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We suggest a new optimization technique for minimizing the sum $\sum_{i=1}^n f_i(x)$ of $n$ non-convex real functions that satisfy a property that we call piecewise log-Lipschitz. This is by forging links between techniques in computational…

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Motivated by the conspicuous use of momentum-based algorithms in deep learning, we study a nonsmooth nonconvex stochastic heavy ball method and show its convergence. Our approach builds upon semialgebraic (definable) assumptions commonly…

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This paper presents a novel accelerated exact k-means algorithm called the Ball k-means algorithm, which uses a ball to describe a cluster, focusing on reducing the point-centroid distance computation. The Ball k-means can accurately find…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Shuyin Xia , Daowan Peng , Deyu Meng , Changqing Zhang , Guoyin Wang , Zizhong Chen , Wei Wei

In this paper we provide an efficient computation of the projection onto the cone generated by the epigraph of the perspective of any convex lower semicontinuous function. Our formula requires solving only two scalar equations involving the…

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In this paper, we propose a proximal iteratively reweighted algorithm with extrapolation based on block coordinate update aimed at solving a class of optimization problems which is the sum of a smooth possibly nonconvex loss function and a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-13 Jie Zhang , Xinmin Yang

In this paper, we study several important geometric optimization problems arising in machine learning. First, we revisit the Minimum Enclosing Ball (MEB) problem in Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^d$. The problem has been extensively studied…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Hu Ding

We present new algorithms for optimizing non-smooth, non-convex stochastic objectives based on a novel analysis technique. This improves the current best-known complexity for finding a $(\delta,\epsilon)$-stationary point from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Ashok Cutkosky , Harsh Mehta , Francesco Orabona

We consider the problem of maximizing a convex function over a closed convex set in a real Hilbert space. For linear functions, we show that a single orthogonal projection suffices to obtain an approximate solution. For continuous convex…

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Vector optimization problems are a generalization of multiobjective optimization in which the preference order is related to an arbitrary closed and convex cone, rather than the nonnegative octant. Due to its real life applications, it is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-12-03 J. Y. Bello Cruz , G. C. Bento , G. Bouza Allende , R. F. B. Costa

This paper is concerned with the adaptation to hardware of methods for Euclidean norm projections onto the parity polytope and probability simplex. We first refine recent efforts to develop efficient methods of projection onto the parity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-19 Mitchell Wasson , Stark C. Draper

In this paper, we study the problem of finding the Euclidean distance to a convex cone generated by a set of discrete points in $\mathbb{R}^n_+$. In particular, we are interested in problems where the discrete points are the set of feasible…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-04-24 Ali Fattahi , Sriram Dasu , Reza Ahmadi

This paper addresses the numerical computation of critical angles between two convex cones in finite-dimensional Euclidean spaces. We present a novel approach to computing these critical angles by reducing the problem to finding stationary…

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The recently proposed Broximal Point Method (BPM) [Gruntkowska et al., 2025] offers an idealized optimization framework based on iteratively minimizing the objective function over norm balls centered at the current iterate. It enjoys…

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Two optimization algorithms are proposed for solving a stochastic programming problem for which the objective function is given in the form of the expectation of convex functions and the constraint set is defined by the intersection of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-09 Hideaki Iiduka

$\ell_1$ regularization has been used for logistic regression to circumvent the overfitting and use the estimated sparse coefficient for feature selection. However, the challenge of such a regularization is that the $\ell_1$ norm is not…

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The paper considers a split inverse problem involving component equilibrium problems in Hilbert spaces. This problem therefore is called the split equilibrium problem (SEP). It is known that almost solution methods for solving problem (SEP)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-17 Dang Van Hieu

We describe a procedure to compute a projection of $w \in \mathbb{R}^n$ into the intersection of the so-called \emph{zero-norm} ball $k \mathbb{B}_0$ of radius $k$, i.e., the set of $k$-sparse vectors, with a box centered at a point of $k…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-13 Dominique Orban

Motivated by vision tasks such as robust face and object recognition, we consider the following general problem: given a collection of low-dimensional linear subspaces in a high-dimensional ambient (image) space, and a query point (image),…

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Due to the uncertainty principle, a function cannot be simultaneously limited in space as well as in frequency. The idea of Slepian functions in general is to find functions that are at least optimally spatio-spectrally localised. Here, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-11 Volker Michel , Sarah Orzlowski , Naomi Schneider

Linear inverse problems are ubiquitous. Often the measurements do not follow a Gaussian distribution. Additionally, a model matrix with a large condition number can complicate the problem further by making it ill-posed. In this case, the…