A Fully First-Order Layer for Differentiable Optimization
arXiv:2512. 02494v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Differentiable optimization layers enable learning systems to make decisions by solving embedded optimization problems.
arXiv:2607. 10263v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bilevel optimization underpins many machine learning applications, including hyperparameter optimization, meta-learning, neural architecture search, and reinforcement learning.
arXiv:2512. 02494v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Differentiable optimization layers enable learning systems to make decisions by solving embedded optimization problems.
arXiv:2601. 15363v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Functional bilevel optimization (FBO) provides a powerful framework for hierarchical learning in function spaces, yet current methods are limited to static offline settings and perform suboptimally in online, non-stationary scenarios.
arXiv:2607. 28849v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Bilevel reinforcement learning (RL) is an important framework within the literature of RL that can be used to formalize various categories of problems, such as meta-learning, hierarchical task decomposition, and reinforcement learning from human feedback (RL-HF).
arXiv:2605. 18694v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Many tasks in modern machine learning are observed to involve heavy-tailed gradient noise during the optimization process.
arXiv:2505. 01258v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Bilevel optimization has recently attracted significant attention in machine learning due to its wide range of applications and advanced hierarchical optimization capabilities.
arXiv:2405. 00914v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present in this paper novel accelerated fully first-order methods in \emph{Bilevel Optimization} (BLO).
arXiv:2409. 03682v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Learning new tasks by leveraging prior experience is a fundamental trait of intelligent systems.
arXiv:2607. 04233v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Gradient based optimization methods are nowadays the methods of choice for training deep neural networks (DNNs) in artificial intelligence (AI) systems.
arXiv:2606. 04031v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Coupled gradient descent--where the update of one parameter block depends on another--underlies bilevel optimization, two-time-scale stochastic approximation, and adversarial training.
arXiv:2511. 22331v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Bilevel optimization minimizes an objective function, defined by an upper-level problem whose feasible region is the solution of a lower-level problem.
arXiv:2607. 23925v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Gradient descent scales well to large models, but becomes unstable over long time horizons.
arXiv:2606. 08993v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We propose LEAF, a learning-enabled ADMM framework for accelerated convex optimization.