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We study global optimization (GOP) in the framework of non-linear inverse problems with a unique solution. These problems are in general ill-posed. Evaluation of the objective function is often expensive, as it implies the solution of a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 W. Jacquet , B. Truyen , P. de Groen , I. Lemahieu , J. Cornelis

In this paper, the global optimization problem $\min_{y\in S} F(y)$ with $S$ being a hyperinterval in $\Re^N$ and $F(y)$ satisfying the Lipschitz condition with an unknown Lipschitz constant is considered. It is supposed that the function…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-09-14 Daniela Lera , Yaroslav D. Sergeyev

A lot of real-world engineering problems represent dynamicity with nests of nonlinearities due to highly complex network of exponential functions or large number of differential equations interacting together. Such search spaces are…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Mojtaba Moattari , Emad Roshandel , Shima Kamyab , Zohreh Azimifar

Nonconvex optimization problems arise in many areas of computational science and engineering and are (approximately) solved by a variety of algorithms. Existing algorithms usually only have local convergence or subsequence convergence of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-08-21 Yangyang Xu , Wotao Yin

It is a significant challenge to predict the network topology from a small amount of dynamical observations. Different from the usual framework of the node-based reconstruction, two optimization approaches (i.e., the global and partitioned…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-03-03 Ming Xu , Chuan-Yun Xu , Huan Wang , Yong-Kui Li , Jing-Bo Hu , Ke-Fei Cao

A new approach to summation of divergent field-theoretical series is suggested. It is based on the Borel transformation combined with a conformal mapping and does not imply the knowledge of the exact asymptotic parameters. The method is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 A. I. Mudrov , K. B. Varnashev

We propose and assess a new global (derivative-free) optimization algorithm, inspired by the LIPO algorithm, which uses variance-based sensitivity analysis (Sobol indices) to reduce the number of calls to the objective function. This method…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-13 Alexandre Janon

Many recent problems in signal processing and machine learning such as compressed sensing, image restoration, matrix/tensor recovery, and non-negative matrix factorization can be cast as constrained optimization. Projected gradient descent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-07 Trung Vu , Raviv Raich

Many causal and structural parameters in economics can be identified and estimated by computing the value of an optimization program over all distributions consistent with the model and the data. Existing tools apply when the data is…

Econometrics · Economics 2025-07-31 Andrei Voronin

There is a recent surge of interest in nonconvex reformulations via low-rank factorization for stochastic convex semidefinite optimization problem in the purpose of efficiency and scalability. Compared with the original convex formulations,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-27 Jinshan Zeng , Ke Ma , Yuan Yao

We introduce GO-Diff, a diffusion-based method for global structure optimization that learns to directly sample low-energy atomic configurations without requiring prior data or explicit relaxation. GO-Diff is trained from scratch using a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-10-16 Nikolaj Rønne , Tejs Vegge , Arghya Bhowmik

In the field of global optimization, many existing algorithms face challenges posed by non-convex target functions and high computational complexity or unavailability of gradient information. These limitations, exacerbated by sensitivity to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-16 Xinyu Zhang , Sujit Ghosh

Learning to optimize - the idea that we can learn from data algorithms that optimize a numerical criterion - has recently been at the heart of a growing number of research efforts. One of the most challenging issues within this approach is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Louis Faury , Flavian Vasile

We analyze the problem of global reconstruction of functions as accurately as possible, based on partial information in the form of a truncated power series at some point, and additional analyticity properties. This situation occurs…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2022-05-30 Ovidiu Costin , Gerald V. Dunne

In this paper, global optimization (GO) Lipschitz problems are considered where the multi-dimensional multiextremal objective function is determined over a hyperinterval. An efficient one-dimensional GO method using local tuning on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-03-21 Dmitri E. Kvasov , Clara Pizzuti , Yaroslav D. Sergeyev

Local optimization presents a promising approach to expensive, high-dimensional black-box optimization by sidestepping the need to globally explore the search space. For objective functions whose gradient cannot be evaluated directly,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Quan Nguyen , Kaiwen Wu , Jacob R. Gardner , Roman Garnett

Classical global convergence results for first-order methods rely on uniform smoothness and the \L{}ojasiewicz inequality. Motivated by properties of objective functions that arise in machine learning, we propose a non-uniform refinement of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Jincheng Mei , Yue Gao , Bo Dai , Csaba Szepesvari , Dale Schuurmans

We propose an algorithm for distributed optimization over time-varying communication networks. Our algorithm uses an optimized ratio between the number of rounds of communication and gradient evaluations to achieve fast convergence. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Bryan Van Scoy , Laurent Lessard

In this paper we present a new algorithm for learning oblique decision trees. Most of the current decision tree algorithms rely on impurity measures to assess the goodness of hyperplanes at each node while learning a decision tree in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-10-16 Naresh Manwani , P. S. Sastry

This work demonstrates the utility of gradients for the global optimization of certain differentiable functions with many suboptimal local minima. To this end, a principle for generating search directions from non-local quadratic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-21 Nils Müller