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Federated learning faces critical challenges in balancing communication efficiency and model accuracy. One key issue lies in the approximation of update errors without incurring high computational costs. In this paper, we propose a…

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Calibration is a highly challenging task, in particular in multiple yield curve markets. This paper is a first attempt to study the chances and challenges of the application of machine learning techniques for this. We employ Gaussian…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2020-04-20 Sandrine Gümbel , Thorsten Schmidt

In this paper, we deal with multiobjective composite optimization problems, where each objective function is a combination of smooth and possibly non-smooth functions. We first propose a parameter-dependent conditional gradient method to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-25 Wang Chen , Liping Tang , Xinmin Yang

Classifier-free guidance (CFG) is a widely used technique for controllable generation in diffusion and flow-based models. Despite its empirical success, CFG relies on a heuristic linear extrapolation that is often sensitive to the guidance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Jian-Feng Cai , Haixia Liu , Zhengyi Su , Chao Wang

The article proposes a Caputo fractional conjugate gradient (CFCG) method for unconstrained optimization problems which is applicable to smooth as well as non-smooth problmes. The proposed method uses a non-adaptive version of the Caputo…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-22 Barsha Shawa , Md Abu Talhamainuddin Ansary

In this paper we extend the adaptive gradient descent (AdaGrad) algorithm to the optimal distributed control of parabolic partial differential equations with uncertain parameters. This stochastic optimization method achieves an improved…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-22 Yanzhao Cao , Somak Das , Hans-Werner van Wyk

Stochastic-gradient-based optimization has been a core enabling methodology in applications to large-scale problems in machine learning and related areas. Despite the progress, the gap between theory and practice remains significant, with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-01 Lihua Lei , Michael I. Jordan

Generalized linear mixed models (GLMMs) are a widely used tool in statistical analysis. The main bottleneck of many computational approaches lies in the inversion of the high dimensional precision matrices associated with the random…

Computation · Statistics 2025-10-08 Andrea Pandolfi , Omiros Papaspiliopoulos , Giacomo Zanella

In this chapter, we investigate recently proposed nonlinear conjugate gradient (NCG) methods for shape optimization problems. We briefly introduce the methods as well as the corresponding theoretical background and investigate their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Sebastian Blauth

In this contribution, we present a numerical analysis of the continuous stochastic gradient (CSG) method, including applications from topology optimization and convergence rates. In contrast to standard stochastic gradient optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-23 Max Grieshammer , Lukas Pflug , Michael Stingl , Andrian Uihlein

In this work, the Einstein notation is utilized to synthesize state and parameter transition matrices, by solving a set of ordinary differential equations. Additionally, for the system identification problem, it has been demonstrated that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-08 Premjit Saha , Tarunraj Singh

The method of nonlinear conjugate gradients (NCG) is widely used in practice for unconstrained optimization, but it satisfies weak complexity bounds at best when applied to smooth convex functions. In contrast, Nesterov's accelerated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-04 Sahar Karimi , Stephen Vavasis

Parametric manifold optimization problems frequently arise in various machine learning tasks, where state functions are defined on infinite-dimensional manifolds. We propose a unified accelerated natural gradient descent (ANGD) framework to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-09 Chenyi Li , Shuchen Zhu , Zhonglin Xie , Zaiwen Wen

This paper introduces new parameter-free first-order methods for convex optimization problems in which the objective function exhibits H\"{o}lder smoothness. Inspired by the recently proposed distance-over-gradient (DOG) technique, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Yijin Ren , Haifeng Xu , Qi Deng

We propose a path cover adaptive algebraic multigrid (PC-$\alpha$AMG) method for solving linear systems of weighted graph Laplacians and can also be applied to discretized second order elliptic partial differential equations. The…

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Semidefinite programming (SDP) is widely acknowledged as one of the most effective methods for deriving the tightest lower bounds of the optimal power flow (OPF) problems. In this paper, an enhanced semidefinite relaxation model that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-01 Zhaojun Ruan , Libao Shi

In the last few decades, several novel algorithms have been designed for finding critical points on PES and the minimum energy paths connecting them. This has led to considerably improve our understanding of reaction mechanisms and kinetics…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Sandra Liz Simon , Nitin Kaistha , Vishal Agarwal

Engineering alloys generally exhibit multi-phase microstructures. For simulating their microstructure evolution during solid-state phase transformation, CALPHAD-guided multi-phase-field models coupled with micro-mechanics have proven to be…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-01-05 Sourav Chatterjee , Daniel Schwen , Nele Moelans

In CALPHAD-type thermodynamic databases, nonstoichiometric compounds are typically described by sublattice models where the sublattice site fractions represent the occupation probability of different atomic, ionic or defect species on…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-04 Yanzhou Ji , Yueze Tan , Long-Qing Chen

We propose Adaptive Compressed Gradient Descent (AdaCGD) - a novel optimization algorithm for communication-efficient training of supervised machine learning models with adaptive compression level. Our approach is inspired by the recently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Maksim Makarenko , Elnur Gasanov , Rustem Islamov , Abdurakhmon Sadiev , Peter Richtarik