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This paper investigates the asymptotic convergence behavior of high-order proximal-point algorithms (HiPPA) toward global minimizers, extending the analysis beyond sublinear convergence rate results. Specifically, we consider the proximal…

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We study a general convex optimization problem, which covers various classic problems in different areas and particularly includes many optimal transport related problems arising in recent years. To solve this problem, we revisit the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-18 Lei Yang , Kim-Chuan Toh

The proximal point algorithm plays a central role in non-smooth convex programming. The Augmented Lagrangian Method, one of the most famous optimization algorithms, has been found to be closely related to the proximal point algorithm. Due…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-13 Ya-xiang Yuan , Yi Zhang

Friedlander, Mac\^{e}do, and Pong recently introduced the projected polar proximal point algorithm (P4A) for solving optimization problems by using the closed perspective transforms of convex objectives. We analyse a generalization (GP4A)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-25 Scott B. Lindstrom

This paper is concerned with convex composite minimization problems in a Hilbert space. In these problems, the objective is the sum of two closed, proper, and convex functions where one is smooth and the other admits a computationally…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-19 Patrick R. Johnstone , Pierre Moulin

We consider finding a zero point of the maximally monotone operator $T$. First, instead of using the proximal point algorithm (PPA) for this purpose, we employ PPA to solve its Yosida regularization $T_{\lambda}$. Then, based on an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-25 Tao Zhang , Shiru Li , Yong Xia

Solving systems of linear equations is a fundamental problem, but it can be computationally intensive for classical algorithms in high dimensions. Existing quantum algorithms can achieve exponential speedups for the quantum linear system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-27 Junhyung Lyle Kim , Nai-Hui Chia , Anastasios Kyrillidis

The proximal point algorithm is a widely used tool for solving a variety of convex optimization problems such as finding zeros of maximally monotone operators, fixed points of nonexpansive mappings, as well as minimizing convex functions.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-19 Laurentiu Leustean , Adriana Nicolae , Andrei Sipos

This paper develops an adaptive proximal alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) for solving linearly constrained, composite optimization problems under the assumption that the smooth component of the objective is weakly convex,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-04 Leandro Farias Maia , David H. Gutman , Renato D. C. Monteiro , Gilson N. Silva

The Alternating Minimization Algorithm (AMA) has been proposed by Tseng to solve convex programming problems with two-block separable linear constraints and objectives, whereby (at least) one of the components of the latter is assumed to be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-04 Sandy Bitterlich , Radu Ioan Bot , Ernö Robert Csetnek , Gert Wanka

Recent studies have shown that proximal gradient (PG) method and accelerated gradient method (APG) with restarting can enjoy a linear convergence under a weaker condition than strong convexity, namely a quadratic growth condition (QGC).…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-16 Mingrui Liu , Tianbao Yang

This paper proposes a new inexact manifold proximal linear (IManPL) algorithm for solving nonsmooth, nonconvex composite optimization problems over an embedded submanifold. At each iteration, IManPL solves a convex subproblem inexactly,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Zhong Zheng , Xin Yu , Shiqian Ma , Lingzhou Xue

The latent variable proximal point (LVPP) algorithm is a framework for solving infinite-dimensional variational problems with pointwise inequality constraints. The algorithm is a saddle point reformulation of the Bregman proximal point…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Jørgen S. Dokken , Patrick E. Farrell , Brendan Keith , Ioannis P. A. Papadopoulos , Thomas M. Surowiec

We study inexact fixed-point proximity algorithms for solving a class of sparse regularization problems involving the $\ell_0$ norm. Specifically, the $\ell_0$ model has an objective function that is the sum of a convex fidelity term and a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-30 Ronglong Fang , Yuesheng Xu , Mingsong Yan

This paper proposes and analyzes a dampened proximal alternating direction method of multipliers (DP.ADMM) for solving linearly-constrained nonconvex optimization problems where the smooth part of the objective function is nonseparable.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-05 Weiwei Kong , Renato D. C. Monteiro

The proximal gradient algorithm for minimizing the sum of a smooth and a nonsmooth convex function often converges linearly even without strong convexity. One common reason is that a multiple of the step length at each iteration may…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-06-29 Dmitriy Drusvyatskiy , Adrian S. Lewis

In this paper, we propose the approximate Bregman proximal gradient algorithm (ABPG) for solving composite nonconvex optimization problems. ABPG employs a new distance that approximates the Bregman distance, making the subproblem of ABPG…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-25 Shota Takahashi , Akiko Takeda

Nonconvex and nonsmooth optimization problems are frequently encountered in much of statistics, business, science and engineering, but they are not yet widely recognized as a technology in the sense of scalability. A reason for this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-19 Bo Jiang , Tianyi Lin , Shiqian Ma , Shuzhong Zhang

We propose a new practical adaptive refinement strategy for $hp$-finite element approximations of elliptic problems. Following recent theoretical developments in polynomial-degree-robust a posteriori error analysis, we solve two types of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-17 Patrik Daniel , Alexandre Ern , Iain Smears , Martin Vohralík

This paper studies the lower bound complexity for the optimization problem whose objective function is the average of $n$ individual smooth convex functions. We consider the algorithm which gets access to gradient and proximal oracle for…

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