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Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-07 Nicola Bastianello , Andrea Simonetto , Ruggero Carli

We present two approximate versions of the proximal subgradient method for minimizing the sum of two convex functions (not necessarily differentiable). The algorithms involve, at each iteration, inexact evaluations of the proximal operator…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-12 Reinier Díaz Millán , Majela Pentón Machado

In this paper, we propose an improved numerical algorithm for solving minimax problems based on nonsmooth optimization, quadratic programming and iterative process. We also provide a rigorous proof of convergence for our algorithm under…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Qing Xu , Xiaohua Xuan

We consider the problem of minimizing a sum of several convex non-smooth functions. We introduce a new algorithm called the selective linearization method, which iteratively linearizes all but one of the functions and employs simple…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-16 Yu Du , Xiaodong Lin , Andrzej Ruszczynski

In this paper we present a variant of the proximal forward-backward splitting iteration for solving nonsmooth optimization problems in Hilbert spaces, when the objective function is the sum of two nondifferentiable convex functions. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-01-13 Jose Yunier Bello Cruz

In this paper, we propose a novel accelerated forward-backward splitting algorithm for minimizing convex composite functions, written as the sum of a smooth function and a (possibly) nonsmooth function. When the objective function is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-19 Kansei Ushiyama

Min-max problems have broad applications in machine learning, including learning with non-decomposable loss and learning with robustness to data distribution. Convex-concave min-max problem is an active topic of research with efficient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-12 Hassan Rafique , Mingrui Liu , Qihang Lin , Tianbao Yang

This paper concerns an optimization algorithm for unconstrained non-convex problems where the objective function has sparse connections between the unknowns. The algorithm is based on applying a dissipation preserving numerical integrator,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-26 Torbjørn Ringholm , Jasmina Lazić , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

Imaging tasks are typically tackled using a structured optimization framework. This paper delves into a class of algorithms for difference-of-convex (DC) structured optimization, focusing on minimizing a DC function along with a possibly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-19 Tsz Ching Chow , Chaoyan Huang , Zhongming Wu , Tieyong Zeng , Angelica I. Aviles-Rivero

The proximal point algorithm is a widely used tool for solving a variety of convex optimization problems such as finding zeros of maximally monotone operators, fixed points of nonexpansive mappings, as well as minimizing convex functions.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-19 Laurentiu Leustean , Adriana Nicolae , Andrei Sipos

This paper considers stochastic optimization problems with weakly convex objective and constraint functions. We propose Prox-PEP, a proximal method equipped with quadratic subproblems. To handle nonlinear equality constraints, we employ an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Lixin Tang , Xingyu Wang , Liwei Zhang

This paper proposes QPALM, a proximal augmented Lagrangian method based on quadratic approximations, for solving nonlinear programming problems with weakly convex objective and constraint functions. The algorithm is constructed by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Yule Zhang , Benqi Liu , Xiantao Xiao , Liwei Zhang

Ill-posed linear inverse problems (ILIP), such as restoration and reconstruction, are a core topic of signal/image processing. A standard approach to deal with ILIP uses a constrained optimization problem, where a regularization function is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-15 Manya V. Afonso , Jose M. Bioucas-Dias , Mario A. T. Figueiredo

A problem of great interest in optimization is to minimize a sum of two closed, proper, and convex functions where one is smooth and the other has a computationally inexpensive proximal operator. In this paper we analyze a family of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-01-24 Patrick R. Johnstone , Pierre Moulin

This paper proposes the Proximal Iteratively REweighted (PIRE) algorithm for solving a general problem, which involves a large body of nonconvex sparse and structured sparse related problems. Comparing with previous iterative solvers for…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2014-04-29 Canyi Lu , Yunchao Wei , Zhouchen Lin , Shuicheng Yan

This paper presents a piecewise convexification method for solving non-convex multi-objective optimization problems with box constraints. Based on the ideas of the $\alpha$-based Branch and Bound (${\rm \alpha BB}$) method of global…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-28 Q. Zhu , L. P. Tang , X. M. Yang

We consider the problem of minimizing a convex objective which is the sum of a smooth part, with Lipschitz continuous gradient, and a nonsmooth part. Inspired by various applications, we focus on the case when the nonsmooth part is a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-08-28 Ting Kei Pong

In this paper, we consider a class of structured nonsmooth fractional minimization, where the first part of the objective is the ratio of a nonnegative nonsmooth nonconvex function to a nonnegative nonsmooth convex function, while the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-25 Junpeng Zhou , Na Zhang , Qia Li

In this paper, we consider a class of nonconvex problems with linear constraints appearing frequently in the area of image processing. We solve this problem by the penalty method and propose the iteratively reweighted alternating…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-13 Tao Sun , Dongsheng Li , Hao Jiang , Zhe Quan

In this paper we study the problems of minimizing the sum of two nonconvex functions: one is differentiable and satisfies smooth adaptable property. The smooth adaptable property, also named relatively smooth condition, is weaker than the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-10 Xiaoya Zhang , Hui Zhang , Wei Peng