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Accurate and interpretable bearing fault classification is critical for ensuring the reliability of rotating machinery, particularly under variable operating conditions where domain shifts can significantly degrade model performance. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Tasfiq E. Alam , Md Manjurul Ahsan , Shivakumar Raman

Variational Bayes (VB) has become a widely-used tool for Bayesian inference in statistics and machine learning. Nonetheless, the development of the existing VB algorithms is so far generally restricted to the case where the variational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Minh-Ngoc Tran , Dang H. Nguyen , Duy Nguyen

We are concerned with optimization in a broad sense through the lens of solving variational inequalities (VIs) -- a class of problems that are so general that they cover as particular cases minimization of functions, saddle-point (minimax)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Pavel Dvurechensky , Andrea Ebner , Johannes Carl Schnebel , Shimrit Shtern , Mathias Staudigl

We consider stochastic convex optimization problems where the objective is an expectation over smooth functions. For this setting we suggest a novel gradient estimate that combines two recent mechanism that are related to notion of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Tehila Dahan , Kfir Y. Levy

We propose a forward-backward splitting dynamical system for solving inclusion problems of the form $0\in A(x)+B(x)$ in Hilbert spaces, where $A$ is a maximal operator and $B$ is a single-valued operator. Involved operators are assumed to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-12 Nam V Tran , Hai T. T. Le , An V. Truong , Vuong T. Phan

We propose a novel framework for learning stabilizable nonlinear dynamical systems for continuous control tasks in robotics. The key contribution is a control-theoretic regularizer for dynamics fitting rooted in the notion of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-01 Sumeet Singh , Spencer M. Richards , Vikas Sindhwani , Jean-Jacques E. Slotine , Marco Pavone

In recent years, even though Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) and its variants are well-known for training neural networks, it suffers from limitations such as the lack of theoretical guarantees, vanishing gradients, and excessive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-17 Junxiang Wang , Hongyi Li , Liang Zhao

Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) are a powerful framework for learning latent representations of reduced dimensionality, while Neural ODEs excel in learning transient system dynamics. This work combines the strengths of both to generate fast…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Julius Aka , Johannes Brunnemann , Jörg Eiden , Arne Speerforck , Lars Mikelsons

In this paper, we consider the online proximal mirror descent for solving the time-varying composite optimization problems. For various applications, the algorithm naturally involves the errors in the gradient and proximal operator. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-11 Woocheol Choi , Myeong-Su Lee , Seok-Bae Yun

Federated learning is a new distributed machine learning framework, where a bunch of heterogeneous clients collaboratively train a model without sharing training data. In this work, we consider a practical and ubiquitous issue when…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-09-06 Yikai Yan , Chaoyue Niu , Yucheng Ding , Zhenzhe Zheng , Fan Wu , Guihai Chen , Shaojie Tang , Zhihua Wu

Many metric learning tasks, such as triplet learning, nearest neighbor retrieval, and visualization, are treated primarily as embedding tasks where the ultimate metric is some variant of the Euclidean distance (e.g., cosine or Mahalanobis),…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Fred Lu , Edward Raff , Francis Ferraro

In this work, we propose learnable Bernoulli dropout (LBD), a new model-agnostic dropout scheme that considers the dropout rates as parameters jointly optimized with other model parameters. By probabilistic modeling of Bernoulli dropout,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Shahin Boluki , Randy Ardywibowo , Siamak Zamani Dadaneh , Mingyuan Zhou , Xiaoning Qian

Variational inference is an approximation framework for Bayesian inference that seeks to improve quantified uncertainty in predictions by optimizing a simplified distribution over parameters to stand in for the full posterior. Capturing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Jed A. Duersch

This paper proposes a novel federated algorithm that leverages momentum-based variance reduction with adaptive learning to address non-convex settings across heterogeneous data. We intend to minimize communication and computation overhead,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Dipanwita Thakur , Antonella Guzzo , Giancarlo Fortino , Sajal K. Das

The mean-field Langevin dynamics (MFLD) minimizes an entropy-regularized nonlinear convex functional on the Wasserstein space over $\mathbb{R}^d$, and has gained attention recently as a model for the gradient descent dynamics of interacting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Anming Gu , Juno Kim

We consider stochastic optimization problems involving an expected value of a nonlinear function of a base random vector and a conditional expectation of another function depending on the base random vector, a dependent random vector, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-20 Andrzej Ruszczyński , Shangzhe Yang

In this paper, a modified BFGS algorithm is proposed. The modified BFGS matrix estimates a modified Hessian matrix which is a convex combination of an identity matrix for the steepest descent algorithm and a Hessian matrix for the Newton…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-14 Yaguang Yang

Most non-convex optimization theory is built around gradient dynamics, leaving global convergence largely unexplored. The dominant paradigm focuses on stationarity, certifying only that the gradient norm vanishes, which is often a weak…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Kaja Gruntkowska , Hanmin Li , Xun Qian , Peter Richtárik

We consider variational inequalities coming from monotone operators, a setting that includes convex minimization and convex-concave saddle-point problems. We assume an access to potentially noisy unbiased values of the monotone operators…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-06 Francis Bach , Kfir Y. Levy

Optimisers are an essential component for training machine learning models, and their design influences learning speed and generalisation. Several studies have attempted to learn more effective gradient-descent optimisers via solving a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Boyan Gao , Henry Gouk , Hae Beom Lee , Timothy M. Hospedales