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The Frank-Wolfe method solves smooth constrained convex optimization problems at a generic sublinear rate of $\mathcal{O}(1/T)$, and it (or its variants) enjoys accelerated convergence rates for two fundamental classes of constraints:…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-17 Thomas Kerdreux , Alexandre d'Aspremont , Sebastian Pokutta

Frank-Wolfe (FW) algorithms have been often proposed over the last few years as efficient solvers for a variety of optimization problems arising in the field of Machine Learning. The ability to work with cheap projection-free iterations and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-10-27 Emanuele Frandi , Ricardo Nanculef , Stefano Lodi , Claudio Sartori , Johan A. K. Suykens

The Frank-Wolfe algorithm is a method for constrained optimization that relies on linear minimizations, as opposed to projections. Therefore, a motivation put forward in a large body of work on the Frank-Wolfe algorithm is the computational…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-15 Cyrille W. Combettes , Sebastian Pokutta

This paper considers distributed stochastic optimization, in which a number of agents cooperate to optimize a global objective function through local computations and information exchanges with neighbors over a network. Stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-09 Jie Hou , Xianlin Zeng , Gang Wang , Jian Sun , Jie Chen

The paper introduces a new adaptive version of the Frank-Wolfe algorithm for relatively smooth convex functions. It is proposed to use the Bregman divergence other than half the square of the Euclidean norm in the formula for step-size.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-23 Alexander Vyguzov , Fedor Stonyakin

This paper studies first-order algorithms for solving fully composite optimization problems over convex and compact sets. We leverage the structure of the objective by handling its differentiable and non-differentiable components…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-13 Maria-Luiza Vladarean , Nikita Doikov , Martin Jaggi , Nicolas Flammarion

The purpose of this survey is to serve both as a gentle introduction and a coherent overview of state-of-the-art Frank--Wolfe algorithms, also called conditional gradient algorithms, for function minimization. These algorithms are…

The Conditional Gradient (or Frank-Wolfe) method is one of the most well-known methods for solving constrained optimization problems appearing in various machine learning tasks. The simplicity of iteration and applicability to many…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-17 Ruslan Nazykov , Aleksandr Shestakov , Vladimir Solodkin , Aleksandr Beznosikov , Gauthier Gidel , Alexander Gasnikov

Projection-free optimization via different variants of the Frank-Wolfe (FW) method has become one of the cornerstones in large scale optimization for machine learning and computational statistics. Numerous applications within these fields…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-03 Pavel Dvurechensky , Kamil Safin , Shimrit Shtern , Mathias Staudigl

Projection-free optimization via different variants of the Frank-Wolfe (FW), a.k.a. Conditional Gradient method has become one of the cornerstones in optimization for machine learning since in many cases the linear minimization oracle is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-30 Pavel Dvurechensky , Petr Ostroukhov , Kamil Safin , Shimrit Shtern , Mathias Staudigl

Frank-Wolfe methods (FW) have gained significant interest in the machine learning community due to its ability to efficiently solve large problems that admit a sparse structure (e.g. sparse vectors and low-rank matrices). However the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-22 Edward Cheung , Yuying Li

We introduce a new projection-free (Frank-Wolfe) method for optimizing structured nonconvex functions that are expressed as a difference of two convex functions. This problem class subsumes smooth nonconvex minimization, positioning our…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-01 Hoomaan Maskan , Yikun Hou , Suvrit Sra , Alp Yurtsever

The stochastic Frank-Wolfe method has recently attracted much general interest in the context of optimization for statistical and machine learning due to its ability to work with a more general feasible region. However, there has been a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-06 Haihao Lu , Robert M. Freund

The article is devoted to the development of algorithmic methods ensuring efficient complexity bounds for strongly convex-concave saddle point problems in the case when one of the groups of variables is high-dimensional, and the other is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-26 Egor Gladin , Ilya Kuruzov , Fedor Stonyakin , Dmitry Pasechnyuk , Mohammad Alkousa , Alexander Gasnikov

We consider the applications of the Frank-Wolfe (FW) algorithm for Apprenticeship Learning (AL). In this setting, we are given a Markov Decision Process (MDP) without an explicit reward function. Instead, we observe an expert that acts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Tom Zahavy , Alon Cohen , Haim Kaplan , Yishay Mansour

Some variant of the Frank-Wolfe method for convex optimization problems with adaptive selection of the step parameter corresponding to information about the smoothness of the objective function (the Lipschitz constant of the gradient).…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-01 G. V. Aivazian , F. S. Stonyakin , D. A. Pasechnyuk , M. S. Alkousa , A. M. Raigorodskii

We propose a novel Stochastic Frank-Wolfe (a.k.a. conditional gradient) algorithm for constrained smooth finite-sum minimization with a generalized linear prediction/structure. This class of problems includes empirical risk minimization…

We develop new accelerated first-order algorithms in the Frank-Wolfe (FW) family for minimizing smooth convex functions over compact convex sets, with a focus on two prominent constraint classes: (1) polytopes and (2) matrix domains given…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-05 Dan Garber

We present a blended conditional gradient approach for minimizing a smooth convex function over a polytope P, combining the Frank--Wolfe algorithm (also called conditional gradient) with gradient-based steps, different from away steps and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-24 Gábor Braun , Sebastian Pokutta , Dan Tu , Stephen Wright

Federated learning (FL) has gained a lot of attention in recent years for building privacy-preserving collaborative learning systems. However, FL algorithms for constrained machine learning problems are still limited, particularly when the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Ali Dadras , Sourasekhar Banerjee , Karthik Prakhya , Alp Yurtsever