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This paper develops a parameter-free adaptive proximal bundle method with two important features: 1) adaptive choice of variable prox stepsizes that "closely fits" the instance under consideration; and 2) adaptive criterion for making the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-29 Renato D. C. Monteiro , Honghao Zhang

We study the problem of detecting infeasibility of large-scale linear programming problems using the primal-dual hybrid gradient method (PDHG) of Chambolle and Pock (2011). The literature on PDHG has mostly focused on settings where the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-10 David Applegate , Mateo Díaz , Haihao Lu , Miles Lubin

We present a novel accelerated primal-dual (APD) method for solving a class of deterministic and stochastic saddle point problems (SPP). The basic idea of this algorithm is to incorporate a multi-step acceleration scheme into the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-09-24 Yunmei Chen , Guanghui Lan , Yuyuan Ouyang

In this paper, we adapt proximal incremental aggregated gradient methods to saddle point problems, which is motivated by decoupling linear transformations in regularized empirical risk minimization models. First, the Primal-Dual Proximal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-14 Zhou Xianchen , Peng Wei , Wang Hongxia

Vanilla gradient methods are often highly sensitive to the choice of stepsize, which typically requires manual tuning. Adaptive methods alleviate this issue and have therefore become widely used. Among them, AdaGrad has been particularly…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-16 Matia Bojovic , Saverio Salzo , Massimiliano Pontil

Backtracking linesearch is the de facto approach for minimizing continuously differentiable functions with locally Lipschitz gradient. In recent years, it has been shown that in the convex setting it is possible to avoid linesearch…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-14 Puya Latafat , Andreas Themelis , Lorenzo Stella , Panagiotis Patrinos

We consider convex-concave saddle point problems with a separable structure and non-strongly convex functions. We propose an efficient stochastic block coordinate descent method using adaptive primal-dual updates, which enables flexible…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-11-24 Zhanxing Zhu , Amos J. Storkey

We propose a stochastic extension of the primal-dual hybrid gradient algorithm studied by Chambolle and Pock in 2011 to solve saddle point problems that are separable in the dual variable. The analysis is carried out for general…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-11 Antonin Chambolle , Matthias J. Ehrhardt , Peter Richtárik , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

We present an online preconditioning technique for the primal-dual hybrid gradient (PDHG) algorithm for linear programming (LP). The method adaptively updates primal and dual preconditioners using an online optimization framework. To…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-24 Haihao Lu , Wanyu Zhang

Motivated by large-scale applications, there is a recent trend of research on using first-order methods for solving LP. Among them, PDLP, which is based on a primal-dual hybrid gradient (PDHG) algorithm, may be the most promising one. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Tianhao Liu , Haihao Lu

In this paper we propose a class of randomized primal-dual methods to contend with large-scale saddle point problems defined by a convex-concave function $\mathcal{L}(\mathbf{x},y)\triangleq\sum_{i=1}^m f_i(x_i)+\Phi(\mathbf{x},y)-h(y)$. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-17 E. Yazdandoost Hamedani , A. Jalilzadeh , N. S. Aybat

This paper presents a simple primal dual method named DPD which is a flexible framework for a class of saddle point problem with or without strongly convex component. The presented method has linearized version named LDPD and exact version…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-16 Zhipeng Xie , Jianwen Shi

Primal-dual methods for solving convex optimization problems with functional constraints often exhibit a distinct two-stage behavior. Initially, they converge towards a solution at a sublinear rate. Then, after a certain point, the method…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Mateo Díaz , Pedro Izquierdo Lehmann , Haihao Lu , Jinwen Yang

Primal-dual hybrid gradient (PDHG) is a first-order method for saddle-point problems and convex programming introduced by Chambolle and Pock. Recently, Applegate et al.\ analyzed the behavior of PDHG when applied to an infeasible or…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-27 Tao Jiang , Walaa M. Moursi , Stephen A. Vavasis

This paper is devoted to the design of efficient primal-dual algorithm (PDA) for solving convex optimization problems with known saddle-point structure. We present a new PDA with larger acceptable range of parameters and correction, which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-04 Xiaokai Chang , Sanyang Liu

We consider solving huge-scale instances of (convex) conic linear optimization problems, at the scale where matrix-factorization-free methods are attractive or necessary. The restarted primal-dual hybrid gradient method (rPDHG) -- with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-16 Zikai Xiong , Robert M. Freund

This paper considers the robust phase retrieval, which can be cast as a nonsmooth and nonconvex composite optimization problem. We propose two first-order algorithms with adaptive step sizes: the subgradient algorithm (AdaSubGrad) and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Zhong Zheng , Necdet Serhat Aybat , Shiqian Ma , Lingzhou Xue

In decentralized optimization, the choice of stepsize plays a critical role in algorithm performance. A common approach is to use a shared stepsize across all agents to ensure convergence. However, selecting an optimal stepsize often…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-07 Diyako Ghaderyan , Stefan Werner

First-order primal-dual methods are appealing for their low memory overhead, fast iterations, and effective parallelization. However, they are often slow at finding high accuracy solutions, which creates a barrier to their use in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-05 David Applegate , Oliver Hinder , Haihao Lu , Miles Lubin

We consider a primal-dual algorithm for minimizing $f(x)+h\square l(Ax)$ with Fr\'echet differentiable $f$ and $l^*$. This primal-dual algorithm has two names in literature: Primal-Dual Fixed-Point algorithm based on the Proximity Operator…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-02 Zhi Li , Ming Yan