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Given a strictly convex multiobjective optimization problem with objective functions $f_1,\dots,f_N$, let us denote by $x_0$ its solution, obtained as minimum point of the linear scalarized problem, where the objective function is the…

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The problem of optimal linear estimation of linear functionals depending on the unknown values of a periodically correlated stochastic process from observations of the process with additive noise is considered. Formulas for calculating the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-29 Iryna Dubovets'ka , Mykhailo Moklyachuk

Polyhedral estimate is a generic efficiently computable nonlinear in observations routine for recovering unknown signal belonging to a given convex compact set from noisy observation of signal's linear image. Risk analysis and optimal…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-12-26 Anatoli Juditsky , Arkadi Nemirovski

Recently, a new local optimality concept for minimax problems, termed calm local minimax points, has been introduced. In this paper, we extend this concept to a general class of nonsmooth, nonconvex nonconcave minimax problems with coupled…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Xiaoxiao Ma , Jane Ye

In this paper, we propose a new Fully Composite Formulation of convex optimization problems. It includes, as a particular case, the problems with functional constraints, max-type minimization problems, and problems of Composite…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-24 Nikita Doikov , Yurii Nesterov

We propose a new subgradient method for the minimization of nonsmooth convex functions over a convex set. To speed up computations we use adaptive approximate projections only requiring to move within a certain distance of the exact…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Dirk A. Lorenz , Marc E. Pfetsch , Andreas M. Tillmann

Given a random sample of points from some unknown density, we propose a data-driven method for estimating density level sets under the r-convexity assumption. This shape condition generalizes the convexity property. However, the main…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-05-09 Alberto Rodríguez-Casal , Paula Saavedra-Nieves

We consider the problem of minimization of a convex function on a simple set with convex non-smooth inequality constraint and describe first-order methods to solve such problems in different situations: smooth or non-smooth objective…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-30 Anastasia Bayandina , Pavel Dvurechensky , Alexander Gasnikov , Fedor Stonyakin , Alexander Titov

This paper studies first order methods for solving smooth minimax optimization problems $\min_x \max_y g(x,y)$ where $g(\cdot,\cdot)$ is smooth and $g(x,\cdot)$ is concave for each $x$. In terms of $g(\cdot,y)$, we consider two settings --…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-03 Kiran Koshy Thekumparampil , Prateek Jain , Praneeth Netrapalli , Sewoong Oh

Under mild assumptions stochastic gradient methods asymptotically achieve an optimal rate of convergence if the arithmetic mean of all iterates is returned as an approximate optimal solution. However, in the absence of stochastic noise, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-06 Melinda Hagedorn , Florian Jarre

We consider supervised learning problems in which set predictions provide explicit uncertainty estimates. Using Choquet integrals (a.k.a. Lov{\'a}sz extensions), we propose a convex loss function for nondecreasing subset-valued functions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Francis Bach

In this paper we present a general convex optimization approach for solving high-dimensional multiple response tensor regression problems under low-dimensional structural assumptions. We consider using convex and weakly decomposable…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-04-17 Garvesh Raskutti , Ming Yuan , Han Chen

We consider the problem of optimizing the sum of a smooth convex function and a non-smooth convex function using proximal-gradient methods, where an error is present in the calculation of the gradient of the smooth term or in the proximity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2011-12-02 Mark Schmidt , Nicolas Le Roux , Francis Bach

We address the problem of estimating a sparse low-rank matrix from its noisy observation. We propose an objective function consisting of a data-fidelity term and two parameterized non-convex penalty functions. Further, we show how to set…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-04-13 Ankit Parekh , Ivan W. Selesnick

In this paper, we establish explicit convergence rates for the stochastic smooth approximations of infimal convolutions introduced and developed in \cite{MR4581306,MR4923371}. In particular, we quantify the convergence of the associated…

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We introduce a new sparse estimator of the covariance matrix for high-dimensional models in which the variables have a known ordering. Our estimator, which is the solution to a convex optimization problem, is equivalently expressed as an…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-05-27 Jacob Bien , Florentina Bunea , Luo Xiao

We study a class of statistical inverse problems with non-linear pointwise operators motivated by concrete statistical applications. A two-step procedure is proposed, where the first step smoothes the data and inverts the non-linearity.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-11-08 Kolyan Ray , Johannes Schmidt-Hieber

Monge matrices and their permuted versions known as pre-Monge matrices naturally appear in many domains across science and engineering. While the rich structural properties of such matrices have long been leveraged for algorithmic purposes,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-04-08 Jan-Christian Hütter , Cheng Mao , Philippe Rigollet , Elina Robeva

Based on the convex least-squares estimator, we propose two different procedures for testing convexity of a probability mass function supported on N with an unknown finite support. The procedures are shown to be asymptotically calibrated.

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-01-17 Fadoua Balabdaoui , Cécile Durot , François Koladjo

We propose convex optimization algorithms to recover a good approximation of a point measure $\mu$ on the unit sphere $S\subseteq \mathbb{R}^n$ from its moments with respect to a set of real-valued functions $f_1,\dots, f_m$. Given a finite…

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