Quasi-Newton Methods: A New Direction
2012
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Four decades after their invention, quasi- Newton methods are still state of the art in unconstrained numerical optimization. Although not usually interpreted thus, these are learning algorithms that fit a local quadratic approximation to the objective function. We show that many, including the most popular, quasi-Newton methods can be interpreted as approximations of Bayesian linear regression under varying prior assumptions. This new notion elucidates some shortcomings of classical algorithms, and lights the way to a novel nonparametric quasi-Newton method, which is able to make more efficient use of available information at computational cost similar to its predecessors.
Author(s): | Hennig, Philipp and Kiefel, Martin |
Book Title: | Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Machine Learning |
Pages: | 25--32 |
Year: | 2012 |
Month: | July |
Series: | ICML '12 |
Editors: | John Langford and Joelle Pineau |
Publisher: | Omnipress |
Department(s): | Empirical Inference, Perceiving Systems, Probabilistic Numerics |
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Bibtex Type: | Conference Paper (inproceedings) |
Paper Type: | Conference |
Event Name: | ICML 2012 |
Event Place: | Edinburgh, Scotland, GB |
Address: | New York, NY, USA |
URL: | http://www.is.tuebingen.mpg.de/fileadmin/user_upload/files/publications/2012/Hennig_Kiefel_ICML2012.pdf |
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BibTex @inproceedings{optimization, title = {Quasi-Newton Methods: A New Direction}, author = {Hennig, Philipp and Kiefel, Martin}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Machine Learning}, pages = {25--32}, series = {ICML '12}, editors = {John Langford and Joelle Pineau}, publisher = {Omnipress}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, month = jul, year = {2012}, doi = {}, url = {http://www.is.tuebingen.mpg.de/fileadmin/user_upload/files/publications/2012/Hennig_Kiefel_ICML2012.pdf}, month_numeric = {7} } |