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In practical instances of nonconvex matrix factorization, the rank of the true solution $r^{\star}$ is often unknown, so the rank $r$ of the model can be overspecified as $r>r^{\star}$. This over-parameterized regime of matrix factorization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-15 Gavin Zhang , Salar Fattahi , Richard Y. Zhang

In this paper, we focus on solving a sequence of linear systems with an identical (or similar) coefficient matrix. For this type of problems, we investigate the subspace correction and deflation methods, which use an auxiliary matrix…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-17 Takeshi Iwashita , Kota Ikehara , Takeshi Fukaya , Takeshi Mifune

We analyze the convergence of the Conjugate Gradient (CG) method in exact arithmetic, when the coefficient matrix $A$ is symmetric positive semidefinite and the system is consistent. To do so, we diagonalize $A$ and decompose the algorithm…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-12 Ken Hayami

Steepest descent preconditioning is considered for the recently proposed nonlinear generalized minimal residual (N-GMRES) optimization algorithm for unconstrained nonlinear optimization. Two steepest descent preconditioning variants are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-07-26 Hans De Sterck

Gaussian process hyperparameter optimization requires linear solves with, and log-determinants of, large kernel matrices. Iterative numerical techniques are becoming popular to scale to larger datasets, relying on the conjugate gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Jonathan Wenger , Geoff Pleiss , Philipp Hennig , John P. Cunningham , Jacob R. Gardner

This paper introduces a novel optimization algorithm designed for nonlinear least-squares problems. The method is derived by preconditioning the gradient descent direction using the Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) of the Jacobian. This…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Zhipeng Chang , Wenrui Hao , Nian Liu

Connections of the conjugate gradient (CG) method with other methods in computational mathematics are surveyed, including the connections with the conjugate direction method, the subspace optimization method and the quasi-Newton method BFGS…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-17 Xuping Zhang , Jiefei Yang , Ziying Liu

We propose a stochastic conditional gradient method (CGM) for minimizing convex finite-sum objectives formed as a sum of smooth and non-smooth terms. Existing CGM variants for this template either suffer from slow convergence rates, or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Gideon Dresdner , Maria-Luiza Vladarean , Gunnar Rätsch , Francesco Locatello , Volkan Cevher , Alp Yurtsever

Gradient Descent (GD) and Conjugate Gradient (CG) methods are among the most effective iterative algorithms for solving unconstrained optimization problems, particularly in machine learning and statistical modeling, where they are employed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-19 Xianqi Jiao , Jia Liu , Zhiping Chen

Preconditioning techniques are crucial for enhancing the efficiency of solving large-scale linear equation systems that arise from partial differential equation (PDE) discretization. These techniques, such as Incomplete Cholesky…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Rui Li , Song Wang , Chen Wang

Due to its optimal complexity, the multigrid (MG) method is one of the most popular approaches for solving large-scale linear systems arising from the discretization of partial differential equations. However, the parallel implementation of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-27 Hardik Kothari , Maria Giuseppina Chiara Nestola , Marco Favino , Rolf Krause

A scaled conjugate gradient method that accelerates existing adaptive methods utilizing stochastic gradients is proposed for solving nonconvex optimization problems with deep neural networks. It is shown theoretically that, whether with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Naoki Sato , Koshiro Izumi , Hideaki Iiduka

The stochastic gradient descent (SGD) method is a widely used approach for solving stochastic optimization problems, but its convergence is typically slow. Existing variance reduction techniques, such as SAGA, improve convergence by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-21 Fabio Nobile , Matteo Raviola , Nathan Schaeffer

Conjugate gradient (CG) methods are a class of important methods for solving linear equations and nonlinear optimization problems. In this paper, we propose a new stochastic CG algorithm with variance reduction and we prove its linear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Xiao-Bo Jin , Xu-Yao Zhang , Kaizhu Huang , Guang-Gang Geng

Preconditioned gradient iterations for very large eigenvalue problems are efficient solvers with growing popularity. However, only for the simplest preconditioned eigensolver, namely the preconditioned gradient iteration (or preconditioned…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-08-12 Klaus Neymeyr

The constrained gradient method (CGM) has recently been proposed to solve convex optimization and monotone variational inequality (VI) problems with general functional constraints. While existing literature has established convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-24 Danqing Zhou , Hongmei Chen , Shiqian Ma , Junfeng Yang

Efficient numerical solvers for partial differential equations empower science and engineering. One of the commonly employed numerical solvers is the preconditioned conjugate gradient (PCG) algorithm which can solve large systems to a given…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-07 Yichen Li , Peter Yichen Chen , Tao Du , Wojciech Matusik

Linear solvers are key components in any software platform for scientific and engineering computing. The solution of large and sparse linear systems lies at the core of physics-driven numerical simulations relying on partial differential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Massimo Bernaschi , Mauro G. Carrozzo , Alessandro Celestini , Giacomo Piperno , Pasqua D'Ambra

We propose two novel conditional gradient-based methods for solving structured stochastic convex optimization problems with a large number of linear constraints. Instances of this template naturally arise from SDP-relaxations of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Maria-Luiza Vladarean , Ahmet Alacaoglu , Ya-Ping Hsieh , Volkan Cevher

A structured preconditioned conjugate gradient (PCG) solver is developed for the Newton steps in second-order methods for a class of constrained network optimal control problems. Of specific interest are problems with discrete-time dynamics…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-13 Armaghan Zafar , Michael Cantoni , Farhad Farokhi