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Classical extragradient schemes and their stochastic counterpart represent a cornerstone for resolving monotone variational inequality problems. Yet, such schemes have a per-iteration complexity of two projections onto a convex set and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-22 Shisheng Cui , Uday V. Shanbhag

The paper investigates two inertial extragradient algorithms for seeking a common solution to a variational inequality problem involving a monotone and Lipschitz continuous mapping and a fixed point problem with a demicontractive mapping in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-08 Bing Tan , Liya Liu , Xiaolong Qin

This paper proposes an extra gradient Anderson-accelerated algorithm for solving pseudomonotone variational inequalities, which uses the extra gradient scheme with line search to guarantee the global convergence and Anderson acceleration to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Xin Qu , Wei Bian , Xiaojun Chen

Last-iterate convergence has received extensive study in two player zero-sum games starting from bilinear, convex-concave up to settings that satisfy the MVI condition. Typical methods that exhibit last-iterate convergence for the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Yi Feng , Hu Fu , Qun Hu , Ping Li , Ioannis Panageas , Bo Peng , Xiao Wang

We develop new adaptive algorithms for variational inequalities with monotone operators, which capture many problems of interest, notably convex optimization and convex-concave saddle point problems. Our algorithms automatically adapt to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Alina Ene , Huy L. Nguyen

Stochastic approximation is a foundation for many algorithms found in machine learning and optimization. It is in general slow to converge: the mean square error vanishes as $O(n^{-1})$. A deterministic counterpart known as quasi-stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-26 Caio Kalil Lauand , Sean Meyn

We prove novel convergence results for a stochastic proximal gradient algorithm suitable for solving a large class of convex optimization problems, where a convex objective function is given by the sum of a smooth and a possibly non-smooth…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-11 Lorenzo Rosasco , Silvia Villa , Bang Công Vũ

Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) is the workhorse of large-scale learning, yet classical analyses rely on assumptions that can be either too strong (bounded variance) or too coarse (uniform noise). The expected smoothness (ES) condition…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Yuta Kawamoto , Hideaki Iiduka

Adaptive gradient algorithms perform gradient-based updates using the history of gradients and are ubiquitous in training deep neural networks. While adaptive gradient methods theory is well understood for minimization problems, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-29 Mingrui Liu , Youssef Mroueh , Jerret Ross , Wei Zhang , Xiaodong Cui , Payel Das , Tianbao Yang

In this paper, we propose a general extra-gradient scheme for solving monotone variational inequalities (VI), referred to here as Approximation-based Regularized Extra-gradient method (ARE). The first step of ARE solves a VI subproblem with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-11 Kevin Huang , Shuzhong Zhang

Despite the established convergence theory of Optimistic Gradient Descent Ascent (OGDA) and Extragradient (EG) methods for the convex-concave minimax problems, little is known about the theoretical guarantees of these methods in nonconvex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Pouria Mahdavinia , Yuyang Deng , Haochuan Li , Mehrdad Mahdavi

Stochastic Gradient (SG) is the defacto iterative technique to solve stochastic optimization (SO) problems with a smooth (non-convex) objective $f$ and a stochastic first-order oracle. SG's attractiveness is due in part to its simplicity of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-08 David Newton , Raghu Bollapragada , Raghu Pasupathy , Nung Kwan Yip

We consider stochastic gradient descent algorithms for minimizing a non-smooth, strongly-convex function. Several forms of this algorithm, including suffix averaging, are known to achieve the optimal $O(1/T)$ convergence rate in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Nicholas J. A. Harvey , Christopher Liaw , Sikander Randhawa

Arising in semi-parametric statistics, control applications, and as sub-problems in global optimization methods, certain optimization problems can have objective functions requiring numerical integration to evaluate, yet gradient function…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-06 Christian Varner , Vivak Patel

The Extragradient (EG) method stands as a cornerstone algorithm for solving monotone nonlinear equations but faces two important unresolved challenges: (i) how to select stepsizes without relying on the global Lipschitz constant or…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-20 Xiaozhi Liu , Yong Xia

Stochastic alternating algorithms for bi-objective optimization are considered when optimizing two conflicting functions for which optimization steps have to be applied separately for each function. Such algorithms consist of applying a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-09 Suyun Liu , Luis Nunes Vicente

Proximal gradient method has been playing an important role to solve many machine learning tasks, especially for the nonsmooth problems. However, in some machine learning problems such as the bandit model and the black-box learning problem,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-19 Feihu Huang , Bin Gu , Zhouyuan Huo , Songcan Chen , Heng Huang

Despite the recent growth of theoretical studies and empirical successes of neural networks, gradient backpropagation is still the most widely used algorithm for training such networks. On the one hand, we have deterministic or full…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Pascal Junior Tikeng Notsawo

In this paper, we introduce some adaptive methods for solving variational inequalities with relatively strongly monotone operators. Firstly, we focus on the modification of the recently proposed, in smooth case [1], adaptive numerical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-01 A. A. Titov , S. S. Ablaev , M. S. Alkousa , F. S. Stonyakin , A. V. Gasnikov

Epoch gradient descent method (a.k.a. Epoch-GD) proposed by Hazan and Kale (2011) was deemed a breakthrough for stochastic strongly convex minimization, which achieves the optimal convergence rate of $O(1/T)$ with $T$ iterative updates for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-18 Yan Yan , Yi Xu , Qihang Lin , Wei Liu , Tianbao Yang