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In this paper we consider a class of optimization problems with a strongly convex objective function and the feasible set given by an intersection of a simple convex set with a set given by a number of linear equality and inequality…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-05-11 Alexey Chernov , Pavel Dvurechensky , Alexander Gasnikov

As a Bayesian approach to fitting motorway traffic flow models remains rare in the literature, we explore empirically the sampling challenges this approach offers which have to do with the strong correlations and multi-modality of the…

Computation · Statistics 2021-08-11 Jeremie Coullon , Yvo Pokern

We develop a novel primal-dual algorithm to solve a class of nonsmooth and nonlinear compositional convex minimization problems, which covers many existing and brand-new models as special cases. Our approach relies on a combination of a new…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-20 Yuzixuan Zhu , Deyi Liu , Quoc Tran-Dinh

In this note, we provide an overarching analysis of primal-dual dynamics associated to linear equality-constrained optimization problems using contraction analysis. For the well-known standard version of the problem: we establish…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-22 Pedro Cisneros-Velarde , Saber Jafarpour , Francesco Bullo

In this paper, we introduce a neural network-based method to address the high-dimensional dynamic unbalanced optimal transport (UOT) problem. Dynamic UOT focuses on the optimal transportation between two densities with unequal total mass,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-23 Wei Wan , Jiangong Pan , Yuejin Zhang , Chenglong Bao , Zuoqiang Shi

We propose a primal--dual technique that applies to infinite dimensional equality constrained problems, in particular those arising from optimal control. As an application of our general framework, we solve a control-constrained double…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-14 Regina S. Burachik , C. Yalçın Kaya , Xuemei Liu

The saddle-point optimization problems have a lot of practical applications. This paper focuses on such non-smooth problems in decentralized case. This work contains generalization of recently proposed sliding for centralized problem.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-01 Ilya Kuruzov , Alexander Rogozin , Demyan Yarmoshik , Alexander Gasnikov

We propose two deep neural network-based methods for solving semi-martingale optimal transport problems. The first method is based on a relaxation/penalization of the terminal constraint, and is solved using deep neural networks. The second…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-08 Ivan Guo , Nicolas Langrené , Grégoire Loeper , Wei Ning

This article details a general numerical framework to approximate so-lutions to linear programs related to optimal transport. The general idea is to introduce an entropic regularization of the initial linear program. This regularized…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-12-17 Jean-David Benamou , Guillaume Carlier , Marco Cuturi , Luca Nenna , Gabriel Peyré

This work is a geometrical approach to the optimization problem motivated by transportation system management. First, an attempt has been made to furnish a comprehensive account of geometric programming based on the elementary Finsler…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-06 Azam Asanjarani

Optimal transport has been used extensively in resource matching to promote the efficiency of resources usages by matching sources to targets. However, it requires a significant amount of computations and storage spaces for large-scale…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-10 Rui Zhang , Quanyan Zhu

We investigate the integration of Nesterov-type acceleration into primal-dual methods for structured convex optimization. While proximal splitting algorithms efficiently handle composite problems of the form $\min_x f(x)+g(x)+h(Kx)$,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Laurent Condat , Abdurakhmon Sadiev , Peter Richtárik

In this paper, we propose a primal-dual algorithm with a novel momentum term using the partial gradients of the coupling function that can be viewed as a generalization of the method proposed by Chambolle and Pock in 2016 to solve saddle…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-22 Erfan Yazdandoost Hamedani , Necdet Serhat Aybat

Convergence analysis of accelerated first-order methods for convex optimization problems are presented from the point of view of ordinary differential equation solvers. A new dynamical system, called Nesterov accelerated gradient flow, has…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-01 Hao Luo , Long Chen

In this paper, we propose a general Tikhonov regularized second-order dynamical system with viscous damping, time scaling and extrapolation coefficients for the convex-concave bilinear saddle point problem. By the Lyapunov function…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-02 Bohan Zhang , Xiaojun Zhang

In this paper, a new variant of accelerated gradient descent is proposed. The pro-posed method does not require any information about the objective function, usesexact line search for the practical accelerations of convergence, converges…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-14 Yurii Nesterov , Alexander Gasnikov , Sergey Guminov , Pavel Dvurechensky

While many distributed optimization algorithms have been proposed for solving smooth or convex problems over the networks, few of them can handle non-convex and non-smooth problems. Based on a proximal primal-dual approach, this paper…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-01 Zhiguo Wang , Jiawei Zhang , Tsung-Hui Chang , Jian Li , Zhi-Quan Luo

An attempt to merge into a single model, which reduces to the solution of non-smooth convex optimization problem: calculation model of OD-matrix (entropy model), the mode split model and the model of the equilibrium distribution of flows…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-06-30 Alexander Gasnikov , Yuriy Dorn , Yurii Nesterov , Sergey Shpirko

We introduce fast algorithms for generalized unnormalized optimal transport. To handle densities with different total mass, we consider a dynamic model, which mixes the $L^p$ optimal transport with $L^p$ distance. For $p=1$, we derive the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-07 Wonjun Lee , Rongjie Lai , Wuchen Li , Stanley Osher

We develop primal-dual coordinate methods for solving bilinear saddle-point problems of the form $\min_{x \in \mathcal{X}} \max_{y\in\mathcal{Y}} y^\top A x$ which contain linear programming, classification, and regression as special cases.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Yair Carmon , Yujia Jin , Aaron Sidford , Kevin Tian