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Nesterov's accelerated gradient (AG) is a popular technique to optimize objective functions comprising two components: a convex loss and a penalty function. While AG methods perform well for convex penalties, such as the LASSO, convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-04 Kai Yang , Masoud Asgharian , Sahir Bhatnagar

This paper presents a new approach to the recovery of a spectrally sparse signal (SSS) from partially observed entries, focusing on challenges posed by large-scale data and heavy noise environments. The SSS reconstruction can be formulated…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-14 Xi Yao , Wei Dai

In this paper, we focus on the problem of minimizing a continuously differentiable convex objective function, $\min_x f(x)$. Recently, Malitsky (2020); Alacaoglu et al.(2023) developed an adaptive first-order method, GRAAL. This algorithm…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-01 Ekaterina Borodich , Dmitry Kovalev

Predictive models can be used on high-dimensional brain images for diagnosis of a clinical condition. Spatial regularization through structured sparsity offers new perspectives in this context and reduces the risk of overfitting the model…

In this paper, we propose Nesterov Accelerated Shuffling Gradient (NASG), a new algorithm for the convex finite-sum minimization problems. Our method integrates the traditional Nesterov's acceleration momentum with different shuffling…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-14 Trang H. Tran , Katya Scheinberg , Lam M. Nguyen

In this paper, we propose a proximal stochasitc gradient algorithm (PSGA) for solving composite optimization problems by incorporating variance reduction techniques and an adaptive step-size strategy. In the PSGA method, the objective…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-06 Changjie Fang , Hao Yang , Shenglan Chen

In this technical note, we are concerned with the problem of solving variational inequalities with improved convergence rates. Motivated by Nesterov's accelerated gradient method for convex optimization, we propose a Nesterov's accelerated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-21 Shaolin Tan , Jinhu Lu

Proximal gradient-based optimization is one of the most common strategies to solve inverse problem of images, and it is easy to implement. However, these techniques often generate heavy artifacts in image reconstruction. One of the most…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-13 Xiaohong Fan , Yin Yang , Ke Chen , Yujie Feng , Jianping Zhang

Various types of parameter restart schemes have been proposed for accelerated gradient algorithms to facilitate their practical convergence in convex optimization. However, the convergence properties of accelerated gradient algorithms under…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-28 Yi Zhou , Zhe Wang , Kaiyi Ji , Yingbin Liang , Vahid Tarokh

In this paper, we propose a unified view of gradient-based algorithms for stochastic convex composite optimization by extending the concept of estimate sequence introduced by Nesterov. More precisely, we interpret a large class of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-09-07 Andrei Kulunchakov , Julien Mairal

The extrapolation strategy raised by Nesterov, which can accelerate the convergence rate of gradient descent methods by orders of magnitude when dealing with smooth convex objective, has led to tremendous success in training machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-18 W. Tao , Z. Pan , G. Wu , Q. Tao

Accurate signal recovery or image reconstruction from indirect and possibly undersampled data is a topic of considerable interest; for example, the literature in the recent field of compressed sensing is already quite immense. Inspired by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-04-15 Stephen Becker , Jerome Bobin , Emmanuel Candes

This paper presents an Accelerated Preconditioned Proximal Gradient Algorithm (APPGA) for effectively solving a class of Positron Emission Tomography (PET) image reconstruction models with differentiable regularizers. We establish the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-23 Yizun Lin , Yongxin He , C. Ross Schmidtlein , Deren Han

This paper proposes {\sf AEPG-SPIDER}, an Adaptive Extrapolated Proximal Gradient (AEPG) method with variance reduction for minimizing composite nonconvex finite-sum functions. It integrates three acceleration techniques: adaptive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Ganzhao Yuan

We develop an adaptive Nesterov accelerated proximal gradient (adaNAPG) algorithm for stochastic composite optimization problems, boosting the Nesterov accelerated proximal gradient (NAPG) algorithm through the integration of an adaptive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-25 Dongxuan Zhu , Weihuan Huang , Caihua Chen

We propose an adaptive smoothing algorithm based on Nesterov's smoothing technique in \cite{Nesterov2005c} for solving "fully" nonsmooth composite convex optimization problems. Our method combines both Nesterov's accelerated proximal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-07-05 Quoc Tran-Dinh

Motivated by penalized likelihood maximization in complex models, we study optimization problems where neither the function to optimize nor its gradient have an explicit expression, but its gradient can be approximated by a Monte Carlo…

Computation · Statistics 2017-09-28 Gersende Fort , Edouard Ollier , Adeline Samson

Sparse signals can be recovered from a reduced set of samples by using compressive sensing algorithms. In common methods the signal is recovered in the sparse domain. A method for the reconstruction of sparse signal which reconstructs the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-28 Ljubisa Stankovic , Milos Dakovic

We introduce a generic scheme to solve nonconvex optimization problems using gradient-based algorithms originally designed for minimizing convex functions. Even though these methods may originally require convexity to operate, the proposed…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-01-03 Courtney Paquette , Hongzhou Lin , Dmitriy Drusvyatskiy , Julien Mairal , Zaid Harchaoui

We propose a framework to use Nesterov's accelerated method for constrained convex optimization problems. Our approach consists of first reformulating the original problem as an unconstrained optimization problem using a continuously…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-12 Priyank Srivastava , Jorge Cortes
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