Examines quantum mechanics equivalence with Newtonian geometry.
problem Equivalence principle in quantum mechanics.
method Newton--Cartan geometry, non--relativistic twistor theory.
result Discusses equivalence in quantum mechanics.
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Paper develops a robust PP distributed quasi-Newton estimation for Byzantine machines.
problem Byzantine machines in distributed computing under Privacy Protection constraints.
method Robust PP distributed quasi-Newton estimation method that transmits only five vectors.
result Reduces privacy budgeting and transmission cost compared to gradient descent and Newton iteration.
Develops a new SPP algorithm with variance reduction for weakly convex optimization.
problem Weakly convex, composite optimization problems.
method Inexact semismooth Newton framework with variance reduction for stochastic proximal point updates.
result Establishes convergence results for the proposed algorithm.
Reviewing Newtonian mechanics in curved spaces.
problem Understanding Newtonian mechanics in non-Euclidean spaces.
method Generalizing Newtonian mechanics to Riemannian manifolds.
result Newtonian principles extend to curved spaces.
Develops computational methods for simulating rigid body dynamics on SO(3).
problem Simulating rotational dynamics of rigid bodies on SO(3).
method Discrete Mechanics, Variational Integrators, Newton-Raphson algorithm.
result Preserves symplectic structure of SO(3) manifold dynamics.
Transformers can approximate Newton's method for logistic regression.
problem Implementing higher order optimization methods in Transformers.
method Linear attention Transformers with ReLU layers approximating second order optimization algorithms.
result Transformers can implement a single step of Newton's iteration for matrix inversion.
On Newton Screeningstat.ML
Develops a new screening method called Newton screening for faster and more accurate sparse learning.
problem Sparse learning problems with large-scale optimization.
method Newton screening method with built-in working set and dual variable updates.
result Newton screening achieves one-step local convergence and sharp estimation error bound.
In this paper we study a class of physical systems that combine a finite number of mechanical and thermodynamic observables. We call them finite dimensional thermo-mechanical systems. We introduce these systems by means of simple examples. The evolution equations of the involved observables are obtained in each example…
New approach removes data influence in high dimensions with single step.
problem Efficiently removing data influence in high-dimensional settings with strong convexity and smoothness assumptions.
method Introduces ε-Gaussian certifiability and analyzes Newton method performance.
result Single Newton step followed by Gaussian noise achieves privacy and accuracy.
In this paper we propose a look at the capital risk problem inspired by deterministic, known from classical mechanics, problem of juggling. We propose capital equivalents to the Newton's laws of motion and on this basis we determine the most secure form of credit repayment with regard to maximisation of profit. Then we…
Electrostatics method samples complex distributions deterministically.
problem Sampling and inference of complex, high-dimensional distributions.
method Electrostatics-based particle system with Newton mechanics principles.
result Method achieves comparable performance to other methods in benchmark tasks.
A new method for optimization in probability space using Newton's flows.
problem Optimization in probability space with information metrics.
method Information Newton's flows, including Fisher-Rao and Wasserstein-2 metrics, with Newton's Langevin dynamics and variational methods.
result Effective numerical implementation and convergence results for the proposed method.
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…
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.
Predictive coding networks are shown to be stable, robust, and converge faster than backpropagation.
problem Stability, robustness, and convergence of predictive coding networks.
method Dynamical systems theory and Lyapunov stability analysis.
result Predictive coding networks are Lyapunov stable and converge faster than backpropagation.
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.
Simple stochastic Newton and cubic Newton methods with fast convergence.
problem Minimizing large numbers of smooth and strongly convex functions.
method Stochastic Newton and cubic Newton methods with simple local linear-quadratic rates.
result Local linear-quadratic convergence results with fast adaptation to problem's curvature.
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.
New algorithm improves convergence of gradient boosting trees.
problem Global convergence of Newton boosting in tabular machine learning.
method Introduces Gradient Regularized Newton Descent for GBDTs, proving linear convergence for smooth, strongly convex losses and rate for general convex losses.
result Achieves globally convergent second-order GBDT algorithm with rate matching first-order boosting.
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…
Boosting algorithms are frequently used in applied data science and in research. To date, the distinction between boosting with either gradient descent or second-order Newton updates is often not made in both applied and methodological research, and it is thus implicitly assumed that the difference is irrelevant. The g…
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.
Study uses Newton polytopes to distinguish Lagrangian fillings of Legendrian submanifolds.
problem Distinguishing Lagrangian fillings of Legendrian submanifolds.
method Utilizes Newton polytopes associated with augmented values of Reeb chords.
result Newton polytopes can distinguish infinitely many distinct Lagrangian fillings.
Unified approach to Bayesian inference with guarantees on covariance matrices.
problem Approximate Bayesian inference with PSD guarantees.
method Bayes-Newton methods extending Newton's method for optimisation.
result Novel algorithms with PSD covariance matrices.
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.
Since the discovery of differential calculus by Newton and Leibniz and the subsequent continuous growth of its applications to physics, mechanics, geometry, etc, it was observed that partial derivatives in the study of various natural problems are (self-)organized in certain structures usually called geometric. Tensors…
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.
The paper characterizes potential functions whose level sets are orbits in mechanical systems.
problem Characterizing smooth potential energy functions on the plane with specific level set properties.
method Analyzing inverse curvature flow and properties of level sets.
result Analytic or functions with totally path-disconnected critical sets must be radial, while every compact convex set is a critical set of a Levi potential.
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.
Proposes a Quasi-Newton trust region method for policy optimization in reinforcement learning.
problem Lack of stepsize selection criterion and slow convergence in gradient descent for policy optimization.
method Uses a trust region method with Quasi-Newton approximation for the Hessian.
result Demonstrates improved performance and efficiency in continuous control tasks.
This thesis disentangles Gauss-Newton and variational approximations in Bayesian deep learning.
problem Understanding the interplay between the Gauss-Newton method and variational approximations in Bayesian deep learning.
method Analysis of the Gauss-Newton method and Laplace/Gaussian variational approximations for neural networks.
result The combination of the Gauss-Newton method with approximate inference can be cast as inference in a linear or Gaussian process model.
SVRN accelerates Newton methods by reducing variance and improving performance.
problem Improving the efficiency of Newton methods for large-scale optimization problems.
method Stochastic Variance-Reduced Newton (SVRN) algorithm that accelerates Subsampled Newton and Iterative Hessian Sketch algorithms.
result SVRN accelerates Newton methods by reducing the number of passes over the data, achieving a significant improvement in performance.
In this article we present a natural generalization of Newton's Second Law valid in field theory, i.e., when the parameterized curves are replaced by parameterized submanifolds of higher dimension. For it we introduce what we have called the geodesic -vector field, analogous to the ordinary geodesic field and which …
The second order method as Newton Step is a suitable technique in Online Learning to guarantee regret bound. The large data is a challenge in Newton method to store second order matrices as hessian. In this paper, we have proposed an modified online Newton step that store first and second order matrices of dimension m …
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…
Study of measured laminations on surfaces using Newton polytopes and Poisson brackets.
problem Understanding the space of measured laminations on surfaces from a valuative perspective.
method Introducing Newton polytopes for character variety functions, defining tangent spaces, and identifying symplectic structures.
result Trace functions have unit coefficients at the extremal points of their Newton polytopes.
Approximate Newton methods are a standard optimization tool which aim to maintain the benefits of Newton's method, such as a fast rate of convergence, whilst alleviating its drawbacks, such as computationally expensive calculation or estimation of the inverse Hessian. In this work we investigate approximate Newton meth…
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.
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.
Four decades after their invention, quasi-Newton methods are still state of the art in unconstrained numerical optimization. Although not usually interpreted thus, these are learning algorithms that fit a local quadratic approximation to the objective function. We show that many, including the most popular, quasi-Newto…
A new quasi-Newton method uses cubic regularization to avoid saddle points in deep learning.
problem Avoiding saddle points and poor local minima in deep learning models.
method Limited-memory symmetric rank-one quasi-Newton approach with adaptive regularized cubics.
result The method effectively avoids saddle points and converges to better local minima.
Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithms allow artificial agents to improve their action selections so as to increase rewarding experiences in their environments. Deep Reinforcement Learning algorithms require solving a nonconvex and nonlinear unconstrained optimization problem. Methods for solving the optimization probl…
Improved training of large-scale neural networks with reduced variance noise.
problem Training large-scale neural networks with high variance noise.
method Stochastic variance reduced Nesterov's Accelerated Quasi-Newton method (SVR-NAQ).
result Improved performance compared to conventional methods on benchmark problems.
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.
New method uses adaptive sampling for optimization in uncertain conditions.
problem Optimizing functions with unknown gradients in uncertain environments.
method Adaptive sampling quasi-Newton method with finite differences and norm tests.
result Potential performance benefits of the proposed method demonstrated in preliminary experiments.
This paper improves NAQ method for faster convergence on Tensorflow.
problem Non-convex optimization problems.
method Modified Nesterov's Accelerated Quasi-Newton (NAQ) method on Tensorflow.
result mNAQ converges better and faster than first and second order optimizers.
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.
A Riemannian Optimization Perspective of the Gauss-Newton Method for Feedforward Neural Networksmath.OC
The Gauss-Newton method is analyzed for neural networks using Riemannian optimization techniques.
problem Training neural networks with smooth activations and convergence rates.
method Riemannian optimization perspective, analyzing the Gauss-Newton method in both underparameterized and overparameterized regimes.
result Geometric convergence rates independent of conditioning and eigenvalues, demonstrating accelerated convergence.