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In the past decades, exactly recovering the intrinsic data structure from corrupted observations, which is known as robust principal component analysis (RPCA), has attracted tremendous interests and found many applications in computer…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2012-05-08 Risheng Liu , Zhouchen Lin , Siming Wei , Zhixun Su

This paper addresses a class of general nonsmooth and nonconvex composite optimization problems subject to nonlinear equality constraints. We assume that a part of the objective function and the functional constraints exhibit local…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-04 Lahcen El Bourkhissi , Ion Necoara , Panagiotis Patrinos , Quoc Tran-Dinh

In a recent work (arXiv-DOI: 1804.08072v1) we introduced the Modified Augmented Lagrangian Method (MALM) for the efficient minimization of objective functions with large quadratic penalty terms. From MALM there results an optimality…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-22 Martin Neuenhofen

We develop a decomposition method based on the augmented Lagrangian framework to solve a broad family of semidefinite programming problems, possibly with nonlinear objective functions, nonsmooth regularization, and general linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-08 Yifei Wang , Kangkang Deng , Haoyang Liu , Zaiwen Wen

We study first-order methods (FOMs) for solving \emph{composite nonconvex nonsmooth} optimization with linear constraints. Recently, the lower complexity bounds of FOMs on finding an ($\varepsilon,\varepsilon$)-KKT point of the considered…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Wei Liu , Qihang Lin , Yangyang Xu

First-order methods have been studied for nonlinear constrained optimization within the framework of the augmented Lagrangian method (ALM) or penalty method. We propose an improved inexact ALM (iALM) and conduct a unified analysis for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-25 Zichong Li , Pin-Yu Chen , Sijia Liu , Songtao Lu , Yangyang Xu

Matrix completion has been well studied under the uniform sampling model and the trace-norm regularized methods perform well both theoretically and numerically in such a setting. However, the uniform sampling model is unrealistic for a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-01 T. Tony Cai , Wen-Xin Zhou

We consider the problem of minimizing the sum of a Lipschitz differentiable convex function $f$ and a proper closed convex function $h$ that admits efficient linear minimization oracles, subject to multiple smooth convex inequality…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Xiaozhou Wang , Ting Kei Pong , Zev Woodstock

We present a numerical method for the minimization of constrained optimization problems where the objective is augmented with large quadratic penalties of inconsistent equality constraints. Such objectives arise from quadratic integral…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-16 Martin Neuenhofen , Eric Kerrigan

The linearly constrained matrix rank minimization problem is widely applicable in many fields such as control, signal processing and system identification. The tightest convex relaxation of this problem is the linearly constrained nuclear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-05-12 Shiqian Ma , Donald Goldfarb , Lifeng Chen

Variational inequality problems are recognized for their broad applications across various fields including machine learning and operations research. First-order methods have emerged as the standard approach for solving these problems due…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-24 Liang Zhang , Niao He , Michael Muehlebach

In this paper, we study the generalized problem that minimizes or maximizes a multi-order complex quadratic form with constant-modulus constraints on all elements of its optimization variable. Such a mathematical problem is commonly…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-28 Chunxuan Shi , Yongzhe Li , Ran Tao

In this paper we consider a class of structured nonsmooth difference-of-convex (DC) constrained DC program in which the first convex component of the objective and constraints is the sum of a smooth and nonsmooth functions while their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-18 Zhaosong Lu , Zhe Sun , Zirui Zhou

In this paper, we consider large-scale linearly constrained composite convex optimization problem, whose objective is a sum of a smooth function and a possibly nonsmooth function. We propose a scalable \textbf{F}rank-\textbf{W}olfe based…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-10-13 Ya-Feng Liu , Xiangfeng Wang , Xin Liu , Shiqian Ma

Non-convex functional constrained optimization problems have gained substantial attention in machine learning and data science, addressing broad requirements that typically go beyond the often performance-centric objectives. An influential…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-29 Sang Bin Moon , Jong Gwang Kim , Ashish Chandra , Christopher Brinton , Abolfazl Hashemi

In this paper, we propose an inexact Augmented Lagrangian Method (ALM) for the optimization of convex and nonsmooth objective functions subject to linear equality constraints and box constraints where errors are due to fixed-point data. To…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-23 Yan Zhang , Michael M. Zavlanos

In this two-part study we develop a unified approach to the analysis of the global exactness of various penalty and augmented Lagrangian functions for finite-dimensional constrained optimization problems. This approach allows one to verify…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-16 M. V. Dolgopolik

We propose an input convex neural network (ICNN)-based self-supervised learning framework to solve continuous constrained optimization problems. By integrating the augmented Lagrangian method (ALM) with the constraint correction mechanism,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-08 Kang Liu , Wei Peng , Jianchen Hu

This paper presents new first-order methods for achieving optimal oracle complexities in convex optimization with convex functional constraints. Oracle complexities are measured by the number of function and gradient evaluations. To achieve…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-17 Qi Deng , Guanghui Lan , Zhenwei Lin

We consider the augmented Lagrangian method (ALM) as a solver for the fused lasso signal approximator (FLSA) problem. The ALM is a dual method in which squares of the constraint functions are added as penalties to the Lagrangian. In order…

Computation · Statistics 2010-05-28 Heng Lian