arXiv:2605. 08488v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We develop a unified Lyapunov-integral quadratic constraint (IQC) framework for establishing uniform stability of first-order accelerated optimization algorithms in the $\beta$-smooth and $\gamma$-strongly convex regime.
By Don Li, Dacian Daescu
arXiv:2604. 08580v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reward fine-tuning of diffusion and flow models and sampling from tilted or Boltzmann distributions can both be formulated as stochastic optimal control (SOC) problems, where learning an optimal generative dynamics corresponds to optimizing a control under SDE constraints.
By Carles Domingo-Enrich, Jiequn Han
arXiv:2607. 11005v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper develops a model-free reinforcement learning framework for continuous--time extended mean field control problems, where both the dynamics and reward may depend on the joint distribution of states and controls.
By Ziheng Cheng, Xin Guo, Huy\^en Pham, Yufei Zhang
arXiv:2606. 17523v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Information-Geometric Optimization (IGO) provides a unified framework for black-box optimization by interpreting the adaptation of a search distribution as a natural gradient update.
By Ryosuke Kimura, Youhei Akimoto
arXiv:2307. 10053v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In this paper, we focus on providing convergence guarantees for stochastic subgradient methods in minimizing nonsmooth nonconvex functions.
By Nachuan Xiao, Xiaoyin Hu, Kim-Chuan Toh
arXiv:2608. 02844v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We develop a class of diffusion-based stochastic particle optimisation methods for loss functions with intractable gradients.
By Jiechen Jackie Zhang, O. Deniz Akyildiz