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In this paper, we propose an inexact Augmented Lagrangian Method (ALM) for the optimization of convex and nonsmooth objective functions subject to linear equality constraints and box constraints where errors are due to fixed-point data. To…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-23 Yan Zhang , Michael M. Zavlanos

Motivated by an inertial primal-dual dynamical system with vanishing damping, we propose a class of accelerated augmented Lagrangian methods with Nesterov extrapolation parameters for a linearly constrained convex optimization problem with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Xin He , Nan-Jing Huang , Yi-Bin Xiao , Ya-Ping Fang

This paper studies a class of double-loop (inner-outer) algorithms for convex composite optimization. For unconstrained problems, we develop a restarted accelerated composite gradient method that attains the optimal first-order complexity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-23 Matthew X. Burns , Jiaming Liang

Non-convex functional constrained optimization problems have gained substantial attention in machine learning and data science, addressing broad requirements that typically go beyond the often performance-centric objectives. An influential…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-29 Sang Bin Moon , Jong Gwang Kim , Ashish Chandra , Christopher Brinton , Abolfazl Hashemi

In this paper, we consider the minimization of a nonsmooth nonconvex objective function $f(x)$ over a closed convex subset $\mathcal{X}$ of $\mathbb{R}^n$, with additional nonsmooth nonconvex constraints $c(x) = 0$. We develop a unified…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-16 Nachuan Xiao , Kuangyu Ding , Xiaoyin Hu , Kim-Chuan Toh

We present a new feasible proximal gradient method for constrained optimization where both the objective and constraint functions are given by the summation of a smooth, possibly nonconvex function and a convex simple function. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-01 Digvijay Boob , Qi Deng , Guanghui Lan

In this paper, we propose a proximal gradient method and an accelerated proximal gradient method for solving composite optimization problems, where the objective function is the sum of a smooth and a convex, possibly nonsmooth, function. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Raghu Bollapragada , Shagun Gupta

This paper proposes and analyzes a proximal augmented Lagrangian (NL-IAPIAL) method for solving smooth nonconvex composite optimization problems with nonlinear $\cal K$-convex constraints, i.e., the constraints are convex with respect to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-06 Weiwei Kong , Jefferson G. Melo , Renato D. C. Monteiro

To construct a parallel approach for solving optimization problems with orthogonality constraints is usually regarded as an extremely difficult mission, due to the low scalability of the orthonormalization procedure. However, such demand is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-16 Bin Gao , Xin Liu , Ya-xiang Yuan

In this paper, we propose a new decomposition approach named the proximal primal dual algorithm (Prox-PDA) for smooth nonconvex linearly constrained optimization problems. The proposed approach is primal-dual based, where the primal step…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-04-05 Mingyi Hong

Despite the rise to fame of incremental variance-reduced methods in recent years, their use in nonsmooth optimization is still limited to few simple cases. This is due to the fact that existing methods require to evaluate the proximity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-28 Fabian Pedregosa , Kilian Fatras , Mattia Casotto

In this paper we propose a splitting scheme which hybridizes generalized conditional gradient with a proximal step which we call CGALP algorithm, for minimizing the sum of three proper convex and lower-semicontinuous functions in real…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-20 Antonio Silveti-Falls , Cesare Molinari , Jalal Fadili

We survey incremental methods for minimizing a sum $\sum_{i=1}^mf_i(x)$ consisting of a large number of convex component functions $f_i$. Our methods consist of iterations applied to single components, and have proved very effective in…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-12-21 Dimitri P. Bertsekas

Dual decomposition is a powerful technique for deriving decomposition schemes for convex optimization problems with separable structure. Although the Augmented Lagrangian is computationally more stable than the ordinary Lagrangian, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-02-14 Ion Necoara , Johan A. K. Suykens

Augmented Lagrangian method (ALM) has been popularly used for solving constrained optimization problems. Practically, subproblems for updating primal variables in the framework of ALM usually can only be solved inexactly. The convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-28 Yangyang Xu

This work aims to minimize a continuously differentiable convex function with Lipschitz continuous gradient under linear equality constraints. The proposed inertial algorithm results from the discretization of the second-order primal-dual…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-03 Radu Ioan Bot , Ernö Robert Csetnek , Dang-Khoa Nguyen

We investigate finite-dimensional constrained structured optimization problems, featuring composite objective functions and set-membership constraints. Offering an expressive yet simple language, this problem class provides a modeling…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-09 Alberto De Marchi , Xiaoxi Jia , Christian Kanzow , Patrick Mehlitz

We study the computational complexity certification of inexact gradient augmented Lagrangian methods for solving convex optimization problems with complicated constraints. We solve the augmented Lagrangian dual problem that arises from the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-02-19 Valentin Nedelcu , Ion Necoara , Quoc Tran Dinh

We introduce and analyze an algorithm for the minimization of convex functions that are the sum of differentiable terms and proximable terms composed with linear operators. The method builds upon the recently developed smoothed gap…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-06-20 Quang Van Nguyen , Olivier Fercoq , Volkan Cevher

The primary goal of this paper is to provide an efficient solution algorithm based on the augmented Lagrangian framework for optimization problems with a stochastic objective function and deterministic constraints. Our main contribution is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-29 Raghu Bollapragada , Cem Karamanli , Brendan Keith , Boyan Lazarov , Socratis Petrides , Jingyi Wang