arXiv:2607. 07206v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Adaptive optimizers mix several mechanisms: a metric or preconditioner maps gradients to descent directions, while estimation, memory, step-size control, constraints, stochasticity, target modification, and discretization determine which directions are available and how they are used.
By Zavier Li
arXiv:2607. 07204v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Optimization geometrodynamics views optimizer state as evolving geometry.
By Zavier Li
arXiv:2607. 07204v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Structured preconditioners restrict optimization to a small family of positive metrics, but endpoint condition-number reachability does not measure the geometric effort required to reach a useful metric.
By Zavier Li
arXiv:2510. 01943v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Quasar-convex functions form a broad nonconvex class with applications to linear dynamical systems, generalized linear models, and Riemannian optimization, among others.
By David Mart\'inez-Rubio
arXiv:2607. 22004v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Energy natural gradient descent (ENGD) aligns parameter updates with the curvature of an underlying function-space energy, but existing formulations assume an unconstrained Euclidean parameter domain.
By Zhangyong Liang, Huanhuan Gao
arXiv:2607. 06723v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Adaptive optimizers carry hidden states that change how visible gradients become parameter motion.
By Zavier Li
arXiv:2606. 12120v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Low-rank optimal transport (OT) mitigates the quadratic scaling of classical solvers, yet existing approaches rely heavily on first-order mirror-descent updates that require careful hyperparameter tuning and ignore the optimization landscape's curvature.
By Pratik Jawanpuria, Bamdev Mishra
arXiv:2608. 02487v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recently, rectified flow has emerged as a fundamental framework for large-scale image generation, powering state-of-the-art systems such as FLUX.
By Leda Wang, Zhehao Xu, Qiang Liu, Harrison H. Zhou
arXiv:2510. 21033v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We develop a theory of iso-Riemannian optimization for problems constrained to learned data manifolds, a setting in which classical Riemannian optimization - and Riemannian gradient descent in particular - can be poorly suited.
By Willem Diepeveen, Melanie Weber
The limited-memory BFGS (L-BFGS) algorithm is a cornerstone of large-scale optimization due to its linear memory and computational costs. However, in ill-conditioned or non-convex landscapes, the implicit inverse Hessian approximation can suffer from an exploding condition number, leading to numerical instability and degraded convergence.
arXiv:2209. 15130v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study a general matrix optimization problem with a fixed-rank positive semidefinite (PSD) constraint.
By Yuetian Luo, Nicolas Garcia Trillos
arXiv:2607. 05836v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The limited-memory BFGS (L-BFGS) algorithm is a cornerstone of large-scale optimization due to its linear memory and computational costs.
By Don Li