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In this article, we develop a trust-region technique to find critical points of unconstrained set optimization problems with the objective set-valued map defined by finitely many twice continuously differentiable functions. The technique is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-10 Suprova Ghosh , Debdas Ghosh , Christiane Tammer , Xiaopeng Zhao

We consider a class of difference-of-convex (DC) optimization problems where the objective function is the sum of a smooth function and a possible nonsmooth DC function. The application of proximal DC algorithms to address this problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-30 Shummin Nakayama , Yasushi Narushima , Hiroshi Yabe

We study unconstrained optimization problems with nonsmooth and convex objective function in the form of a mathematical expectation. The proposed method approximates the expected objective function with a sample average function using…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-03 Natasa Krejic , Natasa Krklec Jerinkic , Tijana Ostojic

We introduce new global and local inexact oracle concepts for a wide class of convex functions in composite convex minimization. Such inexact oracles naturally come from primal-dual framework, barrier smoothing, inexact computations of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-25 Tianxiao Sun , Ion Necoara , Quoc Tran-Dinh

We prove global convergence of a bundle trust region algorithm for non-smooth non-convex optimization, where cutting planes are generated by oracles respecting four basic rules. The benefit is that convergence theory applies to a large…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-17 Dominikus Noll

In this paper, we develop and analyze sub-sampled trust-region methods for solving finite-sum optimization problems. These methods employ subsampling strategies to approximate the gradient and Hessian of the objective function,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-24 Max L. N. Goncalves , Geovani N. Grapiglia

In this paper, we present convergence guarantees for a modified trust-region method designed for minimizing objective functions whose value and gradient and Hessian estimates are computed with noise. These estimates are produced by generic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-04 Liyuan Cao , Albert S. Berahas , Katya Scheinberg

In this paper, an inexact proximal-point penalty method is studied for constrained optimization problems, where the objective function is non-convex, and the constraint functions can also be non-convex. The proposed method approximately…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-02 Qihang Lin , Runchao Ma , Yangyang Xu

The classical Krasnoselskii-Mann iteration is broadly used for approximating fixed points of nonexpansive operators. To accelerate the convergence of the Krasnoselskii-Mann iteration, the inertial methods were received much attention in…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-09 Fuying Cui , Yang Yang , Yuchao Tang , Chuanxi Zhu

We present the Trust Region Adversarial Functional Subdifferential (TRAFS) algorithm for constrained optimization of nonsmooth convex Lipschitz functions. Unlike previous methods that assume a subgradient oracle model, we work with the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-30 Kai Jia , Martin Rinard

An adaptive regularization algorithm using inexact function and derivatives evaluations is proposed for the solution of composite nonsmooth nonconvex optimization. It is shown that this algorithm needs at most…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-28 S. Gratton , E. Simon , Ph. L. Toint

In this work, we consider methods for large-scale and nonconvex unconstrained optimization. We propose a new trust-region method whose subproblem is defined using a so-called "shape-changing" norm together with densely-initialized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-11 Johannes J. Brust , Jennifer B. Erway , Roummel F. Marcia

This paper presents a stochastic block-coordinate proximal Newton method for minimizing the sum of a blockwise Lipschitz-continuously differentiable function and a separable nonsmooth convex function. At each iteration, the method randomly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-25 Hong Zhu , Xun Qian

In this paper, we study a few challenging theoretical and numerical issues on the well known trust region policy optimization for deep reinforcement learning. The goal is to find a policy that maximizes the total expected reward when the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-27 Mingming Zhao , Yongfeng Li , Zaiwen Wen

Constrained optimization in high-dimensional black-box settings is difficult due to expensive evaluations, the lack of gradient information, and complex feasibility regions. In this work, we propose a Bayesian optimization method that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-26 Raju Chowdhury , Tanmay Sen , Prajamitra Bhuyan , Biswabrata Pradhan

We study the problem of minimizing a $m$-weakly convex and possibly nonsmooth function. Weak convexity provides a broad framework that subsumes convex, smooth, and many composite nonconvex functions. In this work, we propose a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-04 Feng-Yi Liao , Yang Zheng

In this paper, we consider a non-convex problem which is the sum of $\ell_0$-norm and a convex smooth function under box constraint. We propose one proximal iterative hard thresholding type method with extrapolation step used for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-03 Xue Zhang , Xiaoqun Zhang

Trust-region (TR) and adaptive regularization using cubics (ARC) have proven to have some very appealing theoretical properties for non-convex optimization by concurrently computing function value, gradient, and Hessian matrix to obtain the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Liu Liu , Xuanqing Liu , Cho-Jui Hsieh , Dacheng Tao

Solutions to inverse problems that are ill-conditioned or ill-posed may have significant intrinsic uncertainty. Unfortunately, analysing and quantifying this uncertainty is very challenging, particularly in high-dimensional problems. As a…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-07-12 Marcelo Pereyra

We present a new method for minimizing the sum of a differentiable convex function and an $\ell_1$-norm regularizer. The main features of the new method include: $(i)$ an evolving set of indices corresponding to variables that are predicted…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-02-24 Tianyi Chen , Frank E. Curtis , Daniel P. Robinson
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