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We present a new Frank-Wolfe (FW) type algorithm that is applicable to minimization problems with a nonsmooth convex objective. We provide convergence bounds and show that the scheme yields so-called coreset results for various Machine…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-23 Sathya N. Ravi , Maxwell D. Collins , Vikas Singh

We propose Frank--Wolfe (FW) algorithms with an adaptive Bregman step-size strategy for smooth adaptable (also called: relatively smooth) (weakly-) convex functions. This means that the gradient of the objective function is not necessarily…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-19 Shota Takahashi , Sebastian Pokutta , Akiko Takeda

The Frank-Wolfe (FW) method, which implements efficient linear oracles that minimize linear approximations of the objective function over a fixed compact convex set, has recently received much attention in the optimization and machine…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-19 Liaoyuan Zeng , Yongle Zhang , Guoyin Li , Ting Kei Pong , Xiaozhou Wang

The Frank-Wolfe (FW) method is a popular algorithm for solving large-scale convex optimization problems appearing in structured statistical learning. However, the traditional Frank-Wolfe method can only be applied when the feasible region…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-11 Haoyue Wang , Haihao Lu , Rahul Mazumder

Symmetric nonnegative matrix factorization has found abundant applications in various domains by providing a symmetric low-rank decomposition of nonnegative matrices. In this paper we propose a Frank-Wolfe (FW) solver to optimize the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-27 Han Zhao , Geoff Gordon

This paper presents a subgradient-based algorithm for constrained nonsmooth convex optimization that does not require projections onto the feasible set. While the well-established Frank-Wolfe algorithm and its variants already avoid…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Kamiar Asgari , Michael J. Neely

The Frank-Wolfe (FW) method is a popular approach for solving optimization problems with structured constraints that arise in machine learning applications. In recent years, stochastic versions of FW have gained popularity, motivated by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-17 Aleksandr Beznosikov , David Dobre , Gauthier Gidel

Recently, there has been a renewed interest in the machine learning community for variants of a sparse greedy approximation procedure for concave optimization known as {the Frank-Wolfe (FW) method}. In particular, this procedure has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-27 Hector Allende , Emanuele Frandi , Ricardo Nanculef , Claudio Sartori

The Frank-Wolfe (FW) optimization algorithm has lately re-gained popularity thanks in particular to its ability to nicely handle the structured constraints appearing in machine learning applications. However, its convergence rate is known…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-11-19 Simon Lacoste-Julien , Martin Jaggi

We propose an algorithm which appears to be the first bridge between the fields of conditional gradient methods and abs-smooth optimization. Our problem setting is motivated by various applications that lead to nonsmoothness, such as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-20 Timo Kreimeier , Sebastian Pokutta , Andrea Walther , Zev Woodstock

In this paper we provide an introduction to the Frank-Wolfe algorithm, a method for smooth convex optimization in the presence of (relatively) complicated constraints. We will present the algorithm, introduce key concepts, and establish…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-30 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

Frank-Wolfe algorithms for convex minimization have recently gained considerable attention from the Optimization and Machine Learning communities, as their properties make them a suitable choice in a variety of applications. However, as…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-10-27 Emanuele Frandi , Ricardo Nanculef , Johan Suykens

We propose a new version of the Frank-Wolfe method, called the (L0, L1)-Frank-Wolfe algorithm, developed for optimization problems with (L0, L1)-smooth objectives. We establish that this algorithm achieves superior theoretical convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-21 A. A. Vyguzov , F. S. Stonyakin

We study the Frank-Wolfe algorithm for constrained optimization problems with relatively smooth objectives. Building upon our previous work, we propose a fully adaptive variant of the Frank-Wolfe method that dynamically adjusts the step…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-27 A. A. Vyguzov , F. S. Stonyakin

We study Frank-Wolfe methods for nonconvex stochastic and finite-sum optimization problems. Frank-Wolfe methods (in the convex case) have gained tremendous recent interest in machine learning and optimization communities due to their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-01 Sashank J. Reddi , Suvrit Sra , Barnabas Poczos , Alex Smola

Frank-Wolfe algorithm (FW) and its variants have gained a surge of interests in machine learning community due to its projection-free property. Recently people have reduced the gradient evaluation complexity of FW algorithm to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-22 Yan Li , Chao Qu , Huan Xu

The Frank-Wolfe method and its extensions are well-suited for delivering solutions with desirable structural properties, such as sparsity or low-rank structure. We introduce a new variant of the Frank-Wolfe method that combines Frank-Wolfe…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-11 Paul Grigas , Alfonso Lobos , Nathan Vermeersch

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

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
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