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We introduce a dynamic sparse training algorithm based on linearized Bregman iterations / mirror descent that exploits the naturally incurred sparsity by alternating between periods of static and dynamic sparsity pattern updates. The key…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Yannick Lunk , Sebastian J. Scott , Leon Bungert

We study the numerical behaviour of a particle method for gradient flows involving linear and nonlinear diffusion. This method relies on the discretisation of the energy via non-overlapping balls centred at the particles. The resulting…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-12-07 J. A. Carrillo , Y. Huang , F. S. Patacchini , G. Wolansky

We propose a subspace-accelerated Bregman method for the linearly constrained minimization of functions of the form $f(\mathbf{u})+\tau_1 \|\mathbf{u}\|_1 + \tau_2 \|D\,\mathbf{u}\|_1$, where $f$ is a smooth convex function and $D$…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-24 Valentina De Simone , Daniela di Serafino , Marco Viola

We develop a new variational approach on level sets aiming towards convergence rate analysis of a variable Bregman proximal gradient (VBPG) method for a broad class of nonsmooth and nonconvex optimization problems. With this new approach,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-05 Daoli Zhu , Sien Deng

We introduce and analyze a fast iterative method based on sequential Bregman projections for nonlinear inverse problems in Banach spaces. The key idea, in contrast to the standard Landweber method, is to use multiple search directions per…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-01 Anne Wald

Sparse training reduces the memory and computational costs of deep neural networks. However, sparse optimization methods, e.g., those adding an $\ell_1$ penalty, often control sparsity only indirectly through a regularization parameter…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Ahmad Aloradi , Tim Roith , Emanuël A. P. Habets , Daniel Tenbrinck

In this paper we the formulation of inverse problems as constrained minimization problems and their iterative solution by gradient or Newton type. We carry out a convergence analysis in the sense of regularization methods and discuss…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-15 Barbara Kaltenbacher , Kha Van Huynh

This paper is concerned with multi-agent optimization problem. A distributed randomized gradient-free mirror descent (DRGFMD) method is developed by introducing a randomized gradient-free oracle in the mirror descent scheme where the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-12 Zhan Yu , Daniel W. C. Ho , Deming Yuan

In this paper, optimal control problems governed by diffusion equations with Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions are investigated in the framework of the gradient discretisation method. Gradient schemes are defined for the optimality…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-09 Jerome Droniou , Neela Nataraj , Devika Shylaja

In this paper we develop adaptive numerical schemes for certain nonlinear variational problems. The discretization of the variational problems is done by representing the solution as a suitable frame decomposition, i.e., a complete, stable,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 M. Charina , C. Conti , M. Fornasier

In this paper we consider convergence rate problems for stochastic strongly-convex optimization in the non-Euclidean sense with a constraint set over a time-varying multi-agent network. We propose two efficient non-Euclidean stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-23 Deming Yuan , Yiguang Hong , Daniel W. C. Ho , Guoping Jiang

Stochastic optimisation problems minimise expectations of random cost functions. We use 'optimise then discretise' method to solve stochastic optimisation. In our approach, accurate quadrature methods are required to calculate the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-22 Yuancheng Zhou

One fundamental problem when solving inverse problems is how to find regularization parameters. This article considers solving this problem using data-driven bilevel optimization, i.e. we consider the adaptive learning of the regularization…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-01-08 Neil K. Chada , Claudia Schillings , Xin T. Tong , Simon Weissmann

Accelerated gradient methods are the cornerstones of large-scale, data-driven optimization problems that arise naturally in machine learning and other fields concerning data analysis. We introduce a gradient-based optimization framework for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-22 Param Budhraja , Mayank Baranwal , Kunal Garg , Ashish Hota

We investigate a dynamic inverse problem using a regularization which implements the so-called Wasserstein-$1$ distance. It naturally extends well-known static problems such as lasso or total variation regularized problems to a (temporally)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-05 Marcello Carioni , Julius Lohmann

Motivated by high-dimensional nonlinear optimization problems as well as ill-posed optimization problems arising in image processing, we consider a bilevel optimization model where we seek among the optimal solutions of the inner level…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-27 Harshal Kaushik , Farzad Yousefian

We develop a Bregman proximal gradient method for structure learning on linear structural causal models. While the problem is non-convex, has high curvature and is in fact NP-hard, Bregman gradient methods allow us to neutralize at least…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-06 Manon Romain , Alexandre d'Aspremont

In this paper, we develop a splitting algorithm incorporating Bregman distances to solve a broad class of linearly constrained composite optimization problems, whose objective function is the separable sum of possibly nonconvex nonsmooth…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-01 Tan Nhat Pham , Minh N. Dao , Andrew Eberhard , Nargiz Sultanova

Recovery of a sparse signal from a nonlinear system arises in many practical applications including compressive sensing, image reconstruction and machine learning. In this paper, a fast block nonlinear Bregman-Kaczmarz method with averaging…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-24 Aqin Xiao , Xiangyu Gao , Jun-Feng Yin

Motivated by a constrained minimization problem, it is studied the gradient flows with respect to Hessian Riemannian metrics induced by convex functions of Legendre type. The first result characterizes Hessian Riemannian structures on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-27 Felipe Alvarez , Jérôme Bolte , Olivier Brahic