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This paper introduces the Multiple Greedy Quasi-Newton (MGSR1-SP) method, a novel approach to solving strongly-convex-strongly-concave (SCSC) saddle point problems. Our method enhances the approximation of the squared indefinite Hessian…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Minheng Xiao , Zhizhong Wu

Large-scale saddle-point problems arise in such machine learning tasks as GANs and linear models with affine constraints. In this paper, we study distributed saddle-point problems (SPP) with strongly-convex-strongly-concave smooth…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-04 Dmitriy Metelev , Alexander Rogozin , Alexander Gasnikov , Dmitry Kovalev

We consider convex-concave saddle point problems with a separable structure and non-strongly convex functions. We propose an efficient stochastic block coordinate descent method using adaptive primal-dual updates, which enables flexible…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-11-24 Zhanxing Zhu , Amos J. Storkey

Optimizing non-convex functions is of primary importance in the vast majority of machine learning algorithms. Even though many gradient descent based algorithms have been studied, successive convex approximation based algorithms have been…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-06 Amrit Singh Bedi , Ketan Rajawat , Vaneet Aggarwal

In this paper, a class of new preconditioners based on matrix splitting are presented for generalized saddle-point linear systems, which can be viewed as further modified improvements of some recently published preconditioners. Moreover, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-02 Zhao-Zheng Liang , Guo-Feng Zhang

This paper is concerned with the weak solvability of fully nonlinear parabolic variational inequalities with time dependent convex constraints. As possible approaches to such problems, there are for instance the time-discretization method…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-21 Maria Gokieli , Nobuyuki Kenmochi , Marek Niezgódka

Saddle-point problems appear in various settings including machine learning, zero-sum stochastic games, and regression problems. We consider decomposable saddle-point problems and study an extension of the alternating direction method of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-29 Mustafa O. Karabag , David Fridovich-Keil , Ufuk Topcu

This paper considers continuous-time coordination algorithms for networks of agents that seek to collectively solve a general class of nonsmooth convex optimization problems with an inherent distributed structure. Our algorithm design…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-17 Simon K. Niederländer , Jorge Cortés

We propose a regularized saddle-point algorithm for convex networked optimization problems with resource allocation constraints. Standard distributed gradient methods suffer from slow convergence and require excessive communication when…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2012-08-16 Andrea Simonetto , Tamas Keviczky , Mikael Johansson

We consider distributed convex-concave saddle point problems over arbitrary connected undirected networks and propose a decentralized distributed algorithm for their solution. The local functions distributed across the nodes are assumed to…

Saddle points provide a hierarchical view of the energy landscape, revealing transition pathways and interconnected basins of attraction, and offering insight into the global structure, metastability, and possible collective mechanisms of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-17 Baoming Shi , Lei Zhang , Qiang Du

We propose several adaptive algorithmic methods for problems of non-smooth convex optimization. The first of them is based on a special artificial inexactness. Namely, the concept of inexact ($ \delta, \Delta, L$)-model of objective…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-25 Fedor Stonyakin

The paper proposes a novel hybrid method for solving equilibrium problems and fixed point problems. By constructing specially cutting-halfspaces, in this algorithm, only an optimization program is solved at each iteration without the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-10-30 Dang Van Hieu

In this paper, we propose a variance-reduced primal-dual algorithm with Bregman distance for solving convex-concave saddle-point problems with finite-sum structure and nonbilinear coupling function. This type of problems typically arises in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-02 Erfan Yazdandoost Hamedani , Afrooz Jalilzadeh

This paper proposes an asymmetric perturbation technique for solving bilinear saddle-point optimization problems, commonly arising in minimax problems, game theory, and constrained optimization. Perturbing payoffs or values is known to be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-16 Kenshi Abe , Mitsuki Sakamoto , Kaito Ariu , Atsushi Iwasaki

In the paper, we develop a composite version of Mirror Prox algorithm for solving convex-concave saddle point problems and monotone variational inequalities of special structure, allowing to cover saddle point/variational analogies of what…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-05-23 Niao He , Anatoli Juditsky , Arkadi Nemirovski

A central challenge to many fields of science and engineering involves minimizing non-convex error functions over continuous, high dimensional spaces. Gradient descent or quasi-Newton methods are almost ubiquitously used to perform such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-06-11 Yann Dauphin , Razvan Pascanu , Caglar Gulcehre , Kyunghyun Cho , Surya Ganguli , Yoshua Bengio

In this work, we present a numerical solver for optimal control problems constrained by linear and semi-linear second-order elliptic PDEs. The approach is based on recasting the problem and includes an extension of Uzawa's algorithm to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-24 Charalambos G. Makridakis , Aaron Pim , Tristan Pryer

Saddle point optimization is a critical problem employed in numerous real-world applications, including portfolio optimization, generative adversarial networks, and robotics. It has been extensively studied in cases where the objective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Shubhankar Agarwal , Hamzah I. Khan , Sandeep P. Chinchali , David Fridovich-Keil

Gradient-based optimization methods are the most popular choice for finding local optima for classical minimization and saddle point problems. Here, we highlight a systemic issue of gradient dynamics that arise for saddle point problems,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-15 Leonard Adolphs , Hadi Daneshmand , Aurelien Lucchi , Thomas Hofmann