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Main Author: Pinta, Titus
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.21078
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author Pinta, Titus
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contents We introduce a new framework for analyzing (Quasi-}Newton type methods applied to non-smooth optimization problems. The source of randomness comes from the evaluation of the (approximation) of the Hessian. We derive, using a variant of Chernoff bounds for stopping times, expectation and probability bounds for the random variable representing the number of iterations of the algorithm until approximate first order optimality conditions are validated. As an important distinction to previous results in the literature, we do not require that the estimator is unbiased or that it has finite variance. We then showcase our theoretical results in a stochastic Quasi-Newton method for X-ray free electron laser orbital tomography and in a sketched Newton method for image denoising.
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spellingShingle A Stochastic Newton-type Method for Non-smooth Optimization
Pinta, Titus
Optimization and Control
We introduce a new framework for analyzing (Quasi-}Newton type methods applied to non-smooth optimization problems. The source of randomness comes from the evaluation of the (approximation) of the Hessian. We derive, using a variant of Chernoff bounds for stopping times, expectation and probability bounds for the random variable representing the number of iterations of the algorithm until approximate first order optimality conditions are validated. As an important distinction to previous results in the literature, we do not require that the estimator is unbiased or that it has finite variance. We then showcase our theoretical results in a stochastic Quasi-Newton method for X-ray free electron laser orbital tomography and in a sketched Newton method for image denoising.
title A Stochastic Newton-type Method for Non-smooth Optimization
topic Optimization and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.21078