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In this article, we propose a new approach, optimize then agree for minimizing a sum $ f = \sum_{i=1}^n f_i(x)$ of convex objective functions over a directed graph. The optimize then agree approach decouples the optimization step and the…

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While classic work in convex-concave min-max optimization relies on average-iterate convergence results, the emergence of nonconvex applications such as training Generative Adversarial Networks has led to renewed interest in last-iterate…

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The generalized conditional gradient method is a popular algorithm for solving composite problems whose objective function is the sum of a smooth function and a nonsmooth convex function. Many convergence analyses of the algorithm rely on…

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With the advancement of modern applications, an increasing number of composite optimization problems arise whose smooth component does not possess a globally Lipschitz continuous gradient. This setting prevents the direct use of the…

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In this paper, it is established finite active-set identification of an almost cyclic 2-coordinate descent method for problems with one linear coupling constraint and simple bounds. First, general active-set identification results are…

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In this paper, a generalized optimization problem on the local sphere is established by the cone order relation on the tangent space, and solved by an improved conditional gradient method (for short, ICGM). The auxiliary subproblems are…

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This paper introduces a nonlinear conjugate gradient method (NCGM) for addressing the robust counterpart of uncertain multiobjective optimization problems (UMOPs). Here, the robust counterpart is defined as the minimum across objective-wise…

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We propose and study a variant of the Dai-Liao spectral conjugate gradient method, developed through an analysis of eigenvalues and inspired by a modified secant condition. We show that our proposed method is globally convergent for general…

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In this article, we propose an algorithm for the nonlinear conjugate gradient method to find a Pareto critical point of unconstrained multiobjective interval optimization problems. In this algorithm, we use the Wolfe line search procedure…

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The paper considers the problem of network-based computation of global minima in smooth nonconvex optimization problems. It is known that distributed gradient-descent-type algorithms can achieve convergence to the set of global minima by…

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This paper considers the decentralized convex optimization problem, which has a wide range of applications in large-scale machine learning, sensor networks, and control theory. We propose novel algorithms that achieve optimal computation…

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In this paper, we propose a successive pseudo-convex approximation algorithm to efficiently compute stationary points for a large class of possibly nonconvex optimization problems. The stationary points are obtained by solving a sequence of…

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We suggest simple modifications of the conditional gradient method for smooth optimization problems, which maintain the basic convergence properties, but reduce the implementation cost of each iteration essentially. Namely, we propose the…

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We propose a linesearch projection algorithm for solving non-monotone and non-Lipschitzian equilibrium problems in Hilbert spaces. It is proved that the sequence generated by the proposed algorithm converges strongly to a solution of the…

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This paper studies a class of adaptive gradient based momentum algorithms that update the search directions and learning rates simultaneously using past gradients. This class, which we refer to as the "Adam-type", includes the popular…

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Stochastic gradient descent method and its variants constitute the core optimization algorithms that achieve good convergence rates for solving machine learning problems. These rates are obtained especially when these algorithms are…

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This paper presents a novel coordinate descent algorithm leveraging a combination of one-directional line search and gradient information for parameter updates for a squared error loss function. Each parameter undergoes updates determined…

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