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In this paper, we study randomized and cyclic coordinate descent for convex unconstrained optimization problems. We improve the known convergence rates in some cases by using the numerical semidefinite programming performance estimation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-26 Hadi Abbaszadehpeivasti , Etienne de Klerk , Moslem Zamani

We consider the problem of minimizing a sum of several convex non-smooth functions. We introduce a new algorithm called the selective linearization method, which iteratively linearizes all but one of the functions and employs simple…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-16 Yu Du , Xiaodong Lin , Andrzej Ruszczynski

The recently developed Distributed Block Proximal Method, for solving stochastic big-data convex optimization problems, is studied in this paper under the assumption of constant stepsizes and strongly convex (possibly non-smooth) local…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-06 Francesco Farina , Giuseppe Notarstefano

A multi-convex optimization problem is one in which the variables can be partitioned into sets over which the problem is convex when the other variables are fixed. Multi-convex problems are generally solved approximately using variations on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-11 Xinyue Shen , Steven Diamond , Madeleine Udell , Yuantao Gu , Stephen Boyd

In this paper, we introduce and study the Parallel Polyhedral Projection Method (3PM) and the Approximate Parallel Polyhedral Projection Method (A3PM) for finding a point in the intersection of finitely many closed convex sets. Each…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-27 Pablo Barros , Roger Behling , Vincent Guigues

Deep learning-based models have demonstrated remarkable success in solving illposed inverse problems; however, many fail to strictly adhere to the physical constraints imposed by the measurement process. In this work, we introduce a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Jorge Bacca

Feasibility problem aims to find a common point of two or more closed (convex) sets whose intersection is nonempty. In the literature, projection based algorithms are widely adopted to solve the problem, such as the method of alternating…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-16 Yuting Shen , Jingwei Liang

Convergence of a projected stochastic gradient algorithm is demonstrated for convex objective functionals with convex constraint sets in Hilbert spaces. In the convex case, the sequence of iterates ${u_n}$ converges weakly to a point in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-01 Caroline Geiersbach , Georg Pflug

The Euclidean projection onto a convex set is an important problem that arises in numerous constrained optimization tasks. Unfortunately, in many cases, computing projections is computationally demanding. In this work, we focus on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-22 Ilnura Usmanova , Maryam Kamgarpour , Andreas Krause , Kfir Yehuda Levy

This article introduces the concept of optimization learning, a methodology to design optimization proxies that learn the input/output mapping of parametric optimization problems. These optimization proxies are trustworthy by design: they…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-08 Pascal Van Hentenryck

The learning curve expresses the error rate of a predictive modeling procedure as a function of the sample size of the training dataset. It typically is a decreasing, convex function with a positive limiting value. An estimate of the…

Applications · Statistics 2012-03-14 Eric B. Laber , Kerby Shedden , Yang Yang

Convex approximation sets for multiobjective optimization problems are a well-studied relaxation of the common notion of approximation sets. Instead of approximating each image of a feasible solution by the image of some solution in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-13 Stephan Helfrich , Stefan Ruzika , Clemens Thielen

We develop a robust convex algorithm to select the regularization parameter in model selection. In practice this would be automated in order to save practitioners time from having to tune it manually. In particular, we implement and test…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-12-03 Dustin Tran

Segmentation of overlapping convex objects has various applications, for example, in nanoparticles and cell imaging. Often the segmentation method has to rely purely on edges between the background and foreground making the analyzed images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Sahar Zafari , Mariia Murashkina , Tuomas Eerola , Jouni Sampo , Heikki Kälviäinen , Heikki Haario

The aim of this paper is to present the convergence analysis of a very general class of gradient projection methods for smooth, constrained, possibly nonconvex, optimization. The key features of these methods are the Armijo linesearch along…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-13 Silvia Bonettini , Marco Prato , Simone Rebegoldi

We propose finitely convergent methods for solving convex feasibility problems defined over a possibly infinite pool of constraints. Following other works in this area, we assume that the interior of the solution set is nonempty and that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-22 Victor I. Kolobov , Simeon Reich , Rafał Zalas

Optimization problems with convex quadratic cost and polyhedral constraints are ubiquitous in signal processing, automatic control and decision-making. We consider here an enlarged problem class that allows to encode logical conditions and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-09 Alberto De Marchi

The aim of this paper is to study the characteristics of a general method to produce a new approximation sequence from a given one, by using suitable convex combinations.

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Lorenzo D'Ambrosio , Elisabetta Mangino

We study the problem of meta-learning through the lens of online convex optimization, developing a meta-algorithm bridging the gap between popular gradient-based meta-learning and classical regularization-based multi-task transfer methods.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Mikhail Khodak , Maria-Florina Balcan , Ameet Talwalkar

A block decomposition method is proposed for minimizing a (possibly non-convex) continuously differentiable function subject to one linear equality constraint and simple bounds on the variables. The proposed method iteratively selects a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-06 Andrea Cristofari