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We propose a first-order method for solving inequality constrained optimization problems. The method is derived from our previous work [12], a modified search direction method (MSDM) that applies the singular-value decomposition of…

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Sparse inverse covariance selection is a fundamental problem for analyzing dependencies in high dimensional data. However, such a problem is difficult to solve since it is NP-hard. Existing solutions are primarily based on convex…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2018-04-05 Ganzhao Yuan , Haoxian Tan , Wei-Shi Zheng

Coordinate descent algorithms are widely used in machine learning and large-scale data analysis due to their strong optimality guarantees and impressive empirical performance in solving non-convex problems. In this work, we introduce Block…

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We develop randomized (block) coordinate descent (CD) methods for linearly constrained convex optimization. Unlike most CD methods, we do not assume the constraints to be separable, but let them be coupled linearly. To our knowledge, ours…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-06-11 Sashank Reddi , Ahmed Hefny , Carlton Downey , Avinava Dubey , Suvrit Sra

Novel coordinate descent (CD) methods are proposed for minimizing nonconvex functions consisting of three terms: (i) a continuously differentiable term, (ii) a simple convex term, and (iii) a concave and continuous term. First, by extending…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-15 Qi Deng , Chenghao Lan

In this paper we analyze several new methods for solving nonconvex optimization problems with the objective function formed as a sum of two terms: one is nonconvex and smooth, and another is convex but simple and its structure is known.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-06-25 A. Patrascu , I. Necoara

In this paper we consider large-scale composite optimization problems having the objective function formed as a sum of two terms (possibly nonconvex), one has (block) coordinate-wise Lipschitz continuous gradient and the other is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-10 Flavia Chorobura , Ion Necoara

The aim of this paper is to propose an efficient adaptive finite element method for eigenvalue problems based on the multilevel correction scheme and inverse power method. This method involves solving associated boundary value problems on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-25 Qichen Hong , Hehu Xie , Fei Xu

We propose a random coordinate descent algorithm for optimizing a non-convex objective function subject to one linear constraint and simple bounds on the variables. Although it is common use to update only two random coordinates…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-27 Alireza Ghaffari-Hadigheh , Lennart Sinjorgo , Renata Sotirov

The affine inverse eigenvalue problem consists of identifying a real symmetric matrix with a prescribed set of eigenvalues in an affine space. Due to its ubiquity in applications, various instances of the problem have been widely studied in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-07 Utkan Candogan , Yong Sheng Soh , Venkat Chandrasekaran

We consider coordinate descent methods on convex quadratic problems, in which exact line searches are performed at each iteration. (This algorithm is identical to Gauss-Seidel on the equivalent symmetric positive definite linear system.) We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-14 Stephen J. Wright , Ching-Pei Lee

In this paper, we study the gradient descent-ascent method for convex-concave saddle-point problems. We derive a new non-asymptotic global convergence rate in terms of distance to the solution set by using the semidefinite programming…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-19 Moslem Zamani , Hadi Abbaszadehpeivasti , Etienne de Klerk

Large-scale eigenvalue problems arise in various fields of science and engineering and demand computationally efficient solutions. In this study, we investigate the subspace approximation for parametric linear eigenvalue problems, aiming to…

A unified approach, for solving a wide class of single and many-body quantum problems, commonly encountered in literature is developed based on a recently proposed method for finding solutions of linear differential equations. Apart from…

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In this paper we consider large-scale composite nonconvex optimization problems having the objective function formed as a sum of three terms, first has block coordinate-wise Lipschitz continuous gradient, second is twice differentiable but…

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This article is a brief introduction to quantum algorithms for the eigenvalue problem in quantum many-body systems. Rather than a broad survey of topics, we focus on providing a conceptual understanding of several quantum algorithms that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-10 Dean Lee

Convex optimization encompasses a wide range of optimization problems that contain many efficiently solvable subclasses. Interior point methods are currently the state-of-the-art approach for solving such problems, particularly effective…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-28 Andreas Klingler , Tim Netzer

Two popular examples of first-order optimization methods over linear spaces are coordinate descent and matching pursuit algorithms, with their randomized variants. While the former targets the optimization by moving along coordinates, the…

The gradient descent approach is the key ingredient in variational quantum algorithms and machine learning tasks, which is an optimization algorithm for finding a local minimum of an objective function. The quantum versions of gradient…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-19 Jin-Min Liang , Shi-Jie Wei , Shao-Ming Fei

Prediction-correction algorithms are a highly effective class of methods for solving pseudo-convex optimization problems. The descent direction of these algorithms can be viewed as an adjustment to the gradient direction based on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-05 Ting Li , Deren Han , Tanxing Wang , Xingju Cai