🧬Optimization

Non-Convex Optimization

Optimization in non-convex landscapes

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Also includes: non-convex optimization, nonconvex, loss landscape, saddle points

Top Papers

#1

GLOP: Learning Global Partition and Local Construction for Solving Large-Scale Routing Problems in Real-Time

Haoran Ye, Jiarui Wang, Helan Liang et al.

AAAI 2024arXiv:2312.08224
neural solversrouting problemstravelling salesman problemsautoregressive neural heuristics+4
76
citations
#2

Methods for Convex $(L_0,L_1)$-Smooth Optimization: Clipping, Acceleration, and Adaptivity

Eduard Gorbunov, Nazarii Tupitsa, Sayantan Choudhury et al.

ICLR 2025
27
citations
#3

SimPER: A Minimalist Approach to Preference Alignment without Hyperparameters

Teng Xiao, Yige Yuan, Zhengyu Chen et al.

ICLR 2025arXiv:2502.00883
preference optimizationlanguage model alignmenthyperparameter-free traininginverse perplexity+2
23
citations
#4

What's in a Prior? Learned Proximal Networks for Inverse Problems

Zhenghan Fang, Sam Buchanan, Jeremias Sulam

ICLR 2024
23
citations
#5

ConFIG: Towards Conflict-free Training of Physics Informed Neural Networks

Qiang Liu, Mengyu Chu, Nils Thuerey

ICLR 2025
21
citations
#6

Leaving the Nest: Going beyond Local Loss Functions for Predict-Then-Optimize

Sanket Shah, Bryan Wilder, Andrew Perrault et al.

AAAI 2024arXiv:2305.16830
predict-then-optimizedecision-making under uncertaintytask-specific loss functionssample efficiency+1
20
citations
#7

Constrained Bayesian Optimization under Partial Observations: Balanced Improvements and Provable Convergence

Shengbo Wang, Ke Li

AAAI 2024arXiv:2312.03212
bayesian optimizationpartial observabilityconstrained optimizationacquisition function design+3
19
citations
#8

Boosting Neural Combinatorial Optimization for Large-Scale Vehicle Routing Problems

Fu Luo, Xi Lin, Yaoxin Wu et al.

ICLR 2025
18
citations
#9

Understanding Optimization in Deep Learning with Central Flows

Jeremy Cohen, Alex Damian, Ameet Talwalkar et al.

ICLR 2025
18
citations
#10

Decentralized Riemannian Conjugate Gradient Method on the Stiefel Manifold

Jun Chen, Haishan Ye, Mengmeng Wang et al.

ICLR 2024
16
citations
#11

Compositional Generative Inverse Design

Tailin Wu, Takashi Maruyama, Long Wei et al.

ICLR 2024
15
citations
#12

Deep Distributed Optimization for Large-Scale Quadratic Programming

Augustinos Saravanos, Hunter Kuperman, Alex Oshin et al.

ICLR 2025
14
citations
#13

Improved Regret Bounds for Linear Adversarial MDPs via Linear Optimization

XiangCheng Zhang, Fang Kong, Baoxiang Wang et al.

ICLR 2025
14
citations
#14

Faster Algorithms for Structured Linear and Kernel Support Vector Machines

Yuzhou Gu, Zhao Song, Lichen Zhang

ICLR 2025
13
citations
#15

Pareto Deep Long-Tailed Recognition: A Conflict-Averse Solution

Zhipeng Zhou, Liu Liu, Peilin Zhao et al.

ICLR 2024
12
citations
#16

Learning to Pivot as a Smart Expert

Tianhao Liu, Shanwen Pu, Dongdong Ge et al.

AAAI 2024arXiv:2308.08171
linear programmingsimplex methodpivot rulesinterior point methods+3
11
citations
#17

Neural Exploratory Landscape Analysis for Meta-Black-Box-Optimization

Zeyuan Ma, Jiacheng Chen, Hongshu Guo et al.

ICLR 2025arXiv:2408.10672
meta-black-box optimizationexploratory landscape analysisattention-based neural networkmulti-task neuroevolution+3
10
citations
#18

Cumulative Regret Analysis of the Piyavskii–Shubert Algorithm and Its Variants for Global Optimization

Kaan Gokcesu, Hakan Gökcesu

AAAI 2024arXiv:2108.10859
global optimizationcumulative regret analysislipschitz continuous functionslipschitz smooth functions+4
10
citations
#19

DiscoMatch: Fast Discrete Optimisation for Geometrically Consistent 3D Shape Matching

Paul Roetzer, Ahmed Abbas, Dongliang Cao et al.

ECCV 2024arXiv:2310.08230
3d shape matchinggeometric consistencycombinatorial optimizationdiscrete optimization+3
10
citations
#20

Few for Many: Tchebycheff Set Scalarization for Many-Objective Optimization

Xi Lin, Yilu Liu, Xiaoyuan Zhang et al.

ICLR 2025
9
citations
#21

Improving Physics-Augmented Continuum Neural Radiance Field-Based Geometry-Agnostic System Identification with Lagrangian Particle Optimization

Takuhiro Kaneko

CVPR 2024
9
citations
#22

Pareto Front-Diverse Batch Multi-Objective Bayesian Optimization

Alaleh Ahmadianshalchi, Syrine Belakaria, Janardhan Rao Doppa

AAAI 2024arXiv:2406.08799
multi-objective optimizationbayesian optimizationacquisition function selectionbatch selection+3
9
citations
#23

SILO: Solving Inverse Problems with Latent Operators

Ron Raphaeli, Sean Man, Michael Elad

ICCV 2025
9
citations
#24

Deep Nonlinear Sufficient Dimension Reduction

Yinfeng Chen, Yuling Jiao, Rui Qiu et al.

NeurIPS 2025
9
citations
#25

Right Now, Wrong Then: Non-Stationary Direct Preference Optimization under Preference Drift

Seongho Son, William Bankes, Sayak Ray Chowdhury et al.

ICML 2025
8
citations
#26

Large-Scale Multi-Robot Coverage Path Planning via Local Search

Jingtao Tang, Hang Ma

AAAI 2024arXiv:2312.10797
coverage path planningmulti-robot systemsgraph-based planninglocal search algorithms+3
8
citations
#27

Online Guidance Graph Optimization for Lifelong Multi-Agent Path Finding

Hongzhi Zang, Yulun Zhang, He Jiang et al.

AAAI 2025
8
citations
#28

Two-timescale Extragradient for Finding Local Minimax Points

Jiseok Chae, Kyuwon Kim, Donghwan Kim

ICLR 2024
7
citations
#29

ALE-Bench: A Benchmark for Long-Horizon Objective-Driven Algorithm Engineering

Yuki Imajuku, Kohki Horie, Yoichi Iwata et al.

NeurIPS 2025
7
citations
#30

Toward Efficient Kernel-Based Solvers for Nonlinear PDEs

Zhitong Xu, Da Long, Yiming Xu et al.

ICML 2025
6
citations
#31

Multi-Session SLAM with Differentiable Wide-Baseline Pose Optimization

Lahav Lipson, Jia Deng

CVPR 2024
6
citations
#32

Optimizing ADMM and Over-Relaxed ADMM Parameters for Linear Quadratic Problems

Song Jintao, Wenqi Lu, Yunwen Lei et al.

AAAI 2024arXiv:2401.00657
admm parameter optimizationover-relaxation techniquelinear quadratic problemspenalty parameter selection+3
6
citations
#33

DOGE-Train: Discrete Optimization on GPU with End-to-End Training

Ahmed Abbas, P. Swoboda

AAAI 2024arXiv:2205.11638
integer linear programsgraph neural networkslagrange decompositiondiscrete optimization+4
6
citations
#34

Volume Optimality in Conformal Prediction with Structured Prediction Sets

Chao Gao, Liren Shan, Vaidehi Srinivas et al.

ICML 2025
6
citations
#35

Massively Parallel Continuous Local Search for Hybrid SAT Solving on GPUs

Yunuo Cen, Zhiwei Zhang, Xuanyao Fong

AAAI 2025
6
citations
#36

Learning a Neural Solver for Parametric PDEs to Enhance Physics-Informed Methods

Lise Le Boudec, Emmanuel de Bézenac, Louis Serrano et al.

ICLR 2025
6
citations
#37

Locally Convex Global Loss Network for Decision-Focused Learning

Haeun Jeon, Hyunglip Bae, Minsu Park et al.

AAAI 2025
6
citations
#38

Flavors of Margin: Implicit Bias of Steepest Descent in Homogeneous Neural Networks

Nikolaos Tsilivis, Gal Vardi, Julia Kempe

ICLR 2025
5
citations
#39

General framework for online-to-nonconvex conversion: Schedule-free SGD is also effective for nonconvex optimization

Kwangjun Ahn, Gagik Magakyan, Ashok Cutkosky

ICML 2025
5
citations
#40

LVFace: Progressive Cluster Optimization for Large Vision Models in Face Recognition

Jinghan You, Shanglin Li, Yuanrui Sun et al.

ICCV 2025
5
citations
#41

Constrained Optimization From a Control Perspective via Feedback Linearization

Runyu Zhang, Arvind Raghunathan, Jeff Shamma et al.

NeurIPS 2025
5
citations
#42

ADMM for Nonconvex Optimization under Minimal Continuity Assumption

Ganzhao Yuan

ICLR 2025
5
citations
#43

Optimization by Parallel Quasi-Quantum Annealing with Gradient-Based Sampling

Yuma Ichikawa, Yamato Arai

ICLR 2025arXiv:2409.02135
combinatorial optimizationcontinuous relaxationdiscrete langevin dynamicsparallel optimization+4
5
citations
#44

Scaling Convex Neural Networks with Burer-Monteiro Factorization

Arda Sahiner, Tolga Ergen, Batu Ozturkler et al.

ICLR 2024
4
citations
#45

Nesterov acceleration in benignly non-convex landscapes

Kanan Gupta, Stephan Wojtowytsch

ICLR 2025
4
citations
#46

UniAP: Unifying Inter- and Intra-Layer Automatic Parallelism by Mixed Integer Quadratic Programming

Hao Lin, Ke Wu, Jie Li et al.

CVPR 2025
4
citations
#47

Second-Order Min-Max Optimization with Lazy Hessians

Lesi Chen, Chengchang Liu, Jingzhao Zhang

ICLR 2025
4
citations
#48

Do Deep Neural Network Solutions Form a Star Domain?

Ankit Sonthalia, Alexander Rubinstein, Ehsan Abbasnejad et al.

ICLR 2025
4
citations
#49

Functional Homotopy: Smoothing Discrete Optimization via Continuous Parameters for LLM Jailbreak Attacks

Zi Wang, Divyam Anshumaan, Ashish Hooda et al.

ICLR 2025arXiv:2410.04234
jailbreak attack synthesisfunctional homotopy methoddiscrete optimizationgradient-based techniques+4
4
citations
#50

Rethinking Neural Combinatorial Optimization for Vehicle Routing Problems with Different Constraint Tightness Degrees

Fu Luo, Yaoxin Wu, Zhi Zheng et al.

NeurIPS 2025arXiv:2505.24627
neural combinatorial optimizationvehicle routing problemsconstraint tightness degreescapacity-constrained vrp+2
4
citations
#51

Aligned Multi Objective Optimization

Yonathan Efroni, Ben Kretzu, Daniel Jiang et al.

ICML 2025
3
citations
#52

Exploring The Loss Landscape Of Regularized Neural Networks Via Convex Duality

Sungyoon Kim, Aaron Mishkin, Mert Pilanci

ICLR 2025
3
citations
#53

Foreseeing Reconstruction Quality of Gradient Inversion: An Optimization Perspective

Hyeong Gwon Hong, Yooshin Cho, Hanbyel Cho et al.

AAAI 2024arXiv:2312.12488
gradient inversion attacksfederated learning securityloss-aware vulnerability proxyhessian eigenvalue analysis+3
3
citations
#54

High-Dimensional Analysis for Generalized Nonlinear Regression: From Asymptotics to Algorithm

Jian Li, Yong Liu, Weiping Wang

AAAI 2024
3
citations
#55

Accelerated Methods with Compressed Communications for Distributed Optimization Problems Under Data Similarity

Dmitry Bylinkin, Aleksandr Beznosikov

AAAI 2025
3
citations
#56

BOIDS: High-Dimensional Bayesian Optimization via Incumbent-Guided Direction Lines and Subspace Embeddings

Lam Ngo, Huong Ha, Jeffrey Chan et al.

AAAI 2025
3
citations
#57

Improving Pareto Set Learning for Expensive Multi-objective Optimization via Stein Variational Hypernetworks

Minh-Duc Nguyen, Phuong Mai Dinh, Quang-Huy Nguyen et al.

AAAI 2025
3
citations
#58

LancBiO: Dynamic Lanczos-aided Bilevel Optimization via Krylov Subspace

Yan Yang, Bin Gao, Ya-xiang Yuan

ICLR 2025
3
citations
#59

Approximation algorithms for combinatorial optimization with predictions

Antonios Antoniadis, Marek Elias, Adam Polak et al.

ICLR 2025arXiv:2411.16600
approximation algorithmscombinatorial optimizationprediction-augmented algorithmsonline algorithms with predictions+4
3
citations
#60

Exploiting Curvature in Online Convex Optimization with Delayed Feedback

Hao Qiu, Emmanuel Esposito, Mengxiao Zhang

ICML 2025
3
citations
#61

Dueling Convex Optimization with General Preferences

Aadirupa Saha, Tomer Koren, Yishay Mansour

ICML 2025
3
citations
#62

Implicit Riemannian Optimism with Applications to Min-Max Problems

Christophe Roux, David Martinez-Rubio, Sebastian Pokutta

ICML 2025
3
citations
#63

Improving Generalization of Neural Combinatorial Optimization for Vehicle Routing Problems via Test-Time Projection Learning

Yuanyao Chen, Rongsheng Chen, Fu Luo et al.

NeurIPS 2025arXiv:2506.02392
neural combinatorial optimizationvehicle routing problemsdistributional shifttest-time adaptation+4
3
citations
#64

Geometric Algebra Planes: Convex Implicit Neural Volumes

Irmak Sivgin, Sara Fridovich-Keil, Gordon Wetzstein et al.

ICML 2025
2
citations
#65

Non-monotone Sequential Submodular Maximization

Shaojie Tang, Jing Yuan

AAAI 2024arXiv:2308.08641
sequential submodular maximizationnon-monotone submodular functionsdiversity-aware recommendation systemsassortment optimization+3
2
citations
#66

Differentiable Quadratic Optimization For the Maximum Independent Set Problem

Ismail Alkhouri, Cedric Le Denmat, Yingjie Li et al.

ICML 2025
2
citations
#67

SAMO: A Lightweight Sharpness-Aware Approach for Multi-Task Optimization with Joint Global-Local Perturbation

Hao Ban, Gokul Ram Subramani, Kaiyi Ji

ICCV 2025
2
citations
#68

The adaptive complexity of parallelized log-concave sampling

Huanjian Zhou, Baoxiang Wang, Masashi Sugiyama

ICLR 2025arXiv:2408.13045
parallel sampling algorithmslog-concave samplingadaptive complexitydiffusion model inference+4
2
citations
#69

Derivative-Free Diffusion Manifold-Constrained Gradient for Unified XAI

Won Jun Kim, Hyungjin Chung, Jaemin Kim et al.

CVPR 2025
2
citations
#70

How to Find the Exact Pareto Front for Multi-Objective MDPs?

Yining Li, Peizhong Ju, Ness Shroff

ICLR 2025
2
citations
#71

GSO-Net: Grid Surface Optimization via Learning Geometric Constraints

Chaoyun Wang, Jingmin Xin, Nanning Zheng et al.

AAAI 2024
2
citations
#72

Loss Landscape of Shallow ReLU-like Neural Networks: Stationary Points, Saddle Escape, and Network Embedding

Frank Zhengqing Wu, Berfin Simsek, François Ged

ICLR 2025arXiv:2402.05626
loss landscape analysisstationary pointssaddle escapenetwork embedding+4
2
citations
#73

Solver-Free Decision-Focused Learning for Linear Optimization Problems

Senne Berden, Ali Mahmutoğulları, Dimos Tsouros et al.

NeurIPS 2025
2
citations
#74

Geometry-Aware Approaches for Balancing Performance and Theoretical Guarantees in Linear Bandits

Yuwei Luo, Mohsen Bayati

ICLR 2025arXiv:2306.14872
stochastic linear banditstheoretical regret boundsthompson samplinguncertainty ellipsoid geometry+2
2
citations
#75

Adaptive backtracking for faster optimization

Joao V. Cavalcanti, Laurent Lessard, Ashia Wilson

ICLR 2025
2
citations
#76

Improving Diffusion-based Inverse Algorithms under Few-Step Constraint via Linear Extrapolation

Jiawei Zhang, Ziyuan Liu, Leon Yan et al.

NeurIPS 2025
2
citations
#77

FSNet: Feasibility-Seeking Neural Network for Constrained Optimization with Guarantees

Hoang Nguyen, Priya Donti

NeurIPS 2025
2
citations
#78

A Variational Perspective on Generative Protein Fitness Optimization

Lea Bogensperger, Dominik Narnhofer, Ahmed Allam et al.

ICML 2025
2
citations
#79

Escaping saddle points without Lipschitz smoothness: the power of nonlinear preconditioning

Alexander Bodard, Panagiotis Patrinos

NeurIPS 2025arXiv:2509.15817
nonconvex optimizationgeneralized smoothnessnonlinear preconditioningsaddle point avoidance+4
2
citations
#80

Optimising Spatial Teamwork Under Uncertainty

Gregory Everett, Ryan J. Beal, Tim Matthews et al.

AAAI 2025
2
citations
#81

LEAD: Min-Max Optimization from a Physical Perspective

Guillaume Lajoie, Amartya Mitra, Reyhane Askari Hemmat et al.

ICLR 2024
1
citations
#82

Balancing Gradient and Hessian Queries in Non-Convex Optimization

Deeksha Adil, Brian Bullins, Aaron Sidford et al.

NeurIPS 2025
1
citations
#83

DisCo-DSO: Coupling Discrete and Continuous Optimization for Efficient Generative Design in Hybrid Spaces

Jacob F. Pettit, Chak Shing Lee, Jiachen Yang et al.

AAAI 2025
1
citations
#84

AutoScape: Geometry-Consistent Long-Horizon Scene Generation

Jiacheng Chen, Ziyu Jiang, Mingfu Liang et al.

ICCV 2025
1
citations
#85

Threshold UCT: Cost-Constrained Monte Carlo Tree Search with Pareto Curves

Martin Kurečka, Václav Nevyhoštěný, Petr Novotný et al.

AAAI 2025
1
citations
#86

Fast Globally Optimal and Geometrically Consistent 3D Shape Matching

Paul Roetzer, Florian Bernard

ICCV 2025
1
citations
#87

Error Analysis Affected by Heavy-Tailed Gradients for Non-Convex Pairwise Stochastic Gradient Descent

Jun Chen, Hong Chen, Bin Gu et al.

AAAI 2025
1
citations
#88

DUET: Decentralized Bilevel Optimization without Lower-Level Strong Convexity

Zhen Qin, Zhuqing Liu, Songtao Lu et al.

ICLR 2025
decentralized bilevel optimizationgradient trackingdata heterogeneityhypergradient computation+4
1
citations
#89

ADMM for Structured Fractional Minimization

Ganzhao Yuan

ICLR 2025
1
citations
#90

Improving Convergence Guarantees of Random Subspace Second-order Algorithm for Nonconvex Optimization

Rei Higuchi, Pierre-Louis Poirion, Akiko Takeda

ICLR 2025
1
citations
#91

Elliptic Loss Regularization

Ali Hasan, Haoming Yang, Yuting Ng et al.

ICLR 2025
1
citations
#92

Utilitarian Algorithm Configuration for Infinite Parameter Spaces

Devon Graham, Kevin Leyton-Brown

ICLR 2025arXiv:2405.18246
algorithm configurationparameter space optimizationcontinuous parameter spacesutility function optimization+2
1
citations
#93

Sample-and-Bound for Non-convex Optimization

Yaoguang Zhai, Zhizhen Qin, Sicun Gao

AAAI 2024arXiv:2401.04812
non-convex optimizationglobal optimizationmonte carlo tree searchbranch-and-bound+2
1
citations
#94

Stable Minima of ReLU Neural Networks Suffer from the Curse of Dimensionality: The Neural Shattering Phenomenon

Tongtong Liang, Dan Qiao, Yu-Xiang Wang et al.

NeurIPS 2025arXiv:2506.20779
flat minima generalizationcurse of dimensionalityrelu neural networksimplicit bias+4
1
citations
#95

What Data Enables Optimal Decisions? An Exact Characterization for Linear Optimization

Omar Bennouna, Amine Bennouna, Saurabh Amin et al.

NeurIPS 2025
1
citations
#96

Adaptive Riemannian ADMM for Nonsmooth Optimization: Optimal Complexity without Smoothing

Kangkang Deng, Jiachen Jin, Jiang Hu et al.

NeurIPS 2025
1
citations
#97

DesignX: Human-Competitive Algorithm Designer for Black-Box Optimization

Hongshu Guo, Zeyuan Ma, Yining Ma et al.

NeurIPS 2025
1
citations
#98

Stability and Sharper Risk Bounds with Convergence Rate $\tilde{O}(1/n^2)$

Bowei Zhu, Shaojie Li, Mingyang Yi et al.

NeurIPS 2025arXiv:2410.09766
algorithmic stabilityexcess risk boundspolyak-lojasiewicz conditionhigh-probability bounds+3
1
citations
#99

Affine-Invariant Global Non-Asymptotic Convergence Analysis of BFGS under Self-Concordance

Qiujiang Jin, Aryan Mokhtari

NeurIPS 2025arXiv:2507.00361
bfgs quasi-newton methodglobal convergence analysisaffine-invariant optimizationself-concordant functions+3
1
citations
#100

Adaptive Frontier Exploration on Graphs with Applications to Network-Based Disease Testing

XianJun, Davin Choo, Yuqi Pan, Tonghan Wang et al.

NeurIPS 2025
1
citations