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We consider monotone inclusions defined on a Hilbert space where the operator is given by the sum of a maximal monotone operator $T$ and a single-valued monotone, Lipschitz continuous, and expectation-valued operator $V$. We draw motivation…

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A succesful method to describe the asymptotic behavior of a discrete time stochastic process governed by some recursive formula is to relate it to the limit sets of a well chosen mean differential equation. Under an attainability condition,…

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This paper investigates first-order variable metric backward forward dynamical systems associated with monotone inclusion and convex minimization problems in real Hilbert space. The operators are chosen so that the backward-forward…

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In this paper, we present a novel analysis of \FedAvg with constant step size, relying on the Markov property of the underlying process. We demonstrate that the global iterates of the algorithm converge to a stationary distribution and…

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Splitting algorithms for finding a zero of sum of operators often involve multiple steps which are referred to as forward or backward steps. Forward steps are the explicit use of the operators and backward steps involve the operators…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-13 Minh N. Dao , Hung M. Phan

Stochastic approximation techniques have been used in various contexts in data science. We propose a stochastic version of the forward-backward algorithm for minimizing the sum of two convex functions, one of which is not necessarily…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-02-26 Patrick L. Combettes , Jean-Christophe Pesquet

We study a catching-up algorithm for a class of differential inclusions driven by maximal monotone operators with continuous perturbations. Using a decomposition of the monotone operator into the closed convex hull of its single-valued part…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Tan H. Cao , Hassan Saoud

The forward-backward splitting algorithm is a popular operator-splitting method for solving monotone inclusion of the sum of a maximal monotone operator and a cocoercive operator. In this paper, we present a new convergence analysis of a…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2019-08-30 Fuying Cui , Yuchao Tang , Chuanxi Zhu

We establish the convergence of the forward-backward splitting algorithm based on Bregman distances for the sum of two monotone operators in reflexive Banach spaces. Even in Euclidean spaces, the convergence of this algorithm has so far…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-29 Minh N. Bùi , Patrick L. Combettes

ODE solvers with randomly sampled timestep sizes appear in the context of chaotic dynamical systems, differential equations with low regularity, and, implicitly, in stochastic optimisation. In this work, we propose and study the stochastic…

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This paper analyzes a (1, $\lambda$)-Evolution Strategy, a randomized comparison-based adaptive search algorithm, optimizing a linear function with a linear constraint. The algorithm uses resampling to handle the constraint. Two cases are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-10-16 Alexandre Chotard , Anne Auger , Nikolaus Hansen

In this paper we introduce a class of novel distributed algorithms for solving stochastic big-data convex optimization problems over directed graphs. In the addressed set-up, the dimension of the decision variable can be extremely high and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-06 Francesco Farina , Giuseppe Notarstefano

We propose and study the weak convergence of a projective splitting algorithm for solving multi-term composite monotone inclusion problems involving the finite sum of $n$ maximal monotone operators, each of which having an inner four-block…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-08 M. Marques Alves

Motivated by the extensive application of approximate gradients in machine learning and optimization, we investigate inexact subgradient methods subject to persistent additive errors. Within a nonconvex semialgebraic framework, assuming…

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This work proposes block-coordinate fixed point algorithms with applications to nonlinear analysis and optimization in Hilbert spaces. The asymptotic analysis relies on a notion of stochastic quasi-Fej\'er monotonicity, which is thoroughly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-04-20 Patrick L. Combettes , Jean-Christophe Pesquet

Splitting methods have emerged as powerful tools to address complex problems by decomposing them into smaller solvable components. In this work, we develop a general approach to forward-backward splitting methods for solving monotone…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-20 Minh N. Dao , Matthew K. Tam , Thang D. Truong

Stochastic optimization methods have been hugely successful in making large-scale optimization problems feasible when computing the full gradient is computationally prohibitive. Using the theory of modified equations for numerical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Stefano Di Giovacchino , Desmond J. Higham , Konstantinos Zygalakis

We develop a stochastic approximation-type algorithm to solve finite state/action, infinite-horizon, risk-aware Markov decision processes. Our algorithm has two loops. The inner loop computes the risk by solving a stochastic saddle-point…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-05 Wenjie Huang , William B. Haskell

Stochastic gradient methods are the workhorse (algorithms) of large-scale optimization problems in machine learning, signal processing, and other computational sciences and engineering. This paper studies Markov chain gradient descent, a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-13 Tao Sun , Yuejiao Sun , Wotao Yin

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