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In this article, we study the convergence of algorithms for solving monotone inclusions in the presence of adjoint mismatch. The adjoint mismatch arises when the adjoint of a linear operator is replaced by an approximation, due to…

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We study optimization problems on Hadamard manifolds, motivated by recent advances in geometric approaches to optimization on curved spaces, particularly those involving the structure of Busemann functions. We introduce a projection based…

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The proximity operator of a convex function is a natural extension of the notion of a projection operator onto a convex set. This tool, which plays a central role in the analysis and the numerical solution of convex optimization problems,…

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Koopman operators provide tractable means of learning linear approximations of non-linear dynamics. Many approaches have been proposed to find these operators, typically based upon approximations using an a-priori fixed class of models.…

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We investigate fundamental properties of the proximal point algorithm for Lipschitz convex functions on (proper, geodesic) Gromov hyperbolic spaces. We show that the proximal point algorithm from an arbitrary initial point can find a point…

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An efficient proximal-gradient-based method, called proximal extrapolated gradient method, is designed for solving monotone variational inequality in Hilbert space. The proposed method extends the acceptable range of parameters to obtain…

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Based on the idea of randomized coordinate descent of $\alpha$-averaged operators, a randomized primal-dual optimization algorithm is introduced, where a random subset of coordinates is updated at each iteration. The algorithm builds upon a…

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The data-compatibility approach to constrained optimization, proposed here, strives to a point that is "close enough" to the solution set and whose target function value is "close enough" to the constrained minimum value. These notions can…

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We study the problem of zero-order optimization of a strongly convex function. The goal is to find the minimizer of the function by a sequential exploration of its values, under measurement noise. We study the impact of higher order…

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In this paper, we first study nonsmooth steepest descent method for nonsmooth functions defined on Hilbert space and establish the corresponding algorithm by proximal subgradients. Then, we use this algorithm to find stationary points for…

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