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Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-10 Brian Bullins , Kevin A. Lai

Convergence analysis of accelerated first-order methods for convex optimization problems are presented from the point of view of ordinary differential equation solvers. A new dynamical system, called Nesterov accelerated gradient flow, has…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-01 Hao Luo , Long Chen

Nesterov's accelerated gradient descent method (AGD) is a seminal deterministic first-order method known to achieve the optimal order of iteration complexity for solving convex smooth optimization problems. Two distinct sequences of…

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In this paper, we establish lower bounds for the oracle complexity of the first-order methods minimizing regularized convex functions. We consider the composite representation of the objective. The smooth part has H\"older continuous…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-10 Nikita Doikov

We propose a regularized Hessian-free Newton-type method for minimizing smooth convex functions with Lipschitz continuous Hessians. The algorithm constructs an approximate Hessian by finite differences and selects the regularization…

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We show that Nesterov acceleration is an optimal-order iterative regularization method for linear ill-posed problems provided that a parameter is chosen accordingly to the smoothness of the solution. This result is proven both for an a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-07 Stefan Kindermann

We investigate the strong convergence properties of a proximal-gradient inertial algorithm with two Tikhonov regularization terms in connection to the minimization problem of the sum of a convex lower semi-continuous function $f$ and a…

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The proximal bundle method (PBM) is a powerful and widely used approach for minimizing nonsmooth convex functions. However, for smooth objectives, its best-known convergence rate remains suboptimal, and whether PBM can be accelerated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Feng-Yi Liao , Thomas Madden , Yang Zheng

We develop a novel framework to study smooth and strongly convex optimization algorithms, both deterministic and stochastic. Focusing on quadratic functions we are able to examine optimization algorithms as a recursive application of linear…

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The usual approach to developing and analyzing first-order methods for smooth convex optimization assumes that the gradient of the objective function is uniformly smooth with some Lipschitz constant $L$. However, in many settings the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-11 Haihao Lu , Robert M. Freund , Yurii Nesterov

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

In the lines of our approach in \cite{Ouorou2019}, where we exploit Nesterov fast gradient concept \cite{Nesterov1983} to the Moreau-Yosida regularization of a convex function, we devise new proximal algorithms for nonsmooth convex…

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We propose an accelerated meta-algorithm, which allows to obtain accelerated methods for convex unconstrained minimization in different settings. As an application of the general scheme we propose nearly optimal methods for minimizing…

In this paper we develop a randomized block-coordinate descent method for minimizing the sum of a smooth and a simple nonsmooth block-separable convex function and prove that it obtains an $\epsilon$-accurate solution with probability at…

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We characterize the complexity of minimizing $\max_{i\in[N]} f_i(x)$ for convex, Lipschitz functions $f_1,\ldots, f_N$. For non-smooth functions, existing methods require $O(N\epsilon^{-2})$ queries to a first-order oracle to compute an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-06 Yair Carmon , Arun Jambulapati , Yujia Jin , Aaron Sidford

We propose an accelerated forward-backward method with fast convergence rate for finding a minimizer of a decomposable nonsmooth convex function over a closed convex set, and name it smoothing accelerated proximal gradient (SAPG) algorithm.…

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In this paper, we study the optimal convergence rate for distributed convex optimization problems in networks. We model the communication restrictions imposed by the network as a set of affine constraints and provide optimal complexity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-16 César A. Uribe , Soomin Lee , Alexander Gasnikov , Angelia Nedić

An adaptive regularization algorithm for unconstrained nonconvex optimization is presented in which the objective function is never evaluated, but only derivatives are used. This algorithm belongs to the class of adaptive regularization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-05 S. Gratton , S. Jerad , Ph. L. Toint

This paper generalizes the optimized gradient method (OGM) that achieves the optimal worst-case cost function bound of first-order methods for smooth convex minimization. Specifically, this paper studies a generalized formulation of OGM and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-14 Donghwan Kim , Jeffrey A. Fessler

In regularized risk minimization, the associated optimization problem becomes particularly difficult when both the loss and regularizer are nonsmooth. Existing approaches either have slow or unclear convergence properties, are restricted to…

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