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We consider stochastic variational inequality problems where the mapping is monotone over a compact convex set. We present two robust variants of stochastic extragradient algorithms for solving such problems. Of these, the first scheme…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-03-25 Farzad Yousefian , Angelia Nedic , Uday V. Shanbhag

We consider finding a zero point of the maximally monotone operator $T$. First, instead of using the proximal point algorithm (PPA) for this purpose, we employ PPA to solve its Yosida regularization $T_{\lambda}$. Then, based on an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-25 Tao Zhang , Shiru Li , Yong Xia

We prove the almost sure weak convergence of a stochastic proximal point method for minimizing a convex integral function in the general nonlinear context of complete geodesic metric spaces of nonpositive curvature (so-called Hadamard…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Nicholas Pischke

This paper introduces a general framework for iterative optimization algorithms and establishes under general assumptions that their convergence is asymptotically geometric. We also prove that under appropriate assumptions, the rate of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-02-27 Randal Douc , Sylvain Le Corff

In this paper we analyze a zeroth-order proximal stochastic gradient method suitable for the minimization of weakly convex stochastic optimization problems. We consider nonsmooth and nonlinear stochastic composite problems, for which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-21 Spyridon Pougkakiotis , Dionysios S. Kalogerias

This paper analyzes the convergence for a large class of Riemannian stochastic approximation (SA) schemes, which aim at tackling stochastic optimization problems. In particular, the recursions we study use either the exponential map of the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-05-20 Alain Durmus , Pablo Jiménez , Éric Moulines , Salem Said , Hoi-To Wai

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

We investigate convergence of the expectation maximization algorithm by representing it as a generalized proximal method. Convergence of iterates and not just in value is investigated under natural hypotheses such as definability of the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-06 Dominikus Noll

In this paper we study the convergence of an iterative algorithm for finding zeros with constraints for not necessarily monotone set-valued operators in a reflexive Banach space. This algorithm, which we call the proximal-projection method…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2007-11-16 Dan Butnariu , Gabor Kassay

The main contributions of this paper are the proposition and the convergence analysis of a class of inertial projection-type algorithm for solving variational inequality problems in real Hilbert spaces where the underline operator is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-25 Yekini Shehu , Olaniyi. S. Iyiola , Xiao-Huan Li , Qiao-Li Dong

This article aims to present the $AT$ algorithm, a novel two-step iterative approach for approximating fixed points of weak contractions within complete normed linear spaces. The article demonstrates the convergence of $AT$ algorithm…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2024-07-08 Akansha Tyagi , Sachin Vashistha

In this paper, we propose a stochastic forward-backward-forward splitting algorithm and prove its almost sure weak convergence in real separable Hilbert spaces. Applications to composite monotone inclusion and minimization problems are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-05-20 Bang Cong Vũ

The proximal inertial gradient descent is efficient for the composite minimization and applicable for broad of machine learning problems. In this paper, we revisit the computational complexity of this algorithm and present other novel…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-19 Tao Sun , Linbo Qiao , Dongsheng Li

We propose stochastic splitting algorithms for solving large-scale composite inclusion problems involving monotone and linear operators. They activate at each iteration blocks of randomly selected resolvents of monotone operators and,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-07 Patrick L. Combettes , Javier I. Madariaga

In this paper, we introduce some new iterative optimisation algorithms on Riemannian manifolds and Hilbert spaces which have good global convergence guarantees to local minima. More precisely, these algorithms have the following properties:…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-29 Tuyen Trung Truong

We propose stochastic variance reduced algorithms for solving convex-concave saddle point problems, monotone variational inequalities, and monotone inclusions. Our framework applies to extragradient, forward-backward-forward, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-14 Ahmet Alacaoglu , Yura Malitsky

Proximal operators are now ubiquitous in non-smooth optimization. Since their introduction in the seminal work of Moreau, many papers have shown their effectiveness on a wide variety of problems, culminating in their use to construct…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Guillaume Lauga , Samuel Vaiter

We provide a unified framework to proving pointwise convergence of sparse sequences, deterministic and random, at the $L^1(X)$ endpoint. Specifically, suppose that \[ a_n \in \{ \lfloor n^c \rfloor, \min\{ k : \sum_{j \leq k} X_j = n\} \}…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Ben Krause , Yu-Chen Sun

In this paper, we analyze the recently proposed stochastic primal-dual hybrid gradient (SPDHG) algorithm and provide new theoretical results. In particular, we prove almost sure convergence of the iterates to a solution with convexity and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-23 Ahmet Alacaoglu , Olivier Fercoq , Volkan Cevher

We propose an inertial variant of the strongly convergent inexact proximal-point (PP) method of Solodov and Svaiter (2000) for monotone inclusions. We prove strong convergence of our main algorithm under less restrictive assumptions on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-24 M. Marques Alves , J. E. Navarro Caballero , M. Geremia , R. T. Marcavillaca