AbstractFirst-order methods are workhorses for large-scale optimization problems, but they are often agnostic to the structural properties of the problem under consideration and suffer from slow convergence, being trapped in bad local minima, etc. Natural gradient descent is an acceleration technique in optimization that takes advantage of the problem's geometric structure and preconditions the...
AbstractAccelerated by the ever-growing power of computers, computational materials science has underpinned materials modeling and simulation. Many ingredients in this field, from both electronic structure and atomistic levels, can be (re)formulated into optimization problems. Numerous optimization approaches have been constantly emerging, unleashing their exceptional efficiency, robustness, an...