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Initially introduced in the framework of quantum control, the so-called "monotonic algorithms" have demonstrated excellent numerical performance when dealing with bilinear optimal control problems. This paper presents a unified formulation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-11-11 Julien Salomon , Gabriel Turinici

We propose a study of structured non-convex non-concave min-max problems which goes beyond standard first-order approaches. Inspired by the tight understanding established in recent works [Adil et al., 2022, Lin and Jordan, 2022b], we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-18 Abhijeet Vyas , Brian Bullins

In this work, we deal with unconstrained nonlinear optimization problems. Specifically, we are interested in methods carrying out updates possibly along directions not of descent, like Polyak's heavy-ball algorithm. Instead of enforcing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Federica Donnini , Matteo Lapucci , Pierluigi Mansueto

This paper initiates a systematic development of a theory of non-commutative optimization. It aims to unify and generalize a growing body of work from the past few years which developed and analyzed algorithms for natural geodesically…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-28 Peter Bürgisser , Cole Franks , Ankit Garg , Rafael Oliveira , Michael Walter , Avi Wigderson

Suppose that a target function is monotonic, namely, weakly increasing, and an original estimate of the target function is available, which is not weakly increasing. Many common estimation methods used in statistics produce such estimates.…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-11-23 Victor Chernozhukov , Ivan Fernandez-Val , Alfred Galichon

When the nonconvex problem is complicated by stochasticity, the sample complexity of stochastic first-order methods may depend linearly on the problem dimension, which is undesirable for large-scale problems. To alleviate this linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Yue Xie , Jiawen Bi , Hongcheng Liu

In this paper, we propose a randomized intertial block-coordinate primaldual fixed point algorithm to solve a wide array of monotone inclusion problems base on the modification of the heavy ball method of Nesterov. These methods rely on a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-17 Meng Wen , Shigang Yue , Yuchao Tan , Jigen Peng

A number of regularization methods for discrete inverse problems consist in considering weighted versions of the usual least square solution. However, these so-called filter methods are generally restricted to monotonic transformations,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2011-05-05 Paul Rochet

Convergence analysis of accelerated first-order methods for convex optimization problems are presented from the point of view of ordinary differential equation solvers. A new dynamical system, called Nesterov accelerated gradient flow, has…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-01 Hao Luo , Long Chen

This paper develops a new approach to the estimation of the degree of boundedness or stability of multidimensional nonlinear systems with time-dependent nonperiodic coefficients-an essential task in various engineering and natural science…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-06-16 Mark A. Pinsky

Most of nonlinear robust control methods just consider the affine nonlinear nominal model. When the nominal model is assumed to be affine nonlinear, available information about existing non-affine nonlinearities is ignored. For non-affine…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-30 Chaolun Lu , Yongqiang Li , Zhongsheng Hou , Yuanjing Feng , Yu Feng , Ronghu Chi , Xuhui Bu

We introduce an autonomous system with closed-loop damping for first-order convex optimization. While, to this day, optimal rates of convergence are almost exclusively achieved by non-autonomous methods via open-loop damping (e.g.,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-16 Severin Maier , Camille Castera , Peter Ochs

While many distributed optimization algorithms have been proposed for solving smooth or convex problems over the networks, few of them can handle non-convex and non-smooth problems. Based on a proximal primal-dual approach, this paper…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-01 Zhiguo Wang , Jiawei Zhang , Tsung-Hui Chang , Jian Li , Zhi-Quan Luo

The problem of finding a solution to the linear system $Ax = b$ with certain minimization properties arises in numerous scientific and engineering areas. In the era of big data, the stochastic optimization algorithms become increasingly…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-05 Yun Zeng , Deren Han , Yansheng Su , Jiaxin Xie

We introduce a new framework for analyzing (Quasi-}Newton type methods applied to non-smooth optimization problems. The source of randomness comes from the evaluation of the (approximation) of the Hessian. We derive, using a variant of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-05 Titus Pinta

We present a new accelerated gradient-based method for solving smooth unconstrained optimization problems. The goal is to embed a heavy-ball type of momentum into the Fast Gradient Method (FGM). For this purpose, we devise a generalization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-02 Endrit Dosti , Sergiy A. Vorobyov , Themistoklis Charalambous

Motivated by variational models in continuum mechanics, we introduce a novel algorithm to perform nonsmooth and nonconvex minimizations with linear constraints in Euclidean spaces. We show how this algorithm is actually a natural…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-20 Marco Artina , Massimo Fornasier , Francesco Solombrino

In this paper, we examine the convergence properties of heavy-ball dynamics with Hessian-driven damping in smooth non-convex optimization problems satisfying a {\L}ojasiewicz condition. In this general setting, we provide a series of tight,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-16 Vassilis Apidopoulos , Vasiliki Mavrogeorgou , Theodoros G. Tsironis

We deal with the shape reconstruction of inclusions in elastic bodies. For solving this inverse problem in practice, data fitting functionals are used. Those work better than the rigorous monotonicity methods from [5], but have no…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-13 Sarah Eberle , Bastian Harrach

This paper considers a general convex constrained problem setting where functions are not assumed to be differentiable nor Lipschitz continuous. Our motivation is in finding a simple first-order method for solving a wide range of convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-19 Michael R. Metel , Akiko Takeda