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The Frank-Wolfe algorithm has seen a resurgence in popularity due to its ability to efficiently solve constrained optimization problems in machine learning and high-dimensional statistics. As such, there is much interest in establishing…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-05-19 Suhas Vijaykumar

The purpose of this survey is to serve both as a gentle introduction and a coherent overview of state-of-the-art Frank--Wolfe algorithms, also called conditional gradient algorithms, for function minimization. These algorithms are…

We propose a new version of the Frank-Wolfe method, called the (L0, L1)-Frank-Wolfe algorithm, developed for optimization problems with (L0, L1)-smooth objectives. We establish that this algorithm achieves superior theoretical convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-21 A. A. Vyguzov , F. S. Stonyakin

The boosted Frank-Wolfe algorithm accelerates the classical Frank-Wolfe algorithm by better aligning the update direction with the negative gradient. Its analysis, however, has been limited to deterministic convex problems, with step sizes…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Navil Nandhan , Abbas Khademi , Antonio Silveti-Falls

Decentralized optimization algorithms have received much attention due to the recent advances in network information processing. However, conventional decentralized algorithms based on projected gradient descent are incapable of handling…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-29 Hoi-To Wai , Jean Lafond , Anna Scaglione , Eric Moulines

The Frank-Wolfe method is a popular method in sparse constrained optimization, due to its fast per-iteration complexity. However, the tradeoff is that its worst case global convergence is comparatively slow, and importantly, is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-25 Zhaoyue Chen , Yifan Sun

We present a new Frank-Wolfe (FW) type algorithm that is applicable to minimization problems with a nonsmooth convex objective. We provide convergence bounds and show that the scheme yields so-called coreset results for various Machine…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-23 Sathya N. Ravi , Maxwell D. Collins , Vikas Singh

Frank-Wolfe (FW) algorithms have been often proposed over the last few years as efficient solvers for a variety of optimization problems arising in the field of Machine Learning. The ability to work with cheap projection-free iterations and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-10-27 Emanuele Frandi , Ricardo Nanculef , Stefano Lodi , Claudio Sartori , Johan A. K. Suykens

This paper considers stochastic convex optimization problems with two sets of constraints: (a) deterministic constraints on the domain of the optimization variable, which are difficult to project onto; and (b) deterministic or stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-25 Zeeshan Akhtar , Ketan Rajawat

The Conditional Gradient (or Frank-Wolfe) method is one of the most well-known methods for solving constrained optimization problems appearing in various machine learning tasks. The simplicity of iteration and applicability to many…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-17 Ruslan Nazykov , Aleksandr Shestakov , Vladimir Solodkin , Aleksandr Beznosikov , Gauthier Gidel , Alexander Gasnikov

Symmetric nonnegative matrix factorization has found abundant applications in various domains by providing a symmetric low-rank decomposition of nonnegative matrices. In this paper we propose a Frank-Wolfe (FW) solver to optimize the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-27 Han Zhao , Geoff Gordon

Projection-free optimization via different variants of the Frank-Wolfe (FW), a.k.a. Conditional Gradient method has become one of the cornerstones in optimization for machine learning since in many cases the linear minimization oracle is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-30 Pavel Dvurechensky , Petr Ostroukhov , Kamil Safin , Shimrit Shtern , Mathias Staudigl

We study Frank-Wolfe methods for nonconvex stochastic and finite-sum optimization problems. Frank-Wolfe methods (in the convex case) have gained tremendous recent interest in machine learning and optimization communities due to their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-01 Sashank J. Reddi , Suvrit Sra , Barnabas Poczos , Alex Smola

We propose an accelerated algorithm with a Frank-Wolfe method as an oracle for solving strongly monotone variational inequality problems. While standard solution approaches, such as projected gradient descent (aka value iteration), involve…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Reza Rahimi Baghbadorani , Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani , Sergio Grammatico

The Frank-Wolfe algorithm has regained much interest in its use in structurally constrained machine learning applications. However, one major limitation of the Frank-Wolfe algorithm is the slow local convergence property due to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-02 Zhaoyue Chen , Mokhwa Lee , Yifan Sun

This paper aims to enhance the use of the Frank-Wolfe (FW) algorithm for training deep neural networks. Similar to any gradient-based optimization algorithm, FW suffers from high computational and memory costs when computing gradients for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-30 M. Rostami , S. S. Kia

We introduce a few variants on Frank-Wolfe style algorithms suitable for large scale optimization. We show how to modify the standard Frank-Wolfe algorithm using stochastic gradients, approximate subproblem solutions, and sketched decision…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-17 Lijun Ding , Madeleine Udell

Federated learning is a powerful paradigm for large-scale machine learning, but it faces significant challenges due to unreliable network connections, slow communication, and substantial data heterogeneity across clients. FedAvg and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Ziheng Cheng , Xinmeng Huang , Pengfei Wu , Kun Yuan

We provide a template to derive convergence rates for the following popular versions of the Frank-Wolfe algorithm on polytopes: vanilla Frank-Wolfe, Frank-Wolfe with away steps, Frank-Wolfe with blended pairwise steps, and Frank-Wolfe with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-21 Elias Wirth , Javier Pena , Sebastian Pokutta

The Frank-Wolfe algorithm is a popular method in structurally constrained machine learning applications, due to its fast per-iteration complexity. However, one major limitation of the method is a slow rate of convergence that is difficult…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-14 Zhaoyue Chen , Yifan Sun