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Smooth minimax optimization problems play a central role in a wide range of applications, including machine learning, game theory, and operations research. However, existing algorithmic frameworks vary significantly depending on the problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-10 Taoli Zheng , Anthony Man-Cho So , Jiajin Li

This paper is devoted to the study of acceleration methods for an inequality constrained convex optimization problem by using Lyapunov functions. We first approximate such a problem as an unconstrained optimization problem by employing the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-25 Juan Liu , Nan-Jing Huang , Xian-Jun Long , Xue-song Li

This paper studies consensus-based decentralized stochastic optimization for minimizing possibly non-convex expected objectives with convex non-smooth regularizers and nonlinear functional inequality constraints. We reformulate the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-29 Shivangi Dubey Sharma , Basil M. Idrees , Lavish Arora , Ketan Rajawat

We introduce an efficient first-order primal-dual method for the solution of nonsmooth PDE-constrained optimization problems. We achieve this efficiency through not solving the PDE or its linearisation on each iteration of the optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-11 Bjørn Jensen , Tuomo Valkonen

Many industrial and engineering processes monitored as times series have smooth trends that indicate normal behavior and occasionally anomalous patterns that can indicate a problem. This kind of behavior can be modeled by a smooth trend,…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-08-07 Matthew Hofkes , Douglas Nychka , Tzahi Cath , Amanda Hering , Craig McGonagill

We present a stochastic setting for optimization problems with nonsmooth convex separable objective functions over linear equality constraints. To solve such problems, we propose a stochastic Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-01-23 Hua Ouyang , Niao He , Alexander Gray

In this paper, the sparse sensor placement problem for least-squares estimation is considered, and the previous novel approach of the sparse sensor selection algorithm is extended. The maximization of the determinant of the matrix which…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-18 Yuji Saito , Taku Nonomura , Keigo Yamada , Kumi Nakai , Takayuki Nagata , Keisuke Asai , Yasuo Sasaki , Daisuke Tsubakino

Primal-Dual Interior-Point methods are capable of solving constrained convex optimization problems to tight tolerances in a fast and robust manner. The derivatives of the primal-dual solution with respect to the problem matrices can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-21 Kevin Tracy , Zachary Manchester

A linear inverse problem is proposed that requires the determination of multiple unknown signal vectors. Each unknown vector passes through a different system matrix and the results are added to yield a single observation vector. Given the…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2010-09-03 Adam C. Zelinski , Vivek K Goyal , Elfar Adalsteinsson

In this paper, we develop a symmetric accelerated stochastic Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (SAS-ADMM) for solving separable convex optimization problems with linear constraints. The objective function is the sum of a possibly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-21 Jianchao Bai , Deren Han , Hao Sun , Hongchao Zhang

In this paper, we propose a new decomposition approach named the proximal primal dual algorithm (Prox-PDA) for smooth nonconvex linearly constrained optimization problems. The proposed approach is primal-dual based, where the primal step…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-04-05 Mingyi Hong

In traditional compressed sensing theory, the dictionary matrix is given a priori, whereas in real applications this matrix suffers from random noise and fluctuations. In this paper we consider a signal model where each column in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-17 Zhao Tan , Peng Yang , Arye Nehorai

The problem of finding a vector with the fewest nonzero elements that satisfies an underdetermined system of linear equations is an NP-complete problem that is typically solved numerically via convex heuristics or nicely-behaved non convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-05-03 Heinz H. Bauschke , D. Russell Luke , Hung M. Phan , Xianfu Wang

We consider a class of optimization problems for sparse signal reconstruction which arise in the field of Compressed Sensing (CS). A plethora of approaches and solvers exist for such problems, for example GPSR, FPC AS, SPGL1, NestA,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-11-19 Kimon Fountoulakis , Jacek Gondzio , Pavel Zhlobich

In this paper, we investigate optimization problems with nonnegative and orthogonal constraints, where any feasible matrix of size $n \times p$ exhibits a sparsity pattern such that each row accommodates at most one nonzero entry. Our…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-06 Lei Wang , Xin Liu , Xiaojun Chen

The widely used density matrix renormalization group (DRMG) method often fails to converge in systems with multiple length scales, such as lattice discretizations of continuum models and dilute or weakly doped lattice models. The local…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-07-17 M. Dolfi , B. Bauer , M. Troyer , Z. Ristivojevic

We propose an unconstrained optimization method based on the well-known primal-dual hybrid gradient (PDHG) algorithm. We first formulate the optimality condition of the unconstrained optimization problem as a saddle point problem. We then…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-29 X. Zuo , S. Osher , W. Li

In this paper we present two new approaches to efficiently solve large-scale compressed sensing problems. These two ideas are independent of each other and can therefore be used either separately or together. We consider all possibilities.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-12-17 Robert Vanderbei , Han Liu , Lie Wang , Kevin Lin

It is widely acknowledged that hyperparameter selection plays a critical role in the effectiveness of sparse optimization problems. The bilevel optimization provides a robust framework for addressing this issue, but these existing methods…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Yunhai Xiao , Anqi Liu , Peili Li , Yanyun Ding

We propose a proximal variable smoothing algorithm for a nonsmooth optimization problem whose cost function is the sum of three functions including a weakly convex composite function. The proposed algorithm has a single-loop structure…

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