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Generalized self-concordance is a key property present in the objective function of many important learning problems. We establish the convergence rate of a simple Frank-Wolfe variant that uses the open-loop step size strategy $\gamma_t =…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-09 Alejandro Carderera , Mathieu Besançon , Sebastian Pokutta

We develop new accelerated first-order algorithms in the Frank-Wolfe (FW) family for minimizing smooth convex functions over compact convex sets, with a focus on two prominent constraint classes: (1) polytopes and (2) matrix domains given…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-05 Dan Garber

In this project, we reviewed a paper that deals graph-structured convex optimization (GSCO) problem with the approximate Frank-Wolfe (FW) algorithm. We analyzed and implemented the original algorithm and introduced some extensions based on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-26 Yijian Pan , Hongjiao Qiang

Minimizing a function over an intersection of convex sets is an important task in optimization that is often much more challenging than minimizing it over each individual constraint set. While traditional methods such as Frank-Wolfe (FW) or…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-11 Gauthier Gidel , Fabian Pedregosa , Simon Lacoste-Julien

The complexity in large-scale optimization can lie in both handling the objective function and handling the constraint set. In this respect, stochastic Frank-Wolfe algorithms occupy a unique position as they alleviate both computational…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-16 Cyrille W. Combettes , Christoph Spiegel , Sebastian Pokutta

We unveil the connections between Frank Wolfe (FW) type algorithms and the momentum in Accelerated Gradient Methods (AGM). On the negative side, these connections illustrate why momentum is unlikely to be effective for FW type algorithms.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-22 Bingcong Li , Mario Coutino , Georgios B. Giannakis , Geert Leus

An extension of the Frank-Wolfe Algorithm (FWA), also known as Conditional Gradient algorithm, is proposed. In its standard form, the FWA allows to solve constrained optimization problems involving $\beta$-smooth cost functions, calling at…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-28 Guilherme Mazanti , Thibault Moquet , Laurent Pfeiffer

This paper considers stochastic convex optimization problems where the objective and constraint functions involve expectations with respect to the data indices or environmental variables, in addition to deterministic convex constraints on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-21 Zeeshan Akhtar , Amrit Singh Bedi , Ketan Rajawat

The Frank-Wolfe algorithm has regained much interest in its use in structurally constrained machine learning applications. However, one major limitation of the Frank-Wolfe algorithm is the slow local convergence property due to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-02 Zhaoyue Chen , Mokhwa Lee , Yifan Sun

Model merging has emerged as a promising approach for multi-task learning (MTL), offering a data-efficient alternative to conventional fine-tuning. However, with the rapid development of the open-source AI ecosystem and the increasing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Hao Mark Chen , Shell Xu Hu , Wayne Luk , Timothy Hospedales , Hongxiang Fan

This paper studies first-order algorithms for solving fully composite optimization problems over convex and compact sets. We leverage the structure of the objective by handling its differentiable and non-differentiable components…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-13 Maria-Luiza Vladarean , Nikita Doikov , Martin Jaggi , Nicolas Flammarion

We propose a randomized block-coordinate variant of the classic Frank-Wolfe algorithm for convex optimization with block-separable constraints. Despite its lower iteration cost, we show that it achieves a similar convergence rate in duality…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-01-15 Simon Lacoste-Julien , Martin Jaggi , Mark Schmidt , Patrick Pletscher

The paper presents various modifications of the Frank-Wolfe algorithm in the equilibrium traffic assignment problem. The Beckman model is used as a model for experiments. In this article, first of all, attention is paid to the choice of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-11 Igor N. Ignashin , Demyan V. Yarmoshik

We propose the pivoting meta algorithm (PM) to enhance optimization algorithms that generate iterates as convex combinations of vertices of a feasible region $C\subseteq \mathbb{R}^n$, including Frank-Wolfe (FW) variants. PM guarantees that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-06 Elias Wirth , Mathieu Besançon , Sebastian Pokutta

We consider the Frank-Wolfe algorithm for solving variational inequalities over compact, convex sets under a monotone $C^1$ operator and vanishing, nonsummable step sizes. We introduce a continuous-time interpolation of the discrete…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-10 Matthew Hough

We consider the problem of learning a high-dimensional but low-rank matrix from a large-scale dataset distributed over several machines, where low-rankness is enforced by a convex trace norm constraint. We propose DFW-Trace, a distributed…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Wenjie Zheng , Aurélien Bellet , Patrick Gallinari

In this paper, we consider the general non-oblivious stochastic optimization where the underlying stochasticity may change during the optimization procedure and depends on the point at which the function is evaluated. We develop Stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-10 Hamed Hassani , Amin Karbasi , Aryan Mokhtari , Zebang Shen

We study the Frank-Wolfe algorithm for minimizing a differentiable function with Lipschitz continuous gradient over a compact convex set. To extend classical complexity bounds to certain non-convex functions, we focus on the class of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-24 R. Diaz Millan , Orizon Pereira Ferreira , Julien Ugon

We propose a variant of the Frank-Wolfe algorithm for solving a class of sparse/low-rank optimization problems. Our formulation includes Elastic Net, regularized SVMs and phase retrieval as special cases. The proposed Primal-Dual Block…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Qi Lei , Jiacheng Zhuo , Constantine Caramanis , Inderjit S. Dhillon , Alexandros G. Dimakis

We study a class of convex-concave saddle-point problems of the form $\min_x\max_y \langle Kx,y\rangle+f_{\cal{P}}(x)-h^\ast(y)$ where $K$ is a linear operator, $f_{\cal{P}}$ is the sum of a convex function $f$ with a Lipschitz-continuous…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-07 Vladimir Kolmogorov , Thomas Pock