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In this work we consider a possibility to use the conception of $(\delta, L)$-model of a function for optimization tasks, whereby solving a primal problem there is a necessity to recover a solution of a dual problem. The conception of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-25 Alexander Tyurin

We introduce a notion of inexact model of a convex objective function, which allows for errors both in the function and in its gradient. For this situation, a gradient method with an adaptive adjustment of some parameters of the model is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-12 Fedor S. Stonyakin

In this paper, we study zeroth-order algorithms for minimax optimization problems that are nonconvex in one variable and strongly-concave in the other variable. Such minimax optimization problems have attracted significant attention lately…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-04-06 Zhongruo Wang , Krishnakumar Balasubramanian , Shiqian Ma , Meisam Razaviyayn

We present an optimal gradient method for smooth strongly convex optimization. The method is optimal in the sense that its worst-case bound on the distance to an optimal point exactly matches the lower bound on the oracle complexity for the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-15 Adrien Taylor , Yoel Drori

In this paper we investigate the convergence of a recently popular class of first-order primal-dual algorithms for saddle point problems under the presence of errors occurring in the proximal maps and gradients. We study several types of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-26 Julian Rasch , Antonin Chambolle

We propose a primal-dual smoothing framework for finding a near-stationary point of a class of non-smooth non-convex optimization problems with max-structure. We analyze the primal and dual gradient complexities of the framework via two…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Renbo Zhao

We propose an optimization proxy in terms of iterative implicit gradient methods for solving constrained optimization problems with nonconvex loss functions. This framework can be applied to a broad range of machine learning settings,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Harshal D. Kaushik , Ming Jin

In this chapter we derive computational complexity certifications of first order inexact dual methods for solving general smooth constrained convex problems which can arise in real-time applications, such as model predictive control. When…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-06-18 Ion Necoara , Andrei Patrascu , Angelia Nedić

We present a coordinate ascent method for a class of semidefinite programming problems that arise in non-convex quadratic integer optimization. These semidefinite programs are characterized by a small total number of active constraints and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-13 Christoph Buchheim , Maribel Montenegro , Angelika Wiegele

Primal-Dual Interior-Point methods are capable of solving constrained convex optimization problems to tight tolerances in a fast and robust manner. The derivatives of the primal-dual solution with respect to the problem matrices can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-21 Kevin Tracy , Zachary Manchester

Nonconvex-nonconcave minimax optimization has received intense attention over the last decade due to its broad applications in machine learning. Most existing algorithms rely on one-sided information, such as the convexity (resp. concavity)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-31 Taoli Zheng , Linglingzhi Zhu , Anthony Man-Cho So , Jose Blanchet , Jiajin Li

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

Frequently, when dealing with many machine learning models, optimization problems appear to be challenging due to a limited understanding of the constructions and characterizations of the objective functions in these problems. Therefore,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-27 A. V. Gasnikov , M. S. Alkousa , A. V. Lobanov , Y. V. Dorn , F. S. Stonyakin , I. A. Kuruzov , S. R. Singh

In the paper, we generalize the approach Gasnikov et. al, 2017, which allows to solve (stochastic) convex optimization problems with an inexact gradient-free oracle, to the convex-concave saddle-point problem. The proposed approach works,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-13 Aleksandr Beznosikov , Abdurakhmon Sadiev , Alexander Gasnikov

This paper presents two new techniques relating to inexact solution of subproblems in augmented Lagrangian methods for convex programming. The first involves combining a relative error criterion for solution of the subproblems with over- or…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-17 Jonathan Eckstein , Chang Yu

In this paper, we propose a proximal gradient method and an accelerated proximal gradient method for solving composite optimization problems, where the objective function is the sum of a smooth and a convex, possibly nonsmooth, function. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Raghu Bollapragada , Shagun Gupta

This paper investigates the convex optimization problem with general convex inequality constraints. To cope with this problem, a discrete-time algorithm, called augmented primal-dual gradient algorithm (Aug-PDG), is studied and analyzed. It…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-18 Min Meng , Xiuxian Li

In this paper, we consider two types of problems that have some similarity in their structure, namely, min-min problems and min-max saddle-point problems. Our approach is based on considering the outer minimization problem as a minimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-29 Egor Gladin , Abdurakhmon Sadiev , Alexander Gasnikov , Pavel Dvurechensky , Aleksandr Beznosikov , Mohammad Alkousa

This paper studies a class of double-loop (inner-outer) algorithms for convex composite optimization. For unconstrained problems, we develop a restarted accelerated composite gradient method that attains the optimal first-order complexity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-23 Matthew X. Burns , Jiaming Liang

This paper presents two inexact composite gradient methods, one inner accelerated and another doubly accelerated, for solving a class of nonconvex spectral composite optimization problems. More specifically, the objective function for these…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-04 Weiwei Kong , Renato D. C. Monteiro