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This paper presents an auto-conditioned proximal gradient method for nonconvex optimization. The method determines the stepsize using an estimation of local curvature and does not require any prior knowledge of problem parameters and any…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-19 Shotaro Yagishita , Masaru Ito

This paper introduces adaptive Bregman proximal gradient algorithms for solving convex composite minimization problems without relying on global relative smoothness or strong convexity assumptions. Building upon recent advances in adaptive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-05 Hongjia Ou , Puya Latafat , Andreas Themelis

In this paper we present an abstract convergence analysis of inexact descent methods in Riemannian context for functions satisfying Kurdyka-Lojasiewicz inequality. In particular, without any restrictive assumption about the sign of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-03-25 G. C. Bento , J. X. da Cruz Neto , P. R. Oliveira

When minimizing a multiobjective optimization problem (MOP) using multiobjective gradient descent methods, the imbalances among objective functions often decelerate the convergence. In response to this challenge, we propose two types of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-10 Jian Chen , Liping Tang , Xinmin Yang

The (global) Lipschitz smoothness condition is crucial in establishing the convergence theory for most optimization methods. Unfortunately, most machine learning and signal processing problems are not Lipschitz smooth. This motivates us to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-23 Qiuwei Li , Zhihui Zhu , Gongguo Tang , Michael B. Wakin

The Bregman proximal gradient method (BPGM), which uses the Bregman distance as a proximity measure in the iterative scheme, has recently been re-developed for minimizing convex composite problems without the global Lipschitz gradient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-16 Lei Yang , Kim-Chuan Toh

We introduce a unified algorithmic framework, called proximal-like incremental aggregated gradient (PLIAG) method, for minimizing the sum of a convex function that consists of additive relatively smooth convex components and a proper lower…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-12 Hui Zhang , Yu-Hong Dai , Lei Guo , Wei Peng

We study the application of the Augmented Lagrangian Method to the solution of linear ill-posed problems. Previously, linear convergence rates with respect to the Bregman distance have been derived under the classical assumption of a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-04 Klaus Frick , Markus Grasmair

This paper revisits the convergence of Stochastic Mirror Descent (SMD) in the contemporary nonconvex optimization setting. Existing results for batch-free nonconvex SMD restrict the choice of the distance generating function (DGF) to be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-28 Ilyas Fatkhullin , Niao He

Existing error-bound-based analyses for stochastic algorithms that exhibit certain descent properties, such as randomized coordinate descent and randomized projection methods, are often limited in scope and typically lead to overly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-19 Zhichun Yang , Li Jiang , Tianxiang Liu , Man-Chung Yue

In this paper, we study the local linear convergence behavior of proximal-gradient (PG) descent algorithm on a parameterized gap-function reformulation of a smooth but non-monotone variational inequality problem (VIP). The aim is to solve…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Lei Zhao , Daoli Zhu , Shuzhong Zhang

We propose a novel Bregman descent algorithm for minimizing a convex function that is expressed as the sum of a differentiable part (defined over an open set) and a possibly nonsmooth term. The approach, referred to as the Variable Bregman…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Ségolène Martin , Jean-Christophe Pesquet , Gabriele Steidl , Ismail Ben Ayed

Stochastic gradient descent is one of the most common iterative algorithms used in machine learning and its convergence analysis is a rich area of research. Understanding its convergence properties can help inform what modifications of it…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Liam Madden , Emiliano Dall'Anese , Stephen Becker

We present a new feasible proximal gradient method for constrained optimization where both the objective and constraint functions are given by the summation of a smooth, possibly nonconvex function and a convex simple function. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-01 Digvijay Boob , Qi Deng , Guanghui Lan

We propose a variant of the approximate Bregman proximal gradient (ABPG) algorithm for minimizing the sum of a smooth nonconvex function and a nonsmooth convex function. ABPG is known to converge globally to a stationary point even when the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-23 Kiwamu Fujiki , Shota Takahashi , Akiko Takeda

We propose an extension of a special form of gradient descent -- in the literature known as linearised Bregman iteration -- to a larger class of non-convex functions. We replace the classical (squared) two norm metric in the gradient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-26 Martin Benning , Marta M. Betcke , Matthias J. Ehrhardt , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

This work considers an Inertial version of Bregman Proximal Gradient algorithm (IBPG) for minimizing the sum of two single-valued functions in finite dimension. We suppose that one of the functions is proper, closed, and convex but…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-30 Jean-Jacques Godeme

We develop a novel stochastic primal dual splitting method with Bregman distances for solving a structured composite problems involving infimal convolutions in non-Euclidean spaces. The sublinear convergence in expectation of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-17 Nguyen Van Dung , Băng Công Vũ

We analyze stochastic gradient algorithms for optimizing nonconvex, nonsmooth finite-sum problems. In particular, the objective function is given by the summation of a differentiable (possibly nonconvex) component, together with a possibly…

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