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Various optimal gradient-based algorithms have been developed for smooth nonconvex optimization. However, many nonconvex machine learning problems do not belong to the class of smooth functions and therefore the existing algorithms are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-27 Ziyi Chen , Yi Zhou , Yingbin Liang , Zhaosong Lu

We follow up on our previous works which presented a possible approach for deriving symplectic schemes for a certain class of highly oscillatory Hamiltonian systems. The approach considers the Hamilton-Jacobi form of the equations of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-08-06 Matthew Dobson , Claude Le Bris , Frederic Legoll

We introduce a novel concept of convergence for Markovian processes within Orlicz spaces, extending beyond the conventional approach associated with $L_p$ spaces. After showing that Markovian operators are contractive in Orlicz spaces, our…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Amedeo Roberto Esposito , Marco Mondelli

We study weighted Sobolev inequalities on open convex cones endowed with $\alpha$-homogeneous weights satisfying a certain concavity condition. We establish a so-called reduction principle for these inequalities and characterize optimal…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-11 Ladislav Drážný

We consider deterministic homogenization (convergence to a stochastic differential equation) for multiscale systems of the form \[ x_{k+1} = x_k + n^{-1} a_n(x_k,y_k) + n^{-1/2} b_n(x_k,y_k), \quad y_{k+1} = T_n y_k, \] where the fast…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-07-19 Alexey Korepanov , Zemer Kosloff , Ian Melbourne

We introduce a hybrid stochastic estimator to design stochastic gradient algorithms for solving stochastic optimization problems. Such a hybrid estimator is a convex combination of two existing biased and unbiased estimators and leads to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-16 Quoc Tran-Dinh , Nhan H. Pham , Dzung T. Phan , Lam M. Nguyen

The paper studies homogenization problem for a non-autonomous parabolic equation with a large random rapidly oscillating potential in the case of one dimensional spatial variable. We show that if the potential is a statistically homogeneous…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-05-16 E. Pardoux , A. Piatnitski

This work is devoted to the development and analysis of a linearization algorithm for microscopic elliptic equations, with scaled degenerate production, posed in a perforated medium and constrained by the homogeneous Neumann-Dirichlet…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-11 Anh-Khoa Vo , Ekeoma Rowland Ijioma , Nhu-Ngoc Nguyen

We study the homogenization process for families of strongly nonlinear elliptic systems with the homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions. The growth and the coercivity of the elliptic operator is assumed to be indicated by a general…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-04-13 Miroslav Bulíček , Piotr Gwiazda , Martin Kalousek , Agnieszka Świerczewska-Gwiazda

Many iterative procedures in stochastic optimization exhibit a transient phase followed by a stationary phase. During the transient phase the procedure converges towards a region of interest, and during the stationary phase the procedure…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-26 Jerry Chee , Panos Toulis

Stochastic approximation (SA) is a classical approach for stochastic convex optimization. Previous studies have demonstrated that the convergence rate of SA can be improved by introducing either smoothness or strong convexity condition. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Lijun Zhang , Zhi-Hua Zhou

In this note we extend to the random, stationary ergodic setting previous results of periodic homogenization for a particular family of nonlinear nonlocal "elliptic" equations with oscillatory coefficients. Such equations include, but are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-09-11 Russell W. Schwab

We study stochastic gradient descent (SGD) for composite optimization problems with $N$ sequential operators subject to perturbations in both the forward and backward passes. Unlike classical analyses that treat gradient noise as additive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-25 Boao Kong , Hengrui Zhang , Kun Yuan

In several works, the theory of strongly continuous groups is used to build a framework for solving stochastic homogenization problems. Following this idea, we construct a detailed and comprehensive theory of homogenization. This enables to…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2013-03-18 Jean Louis Woukeng

In this work we investigate the practicality of stochastic gradient descent and recently introduced variants with variance-reduction techniques in imaging inverse problems. Such algorithms have been shown in the machine learning literature…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-26 Junqi Tang , Karen Egiazarian , Mohammad Golbabaee , Mike Davies

This paper deals with homogenization problem for convolution type non-local operators in random statistically homogeneous ergodic media. Assuming that the convolution kernel has a finite second moment and satisfies the uniform ellipticity…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-19 Andrey Piatnitski , Elena Zhizhina

This paper is devoted to the study of the stochastic-periodic homogenization of Poisson-Nernst-Planck equations in porous media. It is shown by the stochastic two-scale convergence method extended to periodic surfaces that results in a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-26 Franck Tchinda , Joel Fotso Tachago , Joseph Dongho , Fridolin Tchangnwa Nya

Score-based Generative Models (SGMs) aim to sample from a target distribution by learning score functions using samples perturbed by Gaussian noise. Existing convergence bounds for SGMs in the W2-distance rely on stringent assumptions about…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-12 Marta Gentiloni-Silveri , Antonio Ocello

This paper considers stochastic convex optimization problems with smooth functional constraints arising in constrained estimation and robust signal recovery. We operate in the high-dimensional and highly-constrained setting, where oracle…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Vaibhav Rajoriya , Prateek Priyaranjan Pradhan , Ketan Rajawat

This paper considers the problem of minimizing an expectation function over a closed convex set, coupled with a {\color{black} functional or expectation} constraint on either decision variables or problem parameters. We first present a new…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-05 Guanghui Lan , Zhiqiang Zhou