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We propose a novel group of Gaussian Process based algorithms for fast approximate optimal stopping of time series with specific applications to financial markets. We show that structural properties commonly exhibited by financial time…

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In this paper, for a convex-concave bilinear saddle point problem, we propose a Tikhonov regularized second-order primal-dual dynamical system with slow damping, extrapolation and general time scaling parameters. Depending on the vanishing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-10 Xiangkai Sun , Liang He , Xian-Jun Long

In this paper we carry out an asymptotic analysis of the proximal-gradient dynamical system \begin{equation*}\left\{ \begin{array}{ll} \dot x(t) +x(t) = \prox_{\gamma f}\big[x(t)-\gamma\nabla\Phi(x(t))-ax(t)-by(t)\big],\\ \dot…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-05 Radu Ioan Bot , Ernö Robert Csetnek

Two classes of methods have been proposed for escaping from saddle points with one using the second-order information carried by the Hessian and the other adding the noise into the first-order information. The existing analysis for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-05 Yi Xu , Rong Jin , Tianbao Yang

We revisit the non-preemptive speed-scaling problem, in which a set of jobs have to be executed on a single or a set of parallel speed-scalable processor(s) between their release dates and deadlines so that the energy consumption to be…

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As has long been known to computer scientists, the performance of probabilistic algorithms characterized by relatively large runtime fluctuations can be improved by applying a restart, i.e., episodic interruption of a randomized…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-06-21 Dmitry Starkov , Sergey Belan

We study the convergence and the stability of fictitious dynamical methods for electrons. First, we show that a particular damped second-order dynamics has a much faster rate of convergence to the ground-state than first-order steepest…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Francesco Tassone , Francesco Mauri , Roberto Car

Numerous Optimization Algorithms have a time-varying update rule thanks to, for instance, a changing step size, momentum parameter or, Hessian approximation. In this paper, we apply unrolled or automatic differentiation to a time-varying…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-28 Sheheryar Mehmood , Peter Ochs

The single-step explicit time integration methods have long been valuable for solving large-scale nonlinear structural dynamic problems, classified into single-solve and multi-sub-step approaches. However, no existing explicit single-solve…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Liu Yaokun , Li Jinze , Yu Kaiping

In this paper, we introduce the Adaptive Inertial Method (AIM), a novel framework for accelerated first-order methods through a customizable inertial term. We provide a rigorous convergence analysis establishing a global convergence rate of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-22 Han Long , Bingsheng He , Yinyu Ye , Jiheng Zhang

Directional motion towards a specified destination is a common occurrence in physical processes and human societal activities. Utilizing this prior information can significantly improve the control and predictive performance of system…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-27 Xiaowei Yang , Haiqi Liu , Fanqin Meng , Xiaojing Shen

This paper is devoted to the study of acceleration methods for an inequality constrained convex optimization problem by using Lyapunov functions. We first approximate such a problem as an unconstrained optimization problem by employing the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-25 Juan Liu , Nan-Jing Huang , Xian-Jun Long , Xue-song Li

Modeling complex dynamical systems under varying conditions is computationally intensive, often rendering high-fidelity simulations intractable. Although reduced-order models (ROMs) offer a promising solution, current methods often struggle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Andrew F. Ilersich , Kevin Course , Prasanth B. Nair

In a recent paper, Bubeck, Lee, and Singh introduced a new first order method for minimizing smooth strongly convex functions. Their geometric descent algorithm, largely inspired by the ellipsoid method, enjoys the optimal linear rate of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-02 Dmitriy Drusvyatskiy , Maryam Fazel , Scott Roy

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

The training of modern machine learning models often consists in solving high-dimensional non-convex optimisation problems that are subject to large-scale data. In this context, momentum-based stochastic optimisation algorithms have become…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-06 Kexin Jin , Jonas Latz , Chenguang Liu , Alessandro Scagliotti

We propose first order algorithms for convex optimization problems where the feasible set is described by a large number of convex inequalities that is to be explored by subgradient projections. The first algorithm is an adaptation of a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-06-30 C. H. Jeffrey Pang

Large sectors of the recent optimization literature focused in the last decade on the development of optimal stochastic first order schemes for constrained convex models under progressively relaxed assumptions. Stochastic proximal point is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-05 Andrei Patrascu

In this paper, we revisit the large-scale constrained linear regression problem and propose faster methods based on some recent developments in sketching and optimization. Our algorithms combine (accelerated) mini-batch SGD with a new…

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