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The monotone variational inequality is a central problem in mathematical programming that unifies and generalizes many important settings such as smooth convex optimization, two-player zero-sum games, convex-concave saddle point problems,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-17 Yang Cai , Argyris Oikonomou , Weiqiang Zheng

Variational Inequality (VI) problems have attracted great interest in the machine learning (ML) community due to their application in adversarial and multi-agent training. Despite its relevance in ML, the oft-used strong-monotonicity and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-09 Daniil Vankov , Angelia Nedich , Lalitha Sankar

We develop two novel stochastic variance-reduction methods to approximate solutions of a class of nonmonotone [generalized] equations. Our algorithms leverage a new combination of ideas from the forward-reflected-backward splitting method…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-30 Quoc Tran-Dinh

This paper is focused on a stochastic quasi-variational inequality (SQVI) problem with a continuous and strongly-monotone mapping over a closed and convex set where the projection onto the constraint set may not be easy to compute. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-02 Zeinab Alizadeh , Brianna M. Otero , Afrooz Jalilzadeh

Variational inequalities offer a versatile and straightforward approach to analyzing a broad range of equilibrium problems in both theoretical and practical fields. In this paper, we consider a composite generally non-monotone variational…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-06 Roman Emelyanov , Andrey Tikhomirov , Aleksandr Beznosikov , Alexander Gasnikov

The main purpose of this paper is to propose a variance-based Bregman extragradient algorithm with line search for solving stochastic variational inequalities, which is robust with respect an unknown Lipschitz constant. We prove the almost…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-31 Xian-Jun Long , Yue-Hong He , Nan-Jing Huang

The constrained gradient method (CGM) has recently been proposed to solve convex optimization and monotone variational inequality (VI) problems with general functional constraints. While existing literature has established convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-24 Danqing Zhou , Hongmei Chen , Shiqian Ma , Junfeng Yang

Yang et al. (2023) recently showed how to use first-order gradient methods to solve general variational inequalities (VIs) under a limiting assumption that analytic solutions of specific subproblems are available. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-08-06 Tatjana Chavdarova , Tong Yang , Matteo Pagliardini , Michael I. Jordan

We develop new adaptive algorithms for variational inequalities with monotone operators, which capture many problems of interest, notably convex optimization and convex-concave saddle point problems. Our algorithms automatically adapt to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Alina Ene , Huy L. Nguyen

It is well known that general variational inequalities provide us with a unified, natural, novel and simple framework to study a wide class of unrelated problems, which arise in pure and applied sciences. In this paper, we present a number…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-24 M. A. Noor , K. I. Noor , M. Th. Rassias

A conventional Bayesian approach to prediction uses the posterior distribution to integrate out parameters in a density for unobserved data conditional on the observed data and parameters. When the true posterior is intractable, it is…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-27 Lucas Kock , Scott A. Sisson , G. S. Rodrigues , David J. Nott

In this work, we propose two derivative-free methods to address the problem of large-scale nonlinear equations with convex constraints. These algorithms satisfy the sufficient descent condition. The search directions can be considered…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-17 Kabenge Hamiss , Mohammed M. Alshahrani , Mujahid N. Syed

The paper presents a fully explicit algorithm for monotone variational inequalities. The method uses variable stepsizes that are computed using two previous iterates as an approximation of the local Lipschitz constant without running a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-27 Yura Malitsky

We investigate a generalized Lagrange multiplier system in a Banach space, called a mixed variational-hemivariational inequality (MVHVI, for short), which contains a hemivariational inequality and a variational inequality. First, we employ…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-18 Yunru Bai , Stanislaw Migorski , Shengda Zeng

We consider stochastic variational inequalities with monotone operators defined as the expected value of a random operator. We assume the feasible set is the intersection of a large family of convex sets. We propose a method that combines…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-03 Alfredo Iusem , Alejandro Jofré , Philip Thompson

Cyclic block coordinate methods are a fundamental class of optimization methods widely used in practice and implemented as part of standard software packages for statistical learning. Nevertheless, their convergence is generally not well…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-09 Chaobing Song , Jelena Diakonikolas

Langevin algorithms are gradient descent methods with additive noise. They have been used for decades in Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) sampling, optimization, and learning. Their convergence properties for unconstrained non-convex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Andrew Lamperski

In this paper, we study federated optimization for solving stochastic variational inequalities (VIs), a problem that has attracted growing attention in recent years. Despite substantial progress, a significant gap remains between existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Guanghui Wang , Satyen Kale

In this paper, we first propose a general inertial proximal point method for the mixed variational inequality (VI) problem. Based on our knowledge, without stronger assumptions, convergence rate result is not known in the literature for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-08-04 Caihua Chen , Shiqian Ma , Junfeng Yang

In this paper, we introduce some adaptive methods for solving variational inequalities with relatively strongly monotone operators. Firstly, we focus on the modification of the recently proposed, in smooth case [1], adaptive numerical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-01 A. A. Titov , S. S. Ablaev , M. S. Alkousa , F. S. Stonyakin , A. V. Gasnikov