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We present a totally asynchronous algorithm for convex optimization that is based on a novel generalization of Nesterov's accelerated gradient method. This algorithm is developed for fast convergence under "total asynchrony," i.e., allowing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-17 Ellie Pond , April Sebok , Zachary Bell , Matthew Hale

We study first-order optimization methods obtained by discretizing ordinary differential equations (ODEs) corresponding to Nesterov's accelerated gradient methods (NAGs) and Polyak's heavy-ball method. We consider three discretization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-05 Bin Shi , Simon S. Du , Weijie J. Su , Michael I. Jordan

We propose a new first-order optimization algorithm -- AcceleratedGradient-OptimisticGradient (AG-OG) Descent Ascent -- for separable convex-concave minimax optimization. The main idea of our algorithm is to carefully leverage the structure…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-16 Chris Junchi Li , Angela Yuan , Gauthier Gidel , Quanquan Gu , Michael I. Jordan

This paper delves into the investigation of a distributed aggregative optimization problem within a network. In this scenario, each agent possesses its own local cost function, which relies not only on the local state variable but also on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Jiaxu Liu , Song Chen , Shengze Cai , Chao Xu , Jian Chu

In machine learning research, the proximal gradient methods are popular for solving various optimization problems with non-smooth regularization. Inexact proximal gradient methods are extremely important when exactly solving the proximal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Bin Gu , De Wang , Zhouyuan Huo , Heng Huang

Proximal methods are known to identify the underlying substructure of nonsmooth optimization problems. Even more, in many interesting situations, the output of a proximity operator comes with its structure at no additional cost, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-10 Gilles Bareilles , Franck Iutzeler , Jérôme Malick

We propose a framework to use Nesterov's accelerated method for constrained convex optimization problems. Our approach consists of first reformulating the original problem as an unconstrained optimization problem using a continuously…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-12 Priyank Srivastava , Jorge Cortes

We investigate the integration of Nesterov-type acceleration into primal-dual methods for structured convex optimization. While proximal splitting algorithms efficiently handle composite problems of the form $\min_x f(x)+g(x)+h(Kx)$,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Laurent Condat , Abdurakhmon Sadiev , Peter Richtárik

The Nesterov accelerated gradient method, introduced in 1983, has been a cornerstone of optimization theory and practice. Yet the question of its point convergence had remained open. In this work, we resolve this longstanding open problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Uijeong Jang , Ernest K. Ryu

Proximal bundle methods (PBM) are a powerful class of algorithms for convex optimization. Compared to gradient descent, PBM constructs more accurate surrogate models that incorporate gradients and function values from multiple past…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Zhuoqing Zheng , Junshan Yin , Shaofu Yang , Xuyang Wu

First-order methods with momentum such as Nesterov's fast gradient method are very useful for convex optimization problems, but can exhibit undesirable oscillations yielding slow convergence rates for some applications. An adaptive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-14 Donghwan Kim , Jeffrey A. Fessler

This paper considers the problem of understanding the behavior of a general class of accelerated gradient methods on smooth nonconvex functions. Motivated by some recent works that have proposed effective algorithms, based on Polyak's heavy…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Rishabh Dixit , Mert Gurbuzbalaban , Waheed U. Bajwa

The continuous-time model of Nesterov's momentum provides a thought-provoking perspective for understanding the nature of the acceleration phenomenon in convex optimization. One of the main ideas in this line of research comes from the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-13 Peiyuan Zhang , Antonio Orvieto , Hadi Daneshmand

We study the convergence of Nesterov Accelerated Gradient (NAG) minimization algorithmapplied to a class of non convex functions called strongly quasar convex functions. We show thatNAG can achieve an accelerated convergence speed at the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Julien Hermant , Jean-François Aujol , Charles Dossal , Aude Rondepierre

Nesterov's accelerated gradient method (NAG) is widely used in problems with machine learning background including deep learning, and is corresponding to a continuous-time differential equation. From this connection, the property of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-05 Yasong Feng , Weiguo Gao

We further research on the accelerated optimization phenomenon on Riemannian manifolds by introducing accelerated global first-order methods for the optimization of $L$-smooth and geodesically convex (g-convex) or $\mu$-strongly g-convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-16 David Martínez-Rubio

We introduce a generic scheme for accelerating gradient-based optimization methods in the sense of Nesterov. The approach, called Catalyst, builds upon the inexact accelerated proximal point algorithm for minimizing a convex objective…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-20 Hongzhou Lin , Julien Mairal , Zaid Harchaoui

We consider the problem of minimizing a non-convex function over a smooth manifold $\mathcal{M}$. We propose a novel algorithm, the Orthogonal Directions Constrained Gradient Method (ODCGM) which only requires computing a projection onto a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-17 Sholom Schechtman , Daniil Tiapkin , Michael Muehlebach , Eric Moulines

Smoothing accelerated gradient methods achieve faster convergence rates than that of the subgradient method for some nonsmooth convex optimization problems. However, Nesterov's extrapolation may require gradients at infeasible points, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-24 Akatsuki Nishioka , Yoshihiro Kanno

Nonnegative matrix factorization has been widely applied in face recognition, text mining, as well as spectral analysis. This paper proposes an alternating proximal gradient method for solving this problem. With a uniformly positive lower…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-12 Yangyang Xu