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Minimax problems have recently attracted a lot of research interests. A few efforts have been made to solve decentralized nonconvex strongly-concave (NCSC) minimax-structured optimization; however, all of them focus on smooth problems with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-06 Yangyang Xu

Motivated by economic dispatch and linearly-constrained resource allocation problems, this paper proposes a class of novel Distributed-Approx Newton algorithms that approximate the standard Newton optimization method. We first develop the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-21 Tor Anderson , Chin-Yao Chang , Sonia Martinez

Online learning makes sequence of decisions with partial data arrival where next movement of data is unknown. In this paper, we have presented a new technique as multiple times weight updating that update the weight iteratively forsame…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Charanjeet , Anuj Sharma

In this paper we develop a higher-order method for solving composite (non)convex minimization problems with smooth (non)convex functional constraints. At each iteration our method approximates the smooth part of the objective function and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-04 Yassine Nabou , Ion Necoara

This paper is devoted to the study of an inertial accelerated primal-dual algorithm, which is based on a second-order differential system with time scaling, for solving a non-smooth convex optimization problem with linear equality…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Huan Zhang , Xiangkai Sun , Shengjie Li , Kok Lay Teo

This paper is concerned with solving nonconvex learning problems with folded concave penalty. Despite that their global solutions entail desirable statistical properties, they lack optimization techniques that guarantee global optimality in…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-03-25 Hongcheng Liu , Tao Yao , Runze Li

This study develops a fixed-time convergent saddle point dynamical system for solving min-max problems under a relaxation of standard convexity-concavity assumption. In particular, it is shown that by leveraging the dynamical systems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-28 Kunal Garg , Mayank Baranwal

The paper deals with a multiobjective combinatorial optimization problem with $K$ linear cost functions. The popular Ordered Weighted Averaging (OWA) criterion is used to aggregate the cost functions and compute a solution. It is well known…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-04-11 André Chassein , Marc Goerigk , Adam Kasperski , Paweł Zieliński

In this paper we consider graph algorithms in models of computation where the space usage (random accessible storage, in addition to the read only input) is sublinear in the number of edges $m$ and the access to input data is constrained.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-04-21 Kook Jin Ahn , Sudipto Guha

In this paper, we develop a new optimization framework for the least squares learning problem via fully connected neural networks or physics-informed neural networks. The gradient descent sometimes behaves inefficiently in deep learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Yaru Liu , Yiqi Gu , Michael K. Ng

We develop a new consensus-based distributed algorithm for solving learning problems with feature partitioning and non-smooth convex objective functions. Such learning problems are not separable, i.e., the associated objective functions…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-25 Cristiano Gratton , Naveen K. D. Venkategowda , Reza Arablouei , Stefan Werner

We develop a novel primal-dual algorithm to solve a class of nonsmooth and nonlinear compositional convex minimization problems, which covers many existing and brand-new models as special cases. Our approach relies on a combination of a new…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-20 Yuzixuan Zhu , Deyi Liu , Quoc Tran-Dinh

Many problems in machine learning and game theory can be formulated as saddle-point problems, for which various first-order methods have been developed and proven efficient in practice. Under the general convex-concave assumption, most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Yuan Gao , Christian Kroer , Donald Goldfarb

We investigate the theoretical foundations of a recently introduced entropy-based formulation of weighted least squares for the approximation of overdetermined linear systems, motivated by robust data fitting in the presence of sparse gross…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Felice Iavernaro , Monica Lazzo , Lorenzo Pisani

Algorithms for min-max optimization and variational inequalities are often studied under monotonicity assumptions. Motivated by non-monotone machine learning applications, we follow the line of works [Diakonikolas et al., 2021, Lee and Kim,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Eduard Gorbunov , Adrien Taylor , Samuel Horváth , Gauthier Gidel

Collecting the large datasets needed to train deep neural networks can be very difficult, particularly for the many applications for which sharing and pooling data is complicated by practical, ethical, or legal concerns. However, it may be…

Many optimization problems arising in applications have to consider several objective functions at the same time. Evolutionary algorithms seem to be a very natural choice for dealing with multi-objective problems as the population of such…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-09-17 Tobias Friedrich , Frank Neumann , Christian Thyssen

Multi-objective optimization (MOO) has received growing attention in applications that require learning under multiple criteria. However, the existing MOO formulations do not explicitly account for distributional shifts in the data. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Yufeng Yang , Fangning Zhuo , Ziyi Chen , Heng Huang , Yi Zhou

Data mixing--the strategic reweighting of training domains--is a critical component in training robust machine learning models. This problem is naturally formulated as a bilevel optimization task, where the outer loop optimizes domain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Rudrajit Das , Neel Patel , Meisam Razaviyayn , Vahab Mirrokni

We propose an inexact variable-metric proximal point algorithm to accelerate gradient-based optimization algorithms. The proposed scheme, called QNing can be notably applied to incremental first-order methods such as the stochastic…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-01-30 Hongzhou Lin , Julien Mairal , Zaid Harchaoui