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This paper is concerned with the Frank--Wolfe algorithm for a special class of {\it non-compact} constrained optimization problems. The notion of asymptotic cone is used to introduce this class of problems as well as to establish that the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-29 O. P. Ferreira , W. S. Sosa

The Frank-Wolfe algorithm has seen a resurgence in popularity due to its ability to efficiently solve constrained optimization problems in machine learning and high-dimensional statistics. As such, there is much interest in establishing…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-05-19 Suhas Vijaykumar

In this paper, we consider large-scale linearly constrained composite convex optimization problem, whose objective is a sum of a smooth function and a possibly nonsmooth function. We propose a scalable \textbf{F}rank-\textbf{W}olfe based…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-10-13 Ya-Feng Liu , Xiangfeng Wang , Xin Liu , Shiqian Ma

This paper considers decentralized optimization of convex functions with mixed affine equality constraints involving both local and global variables. Constraints on global variables may vary across different nodes in the network, while…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Demyan Yarmoshik , Nhat Trung Nguyen , Alexander Rogozin , Alexander Gasnikov

Modern large-scale finite-sum optimization relies on two key aspects: distribution and stochastic updates. For smooth and strongly convex problems, existing decentralized algorithms are slower than modern accelerated variance-reduced…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-22 Hadrien Hendrikx , Francis Bach , Laurent Massoulie

In this paper, we develop a class of decentralized algorithms for solving a convex resource allocation problem in a network of $n$ agents, where the agent objectives are decoupled while the resource constraints are coupled. The agents…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-18 Angelia Nedić , Alex Olshevsky , Wei Shi

Stochastic Frank-Wolfe is a classical optimization method for solving constrained optimization problems. On the other hand, recent optimizers such as Lion and Muon have gained quite significant popularity in deep learning. In this work,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Maria-Eleni Sfyraki , Jun-Kun Wang

In this paper, we consider an online optimization process, where the objective functions are not convex (nor concave) but instead belong to a broad class of continuous submodular functions. We first propose a variant of the Frank-Wolfe…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-19 Lin Chen , Hamed Hassani , Amin Karbasi

The paper studies decentralized optimization over networks, where agents minimize a composite objective consisting of the sum of smooth convex functions--the agents' losses--and an additional nonsmooth convex extended value function. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-05 Xiaokai Chen , Ilya Kuruzov , Gesualdo Scutari , Alexander Gasnikov

In many online learning problems the computational bottleneck for gradient-based methods is the projection operation. For this reason, in many problems the most efficient algorithms are based on the Frank-Wolfe method, which replaces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-17 Elad Hazan , Edgar Minasyan

This paper proposes a new variant of Frank-Wolfe (FW), called $k$FW. Standard FW suffers from slow convergence: iterates often zig-zag as update directions oscillate around extreme points of the constraint set. The new variant, $k$FW,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-17 Lijun Ding , Jicong Fan , Madeleine Udell

Distributed optimization has a rich history. It has demonstrated its effectiveness in many machine learning applications, etc. In this paper we study a subclass of distributed optimization, namely decentralized optimization in a non-smooth…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-05 Aleksandr Lobanov , Andrew Veprikov , Georgiy Konin , Aleksandr Beznosikov , Alexander Gasnikov , Dmitry Kovalev

We present and analyze an away-step Frank-Wolfe method for the convex optimization problem ${\min}_{x\in\mathcal{X}} \; f(\mathsf{A} x) + \langle{c},{x}\rangle$, where $f$ is a $\theta$-logarithmically-homogeneous self-concordant barrier,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-30 Renbo Zhao

This paper proposes a novel proximal-gradient algorithm for a decentralized optimization problem with a composite objective containing smooth and non-smooth terms. Specifically, the smooth and nonsmooth terms are dealt with by gradient and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-02 Zhi Li , Wei Shi , Ming Yan

In this paper, the online variants of the classical Frank-Wolfe algorithm are considered. We consider minimizing the regret with a stochastic cost. The online algorithms only require simple iterative updates and a non-adaptive step size…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-08-16 Jean Lafond , Hoi-To Wai , Eric Moulines

We consider the problem of minimizing a difference of (smooth) convex functions over a compact convex feasible region $P$, i.e., $\min_{x \in P} f(x) - g(x)$, with smooth $f$ and Lipschitz continuous $g$. This computational study builds…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-05 Sebastian Pokutta

Many existing Neural Network pruning approaches rely on either retraining or inducing a strong bias in order to converge to a sparse solution throughout training. A third paradigm, 'compression-aware' training, aims to obtain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Max Zimmer , Christoph Spiegel , Sebastian Pokutta

Action-constrained reinforcement learning (RL) is a widely-used approach in various real-world applications, such as scheduling in networked systems with resource constraints and control of a robot with kinematic constraints. While the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Jyun-Li Lin , Wei Hung , Shang-Hsuan Yang , Ping-Chun Hsieh , Xi Liu

The Frank-Wolfe algorithm achieves a convergence rate of $\mathcal{O}(1/T)$ for smooth convex optimization over compact convex domains, accelerating to $\mathcal{O}(1/T^2)$ when both the objective and the feasible set are strongly convex.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Jannis Halbey , Christophe Roux , Sebastian Pokutta

This paper considers the decentralized convex optimization problem, which has a wide range of applications in large-scale machine learning, sensor networks, and control theory. We propose novel algorithms that achieve optimal computation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Haishan Ye , Luo Luo , Ziang Zhou , Tong Zhang