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We investigate convergence of the expectation maximization algorithm by representing it as a generalized proximal method. Convergence of iterates and not just in value is investigated under natural hypotheses such as definability of the…

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In this work, we study resolvent splitting algorithms for solving composite monotone inclusion problems. The objective of these general problems is finding a zero in the sum of maximally monotone operators composed with linear operators.…

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In this paper, we first propose a general inertial proximal point method for the mixed variational inequality (VI) problem. Based on our knowledge, without stronger assumptions, convergence rate result is not known in the literature for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-08-04 Caihua Chen , Shiqian Ma , Junfeng Yang

We consider the proximal-gradient method for minimizing an objective function that is the sum of a smooth function and a non-smooth convex function. A feature that distinguishes our work from most in the literature is that we assume that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-07 Yutong Dai , Daniel P. Robinson

The proximal point method for a special class of nonconvex multiobjective functions is studied in this paper. We show that the method is well defined and that the accumulation points of any generated sequence, if any, are Pareto--Clarke…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-20 G. C. Bento , O. P. Ferreira , V. L. Sousa Junior

The goal of this work is to obtain optimal rates for the convergence problem in mean field control. Our analysis covers cases where the solutions to the limiting problem may not be unique nor stable. Equivalently the value function of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-16 Samuel Daudin , François Delarue , Joe Jackson

In this paper, we introduce and study a class of resolvent dynamical systems to investigate some inertial proximal methods for solving mixed variational inequalities. These proposed methods along with their discretizations and derived rates…

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In this paper, under the monotonicity of pairs of operators, we propose some Generalized Proximal Point Algorithms to solve non-monotone inclusions using warped resolvents and transformed resolvents. The weak, strong, and linear convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-24 Ba Khiet Le , Minh N. Dao , Michel Théra

We use the method of monotone iterations to obtain fixed point and coupled fixed point results for mixed monotone operators in the setting of partially ordered sets, with no additional assumptions on the partial order and with no…

General Topology · Mathematics 2013-08-23 Mircea-Dan Rus

We develop model-based methods for solving stochastic convex optimization problems, introducing the approximate-proximal point, or aProx, family, which includes stochastic subgradient, proximal point, and bundle methods. When the modeling…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-20 Hilal Asi , John C. Duchi

We consider the convergence rate of the alternating projection method for the nontransversal intersection of a semialgebraic set and a linear subspace. For such an intersection, the convergence rate is known as sublinear in the worst case.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-27 Hiroyuki Ochiai , Yoshiyuki Sekiguchi , Hayato Waki

We define a stochastic variant of the proximal point algorithm in the general setting of nonlinear (separable) Hadamard spaces for approximating zeros of the mean of a stochastically perturbed monotone vector field and prove its convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Nicholas Pischke

We consider variational inequalities coming from monotone operators, a setting that includes convex minimization and convex-concave saddle-point problems. We assume an access to potentially noisy unbiased values of the monotone operators…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-06 Francis Bach , Kfir Y. Levy

Kuhn-Tucker points play a fundamental role in the analysis and the numerical solution of monotone inclusion problems, providing in particular both primal and dual solutions. We propose a class of strongly convergent algorithms for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-10-08 Abdullah Alotaibi , Patrick L. Combettes , Naseer Shahzad

This work deals with a regularization method enforcing solution sparsity of linear ill-posed problems by appropriate discretization in the image space. Namely, we formulate the so called least error method in an $\ell^1$ setting and perform…

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We study the worst-case convergence rates of the proximal gradient method for minimizing the sum of a smooth strongly convex function and a non-smooth convex function whose proximal operator is available. We establish the exact worst-case…

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In this work we consider the primal mixed variational formulation of the Poisson equation with a line source. The analysis and approximation of this problem is non-standard as the line source causes the solutions to be singular. We start by…

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We study the existing algorithms that solve the multidimensional martingale optimal transport. Then we provide a new algorithm based on entropic regularization and Newton's method. Then we provide theoretical convergence rate results and we…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-12-31 Hadrien De March

We apply methods of proof mining to obtain uniform quantitative bounds on the strong convergence of the proximal point algorithm for finding minimizers of convex, lower semicontinuous proper functions in CAT(0) spaces. Thus, for uniformly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-16 Laurentiu Leustean , Andrei Sipos

We study the behavior of the trajectories of a second-order differential equation with vanishing damping, governed by the Yosida regularization of a maximally monotone operator with time-varying index, along with a new {\em Regularized…

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