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Nesterov's accelerated gradient method for minimizing a smooth strongly convex function $f$ is known to reduce $f(\x_k)-f(\x^*)$ by a factor of $\eps\in(0,1)$ after $k\ge O(\sqrt{L/\ell}\log(1/\eps))$ iterations, where $\ell,L$ are the two…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-05-03 Sahar Karimi , Stephen A. Vavasis

We propose a class of \textit{Euler-Lagrange} equations indexed by a pair of parameters ($\alpha,r$) that generalizes Nesterov's accelerated gradient methods for convex ($\alpha=1$) and strongly convex ($\alpha=0$) functions from a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Xu Cheng , Jiaqi Liu , Zaijiu Shang

We propose a framework to use Nesterov's accelerated method for constrained convex optimization problems. Our approach consists of first reformulating the original problem as an unconstrained optimization problem using a continuously…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-12 Priyank Srivastava , Jorge Cortes

We present a variant of accelerated gradient descent algorithms, adapted from Nesterov's optimal first-order methods, for weakly-quasi-convex and weakly-quasi-strongly-convex functions. We show that by tweaking the so-called estimate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-16 Jingjing Bu , Mehran Mesbahi

Convergence analysis of Nesterov's accelerated gradient method has attracted significant attention over the past decades. While extensive work has explored its theoretical properties and elucidated the intuition behind its acceleration, a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Jun Liu

In this paper, we study the behavior of solutions of the ODE associated to Nesterov acceleration. It is well-known since the pioneering work of Nesterov that the rate of convergence $O(1/t^2)$ is optimal for the class of convex functions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-09 Jean François Aujol , Charles Dossal , Aude Rondepierre

In this paper, we focus on the problem of minimizing a continuously differentiable convex objective function, $\min_x f(x)$. Recently, Malitsky (2020); Alacaoglu et al.(2023) developed an adaptive first-order method, GRAAL. This algorithm…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-01 Ekaterina Borodich , Dmitry Kovalev

Nesterov's accelerated gradient (AG) method for minimizing a smooth strongly convex function $f$ is known to reduce $f({\bf x}_k)-f({\bf x}^*)$ by a factor of $\epsilon\in(0,1)$ after $k=O(\sqrt{L/\ell}\log(1/\epsilon))$ iterations, where…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-11 Sahar Karimi , Stephen Vavasis

The {\it forward-backward algorithm} is a powerful tool for solving optimization problems with a {\it additively separable} and {\it smooth} + {\it nonsmooth} structure. In the convex setting, a simple but ingenious acceleration scheme…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-18 Hedy Attouch , Juan Peypouquet

We present an accelerated gradient method for non-convex optimization problems with Lipschitz continuous first and second derivatives. The method requires time $O(\epsilon^{-7/4} \log(1/ \epsilon) )$ to find an $\epsilon$-stationary point,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-03 Yair Carmon , John C. Duchi , Oliver Hinder , Aaron Sidford

We develop two "Nesterov's accelerated" variants of the well-known extragradient method to approximate a solution of a co-hypomonotone inclusion constituted by the sum of two operators, where one is Lipschitz continuous and the other is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-17 Quoc Tran-Dinh

In this technical note, we are concerned with the problem of solving variational inequalities with improved convergence rates. Motivated by Nesterov's accelerated gradient method for convex optimization, we propose a Nesterov's accelerated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-21 Shaolin Tan , Jinhu Lu

We derive efficient algorithms to compute weakly Pareto optimal solutions for smooth, convex and unconstrained multiobjective optimization problems in general Hilbert spaces. To this end, we define a novel inertial gradient-like dynamical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-27 Konstantin Sonntag , Sebastian Peitz

We study distributed optimization problems when $N$ nodes minimize the sum of their individual costs subject to a common vector variable. The costs are convex, have Lipschitz continuous gradient (with constant $L$), and bounded gradient. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-15 Dusan Jakovetic , Joao Xavier , Jose M. F. Moura

In the article we have obtained some estimates of the rate of convergence for the recently proposed by Yu.E. Nesterov method of minimization of a convex Lipschitz-continuous function of two variables on a square with a fixed side. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-14 Dmitry A. Pasechnyuk , Fedor S. Stonyakin

In this short note, we provide a simple version of an accelerated forward-backward method (a.k.a. Nesterov's accelerated proximal gradient method) possibly relying on approximate proximal operators and allowing to exploit strong convexity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-24 Mathieu Barré , Adrien Taylor , Francis Bach

Alternating minimization (AM) procedures are practically efficient in many applications for solving convex and non-convex optimization problems. On the other hand, Nesterov's accelerated gradient is theoretically optimal first-order method…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-16 Sergey Guminov , Pavel Dvurechensky , Nazarii Tupitsa , Alexander Gasnikov

Nesterov's accelerated gradient (AG) is a popular technique to optimize objective functions comprising two components: a convex loss and a penalty function. While AG methods perform well for convex penalties, such as the LASSO, convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-04 Kai Yang , Masoud Asgharian , Sahir Bhatnagar

We prove new convergence rates for a generalized version of stochastic Nesterov acceleration under interpolation conditions. Unlike previous analyses, our approach accelerates any stochastic gradient method which makes sufficient progress…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-27 Aaron Mishkin , Mert Pilanci , Mark Schmidt

We derive an equivalent form of Halpern's fixed-point iteration scheme for solving a co-coercive equation (also called a root-finding problem), which can be viewed as a Nesterov's accelerated interpretation. We show that one method is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Quoc Tran-Dinh
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