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When the objective function is differentiable, sub-gradient methods for unconstrained problems use the same search direction as the method of steepest descent. Subgradient methods are slower than Newton's method when applied to minimize twice continuously differentiable convex functions.
Rigorously, a subderivative of a convex function : at a point in the open interval is a real number such that () for all .By the converse of the mean value theorem, the set of subderivatives at for a convex function is a nonempty closed interval [,], where and are the one-sided limits = (), = + ().
The Frank–Wolfe algorithm is an iterative first-order optimization algorithm for constrained convex optimization.Also known as the conditional gradient method, [1] reduced gradient algorithm and the convex combination algorithm, the method was originally proposed by Marguerite Frank and Philip Wolfe in 1956. [2]
The calculus of variations (or variational calculus) is a field of mathematical analysis that uses variations, which are small changes in functions and functionals, to find maxima and minima of functionals: mappings from a set of functions to the real numbers.
Convex optimization is a subfield of mathematical optimization that studies the problem of minimizing convex functions over convex sets (or, equivalently, maximizing concave functions over convex sets). Many classes of convex optimization problems admit polynomial-time algorithms, [1] whereas mathematical optimization is in general NP-hard. [2 ...
Since the subdifferential of a proper, convex, lower semicontinuous function on a Hilbert space is inverse to the subdifferential of its convex conjugate, we can conclude that if is the maximizer of the above expression, then := is the minimizer in the primal formulation and vice versa.
Bregman method — row-action method for strictly convex optimization problems; Proximal gradient method — use splitting of objective function in sum of possible non-differentiable pieces; Subgradient method — extension of steepest descent for problems with a non-differentiable objective function
In numerical optimization, the Broyden–Fletcher–Goldfarb–Shanno (BFGS) algorithm is an iterative method for solving unconstrained nonlinear optimization problems. [1] Like the related Davidon–Fletcher–Powell method, BFGS determines the descent direction by preconditioning the gradient with curvature information.