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In this paper, we consider a class of finite-sum convex optimization problems whose objective function is given by the summation of $m$ ($\ge 1$) smooth components together with some other relatively simple terms. We first introduce a…

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This paper considers stochastic optimization problems for a large class of objective functions, including convex and continuous submodular. Stochastic proximal gradient methods have been widely used to solve such problems; however, their…

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In this paper, we propose an inertial accelerated primal-dual method for the linear equality constrained convex optimization problem. When the objective function has a ``nonsmooth + smooth'' composite structure, we further propose an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-30 Xin He , Rong Hu , Ya-Ping Fang

We develop new sub-optimality bounds for gradient descent (GD) that depend on the conditioning of the objective along the path of optimization rather than on global, worst-case constants. Key to our proofs is directional smoothness, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Aaron Mishkin , Ahmed Khaled , Yuanhao Wang , Aaron Defazio , Robert M. Gower

In this paper, we study a bilinear saddle point problem of the form $\min_{x}\max_{y} F(x) + \langle Ax, y \rangle - G(y)$, where $F$ and $G$ are $\mu_F$- and $\mu_G$-strongly convex functions, respectively. By incorporating Nesterov…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-11 Xin He , Ya-Ping Fang

This paper studies equality-constrained composite minimization problems. This class of problems, capturing regularization terms and inequality constraints, naturally arises in a wide range of engineering and machine learning applications.…

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This work presents a universal accelerated first-order primal-dual method for affinely constrained convex optimization problems. It can handle both Lipschitz and H\"{o}lder gradients but does not need to know the smoothness level of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-09 Hao Luo

We consider the problem of finding a saddle point for the convex-concave objective $\min_x \max_y f(x) + \langle Ax, y\rangle - g^*(y)$, where $f$ is a convex function with locally Lipschitz gradient and $g$ is convex and possibly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-29 Maria-Luiza Vladarean , Yura Malitsky , Volkan Cevher

We develop a second order primal-dual method for optimization problems in which the objective function is given by the sum of a strongly convex twice differentiable term and a possibly nondifferentiable convex regularizer. After introducing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-31 Neil K. Dhingra , Sei Zhen Khong , Mihailo R. Jovanović

In this paper we carry out an asymptotic analysis of the proximal-gradient dynamical system \begin{equation*}\left\{ \begin{array}{ll} \dot x(t) +x(t) = \prox_{\gamma f}\big[x(t)-\gamma\nabla\Phi(x(t))-ax(t)-by(t)\big],\\ \dot…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-05 Radu Ioan Bot , Ernö Robert Csetnek

Nonsmooth nonconvex-concave minimax problems have attracted significant attention due to their wide applications in many fields. In this paper, we consider a class of nonsmooth nonconvex-concave minimax problems on Riemannian manifolds.…

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In this paper, we study the local gradient regularity of non-negative weak solutions to doubly nonlinear parabolic partial differential equations of the type \begin{align*} \partial_t u^q - \mbox{div}\, A(x,t,Du)=0 \qquad\mbox{in…

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We introduce an efficient first-order primal-dual method for the solution of nonsmooth PDE-constrained optimization problems. We achieve this efficiency through not solving the PDE or its linearisation on each iteration of the optimization…

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In this paper, we study saddle point (SP) problems, focusing on convex-concave optimization involving functions that satisfy either two-sided quadratic functional growth (QFG) or two-sided quadratic gradient growth (QGG)--novel conditions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Cody Melcher , Afrooz Jalilzadeh , Erfan Yazdandoost Hamedani

This paper investigates accelerating the convergence of distributed optimization algorithms on non-convex problems. We propose a distributed primal-dual stochastic gradient descent~(SGD) equipped with "powerball" method to accelerate. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-15 Shengjun Zhang , Colleen P. Bailey

In this paper, we present two stepsize strategies for the extended Golden Ratio primal-dual algorithm (E-GRPDA) designed to address structured convex optimization problems in finite-dimensional real Hilbert spaces. The first rule features a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Santanu Soe , Matthew K. Tam , V. Vetrivel

In this paper, we design an inertial accelerated primal-dual algorithm to address the convex-concave saddle point problem, which is formulated as $\min_{x}\max_{y} f(x) + \langle Kx, y \rangle - g(y)$. Remarkably, both functions $f$ and $g$…

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The study of optimal control problems under uncertainty plays an important role in scientific numerical simulations. This class of optimization problems is strongly utilized in engineering, biology and finance. In this paper, a stochastic…

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