Generalization of Quasi-Newton Methods: Application to Robust Symmetric Multisecant Updates

6 Nov 2020  ·  Damien Scieur, Lewis Liu, Thomas Pumir, Nicolas Boumal ·

Quasi-Newton techniques approximate the Newton step by estimating the Hessian using the so-called secant equations. Some of these methods compute the Hessian using several secant equations but produce non-symmetric updates. Other quasi-Newton schemes, such as BFGS, enforce symmetry but cannot satisfy more than one secant equation. We propose a new type of quasi-Newton symmetric update using several secant equations in a least-squares sense. Our approach generalizes and unifies the design of quasi-Newton updates and satisfies provable robustness guarantees.

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