arXiv:2606. 14970v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) has become a central application of modern optimization, enabling pretrained models to adapt to diverse downstream tasks and domain-specific data.
By Dmitriy Bystrov, Daniil Medyakov, Dmitry Bylinkin, Aleksandr Beznosikov
arXiv:2405. 04376v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Hyperparameter tuning, particularly the selection of an appropriate learning rate in adaptive gradient training methods, remains a challenge.
By Yijiang Pang, Shuyang Yu, Bao Hoang, Jiayu Zhou
arXiv:2607. 28036v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: It is well known that Newton's method converges faster when the initial guess is closer to a root of a system of nonlinear equations.
By R\'emy Vallot (CB, Michelin), Florian de Vuyst (BMBI), Thibault Dairay (CB, Michelin), Mathilde Mougeot (CB, ENSIIE, ENS Paris Saclay)
arXiv:2606. 07574v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Manifold-constrained hyper-connections (mHCs) have recently been proposed as a principled extension of hyper-connections, where the residual mixing matrices are constrained to be doubly stochastic via projection onto the Birkhoff polytope.
By Chenrui Wang, Yixuan Qiu
arXiv:2607. 22467v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Data scarcity poses a fundamental challenge in training generative models to produce initial guesses for parametric optimization problems that are otherwise numerically expensive to solve.
By Anjian Li, Ryne Beeson
arXiv:2606. 06641v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present Accelerated Fourier SAT (AFSAT), a GPU-accelerated solver for pseudo-Boolean satisfiability based on continuous local search (CLS).
By Cody J Christopher, Charles Gretton
arXiv:2607. 04033v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Optimizer selection for large-scale model training has become a system-level design decision constrained jointly by compute, memory, tuning budget, and task diversity, yet the landscape of over one hundred methods remains fragmented.
By Siyuan Li, Jiabao Pan, Yumou Liu, Zhuoli Ouyang, Xin Jin, Xinglong Xu, Jingxuan Wei, Shengye Pang, Jintao Che, Xuanhe Zhou, Conghui He, Cheng Tan
arXiv:2607. 16261v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern optimizers combine gradients from the current mini-batch with historical optimization state, such as momentum or adaptive moments.
By Apostolos Avranas
arXiv:2601. 13994v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Differentiable sparse linear algebra is foundational for scientific machine learning, yet PyTorch lacks a unified library for it: torch.
By Mingyuan Chi, Shizheng Wen
arXiv:2607. 28456v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Solving large, sparse linear systems is a core task in scientific computing, and efficient iterative solvers rely critically on effective and robust preconditioning.
By Zechen Zhang, Rui Peng Li, Yousef Saad
arXiv:2608. 08085v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Code performance optimization is a vital aspect of modern software development, as it enables faster response times and reduced resource usage.
By Ji\v{r}\'i Klepl, Maty'a\v{s} Brabec, Martin Kruli\v{s}
arXiv:2607. 05240v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Computing-in-Memory (CIM) accelerators execute Matrix-Vector Multiplications (MVMs) in memory, making them a compelling solution for Machine Learning (ML) workloads.
By Joel Klein, Rebecca Pelke, Roberto Laudani, Jan Moritz Joseph, Rainer Leupers