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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

We establish or refute the optimality of inexact second-order methods for unconstrained nonconvex optimization from the point of view of worst-case evaluation complexity, improving and generalizing the results of Cartis, Gould and Toint…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-31 Coralia Cartis , Nick I. M. Gould , Philippe L. Toint

We propose a family of relaxations of the optimal transport problem which regularize the problem by introducing an additional minimization step over a small region around one of the underlying transporting measures. The type of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-11 Saied Mahdian , Jose Blanchet , Peter Glynn

Machine learning problems such as neural network training, tensor decomposition, and matrix factorization, require local minimization of a nonconvex function. This local minimization is challenged by the presence of saddle points, of which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-23 Santiago Paternain , Aryan Mokhtari , Alejandro Ribeiro

Second-order optimization methods are among the most widely used optimization approaches for convex optimization problems, and have recently been used to optimize non-convex optimization problems such as deep learning models. The widely…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-01 Dinesh Singh , Hardik Tankaria , Makoto Yamada

This paper considers the decentralized consensus optimization problem defined over a network where each node holds a second-order differentiable local objective function. Our goal is to minimize the summation of local objective functions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-25 Jiaojiao Zhang , Qing Ling , Anthony Man-Cho So

Many machine learning models depend on solving a large scale optimization problem. Recently, sub-sampled Newton methods have emerged to attract much attention for optimization due to their efficiency at each iteration, rectified a weakness…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-06 Haishan Ye , Luo Luo , Zhihua Zhang

Entropic regularization is quickly emerging as a new standard in optimal transport (OT). It enables to cast the OT computation as a differentiable and unconstrained convex optimization problem, which can be efficiently solved using the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-21 Mathieu Blondel , Vivien Seguy , Antoine Rolet

We consider distributed optimization problems where networked nodes cooperatively minimize the sum of their locally known convex costs. A popular class of methods to solve these problems are the distributed gradient methods, which are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-21 Dragana Bajovic , Dusan Jakovetic , Natasa Krejic , Natasa Krklec Jerinkic

Imitation learning holds tremendous promise in learning policies efficiently for complex decision making problems. Current state-of-the-art algorithms often use inverse reinforcement learning (IRL), where given a set of expert…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Siddhant Haldar , Vaibhav Mathur , Denis Yarats , Lerrel Pinto

We propose a novel linesearch variant of the trust region normal map-based semismooth Newton method developed in [Ouyang and Milzarek, Math. Program. 212(1-2), 389--435 (2025)] for solving a class of nonsmooth, nonconvex composite-type…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-16 Hanfeng Zeng , Wenqing Ouyang , Andre Milzarek

We present a principled approach for designing stochastic Newton methods for solving finite sum optimization problems. Our approach has two steps. First, we re-write the stationarity conditions as a system of nonlinear equations that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-25 Jiabin Chen , Rui Yuan , Guillaume Garrigos , Robert M. Gower

We present an adaptive trust-region method for unconstrained optimization that allows inexact solutions to the trust-region subproblems. Our method is a simple variant of the classical trust-region method of \citet{sorensen1982newton}. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-27 Fadi Hamad , Oliver Hinder

This paper proposes a novel distributed semismooth Newton based augmented Lagrangian method for solving a class of optimization problems over networks, where the global objective is defined as the sum of locally held cost functions, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-02 Qihao Ma , Chengjing Wang , Peipei Tang , Dunbiao Niu , Aimin Xu

In this paper, we propose a Newton method for unconstrained set optimization problems to find its weakly minimal solutions with respect to lower set-less ordering. The objective function of the problem under consideration is given by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-01 Debdas Ghosh , Anshika , Qamrul Hasan Ansari , Xiaopeng Zhao

The aim of this paper is to design computationally-efficient and optimal algorithms for the online and stochastic exp-concave optimization settings. Typical algorithms for these settings, such as the Online Newton Step (ONS), can guarantee…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-15 Zakaria Mhammedi , Khashayar Gatmiry

In this paper, we investigate the convergence behavior of the Accelerated Newton Proximal Extragradient (A-NPE) method when employing inexact Hessian information. The exact A-NPE method was the pioneer near-optimal second-order approach,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-20 Ziyu Huang , Bo Jiang , Yuntian Jiang

It is very well known that when the exact line search gradient descent method is applied to a convex quadratic objective, the worst-case rate of convergence (ROC), among all seed vectors, deteriorates as the condition number of the Hessian…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-19 Thomas Yu

In supervised learning using kernel methods, we often encounter a large-scale finite-sum minimization over a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS). Large-scale finite-sum problems can be solved using efficient variants of Newton method,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Ting-Jui Chang , Shahin Shahrampour

We propose a randomized algorithm with quadratic convergence rate for convex optimization problems with a self-concordant, composite, strongly convex objective function. Our method is based on performing an approximate Newton step using a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-18 Jonathan Lacotte , Yifei Wang , Mert Pilanci