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This paper addresses the bilinearly coupled minimax optimization problem: $\min_{x \in \mathbb{R}^{d_x}}\max_{y \in \mathbb{R}^{d_y}} \ f_1(x) + f_2(x) + y^{\top} Bx - g_1(y) - g_2(y)$, where $f_1$ and $g_1$ are smooth convex functions,…
We present a distributed proximal-gradient method for optimizing the average of convex functions, each of which is the private local objective of an agent in a network with time-varying topology. The local objectives have distinct…
An algorithm is proposed for solving optimization problems with stochastic objective and deterministic equality and inequality constraints. This algorithm is objective-function-free in the sense that it only uses the objective's gradient…
We develop a novel unified randomized block-coordinate primal-dual algorithm to solve a class of nonsmooth constrained convex optimization problems, which covers different existing variants and model settings from the literature. We prove…
The proximal gradient method is a generic technique introduced to tackle the non-smoothness in optimization problems, wherein the objective function is expressed as the sum of a differentiable convex part and a non-differentiable…
Proximal point algorithm has found many applications, and it has been playing fundamental roles in the understanding, design, and analysis of many first-order methods. In this paper, we derive the tight convergence rate in subgradient norm…
With a weighting scheme proportional to t, a traditional stochastic gradient descent (SGD) algorithm achieves a high probability convergence rate of O({\kappa}/T) for strongly convex functions, instead of O({\kappa} ln(T)/T). We also prove…
We propose a distributed first-order augmented Lagrangian (DFAL) algorithm to minimize the sum of composite convex functions, where each term in the sum is a private cost function belonging to a node, and only nodes connected by an edge can…
This paper investigates the convex optimization problem with general convex inequality constraints. To cope with this problem, a discrete-time algorithm, called augmented primal-dual gradient algorithm (Aug-PDG), is studied and analyzed. It…
In this letter, an accelerated quadratic programming (QP) algorithm is proposed based on the proximal gradient method. The algorithm can achieve convergence rate $O(1/p^{\alpha})$, where $p$ is the iteration number and $\alpha$ is the given…
Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) for strongly convex functions converges at the rate $\bO(1/k)$. However, achieving good results in practice requires tuning the parameters (for example the learning rate) of the algorithm. In this paper we…
While first-order optimization methods are usually designed to efficiently reduce the function value $f(x)$, there has been recent interest in methods efficiently reducing the magnitude of $\nabla f(x)$, and the findings show that the two…
We present a proximal gradient method for solving convex multiobjective optimization problems, where each objective function is the sum of two convex functions, with one assumed to be continuously differentiable. The algorithm incorporates…
This paper generalizes the dynamical system proposed by Wang et al. [Siam. J. Sci. Comput., 2021] to multiobjective optimization by investigating a multiobjective accelerated gradient-like flow with asymptotically vanishing normalized…
We propose Dual-Feedback Generalized Proximal Gradient Descent (DFGPGD) as a new, hardware-friendly, operator splitting algorithm. We then establish convergence guarantees under approximate computational errors and we derive theoretical…
In this work, we approach the minimization of a continuously differentiable convex function under linear equality constraints by a second-order dynamical system with asymptotically vanishing damping term. The system is formulated in terms…
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…
This paper studies the distributed optimization problem when the objective functions might be nondifferentiable and subject to heterogeneous set constraints. Unlike existing subgradient methods, we focus on the case when the exact…
This paper presents an accelerated proximal gradient method for multiobjective optimization, in which each objective function is the sum of a continuously differentiable, convex function and a closed, proper, convex function. Extending…
This paper is devoted to the design of efficient primal-dual algorithm (PDA) for solving convex optimization problems with known saddle-point structure. We present a new PDA with larger acceptable range of parameters and correction, which…