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Nonlinear conjugate gradient for smooth convex functions
Sahar Karimi, Stephen Vavasis
The method of nonlinear conjugate gradients (NCG) is widely used in practice for unconstrained optimization, but it satisfies weak complexity bounds at best when applied to smooth…
A single potential governing convergence of conjugate gradient, accelerated gradient and geometric descent
Sahar Karimi, Stephen Vavasis
Nesterov's accelerated gradient (AG) method for minimizing a smooth strongly convex function is known to reduce by a factor of after $k=…
Practical Integer-to-Binary Mapping for Quantum Annealers
Sahar Karimi, Pooya Ronagh
Recent advancements in quantum annealing hardware and numerous studies in this area suggests that quantum annealers have the potential to be effective in solving unconstrained bina…
A Subgradient Approach for Constrained Binary Optimization via Quantum Adiabatic Evolution
Sahar Karimi, Pooya Ronagh
An earlier work [18] proposes a method for solving the Lagrangian dual of a constrained binary quadratic programming problem via quantum adiabatic evolution using an outer approxim…
A unified convergence bound for conjugate gradient and accelerated gradient
Sahar Karimi, Stephen A. Vavasis
Nesterov's accelerated gradient method for minimizing a smooth strongly convex function is known to reduce $f(\x_k)-f(\x^*)$ by a factor of $\eps\in(0,1)$ after $k\ge O(\sqrt{L…
IMRO: a proximal quasi-Newton method for solving -regularized least square problem
Sahar Karimi, Stephen Vavasis
We present a proximal quasi-Newton method in which the approximation of the Hessian has the special format of "identity minus rank one" (IMRO) in each iteration. The proposed struc…
Detecting and correcting the loss of independence in nonlinear conjugate gradient
Sahar Karimi, Stephen Vavasis
It is well known that search directions in nonlinear conjugate gradient (CG) can sometimes become nearly dependent, causing a dramatic slow-down in the convergence rate. We provide…