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We consider strongly-convex-strongly-concave saddle-point problems with general non-bilinear objective and different condition numbers with respect to the primal and the dual variables. First, we consider such problems with smooth composite…

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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…

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In this paper, we describe and analyze the spectral properties of a symmetric positive definite inexact block preconditioner for a class of symmetric, double saddle-point linear systems. We develop a spectral analysis of the preconditioned…

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We study generalized smoothness in nonconvex optimization, focusing on $(L_0, L_1)$-smoothness and anisotropic smoothness. The former was empirically derived from practical neural network training examples, while the latter arises naturally…

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We derive novel, fast, and parameter-robust preconditioned iterative methods for steady and time-dependent Navier--Stokes control problems. Our approach may be applied to time-dependent problems which are discretized using backward Euler or…

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This paper explores preconditioning the normal equation for non-symmetric square linear systems arising from PDE discretization, focusing on methods like CGNE and LSQR. The concept of ``normal'' preconditioning is introduced and a strategy…

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We consider (stochastic) convex-concave saddle point (SP) problems with high-dimensional decision variables, arising in various applications including machine learning problems. To contend with the challenges in computing full gradients, we…

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We study preconditioners for a model problem describing the coupling of two elliptic subproblems posed over domains with different topological dimension by a parameter dependent constraint. A pair of parameter robust and efficient…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-11 Miroslav Kuchta , Magne Nordaas , Joris C. G. Verschaeve , Mikael Mortensen , Kent-Andre Mardal

Based on G. Lan's accelerated gradient sliding and general relation between the smoothness and strong convexity parameters of function under Legendre transformation we show that under rather general conditions the best known bounds for…

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We present an efficient preconditioner for linear problems $A x=y$. It guarantees monotonic convergence of the memory-efficient fixed-point iteration for all accretive systems of the form $A = L + V$, where $L$ is an approximation of $A$,…

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We consider the problem of iteratively solving large and sparse double saddle-point systems arising from the stationary Stokes-Darcy equations in two dimensions, discretized by the Marker-and-Cell (MAC) finite difference method. We analyze…

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We study acceleration and preconditioning strategies for a class of Douglas-Rachford methods aiming at the solution of convex-concave saddle-point problems associated with Fenchel-Rockafellar duality. While the basic iteration converges…

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The theory of mixed finite element methods for solving different types of elliptic partial differential equations in saddle point formulation is well established since many decades. This topic was mostly studied for variational formulations…

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In this paper we study the convex problem of optimizing the sum of a smooth function and a compactly supported non-smooth term with a specific separable form. We analyze the block version of the generalized conditional gradient method when…

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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…

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This paper proposes a new preconditioning scheme for a linear system with a saddle-point structure arising from a hybrid approximation scheme on the sphere, an approximation scheme that combines (local) spherical radial basis functions and…

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The saddle-point optimization problems have a lot of practical applications. This paper focuses on such non-smooth problems in decentralized case. This work contains generalization of recently proposed sliding for centralized problem.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-01 Ilya Kuruzov , Alexander Rogozin , Demyan Yarmoshik , Alexander Gasnikov

This paper investigates a type of fast and flexible preconditioners to solve multilinear system $\mathcal{A}\textbf{x}^{m-1}=\textbf{b}$ with $\mathcal{M}$-tensor $\mathcal{A}$ and obtains some important convergent theorems about…

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