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We provide an overview of primal-dual algorithms for nonsmooth and non-convex-concave saddle-point problems. This flows around a new analysis of such methods, using Bregman divergences to formulate simplified conditions for convergence.

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Our work considers the optimization of the sum of a non-smooth convex function and a finite family of composite convex functions, each one of which is composed of a convex function and a bounded linear operator. This type of problem is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-30 Yu-Chao Tang , Chuan-Xi Zhu , Meng Wen , Ji-Gen Peng

This paper studies the continuous-time dynamics of primal-dual algorithms for linearly constrained convex optimization problems and provides a quantitative convergence analysis using the Lyapunov functions. With the growing prevalence of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Chise Ishii , Yasushi Narushima

Optimization methods are at the core of many problems in signal/image processing, computer vision, and machine learning. For a long time, it has been recognized that looking at the dual of an optimization problem may drastically simplify…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2014-12-04 Nikos Komodakis , Jean-Christophe Pesquet

This paper introduces a coordinate descent version of the V\~u-Condat algorithm. By coordinate descent, we mean that only a subset of the coordinates of the primal and dual iterates is updated at each iteration, the other coordinates being…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-17 Olivier Fercoq , Pascal Bianchi

We introduce a primal-dual stochastic gradient oracle method for distributed convex optimization problems over networks. We show that the proposed method is optimal in terms of communication steps. Additionally, we propose a new analysis…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-28 Darina Dvinskikh , Eduard Gorbunov , Alexander Gasnikov , Pavel Dvurechensky , Cesar A. Uribe

We analyze several generic proximal splitting algorithms well suited for large-scale convex nonsmooth optimization. We derive sublinear and linear convergence results with new rates on the function value suboptimality or distance to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-28 Laurent Condat , Grigory Malinovsky , Peter Richtárik

We consider a general class of nonsmooth optimal control problems with partial differential equation (PDE) constraints, which are very challenging due to its nonsmooth objective functionals and the resulting high-dimensional and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-26 Yongcun Song , Xiaoming Yuan , Hangrui Yue

One challenge of legged locomotion on uneven terrains is to deal with both the discrete problem of selecting a contact surface for each footstep and the continuous problem of placing each footstep on the selected surface. Consequently,…

We consider (stochastic) subgradient methods for strongly convex but potentially nonsmooth non-Lipschitz optimization. We provide new equivalent dual descriptions (in the style of dual averaging) for the classic subgradient method, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-31 Benjamin Grimmer , Danlin Li

We present a primal-dual algorithmic framework to obtain approximate solutions to a prototypical constrained convex optimization problem, and rigorously characterize how common structural assumptions affect the numerical efficiency. Our…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-04 Quoc Tran-Dinh , Volkan Cevher

In this paper,we present an inexact primal-dual method with correction step for a saddle point problem by introducing the notations of inexact extended proximal operators with symmetric positive definite matrix $D$. Relaxing requirement on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Changjie Fang , Liliang Hu , Shenglan Chen

In this paper, we address the numerical solution of the Optimal Transport Problem on undirected weighted graphs, taking the shortest path distance as transport cost. The optimal solution is obtained from the long-time limit of the gradient…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-29 Enrico Facca , Michele Benzi

The Primal-Dual hybrid gradient (PDHG) method is a powerful optimization scheme that breaks complex problems into simple sub-steps. Unfortunately, PDHG methods require the user to choose stepsize parameters, and the speed of convergence is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-25 Tom Goldstein , Min Li , Xiaoming Yuan , Ernie Esser , Richard Baraniuk

We develop a novel unified randomized block-coordinate primal-dual algorithm to solve a class of nonsmooth constrained convex optimization problems, which covers different existing variants and model settings from the literature. We prove…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-29 Quoc Tran-Dinh , Deyi Liu

We develop two new variants of alternating direction methods of multipliers (ADMM) and two parallel primal-dual decomposition algorithms to solve a wide range class of constrained convex optimization problems. Our approach relies on a novel…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-15 Quoc Tran-Dinh , Yuzixuan Zhu

This paper develops a continuous-time primal-dual accelerated method with an increasing damping coefficient for a class of convex optimization problems with affine equality constraints. This paper analyzes critical values for parameters in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-16 Xianlin Zeng , Jinlong Lei , Jie Chen

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

We study geometric duality for convex vector optimization problems. For a primal problem with a $q$-dimensional objective space, we formulate a dual problem with a $(q+1)$-dimensional objective space. Consequently, different from an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-27 Çağın Ararat , Simay Tekgül , Firdevs Ulus

Primal-dual methods for solving convex optimization problems with functional constraints often exhibit a distinct two-stage behavior. Initially, they converge towards a solution at a sublinear rate. Then, after a certain point, the method…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Mateo Díaz , Pedro Izquierdo Lehmann , Haihao Lu , Jinwen Yang