to encode logical conditions and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-09 Alberto De Marchi

Sign Gradient Descent (SignGD) is a simple yet robust optimization method, widely used in machine learning for its resilience to gradient noise and compatibility with low-precision computations. While its empirical performance is well…

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The canonical solution methodology for finite constrained Markov decision processes (CMDPs), where the objective is to maximize the expected infinite-horizon discounted rewards subject to the expected infinite-horizon discounted costs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Sami Khairy , Prasanna Balaprakash , Lin X. Cai

Using gradient descent (GD) with fixed or decaying step-size is a standard practice in unconstrained optimization problems. However, when the loss function is only locally convex, such a step-size schedule artificially slows GD down as it…

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Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) is a ubiquitous algorithm for a variety of machine learning problems. Researchers and industry have developed several techniques to optimize SGD's runtime performance, including asynchronous execution and…

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For deterministic optimization, line-search methods augment algorithms by providing stability and improved efficiency. We adapt a classical backtracking Armijo line-search to the stochastic optimization setting. While traditional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-24 Courtney Paquette , Katya Scheinberg

We present a novel deep learning approach to approximate the solution of large, sparse, symmetric, positive-definite linear systems of equations. These systems arise from many problems in applied science, e.g., in numerical methods for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Ayano Kaneda , Osman Akar , Jingyu Chen , Victoria Kala , David Hyde , Joseph Teran

The paper investigates the complex gradient descent method (CGD) for the best rational approximation of a given order to a function in the Hardy space on the unit disk. It is equivalent to finding the best Blaschke form with free poles. The…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2018-05-09 Tao Qian , Jianzhong Wang

This paper considers the decision-dependent optimization problem, where the data distributions react in response to decisions affecting both the objective function and linear constraints. We propose a new method termed repeated projected…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-13 Zifan Wang , Changxin Liu , Thomas Parisini , Michael M. Zavlanos , Karl H. Johansson

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.…

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