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We fix a fundamental issue in the stochastic extragradient method by providing a new sampling strategy that is motivated by approximating implicit updates. Since the existing stochastic extragradient algorithm, called Mirror-Prox, of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-22 Konstantin Mishchenko , Dmitry Kovalev , Egor Shulgin , Peter Richtárik , Yura Malitsky

In this paper, we design an inertial accelerated primal-dual algorithm to address the convex-concave saddle point problem, which is formulated as $\min_{x}\max_{y} f(x) + \langle Kx, y \rangle - g(y)$. Remarkably, both functions $f$ and $g$…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-17 X. He , N. J. Huang , Y. P. Fang

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-22 Mohammad S. Alkousa

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

We propose a primal-dual smoothing framework for finding a near-stationary point of a class of non-smooth non-convex optimization problems with max-structure. We analyze the primal and dual gradient complexities of the framework via two…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Renbo Zhao

The standard algorithms for solving large-scale convex-concave saddle point problems, or, more generally, variational inequalities with monotone operators, are proximal type algorithms which at every iteration need to compute a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-06-24 Anatoli Juditsky , Arkadi Nemirovski

Some adaptive analogue of the Mirror Prox method for variational inequalities is proposed. In this work we consider the adaptation not only to the value of the Lipschitz constant, but also to the magnitude of the oracle error. This…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-27 Fedor Stonyakin , Evgeniya Vorontsova , Mohammad Alkousa

This paper addresses constrained smooth saddle-point problems in settings where projection onto the feasible sets is computationally expensive. We bridge the gap between projection-based and projection-free optimization by introducing a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Khanh-Hung Giang-Tran , Soroosh Shafiee , Nam Ho-Nguyen

In this paper we propose a primal-dual dynamical approach to the minimization of a structured convex function consisting of a smooth term, a nonsmooth term, and the composition of another nonsmooth term with a linear continuous operator. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-03 Radu Ioan Bot , Ernö Robert Csetnek , Szilard Laszlo

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-13 Maria-Luiza Vladarean , Nikita Doikov , Martin Jaggi , Nicolas Flammarion

This study develops a fixed-time convergent saddle point dynamical system for solving min-max problems under a relaxation of standard convexity-concavity assumption. In particular, it is shown that by leveraging the dynamical systems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-28 Kunal Garg , Mayank Baranwal

This chapter is devoted to the black-box subgradient algorithms with the minimal requirements for the storage of auxiliary results, which are necessary to execute these algorithms. It starts with the original result of N.Z. Shor which open…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-06 Pavel Dvurechensky , Alexander Gasnikov , Evgeni Nurminsky , Fedor Stonyakin

We proposed an iterate scheme for solving convex-concave saddle-point problems associated with general convex-concave functions. We demonstrated that when our iterate scheme is applied to a special class of convex-concave functions, which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-01 Hui Ouyang

Composite minimization is a powerful framework in large-scale convex optimization, based on decoupling of the objective function into terms with structurally different properties and allowing for more flexible algorithmic design. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-17 Jelena Diakonikolas , Cristóbal Guzmán

The primal-dual splitting algorithm (PDSA) by Chambolle and Pock is efficient for solving structured convex optimization problems. It adopts an extrapolation step and achieves convergence under certain step size condition. Chang and Yang…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-02 Xiaokai Chang , Junfeng Yang , Jianchao Bai , Jianxiong Cao

Recently, saddle point problems have received much attention due to their powerful modeling capability for a lot of problems from diverse domains. Applications of these problems occur in many applied areas, such as robust optimization,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-15 Mohammad Alkousa , Alexander Gasnikov , Pavel Dvurechensky , Abdurakhmon Sadiev , Lama Razouk

Inspired by regularization techniques in statistics and machine learning, we study complementary composite minimization in the stochastic setting. This problem corresponds to the minimization of the sum of a (weakly) smooth function endowed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Alexandre d'Aspremont , Cristóbal Guzmán , Clément Lezane

We consider global efficiency of algorithms for minimizing a sum of a convex function and a composition of a Lipschitz convex function with a smooth map. The basic algorithm we rely on is the prox-linear method, which in each iteration…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-16 Dmitriy Drusvyatskiy , Courtney Paquette

Minimax optimization has been central in addressing various applications in machine learning, game theory, and control theory. Prior literature has thus far mainly focused on studying such problems in the continuous domain, e.g.,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-03 Arman Adibi , Aryan Mokhtari , Hamed Hassani

This is a continuation of our previous work entitled \enquote{Alternating Proximity Mapping Method for Convex-Concave Saddle-Point Problems}, in which we proposed the alternating proximal mapping method and showed convergence results on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-01 Hui Ouyang