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We analyze two novel randomized variants of the Frank-Wolfe (FW) or conditional gradient algorithm. While classical FW algorithms require solving a linear minimization problem over the domain at each iteration, the proposed method only…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-21 Thomas Kerdreux , Fabian Pedregosa , Alexandre d'Aspremont

An extension of the Frank-Wolfe Algorithm (FWA), also known as Conditional Gradient algorithm, is proposed. In its standard form, the FWA allows to solve constrained optimization problems involving $\beta$-smooth cost functions, calling at…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-28 Guilherme Mazanti , Thibault Moquet , Laurent Pfeiffer

The Frank-Wolfe (FW) algorithm has been widely used in solving nuclear norm constrained problems, since it does not require projections. However, FW often yields high rank intermediate iterates, which can be very expensive in time and space…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-10-17 Edward Cheung , Yuying Li

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

In recent years it was proved that simple modifications of the classical Frank-Wolfe algorithm (aka conditional gradient algorithm) for smooth convex minimization over convex and compact polytopes, converge with linear rate, assuming the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-08 Dan Garber

The Frank-Wolfe method (a.k.a. conditional gradient algorithm) for smooth optimization has regained much interest in recent years in the context of large scale optimization and machine learning. A key advantage of the method is that it…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-08-17 Dan Garber , Elad Hazan

We propose a semi-stochastic Frank-Wolfe algorithm with away-steps for regularized empirical risk minimization and extend it to problems with block-coordinate structure. Our algorithms use adaptive step-size and we show that they converge…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-02-16 Donald Goldfarb , Garud Iyengar , Chaoxu Zhou

The Frank-Wolfe algorithm has become a popular first-order optimization algorithm for it is simple and projection-free, and it has been successfully applied to a variety of real-world problems. Its main drawback however lies in its…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-25 Cyrille W. Combettes , Sebastian Pokutta

Differentiable optimization has received a significant amount of attention due to its foundational role in the domain of machine learning based on neural networks. This paper proposes a differentiable layer, named Differentiable Frank-Wolfe…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Zixuan Liu , Liu Liu , Xueqian Wang , Peilin Zhao

We provide a template to derive convergence rates for the following popular versions of the Frank-Wolfe algorithm on polytopes: vanilla Frank-Wolfe, Frank-Wolfe with away steps, Frank-Wolfe with blended pairwise steps, and Frank-Wolfe with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-21 Elias Wirth , Javier Pena , Sebastian Pokutta

In this paper, we consider Frank-Wolfe-based algorithms for composite convex optimization problems with objective involving a logarithmically-homogeneous, self-concordant functions. Recent Frank-Wolfe-based methods for this class of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-24 Nimita Shinde , Vishnu Narayanan , James Saunderson

Similarity and metric learning provides a principled approach to construct a task-specific similarity from weakly supervised data. However, these methods are subject to the curse of dimensionality: as the number of features grows large,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-09-10 Kuan Liu , Aurélien Bellet

We propose a variant of the Frank-Wolfe algorithm for solving a class of sparse/low-rank optimization problems. Our formulation includes Elastic Net, regularized SVMs and phase retrieval as special cases. The proposed Primal-Dual Block…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Qi Lei , Jiacheng Zhuo , Constantine Caramanis , Inderjit S. Dhillon , Alexandros G. Dimakis

Federated learning (FL) has gained a lot of attention in recent years for building privacy-preserving collaborative learning systems. However, FL algorithms for constrained machine learning problems are still limited, particularly when the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Ali Dadras , Sourasekhar Banerjee , Karthik Prakhya , Alp Yurtsever

The Conditional Gradient (or Frank-Wolfe) method is one of the most well-known methods for solving constrained optimization problems appearing in various machine learning tasks. The simplicity of iteration and applicability to many…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-17 Ruslan Nazykov , Aleksandr Shestakov , Vladimir Solodkin , Aleksandr Beznosikov , Gauthier Gidel , Alexander Gasnikov

We study projection-free optimization for convex objectives that satisfy abs-smoothness, a structural property that captures many non-smooth yet piecewise smooth functions arising, e.g., in modern machine learning models. We develop a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Sri Harshitha Tadinada , Sebastian Pokutta , Andrea Walther

Recently the away-step Frank-Wolfe algoritm for constrained multiobjective optimization has been shown linear convergence rate over a polytope which is generated by finite points set. In this paper we design a decomposition-invariant…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-10 Zhuoxin Fan , Liping Tang

We prove that the block-coordinate Frank-Wolfe (BCFW) algorithm converges with state-of-the-art rates in both convex and nonconvex settings under a very mild "block-iterative" assumption. This appears to be the first result on BCFW…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-17 Gábor Braun , Jannis Halbey , Sebastian Pokutta , Zev Woodstock

In this project, we reviewed a paper that deals graph-structured convex optimization (GSCO) problem with the approximate Frank-Wolfe (FW) algorithm. We analyzed and implemented the original algorithm and introduced some extensions based on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-26 Yijian Pan , Hongjiao Qiang

Aiming at convex optimization under structural constraints, this work introduces and analyzes a variant of the Frank Wolfe (FW) algorithm termed ExtraFW. The distinct feature of ExtraFW is the pair of gradients leveraged per iteration,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-11 Bingcong Li , Lingda Wang , Georgios B. Giannakis , Zhizhen Zhao