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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

In this paper we consider a class of optimization problems with a strongly convex objective function and the feasible set given by an intersection of a simple convex set with a set given by a number of linear equality and inequality…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-05-11 Alexey Chernov , Pavel Dvurechensky , Alexander Gasnikov

It was recently established that for convex optimization problems with sparse optimal solutions (be it entry-wise sparsity or matrix rank-wise sparsity) it is possible to design first-order methods with linear convergence rates that depend…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Dan Garber

Many high-dimensional optimisation problems exhibit rich geometric structures in their set of minimisers, often forming smooth manifolds due to over-parametrisation or symmetries. When this structure is known, at least locally, it can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-27 Evan Markou , Thalaiyasingam Ajanthan , Stephen Gould

Majorization-minimization algorithms consist of successively minimizing a sequence of upper bounds of the objective function. These upper bounds are tight at the current estimate, and each iteration monotonically drives the objective…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-02-03 Julien Mairal

In this paper we provide a detailed analysis of the iteration complexity of dual first order methods for solving conic convex problems. When it is difficult to project on the primal feasible set described by convex constraints, we use the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-16 Ion Necoara , Andrei Patrascu

Many applications using large datasets require efficient methods for minimizing a proximable convex function subject to satisfying a set of linear constraints within a specified tolerance. For this task, we present a proximal projection…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-10 Howard Heaton

Motivated by big data applications, first-order methods have been extremely popular in recent years. However, naive gradient methods generally converge slowly. Hence, much efforts have been made to accelerate various first-order methods.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-06-30 Yangyang Xu

Recommender systems (RSs) have attained exceptional performance in learning users' preferences and helping them in finding the most suitable products. Recent advances in adversarial machine learning (AML) in the computer vision domain have…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Vito Walter Anelli , Alejandro Bellogín , Yashar Deldjoo , Tommaso Di Noia , Felice Antonio Merra

We design and analyze a novel accelerated gradient-based algorithm for a class of bilevel optimization problems. These problems have various applications arising from machine learning and image processing, where optimal solutions of the two…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-20 Sepideh Samadi , Daniel Burbano , Farzad Yousefian

Variable projection solves structured optimization problems by completely minimizing over a subset of the variables while iterating over the remaining variables. Over the last 30 years, the technique has been widely used, with empirical and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-23 Tristan van Leeuwen , Aleksandr Aravkin

Bilevel optimization is a fundamental tool in hierarchical decision-making and has been widely applied to machine learning tasks such as hyperparameter tuning, meta-learning, and continual learning. While significant progress has been made…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-25 Nazanin Abolfazli , Sina Sharifi , Mahyar Fazlyab , Erfan Yazdandoost Hamedani

We present an extension of the projection method proposed by Challis et al. (Int J Solids Struct 45(14$\unicode{x2013}$15):4130$\unicode{x2013}$4146, 2008) for constrained level set-based topology optimisation that harnesses the Hilbertian…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-12 Zachary J. Wegert , Anthony P. Roberts , Vivien J. Challis

In this paper, we consider gradient-type methods for convex positively homogeneous optimization problems with relative accuracy. An analogue of the accelerated universal gradient-type method for positively homogeneous optimization problems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-14 Fedor S. Stonyakin , Seydamet S. Ablaev , Inna V. Baran

In this paper we consider a problem, called convex projection, of projecting a convex set onto a subspace. We will show that to a convex projection one can assign a particular multi-objective convex optimization problem, such that the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-18 Gabriela Kováčová , Birgit Rudloff

This paper considers unconstrained convex optimization problems with time-varying objective functions. We propose algorithms with a discrete time-sampling scheme to find and track the solution trajectory based on prediction and correction…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-18 Andrea Simonetto , Aryan Mokhtari , Alec Koppel , Geert Leus , Alejandro Ribeiro

In this paper we consider resource allocation problem stated as a convex minimization problem with linear constraints. To solve this problem, we use gradient and accelerated gradient descent applied to the dual problem and prove the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-01 Anastasiya Ivanova , Pavel Dvurechensky , Alexander Gasnikov , Dmitry Kamzolov

Stochastic gradient methods (SGMs) are predominant approaches for solving stochastic optimization. On smooth nonconvex problems, a few acceleration techniques have been applied to improve the convergence rate of SGMs. However, little…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-24 Yangyang Xu , Yibo Xu , Yonggui Yan , Jie Chen

A split feasibility formulation for the inverse problem of intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) treatment planning with dose-volume constraints (DVCs) included in the planning algorithm is presented. It involves a new type of…

Medical Physics · Physics 2017-04-26 S. Penfold , R. Zalas , M. Casiraghi , M. Brooke , Y. Censor , R. Schulte