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In the history of first-order algorithms, Nesterov's accelerated gradient descent (NAG) is one of the milestones. However, the cause of the acceleration has been a mystery for a long time. It has not been revealed with the existence of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-20 Shuo Chen , Bin Shi , Ya-xiang Yuan

In this paper, we propose Nesterov Accelerated Shuffling Gradient (NASG), a new algorithm for the convex finite-sum minimization problems. Our method integrates the traditional Nesterov's acceleration momentum with different shuffling…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-14 Trang H. Tran , Katya Scheinberg , Lam M. Nguyen

We present a unifying Nearly Asymptotically Invariant Manifold (NAIM) framework for understanding Nesterovs Accelerated Gradient (NAG) method. By lifting the first-order gradient flow into a second-order phase space we construct a NAIM a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-01 Rachit Mehra , M Parimi , Amol Yerudkar , S. R. Wagh , Navdeep Singh

We study the convergence of Nesterov Accelerated Gradient (NAG) minimization algorithmapplied to a class of non convex functions called strongly quasar convex functions. We show thatNAG can achieve an accelerated convergence speed at the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Julien Hermant , Jean-François Aujol , Charles Dossal , Aude Rondepierre

The Nesterov accelerated gradient (NAG) method is an important extrapolation-based numerical algorithm that accelerates the convergence of the gradient descent method in convex optimization. When dealing with an objective function that is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-28 Chenglong Bao , Liang Chen , Jiahong Li

Nesterov's accelerated gradient method (NAG) achieves faster convergence than gradient descent for convex optimization but lacks monotonicity in function values. To address this, Beck and Teboulle [2009b] proposed a monotonic variant,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-06 Mingwei Fu , Bin Shi

We propose a new first-order optimization algorithm -- AcceleratedGradient-OptimisticGradient (AG-OG) Descent Ascent -- for separable convex-concave minimax optimization. The main idea of our algorithm is to carefully leverage the structure…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-16 Chris Junchi Li , Angela Yuan , Gauthier Gidel , Quanquan Gu , Michael I. Jordan

While momentum-based optimization algorithms are commonly used in the notoriously non-convex optimization problems of deep learning, their analysis has historically been restricted to the convex and strongly convex setting. In this article,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-14 Kanan Gupta , Stephan Wojtowytsch

We develop and analyze a variant of Nesterov's accelerated gradient descent (AGD) for minimization of smooth non-convex functions. We prove that one of two cases occurs: either our AGD variant converges quickly, as if the function was…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-09 Yair Carmon , Oliver Hinder , John C. Duchi , Aaron Sidford

Although Nesterov's accelerated gradient (NAG) methods have been studied from various perspectives, it remains unclear why the most popular forms of NAG must handle convex and strongly convex objective functions separately. Motivated by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-10 Jungbin Kim , Insoon Yang

Nesterov's Accelerated Gradient (NAG) for optimization has better performance than its continuous time limit (noiseless kinetic Langevin) when a finite step-size is employed \citep{shi2021understanding}. This work explores the sampling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Ruilin Li , Hongyuan Zha , Molei Tao

We provide a novel accelerated first-order method that achieves the asymptotically optimal convergence rate for smooth functions in the first-order oracle model. To this day, Nesterov's Accelerated Gradient Descent (AGD) and variations…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-13 Jelena Diakonikolas , Lorenzo Orecchia

We develop a theoretical foundation for the application of Nesterov's accelerated gradient descent method (AGD) to the approximation of solutions of a wide class of partial differential equations (PDEs). This is achieved by proving the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-03 Jea-Hyun Park , Abner J. Salgado , Steven M. Wise

We present a coupled system of ODEs which, when discretized with a constant time step/learning rate, recovers Nesterov's accelerated gradient descent algorithm. The same ODEs, when discretized with a decreasing learning rate, leads to novel…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-02 Maxime Laborde , Adam M. Oberman

Nesterov's accelerated gradient (AG) is a popular technique to optimize objective functions comprising two components: a convex loss and a penalty function. While AG methods perform well for convex penalties, such as the LASSO, convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-04 Kai Yang , Masoud Asgharian , Sahir Bhatnagar

We present a variant of accelerated gradient descent algorithms, adapted from Nesterov's optimal first-order methods, for weakly-quasi-convex and weakly-quasi-strongly-convex functions. We show that by tweaking the so-called estimate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-16 Jingjing Bu , Mehran Mesbahi

We modify Nesterov's constant step gradient method for strongly convex functions with Lipschitz continuous gradient described in Nesterov's book. Nesterov shows that $f(x_k) - f^* \leq L \prod_{i=1}^k (1 - \alpha_k) \| x_0 - x^* \|_2^2$…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-09-29 Xiangrui Meng , Hao Chen

Nesterov's accelerated gradient method (NAG) is widely used in problems with machine learning background including deep learning, and is corresponding to a continuous-time differential equation. From this connection, the property of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-05 Yasong Feng , Weiguo Gao

While Nesterov's Accelerated Gradient Descent (AGD) efficiently solves constrained problems when the constraint set $X \subseteq \mathbb{R}^n$ is simple and easy to project onto, it remains an open question whether function-constrained…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Zhe Zhang , Guanghui Lan

Nesterov's accelerated gradient descent (NAG) is one of the milestones in the history of first-order algorithms. It was not successfully uncovered until the high-resolution differential equation framework was proposed in [Shi et al., 2022]…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-13 Shuo Chen , Bin Shi , Ya-xiang Yuan
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