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The proximal gradient algorithm has been popularly used for convex optimization. Recently, it has also been extended for nonconvex problems, and the current state-of-the-art is the nonmonotone accelerated proximal gradient algorithm.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-24 Quanming Yao , James T. Kwok , Fei Gao , Wei Chen , Tie-Yan Liu

Previous studies on stochastic primal-dual algorithms for solving min-max problems with faster convergence heavily rely on the bilinear structure of the problem, which restricts their applicability to a narrowed range of problems. The main…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Yan Yan , Yi Xu , Qihang Lin , Lijun Zhang , Tianbao Yang

We consider (stochastic) subgradient methods for strongly convex but potentially nonsmooth non-Lipschitz optimization. We provide new equivalent dual descriptions (in the style of dual averaging) for the classic subgradient method, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-31 Benjamin Grimmer , Danlin Li

We study the problem of minimizing a sum of local objective convex functions over a network of processors/agents. This problem naturally calls for distributed optimization algorithms, in which the agents cooperatively solve the problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-01 Fatemeh Mansoori , Ermin Wei

The Fast Proximal Gradient Method (FPGM) and the Monotone FPGM (MFPGM) for minimization of nonsmooth convex functions are introduced and applied to tomographic image reconstruction. Convergence properties of the sequence of objective…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-25 Elias S. Helou , Marcelo V. W. Zibetti , Gabor T. Herman

This work presents a universal accelerated first-order primal-dual method for affinely constrained convex optimization problems. It can handle both Lipschitz and H\"{o}lder gradients but does not need to know the smoothness level of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-09 Hao Luo

A generalized conditional gradient method for minimizing the sum of two convex functions, one of them differentiable, is presented. This iterative method relies on two main ingredients: First, the minimization of a partially linearized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-01 Karl Kunisch , Daniel Walter

In this paper, we propose the primal-dual method of multipliers (PDMM) for distributed optimization over a graph. In particular, we optimize a sum of convex functions defined over a graph, where every edge in the graph carries a linear…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-02-06 G. Zhang , R. Heusdens

Many descent algorithms for multiobjective optimization have been developed in the last two decades. Tanabe et al. (Comput Optim Appl 72(2):339--361, 2019) proposed a proximal gradient method for multiobjective optimization, which can solve…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-11 Hiroki Tanabe , Ellen H. Fukuda , Nobuo Yamashita

We consider an inertial primal-dual fixed point algorithm (IPDFP) to compute the minimizations of the following Problem (1.1). This is a full splitting approach, in the sense that the nonsmooth functions are processed individually via their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-04-20 Meng Wen , Yu-Chao Tang , Jigen Peng

This paper presents a simple primal dual method named DPD which is a flexible framework for a class of saddle point problem with or without strongly convex component. The presented method has linearized version named LDPD and exact version…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-16 Zhipeng Xie , Jianwen Shi

We consider a wide range of regularized stochastic minimization problems with two regularization terms, one of which is composed with a linear function. This optimization model abstracts a number of important applications in artificial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-02 Tianyi Lin , Linbo Qiao , Teng Zhang , Jiashi Feng , Bofeng Zhang

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

The distributed nonconvex optimization problem of minimizing a global cost function formed by a sum of $n$ local cost functions by using local information exchange is considered. This problem is an important component of many machine…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-11 Xinlei Yi , Shengjun Zhang , Tao Yang , Tianyou Chai , Karl H. Johansson

In this paper, we study the problem of minimizing a sum of convex objective functions, which are locally available to agents in a network. Distributed optimization algorithms make it possible for the agents to cooperatively solve the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-31 Fatemeh Mansoori , Ermin Wei

Primal-dual algorithm (PDA) is a classic and popular scheme for convex-concave saddle point problems. It is universally acknowledged that the proximal terms in the subproblems about the primal and dual variables are crucial to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-24 Shuning Liu , Zexian Liu

We propose an unconstrained optimization method based on the well-known primal-dual hybrid gradient (PDHG) algorithm. We first formulate the optimality condition of the unconstrained optimization problem as a saddle point problem. We then…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-29 X. Zuo , S. Osher , W. Li

Many problems arising in image processing and signal recovery with multi-regularization can be formulated as minimization of a sum of three convex separable functions. Typically, the objective function involves a smooth function with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-01-01 Peijun Chen , Jianguo Huang , Xiaoqun Zhang

Recent advances in Rate-Distortion-Perception (RDP) theory highlight the importance of balancing compression level, reconstruction quality, and perceptual fidelity. While previous work has explored numerical approaches to approximate the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Chunhui Chen , Linyi Chen , Xueyan Niu , Hao Wu

This paper considers stochastic optimization problems for a large class of objective functions, including convex and continuous submodular. Stochastic proximal gradient methods have been widely used to solve such problems; however, their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-13 Aryan Mokhtari , Hamed Hassani , Amin Karbasi