Newton's method solves variational problems on manifolds.
problem Solving variational equations on manifolds.
method Newton's method with affine covariant damping strategy.
result Numerical results for variational problems demonstrated.
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We describe stochastic Newton and stochastic quasi-Newton approaches to efficiently solve large linear least-squares problems where the very large data sets present a significant computational burden (e.g., the size may exceed computer memory or data are collected in real-time). In our proposed framework, stochasticity…
Paper proposes an online covariance estimator for sketched Newton methods.
problem Estimating the limiting covariance matrix of sketched Newton methods.
method Proposes a fully online covariance matrix estimator from Newton iterates.
result Establishes the consistency and convergence rate of the proposed estimator.
Extends Newton's minimal resistance problem to Riemannian surfaces.
problem Minimal resistance on Riemannian surfaces.
method Derive resistance functional, analyze constrained minimization.
result Smooth extremals are loxodromes, global minimizers characterized.
Extends Newton's minimal resistance problem to Lorentz-Minkowski space.
problem Minimal resistance in Lorentz-Minkowski space.
method Derived functional energy, determined Euler-Lagrange equation, analyzed maximum principle, found separable and radial solutions.
result Obtained solutions with conical singularities at the origin and analyzed the Single Shock Condition.
We introduce a framework for Newton's flows in probability space with information metrics, named information Newton's flows. Here two information metrics are considered, including both the Fisher-Rao metric and the Wasserstein-2 metric. A known fact is that overdamped Langevin dynamics correspond to Wasserstein gradien…
We generalize Newton-type methods for minimizing smooth functions to handle a sum of two convex functions: a smooth function and a nonsmooth function with a simple proximal mapping. We show that the resulting proximal Newton-type methods inherit the desirable convergence behavior of Newton-type methods for minimizing s…
New quasi-Newton method guarantees global superlinear convergence.
problem Global convergence and superlinear convergence of quasi-Newton methods.
method Hybrid proximal extragradient method with online learning for Hessian approximation.
result First globally convergent quasi-Newton method with explicit superlinear convergence rate.
Solving Newton's Equations of Motion with Large Timesteps using Recurrent Neural Networks based Operatorsphysics.comp-ph
RNN operators solve Newton's equations with large timesteps for molecular dynamics.
problem Solving Newton's equations of motion with large timesteps for molecular dynamics simulations.
method Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) operators to solve Newton's equations using past trajectory data.
result Significant speedup in molecular dynamics simulations with timesteps up to 4000 times larger.
Newton's method tackles nonlinear mappings into vector bundles with connections and retractions.
problem Finding zeros of mappings from a manifold into a vector bundle.
method Local convergence using differentiability concepts, Banach space Riemannian distance, and affine covariant damping strategy.
result Illustrated application to generalized non-symmetric eigenvalue problems.
Recently algorithms incorporating second order curvature information have become popular in training neural networks. The Nesterov's Accelerated Quasi-Newton (NAQ) method has shown to effectively accelerate the BFGS quasi-Newton method by incorporating the momentum term and Nesterov's accelerated gradient vector. A sto…
A distributed semismooth Newton based augmented Lagrangian method for distributed optimizationmath.OC
A new method solves distributed optimization problems over networks.
problem Solving optimization problems over networks with local cost functions and limited communication.
method Distributed semismooth Newton based augmented Lagrangian method.
result The method efficiently solves distributed optimization problems over networks.
Newton-LESS sparsifies Gaussian sketching for faster optimization.
problem Computing the Hessian matrix in optimization is computationally expensive.
method Uses a sparsified version of a dense Gaussian sketching matrix.
result Achieves nearly the same convergence rate as dense Gaussian embeddings without the computational cost.
A new optimization method improves deep learning accuracy without hyper-parameter tuning.
problem Computational demands and convergence behavior in deep learning training.
method Stochastic quasi-Gauss-Newton (SQGN) optimization method combining stochastic quasi-Newton, Gauss-Newton, and variance reduction.
result SQGN provides excellent accuracy without hyper-parameter experimentation, improving convergence and computational performance.
Recent studies incorporate Nesterov's accelerated gradient method for the acceleration of gradient based training. The Nesterov's Accelerated Quasi-Newton (NAQ) method has shown to drastically improve the convergence speed compared to the conventional quasi-Newton method. This paper implements NAQ for non-convex optimi…
Paper proves minimal resistance for a body in a fluid with decreasing density.
problem Minimal resistance for a body moving through a fluid with non-constant density.
method Local existence and regularity of radial solutions using a fixed-point theorem.
result Maximal domain of the solution is finite, terminating at a critical slope.
Deep learning involves a difficult non-convex optimization problem, which is often solved by stochastic gradient (SG) methods. While SG is usually effective, it may not be robust in some situations. Recently, Newton methods have been investigated as an alternative optimization technique, but nearly all existing studies…
We present two new remarkably simple stochastic second-order methods for minimizing the average of a very large number of sufficiently smooth and strongly convex functions. The first is a stochastic variant of Newton's method (SN), and the second is a stochastic variant of cubically regularized Newton's method (SCN). W…
Improved complexity for smooth nonconvex optimization using quasi-Newton methods.
problem Finding ε-first-order stationary points of smooth functions with gradient information only.
method Two-level online learning approach involving quasi-Newton methods.
result Gradient complexity improved to O(d^(1/4)ε^(-13/8)) for d = O(ε^(-1/2)).
It has recently been shown that many of the existing quasi-Newton algorithms can be formulated as learning algorithms, capable of learning local models of the cost functions. Importantly, this understanding allows us to safely start assembling probabilistic Newton-type algorithms, applicable in situations where we only…
New algorithms solve nonconvex-nonconcave minimax optimization problems.
problem Solving minimax optimization problems in machine learning.
method Two novel Newton-type algorithms for nonconvex-nonconcave minimax optimization.
result Proved local convergence at strict local minimax points.
New method improves zeroth-order stochastic optimization with adaptive sampling.
problem Optimization problems without gradient information.
method Adaptive sampling quasi-Newton method using finite differences.
result Significant improvement in performance with adaptive sample sizes.
New Q-Newton's method avoids saddle points and converges quadratically.
problem Optimizing functions with saddle points and ensuring convergence guarantees.
method Modified New Q-Newton's method with Backtracking line search.
result Theorem for Morse functions: quadratic convergence to local minima.
A new method solves large-scale sparse group square-root Lasso problems efficiently.
problem Large-scale linearly constrained sparse group square-root Lasso problems.
method Dual semismooth Newton based augmented Lagrangian method (ALM).
result The proposed method efficiently solves the problem with numerical experiments demonstrating its effectiveness.
EGN optimizes deep neural networks with exact Gauss-Newton for large-scale problems.
problem Training deep neural networks efficiently and accurately.
method Stochastic second-order optimization using low-rank linear algebra and matrix factorization.
result Converges to stationary points of the objective function under mild assumptions.
First-order optimization methods, such as stochastic gradient descent (SGD) and its variants, are widely used in machine learning applications due to their simplicity and low per-iteration costs. However, they often require larger numbers of iterations, with associated communication costs in distributed environments. I…
A new Bayesian filtering method speeds up stochastic Newton optimization.
problem Minimizing log-convex functions using stochastic methods.
method Contextualizes the problem as Bayesian inference, applying Bayesian filtering to update estimates.
result Establishes conditions for diminishing effect of older observations, akin to momentum.
We consider stochastic zero-order optimization problems, which arise in settings from simulation optimization to reinforcement learning. We propose an adaptive sampling quasi-Newton method where we estimate the gradients of a stochastic function using finite differences within a common random number framework. We emplo…
In [19], a general, inexact, efficient proximal quasi-Newton algorithm for composite optimization problems has been proposed and a sublinear global convergence rate has been established. In this paper, we analyze the convergence properties of this method, both in the exact and inexact setting, in the case when the obje…
We study the smooth structure of convex functions by generalizing a powerful concept so-called self-concordance introduced by Nesterov and Nemirovskii in the early 1990s to a broader class of convex functions, which we call generalized self-concordant functions. This notion allows us to develop a unified framework for …
In this work, we present a globalized stochastic semismooth Newton method for solving stochastic optimization problems involving smooth nonconvex and nonsmooth convex terms in the objective function. We assume that only noisy gradient and Hessian information of the smooth part of the objective function is available via…
Subsampled Newton methods approximate Hessian matrices through subsampling techniques, alleviating the cost of forming Hessian matrices but using sufficient curvature information. However, previous results require samples to approximate Hessians, where is the dimension of data points, making it less practica…
For distributed computing environment, we consider the empirical risk minimization problem and propose a distributed and communication-efficient Newton-type optimization method. At every iteration, each worker locally finds an Approximate NewTon (ANT) direction, which is sent to the main driver. The main driver, then, …
This paper analyzes adaptive gradient algorithms for better performance in ill-conditioned problems.
problem Poor performance of standard stochastic gradient algorithms in ill-conditioned problems.
method Non-asymptotic analysis of adaptive gradient algorithms (Adagrad and Stochastic Newton) for strongly convex objectives.
result Theoretical analysis and adaptation to practical applications like linear regression and regularized GLM.
NOHD optimizes multi-agent systems by decomposing dynamics into irrotational and solenoidal components.
problem Non-stationarity and conflicting interests in multi-agent learning problems.
method NOHD (Newton Optimization on Helmholtz Decomposition) decomposes system dynamics into irrotational and solenoidal components.
result NOHD ensures quadratic convergence in purely irrotational and solenoidal systems and attracts to stable fixed points in general multi-agent systems.
A new hybrid Newton algorithm improves convergence in logistic regression.
problem Solving large-scale binary classification problems efficiently.
method Proposes a hybrid stochastic Newton algorithm with two weighted components in the Hessian matrix estimation.
result Proves almost sure convergence to the true parameter of logistic regression.
On Newton Screeningstat.ML
Screening and working set techniques are important approaches to reducing the size of an optimization problem. They have been widely used in accelerating first-order methods for solving large-scale sparse learning problems. In this paper, we develop a new screening method called Newton screening (NS) which is a general…
Krylov Cubic Regularized Newton: A Subspace Second-Order Method with Dimension-Free Convergence Ratemath.OC
A new method for faster optimization in high dimensions.
problem Slow convergence in high-dimensional optimization problems.
method Subspace cubic regularized Newton method within Krylov subspace.
result Achieves a dimension-independent convergence rate of O(1/mk + 1/k^2).
A new method for faster optimization on statistical manifolds.
problem Slow convergence of first-order methods in manifold optimization.
method Dual Riemannian Newton method on manifolds with dual connections.
result Local quadratic convergence of the dual Riemannian Newton method.
HSNLD solves robust Hankel recovery efficiently and robustly.
problem Robust Hankel recovery of sparse outliers and missing entries.
method Hankel Structured Newton-Like Descent (HSNLD) algorithm.
result HSNLD achieves linear convergence independent of the condition number.
We show that Newton's method converges globally at a linear rate for objective functions whose Hessians are stable. This class of problems includes many functions which are not strongly convex, such as logistic regression. Our linear convergence result is (i) affine-invariant, and holds even if an (ii) approximate Hess…
Paper proposes a method to find approximate SOSP for nonconvex conic optimization problems.
problem Finding approximate second-order stationary points in nonconvex conic optimization.
method Newton-CG based barrier method with complexity guarantees.
result Achieves iteration complexity of O(ε^(-3/2)) for finding (ε,√ε)-SOSP.
Paper proposes an efficient online Newton method with Nesterov's acceleration for streaming data.
problem Efficient inference of online Newton methods with robustness to noise and ill-conditioning.
method Online Newton method with Hessian averaging and Nesterov's accelerated sketch-and-project solver.
result Global almost-sure convergence and asymptotic normality of the last iterate with non-asymptotic convergence guarantees.
Proposes a new method for optimizing large-scale models using Nyström approximation of the Hessian.
problem Optimizing non-convex functions like deep learning models using second-order methods.
method Nyström-approximated curvature for stochastic optimization of large-scale empirical risk minimization.
result The proposed method achieves performance competitive with state-of-the-art first-order and stochastic quasi-Newton methods.
Paper proposes a quasi-Newton method for nonlinear equations with global convergence guarantees.
problem Solving smooth and monotone nonlinear equations efficiently and globally.
method Hybrid proximal extragradient framework combined with online learning for Jacobian approximation.
result First global convergence results showing quasi-Newton method's advantage over extragradient method.
A new method for 1-bit matrix completion that is faster and more accurate.
problem Estimating a low-rank matrix from binary observations.
method Majorization-Minimization Gauss-Newton (MMGN) method.
result MMGN outperforms existing methods in accuracy and speed.
Muon with Newton-Schulz converges to the same stationary point as SVD-polar, up to a constant factor.
problem Improving the convergence rate of Muon optimizer.
method Using Newton-Schulz steps for momentum orthogonalization, proving convergence rate and constant factor.
result Muon with Newton-Schulz converges to the same stationary point as SVD-polar, up to a constant factor.
Deep learning algorithms often require solving a highly non-linear and nonconvex unconstrained optimization problem. Methods for solving optimization problems in large-scale machine learning, such as deep learning and deep reinforcement learning (RL), are generally restricted to the class of first-order algorithms, lik…