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Auteurs principaux: Lauga, Guillaume, Molinari, Cesare, Vaiter, Samuel
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Publié: 2026
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Accès en ligne:https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.18364
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author Lauga, Guillaume
Molinari, Cesare
Vaiter, Samuel
author_facet Lauga, Guillaume
Molinari, Cesare
Vaiter, Samuel
contents Global optimization is a challenging problem, with plenty of algorithms displaying empirical success, but scarce theoretical backing. In this work, we propose a new theoretical framework called Proximal Basin Hopping (PBH), carefully tailored to combine proximal optimization and local minimization. We use it to construct a practical algorithm that converges to the global minimizer with high probability, when using a finite amount of samples. Proximal Basin Hopping outperforms well known algorithms with theoretical backing on standard synthetic hard functions, and real problems such as fitting scaling laws for deep learning. Furthermore, the higher the dimension, the better the performance gap.
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spellingShingle Proximal basin hopping: global optimization with guarantees
Lauga, Guillaume
Molinari, Cesare
Vaiter, Samuel
Machine Learning
Optimization and Control
Global optimization is a challenging problem, with plenty of algorithms displaying empirical success, but scarce theoretical backing. In this work, we propose a new theoretical framework called Proximal Basin Hopping (PBH), carefully tailored to combine proximal optimization and local minimization. We use it to construct a practical algorithm that converges to the global minimizer with high probability, when using a finite amount of samples. Proximal Basin Hopping outperforms well known algorithms with theoretical backing on standard synthetic hard functions, and real problems such as fitting scaling laws for deep learning. Furthermore, the higher the dimension, the better the performance gap.
title Proximal basin hopping: global optimization with guarantees
topic Machine Learning
Optimization and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.18364