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The method of nonlinear conjugate gradients (NCG) is widely used in practice for unconstrained optimization, but it satisfies weak complexity bounds at best when applied to smooth convex functions. In contrast, Nesterov's accelerated…

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In this paper, we consider the composite optimization problem, where the objective function integrates a continuously differentiable loss function with a nonsmooth regularization term. Moreover, only the function values for the…

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We consider the unconstrained optimization problem whose objective function is composed of a smooth and a non-smooth conponents where the smooth component is the expectation a random function. This type of problem arises in some interesting…

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Our work focuses on stochastic gradient methods for optimizing a smooth non-convex loss function with a non-smooth non-convex regularizer. Research on this class of problem is quite limited, and until recently no non-asymptotic convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-15 Michael R. Metel , Akiko Takeda

This paper presents and investigates an inexact proximal gradient method for solving composite convex optimization problems characterized by an objective function composed of a sum of a full-domain differentiable convex function and a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-16 Yunier Bello-Cruz , Max L. N. Gonçalves , Jefferson G. Melo , Cassandra Mohr

We consider in this paper a class of composite optimization problems whose objective function is given by the summation of a general smooth and nonsmooth component, together with a relatively simple nonsmooth term. We present a new class of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-10-27 Guanghui Lan

We introduce a generic scheme to solve nonconvex optimization problems using gradient-based algorithms originally designed for minimizing convex functions. Even though these methods may originally require convexity to operate, the proposed…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-01-03 Courtney Paquette , Hongzhou Lin , Dmitriy Drusvyatskiy , Julien Mairal , Zaid Harchaoui

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

The Conditional Gradient Method is generalized to a class of non-smooth non-convex optimization problems with many applications in machine learning. The proposed algorithm iterates by minimizing so-called model functions over the constraint…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-25 Yura Malitsky , Peter Ochs

In this contribution, we present a full overview of the continuous stochastic gradient (CSG) method, including convergence results, step size rules and algorithmic insights. We consider optimization problems in which the objective function…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-23 Max Grieshammer , Lukas Pflug , Michael Stingl , Andrian Uihlein

Composite convex optimization problems which include both a nonsmooth term and a low-rank promoting term have important applications in machine learning and signal processing, such as when one wishes to recover an unknown matrix that is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-28 Dan Garber , Atara Kaplan

In this paper we propose a variant of the random coordinate descent method for solving linearly constrained convex optimization problems with composite objective functions. If the smooth part of the objective function has Lipschitz…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-02-14 Ion Necoara , Andrei Patrascu

A recent article introduced thecontinuous stochastic gradient method (CSG) for the efficient solution of a class of stochastic optimization problems. While the applicability of known stochastic gradient type methods is typically limited to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-16 Lukas Pflug , Max Grieshammer , Andrian Uihlein , Michael Stingl

In this paper, we present a first-order projection-free method, namely, the universal conditional gradient sliding (UCGS) method, for solving $\varepsilon$-approximate solutions to convex differentiable optimization problems. For objective…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-23 Yuyuan Ouyang , Trevor Squires

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

Communication compression techniques are of growing interests for solving the decentralized optimization problem under limited communication, where the global objective is to minimize the average of local cost functions over a multi-agent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-26 Yiwei Liao , Zhuorui Li , Kun Huang , Shi Pu

The recently introduced Gradient Methods with Memory use a subset of the past oracle information to create an accurate model of the objective function that enables them to surpass the Gradient Method in practical performance. The model…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-30 Mihai I. Florea

We suggest simple modifications of the conditional gradient method for smooth optimization problems, which maintain the basic convergence properties, but reduce the implementation cost of each iteration essentially. Namely, we propose the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-17 Igor Konnov

Conjugate gradient (CG) methods are widely acknowledged as efficient for minimizing continuously differentiable functions in Euclidean spaces. In recent years, various CG methods have been extended to Riemannian manifold optimization, but…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Chunming Tang , Shaohui Liang , Huangyue Chen

In practice, optimization tasks have some structure that allows developing new algorithms for every problem with faster convergence rates. Using the structure of optimization tasks, we can propose algorithms with more optimistic convergence…

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