EUROPT 2025
Abstract Submission

221. From learning to optimize to learning optimization algorithms

Invited abstract in session MD-10: Interactions between optimization and machine learning, stream Zeroth and first-order optimization methods.

Monday, 16:30-18:30
Room: B100/8011

Authors (first author is the speaker)

1. Camille Castera
Mathematical Institute, University of Bordeaux
2. Peter Ochs
Saarland University

Abstract

Towards designing learned optimization algorithms that are usable beyond their training setting, we identify key principles that classical algorithms obey, but have up to now, not been used for Learning to Optimize (L2O). Following these principles, we provide a general design pipeline, taking into account data, architecture and learning strategy, and thereby enabling a synergy between classical optimization and L2O, resulting in a philosophy of Learning Optimization Algorithms. As a consequence our learned algorithms perform well far beyond problems from the training distribution. We demonstrate the success of these novel principles by designing a new learning-enhanced BFGS algorithm and provide numerical experiments evidencing its adaptation to many settings at test time.

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Status: accepted


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