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Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-07 Nikita Doikov , Yurii Nesterov

A quasi-Newton method with cubic regularization is designed for solving Riemannian unconstrained nonconvex optimization problems. The proposed algorithm is fully adaptive with at most ${\cal O} (\epsilon_g^{-3/2})$ iterations to achieve a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-21 Mauricio S. Louzeiro , Gilson N. Silva , Jinyun Yuan , Daoping Zhang

We develop a computationally efficient algorithm for the automatic regularization of nonlinear inverse problems based on the discrepancy principle. We formulate the problem as an equality constrained optimization problem, where the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-03 Jeffrey Cornelis , Wim Vanroose

In this work, we study the iteration complexity of gradient methods for minimizing convex quadratic functions regularized by powers of Euclidean norms. We show that, due to the uniform convexity of the objective, gradient methods have…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-28 Daniel Berg Thomsen , Nikita Doikov

In this paper, we propose the first Quasi-Newton method with a global convergence rate of $O(k^{-1})$ for general convex functions. Quasi-Newton methods, such as BFGS, SR-1, are well-known for their impressive practical performance.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-30 Dmitry Kamzolov , Klea Ziu , Artem Agafonov , Martin Takáč

We consider the minimization of non-convex functions that typically arise in machine learning. Specifically, we focus our attention on a variant of trust region methods known as cubic regularization. This approach is particularly attractive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-04 Jonas Moritz Kohler , Aurelien Lucchi

This note considers the inexact cubic-regularized Newton's method (CR), which has been shown in \cite{Cartis2011a} to achieve the same order-level convergence rate to a secondary stationary point as the exact CR \citep{Nesterov2006}.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-23 Zhe Wang , Yi Zhou , Yingbin Liang , Guanghui Lan

We propose a distributed, cubic-regularized Newton method for large-scale convex optimization over networks. The proposed method requires only local computations and communications and is suitable for federated learning applications over…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-08 César A. Uribe , Ali Jadbabaie

We focus on minimizing nonconvex finite-sum functions that typically arise in machine learning problems. In an attempt to solve this problem, the adaptive cubic regularized Newton method has shown its strong global convergence guarantees…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-28 Seonho Park , Seung Hyun Jung , Panos M. Pardalos

We analyze Newton's method with lazy Hessian updates for solving general possibly non-convex optimization problems. We propose to reuse a previously seen Hessian for several iterations while computing new gradients at each step of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-16 Nikita Doikov , El Mahdi Chayti , Martin Jaggi

Optimization models with non-convex constraints arise in many tasks in machine learning, e.g., learning with fairness constraints or Neyman-Pearson classification with non-convex loss. Although many efficient methods have been developed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-24 Runchao Ma , Qihang Lin , Tianbao Yang

An algorithm for solving smooth nonconvex optimization problems is proposed that, in the worst-case, takes $\mathcal{O}(\epsilon^{-3/2})$ iterations to drive the norm of the gradient of the objective function below a prescribed positive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-16 Frank E. Curtis , Daniel P. Robinson , Mohammadreza Samadi

This paper is concerned with the numerical solution of nonlinear ill-posed operator equations involving convex constraints. We study a Newton-type method which consists in applying linear Tikhonov regularization with convex constraints to…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2015-04-01 Robert Stück , Martin Burger , Thorsten Hohage

We study finite-sum non-convex optimization $\min_{x\in\mathbb{R}^d} F(x) \;=\; \frac{1}{n}\sum_{i=1}^n f_i(x)$ and analyze a variance-reduced cubic Newton method based on EMA-smoothed SARAH estimators for both gradient and Hessian…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Dmitry Pasechnyuk-Vilensky , Dmitry Kamzolov , Martin Takáč

This work concerns the local convergence theory of Newton and quasi-Newton methods for convex-composite optimization: minimize f(x):=h(c(x)), where h is an infinite-valued proper convex function and c is C^2-smooth. We focus on the case…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-19 James V. Burke , Abraham Engle

Quasi-Newton methods are widely used for solving convex optimization problems due to their ease of implementation, practical efficiency, and strong local convergence guarantees. However, their global convergence is typically established…

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Newton's method is a fundamental technique in optimization with quadratic convergence within a neighborhood around the optimum. However reaching this neighborhood is often slow and dominates the computational costs. We exploit two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-24 Hadi Daneshmand , Aurelien Lucchi , Thomas Hofmann

We propose a distributed cubic regularization of the Newton method for solving (constrained) empirical risk minimization problems over a network of agents, modeled as undirected graph. The algorithm employs an inexact, preconditioned Newton…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-21 Amir Daneshmand , Gesualdo Scutari , Pavel Dvurechensky , Alexander Gasnikov

In this work, we generalized and unified two recent completely different works of~\cite{shi2015large} and~\cite{cartis2012adaptive} respectively into one by proposing the cyclic incremental Newton-type gradient descent with cubic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-18 Ziqiang Shi

Newton's method for finding an unconstrained minimizer for strictly convex functions, generally speaking, does not converge from any starting point. We introduce and study the damped regularized Newton's method (DRNM). It converges globally…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-06-27 Roman Polyak