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In this paper we present a variant of the proximal forward-backward splitting iteration for solving nonsmooth optimization problems in Hilbert spaces, when the objective function is the sum of two nondifferentiable convex functions. The…

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This paper focuses on stochastic proximal gradient methods for optimizing a smooth non-convex loss function with a non-smooth non-convex regularizer and convex constraints. To the best of our knowledge we present the first non-asymptotic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-27 Michael R. Metel , Akiko Takeda

In the context of finite sums minimization, variance reduction techniques are widely used to improve the performance of state-of-the-art stochastic gradient methods. Their practical impact is clear, as well as their theoretical properties.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-07 Cheik Traoré , Vassilis Apidopoulos , Saverio Salzo , Silvia Villa

The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, basic concepts such as Gamma function, almost convergence, fractional order difference operator and sequence spaces are given as a survey character. Thus, the current knowledge about those…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-04 Murat Kirisci , Ugur Kadak

Submodular functions describe a variety of discrete problems in machine learning, signal processing, and computer vision. However, minimizing submodular functions poses a number of algorithmic challenges. Recent work introduced an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-11-06 Robert Nishihara , Stefanie Jegelka , Michael I. Jordan

We propose an accelerated forward-backward method with fast convergence rate for finding a minimizer of a decomposable nonsmooth convex function over a closed convex set, and name it smoothing accelerated proximal gradient (SAPG) algorithm.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-05 Wei Bian , Fan Wu

In this paper, an inexact proximal-point penalty method is studied for constrained optimization problems, where the objective function is non-convex, and the constraint functions can also be non-convex. The proposed method approximately…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-02 Qihang Lin , Runchao Ma , Yangyang Xu

We extend Fukushima's result on the finite convergence of an algorithm for the global convex feasibility problem to the local nonconvex case.

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-08-01 C. H. Jeffrey Pang

We investigate fundamental properties of the proximal point algorithm for Lipschitz convex functions on (proper, geodesic) Gromov hyperbolic spaces. We show that the proximal point algorithm from an arbitrary initial point can find a point…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-03 Shin-ichi Ohta

Stochastic gradient descent type methods are ubiquitous in machine learning, but they are only applicable to the optimization of differentiable functions. Proximal algorithms are more general and applicable to nonsmooth functions. We…

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We propose the concepts of vicinal mappings and firmly vicinal mappings in metric spaces. We obtain fixed point and convergence theorems for these mappings in complete geodesic spaces with curvature bounded above by one and apply our…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-01 Fumiaki Kohsaka

Local convergence analysis of the proximal point method for special class of nonconvex function on Hadamard manifold is presented in this paper. The well definedness of the sequence generated by the proximal point method is guaranteed.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-04-13 G. C. Bento , O. P. Ferreira , P. R. Oliveira

We propose greedy and local search algorithms for rank-constrained convex optimization, namely solving $\underset{\mathrm{rank}(A)\leq r^*}{\min}\, R(A)$ given a convex function $R:\mathbb{R}^{m\times n}\rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ and a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Kyriakos Axiotis , Maxim Sviridenko

We consider a minimization problem of the form $P(\varphi, g, h):$ $$\min\left\{f(x):= \varphi(x) + g(x) - h(x) \colon x \in \mathbb{R}^n\right\},$$ where $\varphi$ is a differentiable function and $g,$ $h$ are convex functions, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Shuang Wu , Bui Van Dinh , Liguo Jiao , Do Sang Kim , Wensheng Zhu

In this two-part paper, we propose a general algorithmic framework for the minimization of a nonconvex smooth function subject to nonconvex smooth constraints. The algorithm solves a sequence of (separable) strongly convex problems and…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2016-01-18 Gesualdo Scutari , Francisco Facchinei , Lorenzo Lampariello , Peiran Song

We consider linear partial differential equations on resistance spaces that are uniformly elliptic and parabolic in the sense of quadratic forms and involve abstract gradient and divergence terms. Our main interest is to provide graph and…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-15 Michael Hinz , Melissa Meinert

Bilevel optimization minimizes an objective function, defined by an upper-level problem whose feasible region is the solution of a lower-level problem. We study the oracle complexity of finding an $\epsilon$-stationary point with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-01 Lesi Chen , Jingzhao Zhang

In this paper we continue a long line of work on representing the cut structure of graphs. We classify the types minimum vertex cuts, and the possible relationships between multiple minimum vertex cuts. As a consequence of these…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Seth Pettie , Longhui Yin

We present two novel methods for approximating minimizers of the abstract Rayleigh quotient $\Phi(u)/ \|u\|^p$. Here $\Phi$ is a strictly convex functional on a Banach space with norm $\|\cdot\|$, and $\Phi$ is assumed to be positively…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-02-16 Ryan Hynd , Erik Lindgren

This paper deals with a modifed iterative projection method for approximating a solution of hierarchical fixed point problems for nearly nonexpansive mappings. Some strong convergence theorems for the proposed method are presented under…

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