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Optimization problems under affine constraints appear in various areas of machine learning. We consider the task of minimizing a smooth strongly convex function F(x) under the affine constraint Kx=b, with an oracle providing evaluations of…
Based on the ideas of arXiv:1710.06612, we consider the problem of minimization of the Holder-continuous non-smooth functional $f$ with non-positive convex (generally, non-smooth) Lipschitz-continuous functional constraint. We propose some…
We consider the problem of minimizing a smooth, Lipschitz, convex function over a compact, convex set using sub-zeroth-order oracles: an oracle that outputs the sign of the directional derivative for a given point and a given direction, an…
Given a convex function $f$ on $\mathbb{R}^n$ with an integer minimizer, we show how to find an exact minimizer of $f$ using $O(n^2 \log n)$ calls to a separation oracle and $O(n^4 \log n)$ time. The previous best polynomial time algorithm…
Mixed-integer nonlinear optimization encompasses a broad class of problems that present both theoretical and computational challenges. We propose a new type of method to solve these problems based on a branch-and-bound algorithm with convex…
This paper is devoted to a new modification of a recently proposed adaptive stochastic mirror descent algorithm for constrained convex optimization problems in the case of several convex functional constraints. Algorithms, standard and its…
In this paper, we consider the class of quasiconvex functions and its proper subclass of conic functions. The integer minimization problem of these functions is considered in the paper, assuming that an optimized function is defined by the…
We consider the problem of minimizing a convex function over a convex set given access only to an evaluation oracle for the function and a membership oracle for the set. We give a simple algorithm which solves this problem with…
The paper is devoted to new modifications of recently proposed adaptive methods of Mirror Descent for convex minimization problems in the case of several convex functional constraints. Methods for problems of two classes are considered. The…
We study the problem of minimizing a convex function on a nonempty, finite subset of the integer lattice when the function cannot be evaluated at noninteger points. We propose a new underestimator that does not require access to…
We investigate the information complexity of mixed-integer convex optimization under different types of oracles. We establish new lower bounds for the standard first-order oracle, improving upon the previous best known lower bound. This…
We consider the following class of online optimization problems with functional constraints. Assume, that a finite set of convex Lipschitz-continuous non-smooth functionals are given on a closed set of $n$-dimensional vector space. The…
We provide improved convergence rates for constrained convex-concave min-max problems and monotone variational inequalities with higher-order smoothness. In min-max settings where the $p^{th}$-order derivatives are Lipschitz continuous, we…
We study stochastic convex optimization under infinite noise variance. Specifically, when the stochastic gradient is unbiased and has uniformly bounded $(1+\kappa)$-th moment, for some $\kappa \in (0,1]$, we quantify the convergence rate of…
In this article we study convex integer maximization problems with composite objective functions of the form $f(Wx)$, where $f$ is a convex function on $\R^d$ and $W$ is a $d\times n$ matrix with small or binary entries, over finite sets…
In this paper, we consider Frank-Wolfe-based algorithms for composite convex optimization problems with objective involving a logarithmically-homogeneous, self-concordant functions. Recent Frank-Wolfe-based methods for this class of…
In the paper, we develop a composite version of Mirror Prox algorithm for solving convex-concave saddle point problems and monotone variational inequalities of special structure, allowing to cover saddle point/variational analogies of what…
This paper studies first-order algorithms for solving fully composite optimization problems over convex and compact sets. We leverage the structure of the objective by handling its differentiable and non-differentiable components…
In this paper, we propose two algorithms for solving convex optimization problems with linear ascending constraints. When the objective function is separable, we propose a dual method which terminates in a finite number of iterations. In…