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: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: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:2606. 00542v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Shampoo-style optimizers approximate gradient covariance matrices using Kronecker-factored structures.
By Bing Liu, Wenjie Zhou, Chengcheng Zhao
arXiv:2607. 22263v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A data-driven inverse optimization problem (DDIOP) is the problem of estimating the objective-function parameters (weights) that explain observed optimal-solution data, and it arises in many applications, including integer linear programming (ILP).
By Akira Kitaoka
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:2608. 14396v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM), as a landmark algorithm, has attracted tremendous research attention and extensive practical applications over the past two decades.
By Kenan Xu, Xiangfeng Wang
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:2602. 20376v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study the problem of maximizing a complex-valued quadratic form over the $K^{\text{th}}$ roots of unity.
By Ria Stevens, Fangshuo Liao, Barbara Su, Thanasis Hadjidimoulas, Jianqiang Li, Anastasios Kyrillidis
arXiv:2607. 25624v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Positive quadratic networks admit the low-rank representation f_U(x)=x^top UU^top x, where Uinmathbb{R}^{dtimes r} is identifiable only up to right orthogonal multiplication, representing a rank-r PSD matrix Q=UU^top.
By Pengcheng Cheng
arXiv:2607. 18745v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study low-precision computation of C=AB with both factors quantized.
By Piyush Sao, Narasinga Miniskar, Pedro Valero-Lara, Keita Teranishi, Sudip Seal