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The proximal point method revisited

Optimization and Control 2017-12-19 v1

Abstract

In this short survey, I revisit the role of the proximal point method in large scale optimization. I focus on three recent examples: a proximally guided subgradient method for weakly convex stochastic approximation, the prox-linear algorithm for minimizing compositions of convex functions and smooth maps, and Catalyst generic acceleration for regularized Empirical Risk Minimization.

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@article{arxiv.1712.06038,
  title  = {The proximal point method revisited},
  author = {Dmitriy Drusvyatskiy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.06038},
  year   = {2017}
}

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