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This paper is devoted to a new modification of a recently proposed adaptive stochastic mirror descent algorithm for constrained convex optimization problems in the case of several convex functional constraints. Algorithms, standard and its…

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This work aims to solve a stochastic nonconvex nonsmooth composite optimization problem. Previous works on composite optimization problem requires the major part to satisfy Lipschitz smoothness or some relaxed smoothness conditions, which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Ziyi Chen , Peiran Yu , Heng Huang

In this paper, we design and analyze a new family of adaptive subgradient methods for solving an important class of weakly convex (possibly nonsmooth) stochastic optimization problems. Adaptive methods that use exponential moving averages…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-26 Parvin Nazari , Davoud Ataee Tarzanagh , George Michailidis

In this paper, we investigate accelerated first-order methods for smooth convex optimization problems under inexact information on the gradient of the objective. The noise in the gradient is considered to be additive with two possibilities:…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-10 Vasin Artem , Alexander Gasnikov , Pavel Dvurechensky , Vladimir Spokoiny

We propose an adaptive accelerated smoothing technique for a nonsmooth convex optimization problem where the smoothing update rule is coupled with the momentum parameter. We also extend the setting to the case where the objective function…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Reza Rahimi Baghbadorani , Sergio Grammatico , Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani

This paper develops an adaptive proximal alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) for solving linearly constrained, composite optimization problems under the assumption that the smooth component of the objective is weakly convex,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-04 Leandro Farias Maia , David H. Gutman , Renato D. C. Monteiro , Gilson N. Silva

We propose a variant of the classical conditional gradient method for sparse inverse problems with differentiable measurement models. Such models arise in many practical problems including superresolution, time-series modeling, and matrix…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-07-07 Nicholas Boyd , Geoffrey Schiebinger , Benjamin Recht

In this paper, we study a class of non-convex optimization problems known as multi-affine quadratic equality constrained problems, which appear in various applications--from generating feasible force trajectories in robotic locomotion and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-13 Yutong Chao , Michal Ciebielski , Jalal Etesami , Majid Khadiv

In recent years, numerous vision and learning tasks have been (re)formulated as nonconvex and nonsmooth programmings(NNPs). Although some algorithms have been proposed for particular problems, designing fast and flexible optimization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-03 Yiyang Wang , Risheng Liu , Xiaoliang Song , Zhixun Su

In this paper we analyze several new methods for solving nonconvex optimization problems with the objective function formed as a sum of two terms: one is nonconvex and smooth, and another is convex but simple and its structure is known.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-06-25 A. Patrascu , I. Necoara

We consider the problem of minimization of a convex function on a simple set with convex non-smooth inequality constraint and describe first-order methods to solve such problems in different situations: smooth or non-smooth objective…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-30 Anastasia Bayandina , Pavel Dvurechensky , Alexander Gasnikov , Fedor Stonyakin , Alexander Titov

This paper proposes two proximal Newton-CG methods for convex nonsmooth optimization problems in composite form. The algorithms are based on a a reformulation of the original nonsmooth problem as the unconstrained minimization of a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-03-03 Panagiotis Patrinos , Lorenzo Stella , Alberto Bemporad

This paper proposes novel algorithm for non-convex multimodal constrained optimisation problems. It is based on sequential solving restrictions of problem to sections of feasible set by random subspaces (in general, manifolds) of low…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-28 Dmitry A. Pasechnyuk , Alexander Gornov

We propose inertial versions of block coordinate descent methods for solving non-convex non-smooth composite optimization problems. Our methods possess three main advantages compared to current state-of-the-art accelerated first-order…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-03 Le Thi Khanh Hien , Nicolas Gillis , Panagiotis Patrinos

The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) algorithm is a powerful and flexible tool for complex optimization problems of the form $\min\{f(x)+g(y) : Ax+By=c\}$. ADMM exhibits robust empirical performance across a range of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-08 Rina Foygel Barber , Emil Y. Sidky

We consider a class of structured, nonconvex, nonsmooth optimization problems under orthogonality constraints, where the objectives combine a smooth function, a nonsmooth concave function, and a nonsmooth weakly convex function. This class…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-14 Ganzhao Yuan

We analyze stochastic algorithms for optimizing nonconvex, nonsmooth finite-sum problems, where the nonconvex part is smooth and the nonsmooth part is convex. Surprisingly, unlike the smooth case, our knowledge of this fundamental problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-05-24 Sashank J. Reddi , Suvrit Sra , Barnabas Poczos , Alex Smola

Alternating minimization (AM) procedures are practically efficient in many applications for solving convex and non-convex optimization problems. On the other hand, Nesterov's accelerated gradient is theoretically optimal first-order method…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-16 Sergey Guminov , Pavel Dvurechensky , Nazarii Tupitsa , Alexander Gasnikov

This paper proposes a multiblock alternating direction method of multipliers for solving a class of multiblock nonsmooth nonconvex optimization problem with nonlinear coupling constraints. We employ a majorization minimization procedure in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-05 Le Thi Khanh Hien , Dimitri Papadimitriou

In this paper, acceleration of gradient methods for convex optimization problems with weak levels of convexity and smoothness is considered. Starting from the universal fast gradient method which was designed to be an optimal method for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-10 Jongho Park