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We consider problems of minimizing functionals $\mathcal{F}$ of probability measures on the Euclidean space. To propose an accelerated gradient descent algorithm for such problems, we consider gradient flow of transport maps that give…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Ken'ichiro Tanaka

Stochastic optimization is a cornerstone of modern machine learning. This paper studies the generalization performance of two classical stochastic optimization algorithms: stochastic gradient descent (SGD) and Nesterov's accelerated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Shaojie Li , Pengwei Tang , Yong Liu

We introduce the continuized Nesterov acceleration, a close variant of Nesterov acceleration whose variables are indexed by a continuous time parameter. The two variables continuously mix following a linear ordinary differential equation…

In this paper we introduce two algorithms for neural architecture search (NASGD and NASAGD) following the theoretical work by two of the authors [5] which used the geometric structure of optimal transport to introduce the conceptual basis…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Nicolas Garcia Trillos , Felix Morales , Javier Morales

Lookahead-based acceleration methods, such as Nesterov's momentum, are widely used in optimization, but they often become unreliable in deep learning training mainly due to stochastic gradient noise and non-convex loss landscapes. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Chung-Yiu Yau , Dawei Li , Athanasios Glentis , Valentyn Boreiko , Hoi-To Wai , Mingyi Hong

We develop a novel optimistic gradient-type algorithmic framework, combining both Nesterov's acceleration and variance-reduction techniques, to solve a class of generalized equations involving possibly nonmonotone operators in data-driven…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Quoc Tran-Dinh , Nghia Nguyen-Trung

This study introduces the Enhanced NIRMAL (Novel Integrated Robust Multi-Adaptation Learning with Damped Nesterov Acceleration) optimizer, an improved version of the original NIRMAL optimizer. By incorporating an $(\alpha, r)$-damped…

We study first-order optimization methods obtained by discretizing ordinary differential equations (ODEs) corresponding to Nesterov's accelerated gradient methods (NAGs) and Polyak's heavy-ball method. We consider three discretization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-05 Bin Shi , Simon S. Du , Weijie J. Su , Michael I. Jordan

Polyak's Heavy Ball (PHB; Polyak, 1964), a.k.a. Classical Momentum, and Nesterov's Accelerated Gradient (NAG; Nesterov, 1983) are well-established momentum-descent methods for optimization. Although the latter generally outperforms the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-01 Cédric M. Campos , David Martín de Diego , José Torrente

Under the multiplicative noise scaling (MNS) condition, original Nesterov acceleration is provably sensitive to noise and may diverge when gradient noise overwhelms the signal. In this paper, we develop two accelerated stochastic gradient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Yaxin Yu , Long Chen , Minfu Feng

In this paper we deal with a general second order continuous dynamical system associated to a convex minimization problem with a Fr\`echet differentiable objective function. We show that inertial algorithms, such as Nesterov's algorithm,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-08 Cristian Daniel Alecsa , Szilárd Csaba László , Titus Pinţa

In this work, we extend a modified Anderson acceleration proposed in [Y. He, arXiv:2603.25983, 2026] to accelerate the Picard iteration for the Navier-Stokes equations. In this variant of Anderson acceleration, named AAg, the nonlinear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Yunhui He , Leo Rebholz

We propose a new method for unconstrained optimization of a smooth and strongly convex function, which attains the optimal rate of convergence of Nesterov's accelerated gradient descent. The new algorithm has a simple geometric…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-06-30 Sébastien Bubeck , Yin Tat Lee , Mohit Singh

Two major momentum-based techniques that have achieved tremendous success in optimization are Polyak's heavy ball method and Nesterov's accelerated gradient. A crucial step in all momentum-based methods is the choice of the momentum…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-21 Vishwak Srinivasan , Adepu Ravi Sankar , Vineeth N Balasubramanian

This work proposes an Accelerated Primal-Dual Fixed-Point (APDFP) method that employs Nesterov type acceleration to solve composite problems of the form min f(x) + g(Bx), where g is nonsmooth and B is a linear operator. The APDFP features…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Ya-Nan Zhu

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

This paper studies the Nesterov-Spokoiny Acceleration (NSA), a variant of the accelerated gradient method by Nesterov and Spokoiny. For smooth convex optimization, NSA achieves a strict $o(1/k^2)$ convergence rate in function value and an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-13 Weibin Peng , Yu Liu , Tianyu Wang

We introduce a generic scheme for accelerating first-order optimization methods in the sense of Nesterov, which builds upon a new analysis of the accelerated proximal point algorithm. Our approach consists of minimizing a convex objective…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-10-27 Hongzhou Lin , Julien Mairal , Zaid Harchaoui

In a Hilbert space setting, for convex optimization, we analyze the convergence rate of a class of first-order algorithms involving inertial features. They can be interpreted as discrete time versions of inertial dynamics involving both…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-09 Hedy Attouch , Zaki Chbani , Jalal Fadili , Hassan Riahi

We study the algorithmic stability of Nesterov's accelerated gradient method. For convex quadratic objectives, Chen et al. (2018) proved that the uniform stability of the method grows quadratically with the number of optimization steps, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Amit Attia , Tomer Koren