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most citedLower Bounds and Optimal Algorithms for Personalized Federated Learning

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cs.LG2025

Preconditioned Norms: A Unified Framework for Steepest Descent, Quasi-Newton and Adaptive Methods

Andrey Veprikov, Arman Bolatov, Aleksandr Bogdanov +4

Optimization lies at the core of modern deep learning, yet existing methods often face a fundamental trade-off between adapting to problem geometry and leveraging curvature utiliza…

math.OC2025

Loss-Transformation Invariance in the Damped Newton Method

Alexander Shestakov, Sushil Bohara, Samuel Horváth +2

The Newton method is a powerful optimization algorithm, valued for its rapid local convergence and elegant geometric properties. However, its theoretical guarantees are usually lim…

math.OC2025

Simple Stepsize for Quasi-Newton Methods with Global Convergence Guarantees

Artem Agafonov, Vladislav Ryspayev, Samuel Horváth +3

Quasi-Newton methods are widely used for solving convex optimization problems due to their ease of implementation, practical efficiency, and strong local convergence guarantees. Ho…

math.OC2025

Polyak Stepsize: Estimating Optimal Functional Values Without Parameters or Prior Knowledge

Farshed Abdukhakimov, Cuong Anh Pham, Samuel Horváth +2

The Polyak stepsize for Gradient Descent is known for its fast convergence but requires prior knowledge of the optimal functional value, which is often unavailable in practice. In…

cs.LG2024

DAG: Projected Stochastic Approximation Iteration for DAG Structure Learning

Klea Ziu, Slavomír Hanzely, Loka Li +3

Learning the structure of Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) presents a significant challenge due to the vast combinatorial search space of possible graphs, which scales exponentially…

math.OC2024

Newton Method Revisited: Global Convergence Rates up to for Stepsize Schedules and Linesearch Procedures

Slavomír Hanzely, Farshed Abdukhakimov, Martin Takáč

This paper investigates the global convergence of stepsized Newton methods for convex functions with Hölder continuous Hessians or third derivatives. We propose several simple step…

cs.LG2023

Adaptive Optimization Algorithms for Machine Learning

Slavomír Hanzely

Machine learning assumes a pivotal role in our data-driven world. The increasing scale of models and datasets necessitates quick and reliable algorithms for model training. This di…

math.OC2023

Sketch-and-Project Meets Newton Method: Global Convergence with Low-Rank Updates

Slavomír Hanzely

In this paper, we propose the first sketch-and-project Newton method with fast global convergence rate for self-concordant functions. Our method, SGN, can be v…

math.OC2023

Convergence of First-Order Algorithms for Meta-Learning with Moreau Envelopes

Konstantin Mishchenko, Slavomír Hanzely, Peter Richtárik

In this work, we consider the problem of minimizing the sum of Moreau envelopes of given functions, which has previously appeared in the context of meta-learning and personalized f…

math.OC2022

A Damped Newton Method Achieves Global and Local Quadratic Convergence Rate

Slavomír Hanzely, Dmitry Kamzolov, Dmitry Pasechnyuk +3

In this paper, we present the first stepsize schedule for Newton method resulting in fast global and local convergence guarantees. In particular, a) we prove an $O\left( \frac 1 {k…

cs.LG2022★ 3 cited

Distributed Newton-Type Methods with Communication Compression and Bernoulli Aggregation

Rustem Islamov, Xun Qian, Slavomír Hanzely +2

Despite their high computation and communication costs, Newton-type methods remain an appealing option for distributed training due to their robustness against ill-conditioned conv…

cs.LG2020★ 64 cited

Lower Bounds and Optimal Algorithms for Personalized Federated Learning

Filip Hanzely, Slavomír Hanzely, Samuel Horváth +1

In this work, we consider the optimization formulation of personalized federated learning recently introduced by Hanzely and Richtárik (2020) which was shown to give an alternative…