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This work is concerned with the convex analysis of functions defined on (not necessarily finite-dimensional) Hilbert spaces whose values depend solely on a certain ``spectrum'' of the arguments, a class we term ``spectral functions.'' We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Hòa T. Bùi , Minh N. Bùi , Christian Clason

We study distributed composite optimization over networks: agents minimize the sum of a smooth (strongly) convex function, the agents' sum-utility, plus a non-smooth (extended-valued) convex one. We propose a general algorithmic framework…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-23 Jinming Xu , Ying Sun , Ye Tian , Gesualdo Scutari

We propose a general method for optimization with semi-infinite constraints that involve a linear combination of functions, focusing on the case of the exponential function. Each function is lower and upper bounded on sub-intervals by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-01-13 Bogdan Dumitrescu , Bogdan C. Sicleru , Florin Avram

This paper aims to study reducible and irreducible approximation in the set $\textsl{CSO}$ of all complex symmetric operators on a separable, complex Hilbert space $\mathcal H$. When ${\rm dim} \mathcal H=\infty$, it is proved that both…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2018-12-13 Ting Liu , Jiayin Zhao , Sen Zhu

We consider the problem of minimizing the composition of a nonsmooth function with a smooth mapping in the case where the proximity operator of the nonsmooth function can be explicitly computed. We first show that this proximity operator…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-29 Gilles Bareilles , Franck Iutzeler , Jérôme Malick

For an arbitrary self-adjoint operator $B$ in a Hilbert space $H$, we present direct and inverse theorems establishing the relationship between the degree of smoothness of a vector $x \in H$ with respect to the operator $B$, the rate of…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2007-09-27 S. M. Torba , M. L. Gorbachuk , Ya. I. Grushka

Stochastic approximation techniques have been used in various contexts in data science. We propose a stochastic version of the forward-backward algorithm for minimizing the sum of two convex functions, one of which is not necessarily…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-02-26 Patrick L. Combettes , Jean-Christophe Pesquet

Approximations of functions with finite data often do not respect certain "structural" properties of the functions. For example, if a given function is non-negative, a polynomial approximation of the function is not necessarily also…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-20 Vidhi Zala , Robert M. Kirby , Akil Narayan

We generalize Newton-type methods for minimizing smooth functions to handle a sum of two convex functions: a smooth function and a nonsmooth function with a simple proximal mapping. We show that the resulting proximal Newton-type methods…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-03-19 Jason D. Lee , Yuekai Sun , Michael A. Saunders

In this paper we introduce and study a class of structured set-valued operators which we call union averaged nonexpansive. At each point in their domain, the value of such an operator can be expressed as a finite union of single-valued…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-06 Minh N. Dao , Matthew K. Tam

The proximal point algorithm, which is a well-known tool for finding minima of convex functions, is generalized from the classical Hilbert space framework into a nonlinear setting, namely, geodesic metric spaces of nonpositive curvature. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-07-02 Miroslav Bacak

In a real Hilbert space $\mathcal{H}$. Given any function $f$ convex differentiable whose solution set $\argmin_{\mathcal{H}}\,f$ is nonempty, by considering the Proximal Algorithm $x_{k+1}=\text{prox}_{\b_k f}(d x_k)$, where $0<d<1$ and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-26 A. C. Bagy , Z. Chbani , H. Riahi

In this paper we introduce two conceptual algorithms for minimising abstract convex functions. Both algorithms rely on solving a proximal-type subproblem with an abstract Bregman distance based proximal term. We prove their convergence when…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-09 Reinier Díaz Millán , Julien Ugon

Because of its ineffectiveness, the usual arithmetic Hilbert-Samuel formula is not applicable in the context of Diophantine Approximation. In order to overcome this difficulty, the present paper presents explicit estimates for arithmetic…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-01-27 Heinrich Massold

We propose a splitting algorithm for solving a system of composite monotone inclusions formulated in the form of the extended set of solutions in real Hilbert spaces. The resluting algorithm is a an extension of the algorithm in [4]. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-08-14 Dinh Dung , Bang Cong Vu

In this paper, we first study nonsmooth steepest descent method for nonsmooth functions defined on Hilbert space and establish the corresponding algorithm by proximal subgradients. Then, we use this algorithm to find stationary points for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-02-25 Zhou Wei , Qing Hai He

This work presents a unified framework that combines global approximations with locally built models to handle challenging nonconvex and nonsmooth composite optimization problems, including cases involving extended real-valued functions. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-19 Welington de Oliveira , Johannes O. Royset

In this paper we analyze several new methods for solving nonconvex optimization problems with the objective function formed as a sum of two terms: one is nonconvex and smooth, and another is convex but simple and its structure is known.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-06-25 A. Patrascu , I. Necoara

We present a new primal-dual splitting algorithm for structured monotone inclusions in Hilbert spaces and analyze its asymptotic behavior. A novelty of our framework, which is motivated by image recovery applications, is to consider…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-12-15 Stephen Becker , Patrick L. Combettes

In this paper we deal with the connection of frames with the class of Hilbert Schmidt operators. First we give an easy criteria for operators being in this class using frames. It is the equivalent to the criteria using orthonormal bases.…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2008-04-09 Peter Balazs