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We develop multi-step gradient methods for network-constrained optimization of strongly convex functions with Lipschitz-continuous gradients. Given the topology of the underlying network and bounds on the Hessian of the objective function,…

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We propose a Riemannian version of Nesterov's Accelerated Gradient algorithm (RAGD), and show that for geodesically smooth and strongly convex problems, within a neighborhood of the minimizer whose radius depends on the condition number as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-08 Hongyi Zhang , Suvrit Sra

This paper studies distributed nonconvex optimization problems with stochastic gradients for a multi-agent system, in which each agent aims to minimize the sum of all agents' cost functions by using local compressed information exchange. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-05 Antai Xie , Xinlei Yi , Xiaofan Wang , Ming Cao , Xiaoqiang Ren

We suggest simple implementable modifications of conditional gradient and gradient projection methods for smooth convex optimization problems in Hilbert spaces. Usually, the custom methods attain only weak convergence. We prove strong…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-04 Igor Konnov

We consider solving a convex, possibly stochastic optimization problem over a randomly time-varying multi-agent network. Each agent has access to some local objective function, and it only has unbiased estimates of the gradients of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-29 Mingyi Hong , Tsung-Hui Chang

We develop universal gradient methods for Stochastic Convex Optimization (SCO). Our algorithms automatically adapt not only to the oracle's noise but also to the H\"older smoothness of the objective function without a priori knowledge of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-12 Anton Rodomanov , Ali Kavis , Yongtao Wu , Kimon Antonakopoulos , Volkan Cevher

This paper is devoted to the error analysis of a time-spectral algorithm for fractional diffusion problems of order $\alpha$ ($0 < \alpha < 1$). The solution regularity in the Sobolev space is revisited, and new regularity results in the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-08 Hao Luo , Xiaoping Xie

In this paper, we propose a conditional gradient method for solving constrained vector optimization problems with respect to a partial order induced by a closed, convex and pointed cone with nonempty interior. When the partial order under…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-12 Wang Chen , Xinmin Yang , Yong Zhao

In arXiv:2305.03945 [math.NA], a first-order optimization algorithm has been introduced to solve time-implicit schemes of reaction-diffusion equations. In this research, we conduct theoretical studies on this first-order algorithm equipped…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Shu Liu , Xinzhe Zuo , Stanley Osher , Wuchen Li

Successive quadratic approximations, or second-order proximal methods, are useful for minimizing functions that are a sum of a smooth part and a convex, possibly nonsmooth part that promotes regularization. Most analyses of iteration…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-25 Ching-pei Lee , Stephen J. Wright

The spectral risk has wide applications in machine learning, especially in real-world decision-making, where people are not only concerned with models' average performance. By assigning different weights to the losses of different sample…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-23 Yuze Ge , Rujun Jiang

We describe a convergence acceleration technique for unconstrained optimization problems. Our scheme computes estimates of the optimum from a nonlinear average of the iterates produced by any optimization method. The weights in this average…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-16 Damien Scieur , Alexandre d'Aspremont , Francis Bach

This paper proposes and analyzes an accelerated inexact dampened augmented Lagrangian (AIDAL) method for solving linearly-constrained nonconvex composite optimization problems. Each iteration of the AIDAL method consists of: (i) inexactly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-08 Weiwei Kong , Renato D. C. Monteiro

We propose a stochastic conditional gradient method (CGM) for minimizing convex finite-sum objectives formed as a sum of smooth and non-smooth terms. Existing CGM variants for this template either suffer from slow convergence rates, or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Gideon Dresdner , Maria-Luiza Vladarean , Gunnar Rätsch , Francesco Locatello , Volkan Cevher , Alp Yurtsever

Performance of optimization on quadratic problems sensitively depends on the low-lying part of the spectrum. For large (effectively infinite-dimensional) problems, this part of the spectrum can often be naturally represented or approximated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-26 Maksim Velikanov , Dmitry Yarotsky

Discrete gradient methods are geometric integration techniques that can preserve the dissipative structure of gradient flows. Due to the monotonic decay of the function values, they are well suited for general convex and nonconvex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-17 Matthias J. Ehrhardt , Erlend S. Riis , Torbjørn Ringholm , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

Distributed optimization algorithms are essential for training machine learning models on very large-scale datasets. However, they often suffer from communication bottlenecks. Confronting this issue, a communication-efficient primal-dual…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-16 Chenxin Ma , Martin Jaggi , Frank E. Curtis , Nathan Srebro , Martin Takáč

Many iterative procedures in stochastic optimization exhibit a transient phase followed by a stationary phase. During the transient phase the procedure converges towards a region of interest, and during the stationary phase the procedure…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-26 Jerry Chee , Panos Toulis

In this paper we propose and analyze inexact and stochastic versions of the CGALP algorithm developed in the authors' previous paper, which we denote ICGALP, that allows for errors in the computation of several important quantities. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-20 Antonio Silveti-Falls , Cesare Molinari , Jalal Fadili

An efficient proximal-gradient-based method, called proximal extrapolated gradient method, is designed for solving monotone variational inequality in Hilbert space. The proposed method extends the acceptable range of parameters to obtain…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-05 Xiaokai Chang , Sanyang Liu , Jianchao Bai , Jun Yang