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Composite optimization problems, where the sum of a smooth and a merely lower semicontinuous function has to be minimized, are often tackled numerically by means of proximal gradient methods as soon as the lower semicontinuous part of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-05 Christian Kanzow , Patrick Mehlitz

In this paper, we consider the dual formulation of minimizing $\sum_{i\in I}f_i(x_i)+\sum_{j\in J} g_j(\mathcal{A}_jx)$ with the index sets $I$ and $J$ being large. To address the difficulties from the high dimension of the variable $x$…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-03 Hui Zhang , Yu-Hong Dai , Lei Guo

The training of deep neural networks predominantly relies on a combination of gradient-based optimisation and back-propagation for the computation of the gradient. While incredibly successful, this approach faces challenges such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Xiaoyu Wang , Alexandra Valavanis , Azhir Mahmood , Andreas Mang , Martin Benning , Audrey Repetti

This article investigates the convergence properties of a relative-type inexact preconditioned proximal augmented Lagrangian method (rip$^2$ALM) for convex nonlinear programming, a fundamental class of optimization problems with broad…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Lei Yang , Jiayi Zhu , Ling Liang , Kim-Chuan Toh

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

This paper studies a class of double-loop (inner-outer) algorithms for convex composite optimization. For unconstrained problems, we develop a restarted accelerated composite gradient method that attains the optimal first-order complexity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-23 Matthew X. Burns , Jiaming Liang

This paper presents a unified analysis for the proximal subgradient method (Prox-SubGrad) type approach to minimize an overall objective of $f(x)+r(x)$, subject to convex constraints, where both $f$ and $r$ are weakly convex, nonsmooth, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-23 Daoli Zhu , Lei Zhao , Shuzhong Zhang

The $\ell_p$ regularization problem with $0< p< 1$ has been widely studied for finding sparse solutions of linear inverse problems and gained successful applications in various mathematics and applied science fields. The proximal gradient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-24 Yaohua Hu , Chong Li , Kaiwen Meng , Xiaoqi Yang

We propose a novel randomized incremental gradient algorithm, namely, VAriance-Reduced Accelerated Gradient (Varag), for finite-sum optimization. Equipped with a unified step-size policy that adjusts itself to the value of the condition…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-01 Guanghui Lan , Zhize Li , Yi Zhou

We study a class of optimization problems in which the objective function is given by the sum of a differentiable but possibly nonconvex component and a nondifferentiable convex regularization term. We introduce an auxiliary variable to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-27 Neil K. Dhingra , Sei Zhen Khong , Mihailo R. Jovanović

Recent studies have shown that proximal gradient (PG) method and accelerated gradient method (APG) with restarting can enjoy a linear convergence under a weaker condition than strong convexity, namely a quadratic growth condition (QGC).…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-16 Mingrui Liu , Tianbao Yang

In this paper, a globally convergent Newton-type proximal gradient method is developed for composite multi-objective optimization problems where each objective function can be represented as the sum of a smooth function and a nonsmooth…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-25 Md Abu Talhamainuddin Ansary

This paper introduces a novel inexact gradient descent method with momentum (IGDm) considered as a general framework for various first-order methods with momentum. This includes, in particular, the inexact proximal point method (IPPm),…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-07 Pham Duy Khanh , Boris Mordukhovich , Dat Ba Tran

Consider the problem of minimizing the sum of two convex functions, one being smooth and the other non-smooth. In this paper, we introduce a general class of approximate proximal splitting (APS) methods for solving such minimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-04-23 Mojtaba Kadkhodaie , Maziar Sanjabi , Zhi-Quan Luo

In this paper we develop accelerated first-order methods for convex optimization with locally Lipschitz continuous gradient (LLCG), which is beyond the well-studied class of convex optimization with Lipschitz continuous gradient. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-12 Zhaosong Lu , Sanyou Mei

We prove that the norm version of the adaptive stochastic gradient method (AdaGrad-Norm) achieves a linear convergence rate for a subset of either strongly convex functions or non-convex functions that satisfy the Polyak Lojasiewicz (PL)…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-23 Yuege Xie , Xiaoxia Wu , Rachel Ward

The proximal gradient method is a standard approach for solving composite minimization problems in which the objective function is the sum of a continuously differentiable function and a lower semicontinuous, extended-valued function. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-02 Xiaoxi Jia , Kai Wang

We study the problem of estimating high-dimensional regression models regularized by a structured sparsity-inducing penalty that encodes prior structural information on either the input or output variables. We consider two widely adopted…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-07-02 Xi Chen , Qihang Lin , Seyoung Kim , Jaime G. Carbonell , Eric P. Xing

Proximal methods are known to identify the underlying substructure of nonsmooth optimization problems. Even more, in many interesting situations, the output of a proximity operator comes with its structure at no additional cost, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-10 Gilles Bareilles , Franck Iutzeler , Jérôme Malick

Stochastic gradient methods with momentum are widely used in applications and at the core of optimization subroutines in many popular machine learning libraries. However, their sample complexities have not been obtained for problems beyond…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-12 Vien V. Mai , Mikael Johansson