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Decentralized optimization has become vital for leveraging distributed data without central control, enhancing scalability and privacy. However, practical deployments face fundamental challenges due to heterogeneous computation speeds and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Yijie Zhou , Shi Pu

In this paper we develop random block coordinate gradient descent methods for minimizing large scale linearly constrained separable convex problems over networks. Since we have coupled constraints in the problem, we devise an algorithm that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-12-14 I. Necoara , Yu. Nesterov , F. Glineur

Block-structured problems are central to advances in numerical optimization and machine learning. This paper provides the formalization of convergence analysis for two pivotal algorithms in such settings: the block coordinate descent (BCD)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-25 Chenyi Li , Zichen Wang , Yifan Bai , Yunxi Duan , Yuqing Gao , Pengfei Hao , Zaiwen Wen

In this paper, we establish the convergence of the proximal alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) and block coordinate descent (BCD) for nonseparable minimization models with quadratic coupling terms. The novel convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-16 Caihua Chen , Min Li , Xin Liu , Yinyu Ye

Block-coordinate descent (BCD) is the method of choice to solve numerous large scale optimization problems, however their theoretical study for non-convex optimization, has received less attention. In this paper, we present a new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Guillaume Lauga

This paper considers the problems of unconstrained minimization of large scale smooth convex functions having block-coordinate-wise Lipschitz continuous gradients. The block coordinate descent (BCD) method are among the first optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-18 Ziqiang Shi , Rujie Liu

The alternating gradient descent (AGD) is a simple but popular algorithm which has been applied to problems in optimization, machine learning, data ming, and signal processing, etc. The algorithm updates two blocks of variables in an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-01 Songtao Lu , Mingyi Hong , Zhengdao Wang

Submodular function minimization is a fundamental optimization problem that arises in several applications in machine learning and computer vision. The problem is known to be solvable in polynomial time, but general purpose algorithms have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-02-10 Alina Ene , Huy L. Nguyen

Coordinate descent methods have considerable impact in global optimization because global (or, at least, almost global) minimization is affordable for low-dimensional problems. Coordinate descent methods with high-order regularized models…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-28 V. S. Amaral , R. Andreani , E. G. Birgin , D. S. Marcondes , J. M. Martínez

This work presents a parallel variant of the algorithm introduced in [Acceleration of block coordinate descent methods with identification strategies Comput. Optim. Appl. 72(3):609--640, 2019] to minimize the sum of a partially separable…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-06 Ronaldo Lopes , Sandra A. Santos , Paulo J. S. Silva

In this paper, we consider a block coordinate descent (BCD) algorithm for training deep neural networks and provide a new global convergence guarantee under strictly monotonically increasing activation functions. While existing works…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-28 Shunta Akiyama

In this paper, we provide a unified iteration complexity analysis for a family of general block coordinate descent (BCD) methods, covering popular methods such as the block coordinate gradient descent (BCGD) and the block coordinate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-04-29 Mingyi Hong , Xiangfeng Wang , Meisam Razaviyayn , Zhi-Quan Luo

We study the block-coordinate forward-backward algorithm in which the blocks are updated in a random and possibly parallel manner, according to arbitrary probabilities. The algorithm allows different stepsizes along the block-coordinates to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-30 Saverio Salzo , Silvia Villa

We study the problem of minimizing the sum of potentially non-differentiable convex cost functions with partially overlapping dependences in an asynchronous manner, where communication in the network is not coordinated. We study the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-17 Yankai Lin , Iman Shames , Dragan Nesic

Coordinate descent algorithms solve optimization problems by successively performing approximate minimization along coordinate directions or coordinate hyperplanes. They have been used in applications for many years, and their popularity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-02-18 Stephen J. Wright

As the number of samples and dimensionality of optimization problems related to statistics an machine learning explode, block coordinate descent algorithms have gained popularity since they reduce the original problem to several smaller…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-06-24 Rémi Flamary , Alain Rakotomamonjy , Gilles Gasso

We consider whether conditions exist under which block-coordinate descent is asymptotically efficient in evolutionary multi-objective optimization, addressing an open problem. Block-coordinate descent, where an optimization problem is…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Benjamin Doerr , Joshua Knowles , Aneta Neumann , Frank Neumann

This paper provides a block coordinate descent algorithm to solve unconstrained optimization problems. In our algorithm, computation of function values or gradients is not required. Instead, pairwise comparison of function values is used.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-09-16 Kota Matsui , Wataru Kumagai , Takafumi Kanamori

In this paper, a class of large-scale distributed nonsmooth convex optimization problem over time-varying multi-agent network is investigated. Specifically, the decision space which can be split into several blocks of convex set is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-18 Zhan Yu , Daniel W. C. Ho

We present a novel randomized block coordinate descent method for the minimization of a convex composite objective function. The method uses (approximate) partial second-order (curvature) information, so that the algorithm performance is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-28 Kimon Fountoulakis , Rachael Tappenden