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We study the block-coordinate forward-backward algorithm in which the blocks are updated in a random and possibly parallel manner, according to arbitrary probabilities. The algorithm allows different stepsizes along the block-coordinates to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-30 Saverio Salzo , Silvia Villa

Although Federated Learning has been widely studied in recent years, there are still high overhead expenses in each communication round for large-scale models such as Vision Transformer. To lower the communication complexity, we propose a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Junkang Liu , Fanhua Shang , Yuanyuan Liu , Hongying Liu , Yuangang Li , YunXiang Gong

Coordinate update/descent algorithms are widely used in large-scale optimization due to their low per-iteration cost and scalability, but their behavior on infeasible or misspecified problems has not been much studied compared to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-14 Jinhee Paeng , Jisun Park , Ernest K. Ryu

Stochastic coordinate descent algorithms are efficient methods in which each iterate is obtained by fixing most coordinates at their values from the current iteration, and approximately minimizing the objective with respect to the remaining…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-02 Eméric Gbaguidi

Consider the problem of minimizing the sum of a smooth (possibly non-convex) and a convex (possibly nonsmooth) function involving a large number of variables. A popular approach to solve this problem is the block coordinate descent (BCD)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-11-03 Meisam Razaviyayn , Mingyi Hong , Zhi-Quan Luo , Jong-Shi Pang

A framework based on iterative coordinate minimization (CM) is developed for stochastic convex optimization. Given that exact coordinate minimization is impossible due to the unknown stochastic nature of the objective function, the crux of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-03-13 Sudeep Salgia , Qing Zhao , Sattar Vakili

This paper introduces an abstract framework for randomized subspace correction methods for convex optimization, which unifies and generalizes a broad class of existing algorithms, including domain decomposition, multigrid, and block…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Boou Jiang , Jongho Park , Jinchao Xu

In this paper we consider large-scale composite nonconvex optimization problems having the objective function formed as a sum of three terms, first has block coordinate-wise Lipschitz continuous gradient, second is twice differentiable but…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-02 Flavia Chorobura , Daniela Lupu , Ion Necoara

Coordinate descent methods have considerable impact in global optimization because global (or, at least, almost global) minimization is affordable for low-dimensional problems. Coordinate descent methods with high-order regularized models…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-28 V. S. Amaral , R. Andreani , E. G. Birgin , D. S. Marcondes , J. M. Martínez

This work presents a parallel variant of the algorithm introduced in [Acceleration of block coordinate descent methods with identification strategies Comput. Optim. Appl. 72(3):609--640, 2019] to minimize the sum of a partially separable…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-06 Ronaldo Lopes , Sandra A. Santos , Paulo J. S. Silva

The problem of minimizing a separable convex function under linearly coupled constraints arises from various application domains such as economic systems, distributed control, and network flow. The main challenge for solving this problem is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-05 Qin Fan , Min Xu , Yiming Ying

This paper presents an algorithmic framework for the minimization of strictly convex quadratic functions. The framework is flexible and generic. At every iteration the search direction is a linear combination of the negative gradient, as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-08 Liam MacDonald , Rua Murray , Rachael Tappenden

The stochastic gradient (SG) method can minimize an objective function composed of a large number of differentiable functions, or solve a stochastic optimization problem, to a moderate accuracy. The block coordinate descent/update (BCD)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-11-23 Yangyang Xu , Wotao Yin

We analyze the coordinate descent method with a new coordinate selection strategy, called volume sampling. This strategy prescribes selecting subsets of variables of certain size proportionally to the determinants of principal submatrices…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-30 Anton Rodomanov , Dmitry Kropotov

As the number of samples and dimensionality of optimization problems related to statistics an machine learning explode, block coordinate descent algorithms have gained popularity since they reduce the original problem to several smaller…

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We propose an efficient distributed randomized coordinate descent method for minimizing regularized non-strongly convex loss functions. The method attains the optimal $O(1/k^2)$ convergence rate, where $k$ is the iteration counter. The core…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-07-29 Olivier Fercoq , Zheng Qu , Peter Richtárik , Martin Takáč

In this paper we propose a parallel coordinate descent algorithm for solving smooth convex optimization problems with separable constraints that may arise e.g. in distributed model predictive control (MPC) for linear network systems. Our…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-11-19 Ion Necoara , Dragos Clipici

Phase retrieval aims at recovering a complex-valued signal from magnitude-only measurements, which attracts much attention since it has numerous applications in many disciplines. However, phase recovery involves solving a system of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-13 Wen-Jun Zeng , H. C. So

Sparse optimization is a central problem in machine learning and computer vision. However, this problem is inherently NP-hard and thus difficult to solve in general. Combinatorial search methods find the global optimal solution but are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-30 Ganzhao Yuan , Li Shen , Wei-Shi Zheng

This work provides the first convergence analysis for the Randomized Block Coordinate Descent method for minimizing a function that is both H\"older smooth and block H\"older smooth. Our analysis applies to objective functions that are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-14 Leandro Farias Maia , David Huckleberry Gutman