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In this paper we consider solving saddle point problems using two variants of Gradient Descent-Ascent algorithms, Extra-gradient (EG) and Optimistic Gradient Descent Ascent (OGDA) methods. We show that both of these algorithms admit a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-06 Aryan Mokhtari , Asuman Ozdaglar , Sarath Pattathil

Saddle-point problems have recently gained increased attention from the machine learning community, mainly due to applications in training Generative Adversarial Networks using stochastic gradients. At the same time, in some applications…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-07 Abdurakhmon Sadiev , Aleksandr Beznosikov , Pavel Dvurechensky , Alexander Gasnikov

In this paper, we introduce a multilevel algorithm for approximating variational formulations of symmetric saddle point systems. The algorithm is based on availability of families of stable finite element pairs and on the availability of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-05-14 Constantin Bacuta

We develop new adaptive algorithms for variational inequalities with monotone operators, which capture many problems of interest, notably convex optimization and convex-concave saddle point problems. Our algorithms automatically adapt to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Alina Ene , Huy L. Nguyen

This paper considers continuous-time coordination algorithms for networks of agents that seek to collectively solve a general class of nonsmooth convex optimization problems with an inherent distributed structure. Our algorithm design…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-17 Simon K. Niederländer , Jorge Cortés

We consider saddle point problems which objective functions are the average of $n$ strongly convex-concave individual components. Recently, researchers exploit variance reduction methods to solve such problems and achieve linear-convergence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Luo Luo , Cheng Chen , Yujun Li , Guangzeng Xie , Zhihua Zhang

A modification of the generalized shift-splitting (GSS) method is presented for solving singular saddle point problems. In this kind of modification, the diagonal shift matrix is replaced by a block diagonal matrix which is symmetric…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-26 Davod Khojasteh Salkuyeh , Maryam Rahimian

The saddle-point problems (SPPs) with nonlinear coupling operators frequently arise in various control systems, such as dynamic programming optimization, H-infinity control, and Lyapunov stability analysis. However, traditional primal-dual…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-21 Sai Wang , Yi Gong

Recently, Bai and Benzi proposed a class of regularized Hermitian and skew-Hermitian splitting methods (RHSS) iteration methods for solving the nonsingular saddle point problem. In this paper, we apply this method to solve the singular…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-26 Zhen Chao , Guoliang Chen

In this work, we analyze the global convergence property of coordinate gradient descent with random choice of coordinates and stepsizes for non-convex optimization problems. Under generic assumptions, we prove that the algorithm iterate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-01 Ziang Chen , Yingzhou Li , Jianfeng Lu

Data assimilation algorithms combine information from observations and prior model information to obtain the most likely state of a dynamical system. The linearised weak-constraint four-dimensional variational assimilation problem can be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-04 Jemima M. Tabeart , John W. Pearson

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 introduce a new sequential subspace optimization method for large-scale saddle-point problems. It solves iteratively a sequence of auxiliary saddle-point problems in low-dimensional subspaces, spanned by directions derived from…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-24 Yoni Choukroun , Michael Zibulevsky , Pavel Kisilev

Saddle-point problems appear in various settings including machine learning, zero-sum stochastic games, and regression problems. We consider decomposable saddle-point problems and study an extension of the alternating direction method of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-29 Mustafa O. Karabag , David Fridovich-Keil , Ufuk Topcu

This paper develops a unified distributed method for solving two classes of constrained networked optimization problems, i.e., optimal consensus problem and resource allocation problem with non-identical set constraints. We first transform…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-17 Yi Huang , Ziyang Meng , Jian Sun , Wei Ren

We extend the Frank-Wolfe (FW) optimization algorithm to solve constrained smooth convex-concave saddle point (SP) problems. Remarkably, the method only requires access to linear minimization oracles. Leveraging recent advances in FW…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-07 Gauthier Gidel , Tony Jebara , Simon Lacoste-Julien

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

The emergence of deep learning has stimulated a new class of PDE solvers in which the unknown solution is represented by a neural network. Within this framework, residual minimization in dual norms -- central to weak adversarial neural…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-08 Emin Benny-Chacko , Ignacio Brevis , Luis Espath , Kristoffer G. van der Zee

The discretization of Cahn-Hilliard equation with obstacle potential leads to a block 2 by 2 non-linear system, where the p1, 1q block has a non-linear and non-smooth term. Recently a globally convergent Newton Schur method was proposed for…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Pawan Kumar

In the paper, we generalize the approach Gasnikov et. al, 2017, which allows to solve (stochastic) convex optimization problems with an inexact gradient-free oracle, to the convex-concave saddle-point problem. The proposed approach works,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-13 Aleksandr Beznosikov , Abdurakhmon Sadiev , Alexander Gasnikov