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Iterative algorithms are fundamental tools for approximating fixed-points of nonexpansive operators in real Hilbert spaces. Among them, Krasnosel'ski\u{\i}--Mann iteration and Halpern iteration are two widely used schemes. In this work, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-20 Yifan Bai , Yantao Li , Jian Yu , Jingwei Liang

Despite the broad use of fixed-point iterations throughout applied mathematics, the optimal convergence rate of general fixed-point problems with nonexpansive nonlinear operators has not been established. This work presents an acceleration…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-28 Jisun Park , Ernest K. Ryu

Multi-time-scale stochastic approximation is an iterative algorithm for finding the fixed point of a set of $N$ coupled operators given their noisy samples. It has been observed that due to the coupling between the decision variables and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-13 Sihan Zeng , Thinh T. Doan

Networked discrete dynamical systems are often used to model the spread of contagions and decision-making by agents in coordination games. Fixed points of such dynamical systems represent configurations to which the system converges. In the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Zirou Qiu , Chen Chen , Madhav V. Marathe , S. S. Ravi , Daniel J. Rosenkrantz , Richard E. Stearns , Anil Vullikanti

We introduce a weak asymptotic version of nonlinear contraction, termed \emph{asymptotic pointwise contraction}. For a mapping on a metric space, this notion requires the existence of a sequence of functions that dominate the distances…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Jie Shi

For the iterations of $x\mapsto |x-\theta|$ random functions with Lipschitz number one, we represent the dynamics as a Markov chain and prove its convergence under mild conditions. We also demonstrate that the Wasserstein metric of any two…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-09-11 Yingdong Lu , Tomasz Nowicki

Block-coordinate algorithms are recognized to furnish efficient iterative schemes for addressing large-scale problems, especially when the computation of full derivatives entails substantial memory requirements and computational efforts. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-16 Pedro Pérez-Aros , David Torregrosa-Belén

This paper presents a tractable algorithm for estimating an unknown Lipschitz function from noisy observations and establishes an upper bound on its convergence rate. The approach extends max-affine methods from convex shape-restricted…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-20 Gábor Balázs

We analyze inexact fixed point iterations where the generating function contains an inexact solve of an equation system to answer the question of how tolerances for the inner solves influence the iteration error of the outer fixed point…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-03-12 Philipp Birken

Point processes are an essential tool when we are interested in where in time or space events occur. The basic starting point for point processes is usually the Poisson process. Over the years, Stein's method has been developed with a great…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-11-11 H. L. Gan

We study the convergence of random function iterations for finding an invariant measure of the corresponding Markov operator. We call the problem of finding such an invariant measure the stochastic fixed point problem. This generalizes…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-16 Neal Hermer , D. Russell Luke , Anja Sturm

The purpose of this paper is to propose and analyze a multi-step iterative algorithm to solve a convex optimization problem and a fixed point problem posed on a Hadamard space. The convergence properties of the proposed algorithm are…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-28 Muhammad Aqeel Ahmad Khan , Hafiza Arham Maqbool

The task of approximating points with circular arcs is performed in many applications, such as polyline compression, noise filtering, and feature recognition. However, the development of algorithms that perform a significant amount of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-10-12 Alexander Gribov

A determinantal point process is a stochastic point process that is commonly used to capture negative correlations. It has become increasingly popular in machine learning in recent years. Sampling a determinantal point process however…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-02 Lexing Ying

Iterative regularization exploits the implicit bias of an optimization algorithm to regularize ill-posed problems. Constructing algorithms with such built-in regularization mechanisms is a classic challenge in inverse problems but also in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-02 Cesare Molinari , Mathurin Massias , Lorenzo Rosasco , Silvia Villa

This work introduces a new cubic regularization method for nonconvex unconstrained multiobjective optimization problems. At each iteration of the method, a model associated with the cubic regularization of each component of the objective…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-11 Douglas S. Gonçalves , Max L. N. Gonçalves , Jefferson G. Melo

We propose a first order algorithm, a modified version of FISTA, to solve an optimization problem with an objective function that is a sum of a possibly nonconvex function, with Lipschitz continuous gradient, and a convex function which can…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-20 Chee-Khian Sim

This paper focuses on a class of inclusion problems of maximal monotone operators in a multi-agent network, where each agent is characterized by an operator that is not available to any other agents, but the agents can cooperate by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-25 Kai Gong , Liwei Zhang

The successive approximations method allows us to solve problems concerning existence and uniqueness of fixed points of wide classes of operators. The classical result in this field, such as Banach -- Caccioppoli principle together with…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2011-01-20 Y. V. Korots , P. P. Zabreiko

The paper presents a fully explicit algorithm for monotone variational inequalities. The method uses variable stepsizes that are computed using two previous iterates as an approximation of the local Lipschitz constant without running a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-27 Yura Malitsky