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Optimization problems, arise in many practical applications, from the view points of both theory and numerical methods. Especially, significant improvement in deep learning training came from the Quasi-Newton methods. Quasi-Newton search…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-19 Jiongcheng Li

In recent studies, line search methods have shown significant improvements in the performance of traditional stochastic gradient descent techniques, eliminating the need for a specific learning rate schedule. In this paper, we identify…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Philip Kenneweg , Tristan Kenneweg , Barbara Hammer

The paper concerns with novel first-order methods for monotone variational inequalities. They use a very simple linesearch procedure that takes into account a local information of the operator. Also the methods do not require…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-26 Yura Malitsky

We propose two variants of Newton method for solving unconstrained minimization problem. Our method leverages optimization techniques such as penalty and augmented Lagrangian method to generate novel variants of the Newton method namely the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-24 Md Sarowar Morshed

Learning rates in stochastic neural network training are currently determined a priori to training, using expensive manual or automated iterative tuning. This study proposes gradient-only line searches to resolve the learning rate for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-01-16 Dominic Kafka , Daniel N. Wilke

We propose a descent subgradient algorithm for unconstrained nonsmooth nonconvex multiobjective optimization problems. To find a descent direction, we present an iterative process that efficiently approximates the Goldstein subdifferential…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-24 Morteza Maleknia , Majid Soleimani-damaneh

This paper proposes and develops new Newton-type methods to solve structured nonconvex and nonsmooth optimization problems with justifying their fast local and global convergence by means of advanced tools of variational analysis and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Pham Duy Khanh , Boris S. Mordukhovich , Vo Thanh Phat

We consider the use of a curvature-adaptive step size in gradient-based iterative methods, including quasi-Newton methods, for minimizing self-concordant functions, extending an approach first proposed for Newton's method by Nesterov. This…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-13 Wenbo Gao , Donald Goldfarb

We study the problem of minimizing a sum of convex objective functions where the components of the objective are available at different nodes of a network and nodes are allowed to only communicate with their neighbors. The use of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-04-24 Aryan Mokhtari , Qing Ling , Alejandro Ribeiro

This paper investigates the global convergence of stepsized Newton methods for convex functions with H\"older continuous Hessians or third derivatives. We propose several simple stepsize schedules with fast global convergence guarantees, up…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-21 Slavomír Hanzely , Farshed Abdukhakimov , Martin Takáč

In this paper, we propose a scaled gradient modified non-monotone line search method for solving constrained minimization problems, and explore several specific properties of this method, namely, its convergence analysis. We discuss the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Qamrul Hasan Ansari , Feeroz Babu , D. R. Sahu , Jen Chih Yao

In this paper, we propose an adaptive step size strategy for a class of line search methods for orthogonality constrained minimization problems, which avoids the classic backtracking procedure. We prove the convergence of the line search…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-21 Xiaoying Dai , Liwei Zhang , Aihui Zhou

Feature selection is an important and active research area in statistics and machine learning. The Elastic Net is often used to perform selection when the features present non-negligible collinearity or practitioners wish to incorporate…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-09 Tobia Boschi , Matthew Reimherr , Francesca Chiaromonte

This paper concerns exact linesearch quasi-Newton methods for minimizing a quadratic function whose Hessian is positive definite. We show that by interpreting the method of conjugate gradients as a particular exact linesearch quasi-Newton…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-23 Anders Forsgren , Tove Odland

Stochastic gradient descent method and its variants constitute the core optimization algorithms that achieve good convergence rates for solving machine learning problems. These rates are obtained especially when these algorithms are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-14 S. Ilker Birbil , Ozgur Martin , Gonenc Onay , Figen Oztoprak

A new stepsize for gradient method is proposed. Combining it with the exact line search stepsizes, the gradient method achieves the optimal solution in 5 steps for 3 dimensional quadratic function minimization problem. The new stepsize is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-16 Yixin Xie , Jin-Peng Liu , Cong Sun , Ya-Xiang Yuan

We propose an inexact infeasible arc-search interior-point method for solving linear optimization problems. The method combines an arc-search strategy with inexact solutions to Newton systems and admits a polynomial iteration complexity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-08 Einosuke Iida , Makoto Yamashita

In this paper we present a nonmonotone line search subgradient algorithm tailored to upper-$\mathcal{C}^2$ functions. This is a family of nonsmooth and nonconvex functions that satisfies a nonsmooth and local version of the descent lemma,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-22 Francisco J. Aragón-Artacho , Rubén Campoy , Pedro Pérez-Aros , David Torregrosa-Belén

Adaptive regularized framework using cubics has emerged as an alternative to line-search and trust-region algorithms for smooth nonconvex optimization, with an optimal complexity amongst second-order methods. In this paper, we propose and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-30 El houcine Bergou , Youssef Diouane , Serge Gratton

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