arXiv:2608. 11749v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-objective optimization (MOO) has demonstrated significant success in multi-task learning by mitigating task conflicts through gradient manipulation.
By Shiji Zhou, Kunlin Lyu, Lei Zhang, Ruodong Wang, Yifan Sun
The paper introduces Policy Gradient Penalty (PGP), a single‑loop policy‑space method that enforces convex occupancy‑measure constraints via quadratic‑penalty regularization. PGP constructs pseudo‑rewards to estimate gradients of the penalized objective and uses the classical Policy Gradient Theorem, establishing smoothness and global last‑iterate convergence guarantees for an ε‑optimal constrained entropy value with ε‑bounded constraint violation. The authors validate PGP with ablations on a grid‑world benchmark and demonstrate scalability on two challenging continuous‑control tasks.
By Florian Wolf, Ilyas Fatkhullin, Niao He
arXiv:2607. 15412v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-objective learning (MOL) aims to optimize multiple objectives simultaneously.
By Chentong Huang, Lisha Chen
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. 06723v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Most gradient-based optimization methods move parameters through a fixed background geometry, even when their internal states implicitly define changing notions of length, curvature, and preconditioning.
By Zavier Li
arXiv:2606. 08783v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Orthogonalized momentum updates, as used in Muon-style optimizers, have recently shown strong empirical stability in large-scale deep learning.
By Ganzhao Yuan
arXiv:2608. 12009v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Bregman proximal stochastic gradient (BPSG) methods bring variance-reduced composite optimization to objectives whose geometry is poorly captured by Euclidean smoothness.
By Chenhan Jin, Shengze Xu, Binghui Xie, Kaiwen Zhou, Fan Jia, James Cheng, Tieyong Zeng
arXiv:2601. 21487v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study minimization of smooth functions over feasible sets that have smooth embedded-manifold structure throughout or only on selected regions, using linear minimization oracles (LMOs) to determine search directions under user-chosen norms.
By Kaiwei Yang, Lexiao Lai
arXiv:2605.05660v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Multi-objective optimization (MOO) has received growing attention in applications that require learning under multiple criteria. However, most exis...
By Yufeng Yang, Fangning Zhuo, Ziyi Chen, Heng Huang, Yi Zhou
arXiv:2607. 22906v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study adaptive gradient descent for continuously differentiable, possibly nonconvex objectives under one-sided H\"older regularity.
By Arzu Ahmadova, Ismail Huseynov
arXiv:2606. 11431v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mirror Descent (MD) extends Gradient Descent (GD) beyond Euclidean geometry and has recently reappeared as a lens for KL-regularized policy optimization in reinforcement learning and LLM post-training.
By Shira Vansover-Hager, Matan Schliserman, Ofir Schlisselberg, Tomer Koren
arXiv:2610.07290v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Recent advances in penalty-based methods for stochastic bilevel optimization (SBO) have eliminated the need for second-order derivative oracles. Howe...
By Xingyu Chen, Ming Yang, Quanqi Hu, Tianbao Yang