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Consider the problem of minimizing the sum of a smooth (possibly non-convex) and a convex (possibly nonsmooth) function involving a large number of variables. A popular approach to solve this problem is the block coordinate descent (BCD)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-11-03 Meisam Razaviyayn , Mingyi Hong , Zhi-Quan Luo , Jong-Shi Pang

We propose several new nonsmooth Newton methods for solving convex composite optimization problems with polyhedral regularizers, while avoiding the computation of complicated second-order information on these functions. Under the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Tran T. A. Nghia , Nghia V. Vo , Khoa V. H. Vu

In this work, we present a globalized stochastic semismooth Newton method for solving stochastic optimization problems involving smooth nonconvex and nonsmooth convex terms in the objective function. We assume that only noisy gradient and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-12 Andre Milzarek , Xiantao Xiao , Shicong Cen , Zaiwen Wen , Michael Ulbrich

We study unconstrained optimization problems with nonsmooth and convex objective function in the form of a mathematical expectation. The proposed method approximates the expected objective function with a sample average function using…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-03 Natasa Krejic , Natasa Krklec Jerinkic , Tijana Ostojic

In this paper, a descent method for nonsmooth multiobjective optimization problems on complete Riemannian manifolds is proposed. The objective functions are only assumed to be locally Lipschitz continuous instead of convexity used in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-14 Chunming Tang , Hao He , Jinbao Jian , Miantao Chao

This paper proposes and develops new Newton-type methods to solve structured nonconvex and nonsmooth optimization problems with justifying their fast local and global convergence by means of advanced tools of variational analysis and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Pham Duy Khanh , Boris S. Mordukhovich , Vo Thanh Phat

Coordinate-wise minimization is a simple popular method for large-scale optimization. Unfortunately, for general (non-differentiable) convex problems it may not find global minima. We present a class of linear programs that coordinate-wise…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-15 Tomáš Dlask , Tomáš Werner

We consider the unconstrained optimization problem whose objective function is composed of a smooth and a non-smooth conponents where the smooth component is the expectation a random function. This type of problem arises in some interesting…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-07-01 Qihang Lin , Xi Chen , Javier Pena

Gradient descent algorithms perform well in convex optimization but can get tied for finding local minima in non-convex optimization. A robust method that combines a spectral approach with nonmonotone line search strategy for solving…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-07 Oday Hazaimah

This paper proposes a nonmonotone proximal quasi-Newton algorithm for unconstrained convex multiobjective composite optimization problems. To design the search direction, we minimize the max-scalarization of the variations of the Hessian…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-04 Xiaoxue Jiang

This paper presents a novel stochastic gradient descent algorithm for constrained optimization. The proposed algorithm randomly samples constraints and components of the finite sum objective function and relies on a relaxed logarithmic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-13 Naum Dimitrieski , Jing Cao , Christian Ebenbauer

This paper introduces an abstract framework for randomized subspace correction methods for convex optimization, which unifies and generalizes a broad class of existing algorithms, including domain decomposition, multigrid, and block…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Boou Jiang , Jongho Park , Jinchao Xu

This paper proposes a novel technique called "successive stochastic smoothing" that optimizes nonsmooth and discontinuous functions while considering various constraints. Our methodology enables local and global optimization, making it a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-17 Vladimir Norkin , Alois Pichler , Anton Kozyriev

We propose an adaptive accelerated smoothing technique for a nonsmooth convex optimization problem where the smoothing update rule is coupled with the momentum parameter. We also extend the setting to the case where the objective function…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Reza Rahimi Baghbadorani , Sergio Grammatico , Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani

Constrained non-convex optimization is fundamentally challenging, as global solutions are generally intractable and constraint qualifications may not hold. However, in many applications, including safe policy optimization in control and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-14 Ilyas Fatkhullin , Niao He , Guanghui Lan , Florian Wolf

In this paper, we combine the positive aspects of the Gradient Sampling (GS) and bundle methods, as the most efficient methods in nonsmooth optimization, to develop a robust method for solving unconstrained nonsmooth convex optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-26 M. Maleknia , M. Shamsi

Non-linear least squares solvers are used across a broad range of offline and real-time model fitting problems. Most improvements of the basic Gauss-Newton algorithm tackle convergence guarantees or leverage the sparsity of the underlying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Huu Le , Christopher Zach , Edward Rosten , Oliver J. Woodford

In this paper some adaptive mirror descent algorithms for problems of minimization convex objective functional with several convex Lipschitz (generally, non-smooth) functional constraints are considered. It is shown that the methods are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-20 F. S. Stonyakin , M . S. Alkousa , A. A. Titov

The problem of minimizing a separable convex function under linearly coupled constraints arises from various application domains such as economic systems, distributed control, and network flow. The main challenge for solving this problem is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-05 Qin Fan , Min Xu , Yiming Ying

In this paper, we present a new ellipsoid-type algorithm for solving nonsmooth problems with convex structure. Examples of such problems include nonsmooth convex minimization problems, convex-concave saddle-point problems and variational…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-28 Anton Rodomanov , Yurii Nesterov