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Global linear convergence of Newton's method without strong-convexity or Lipschitz gradients

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We show that Newton's method converges globally at a linear rate for objective functions whose Hessians are stable. This class of problems includes many functions which are not strongly convex, such as logistic regression. Our linear convergence result is (i) affine-invariant, and holds even if an (ii) approximate Hessian is used, and if the subproblems are (iii) only solved approximately. Thus we theoretically demonstrate the superiority of Newton's method over first-order methods, which would only achieve a sublinear $O(1/t^2)$ rate under similar conditions.

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INTHOP: A Second-Order Globally Convergent Method for Nonconvex Optimization

math.OC · 2025-10-25 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

INTHOP is a second-order method that bounds the difference between an approximate positive definite Hessian and the exact one within an interval, reuses the approximation when iterates stay inside it, and proves global convergence while showing fewer evaluations than steepest descent or quasi-Newton

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  • Distributionally Robust Linear Regression With Block Lewis Weights cs.LG · 2026-06-30 · unverdicted · none · ref 10 · internal anchor

    Algorithm for group distributionally robust linear regression using block Lewis weights to achieve (1+ε) optimality in Õ(min{rank(A), m}^{1/3} ε^{-2/3}) linear-system solves.

  • INTHOP: A Second-Order Globally Convergent Method for Nonconvex Optimization math.OC · 2025-10-25 · unverdicted · none · ref 33 · internal anchor

    INTHOP is a second-order method that bounds the difference between an approximate positive definite Hessian and the exact one within an interval, reuses the approximation when iterates stay inside it, and proves global convergence while showing fewer evaluations than steepest descent or quasi-Newton