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We investigate an inertial viscosity-type Tseng's extragradient algorithm with a new step size to solve pseudomonotone variational inequality problems in real Hilbert spaces. A strong convergence theorem of the algorithm is obtained without…

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This paper extends the SQP-approach of the well-known bundle-Newton method for nonsmooth unconstrained minimization to the nonlinearly constrained case. Instead of using a penalty function or a filter or an improvement function to deal with…

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In this study, a novel preconditioner based on the absolute-value block $\alpha$-circulant matrix approximation is developed, specifically designed for nonsymmetric dense block lower triangular Toeplitz (BLTT) systems that emerge from the…

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In this paper we consider non-smooth convex optimization problems with (possibly) infinite intersection of constraints. In contrast to the classical approach, where the constraints are usually represented as intersection of simple sets,…

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We study nonsmooth convex minimization through a continuous-time dynamical system that can be seen as a high-resolution ODE of Nesterov Accelerated Gradient (NAG) adapted to the nonsmooth case. We apply a time-varying Moreau envelope…

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Rank minimization (RM) is a wildly investigated task of finding solutions by exploiting low-rank structure of parameter matrices. Recently, solving RM problem by leveraging non-convex relaxations has received significant attention. It has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-17 Zaiyi Chen

The focus of this paper is on stochastic variational inequalities (VI) under Markovian noise. A prominent application of our algorithmic developments is the stochastic policy evaluation problem in reinforcement learning. Prior…

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We develop a semismooth Newton framework for the numerical solution of fixed-point equations that are posed in Banach spaces. The framework is motivated by applications in the field of obstacle-type quasi-variational inequalities and…

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An algorithm for solving smooth nonconvex optimization problems is proposed that, in the worst-case, takes $\mathcal{O}(\epsilon^{-3/2})$ iterations to drive the norm of the gradient of the objective function below a prescribed positive…

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This work presents a parallel variant of the algorithm introduced in [Acceleration of block coordinate descent methods with identification strategies Comput. Optim. Appl. 72(3):609--640, 2019] to minimize the sum of a partially separable…

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We propose a new proximal, path-following framework for a class of constrained convex problems. We consider settings where the nonlinear---and possibly non-smooth---objective part is endowed with a proximity operator, and the constraint set…

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The Barzilai-Borwein (BB) gradient method is efficient for solving large-scale unconstrained problems to the modest accuracy and has a great advantage of being easily extended to solve a wide class of constrained optimization problems. In…

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In this paper, we study an algorithm for solving a class of nonconvex and nonsmooth nonseparable optimization problems. Based on proximal alternating linearized minimization (PALM), we propose a new iterative algorithm which combines…

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In this paper, we focus on finding the global minimizer of a general unconstrained nonsmooth nonconvex optimization problem. Taking advantage of the smoothing method and the consensus-based optimization (CBO) method, we propose a novel…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-14 Jiazhen Wei , Wei Bian

Trust-region (TR) and adaptive regularization using cubics (ARC) have proven to have some very appealing theoretical properties for non-convex optimization by concurrently computing function value, gradient, and Hessian matrix to obtain the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Liu Liu , Xuanqing Liu , Cho-Jui Hsieh , Dacheng Tao

In this paper, we propose an improved numerical algorithm for solving minimax problems based on nonsmooth optimization, quadratic programming and iterative process. We also provide a rigorous proof of convergence for our algorithm under…

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