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In this paper, we propose a novel extrapolation coefficient scheme within a new extrapolation term and develop an accelerated proximal gradient algorithm. We establish that the algorithm achieves a sublinear convergence rate. The proposed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-17 Chengzhi Huang

Gradient descent methods are fundamental first-order optimization algorithms in both Euclidean spaces and Riemannian manifolds. However, the exact gradient is not readily available in many scenarios. This paper proposes a novel inexact…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-18 Juan Zhou , Kangkang Deng , Hongxia Wang , Zheng Peng

Proximal gradient methods are a popular tool for the solution of structured, nonsmooth minimization problems. In this work, we investigate an extension of the former to general Banach spaces and provide worst-case convergence rates for,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Gerd Wachsmuth , Daniel Walter

We propose and analyze a randomized zeroth-order approach based on approximating the exact gradient byfinite differences computed in a set of orthogonal random directions that changes with each iteration. A number ofpreviously proposed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-16 David Kozak , Cesare Molinari , Lorenzo Rosasco , Luis Tenorio , Silvia Villa

This paper presents and investigates an inexact proximal gradient method for solving composite convex optimization problems characterized by an objective function composed of a sum of a full-domain differentiable convex function and a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-16 Yunier Bello-Cruz , Max L. N. Gonçalves , Jefferson G. Melo , Cassandra Mohr

We consider a variable metric linesearch based proximal gradient method for the minimization of the sum of a smooth, possibly nonconvex function plus a convex, possibly nonsmooth term. We prove convergence of this iterative algorithm to a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-11 Silvia Bonettini , Ignace Loris , Federica Porta , Marco Prato , Simone Rebegoldi

We consider the classical gradient descent algorithm with constant stepsizes, where some error is introduced in the computation of each gradient. More specifically, we assume some relative bound on the inexactness, in the sense that the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-12 Pierre Vernimmen , François Glineur

Proximal point algorithm has found many applications, and it has been playing fundamental roles in the understanding, design, and analysis of many first-order methods. In this paper, we derive the tight convergence rate in subgradient norm…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-10 Guoyong Gu , Junfeng Yang

In this paper, we study the convergence properties of the Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) method for finding a stationary point of a given objective function $J(\cdot)$. The objective function is not required to be convex. Rather, our…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-09-24 Rajeeva L. Karandikar , M. Vidyasagar

We consider solving nonconvex composite optimization problems in which the sum of a smooth function and a nonsmooth function is minimized. Many of convergence analyses of proximal gradient-type methods rely on global descent property…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-09 Shotaro Yagishita , Masaru Ito

Most prior work on the convergence of gradient descent (GD) for overparameterized neural networks relies on strong assumptions on the step size (infinitesimal), the hidden-layer width (infinite), or the initialization (large, spectral,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Ziqing Xu , Hancheng Min , Salma Tarmoun , Enrique Mallada , Rene Vidal

In this paper, we study the proximal gradient algorithm with extrapolation for minimizing the sum of a Lipschitz differentiable function and a proper closed convex function. Under the error bound condition used in [19] for analyzing the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-02 Bo Wen , Xiaojun Chen , Ting Kei Pong

We propose a new stochastic gradient method for optimizing the sum of a finite set of smooth functions, where the sum is strongly convex. While standard stochastic gradient methods converge at sublinear rates for this problem, the proposed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-03-12 Nicolas Le Roux , Mark Schmidt , Francis Bach

In this paper we introduce two novel generalizations of the theory for gradient descent type methods in the proximal setting. First, we introduce the proportion function, which we further use to analyze all known (and many new)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-12 Dominik Csiba , Peter Richtárik

There are much recent interests in solving noncovnex min-max optimization problems due to its broad applications in many areas including machine learning, networked resource allocations, and distributed optimization. Perhaps, the most…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-20 Thinh T. Doan

This paper investigates the optimal ergodic sublinear convergence rate of the relaxed proximal point algorithm for solving monotone variational inequality problems. The exact worst case convergence rate is computed using the performance…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-15 Guoyong Gu , Junfeng Yang

This paper focuses on the online gradient and proximal-gradient methods with stochastic gradient errors. In particular, we examine the performance of the online gradient descent method when the cost satisfies the Polyak-\L ojasiewicz (PL)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-16 Seunghyun Kim , Liam Madden , Emiliano Dall'Anese

We prove explicit bounds on the exponential rate of convergence for the momentum stochastic gradient descent scheme (MSGD) for arbitrary, fixed hyperparameters (learning rate, friction parameter) and its continuous-in-time counterpart in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-07 Benjamin Gess , Sebastian Kassing

Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) has been studied extensively over the past decades due to its simplicity and broad applicability in machine learning. In this work, we analyze the local behavior of gradient descent and stochastic gradient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Sebastian Kassing , Thomas Kruse

In this paper, we present a new complexity result for the gradient descent method with an appropriately fixed stepsize for minimizing a strongly convex function with locally $\alpha$-H{\"o}lder continuous gradients ($0 < \alpha \leq 1$).…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-07 Xiaojun Chen , C. T. Kelley , Lei Wang