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In this paper we provide an introduction to the Frank-Wolfe algorithm, a method for smooth convex optimization in the presence of (relatively) complicated constraints. We will present the algorithm, introduce key concepts, and establish…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-30 Sebastian Pokutta

We analyze two novel randomized variants of the Frank-Wolfe (FW) or conditional gradient algorithm. While classical FW algorithms require solving a linear minimization problem over the domain at each iteration, the proposed method only…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-21 Thomas Kerdreux , Fabian Pedregosa , Alexandre d'Aspremont

The Frank-Wolfe method has become increasingly useful in statistical and machine learning applications, due to the structure-inducing properties of the iterates, and especially in settings where linear minimization over the feasible set is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Zikai Xiong , Robert M. Freund

We introduce a new class of Frank-Wolfe algorithms for minimizing differentiable functionals over probability measures. This framework can be shown to encompass a diverse range of tasks in areas such as artificial intelligence,…

Computation · Statistics 2021-05-13 Carson Kent , Jose Blanchet , Peter Glynn

Recently the away-step Frank-Wolfe algoritm for constrained multiobjective optimization has been shown linear convergence rate over a polytope which is generated by finite points set. In this paper we design a decomposition-invariant…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-10 Zhuoxin Fan , Liping Tang

The Frank-Wolfe (FW) optimization algorithm has lately re-gained popularity thanks in particular to its ability to nicely handle the structured constraints appearing in machine learning applications. However, its convergence rate is known…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-11-19 Simon Lacoste-Julien , Martin Jaggi

We extend the Frank-Wolfe (FW) optimization algorithm to solve constrained smooth convex-concave saddle point (SP) problems. Remarkably, the method only requires access to linear minimization oracles. Leveraging recent advances in FW…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-07 Gauthier Gidel , Tony Jebara , Simon Lacoste-Julien

Frank-Wolfe algorithm (FW) and its variants have gained a surge of interests in machine learning community due to its projection-free property. Recently people have reduced the gradient evaluation complexity of FW algorithm to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-22 Yan Li , Chao Qu , Huan Xu

This paper studies the empirical efficacy and benefits of using projection-free first-order methods in the form of Conditional Gradients, a.k.a. Frank-Wolfe methods, for training Neural Networks with constrained parameters. We draw…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Sebastian Pokutta , Christoph Spiegel , Max Zimmer

Domain knowledge is useful to improve the generalization performance of learning machines. Sign constraints are a handy representation to combine domain knowledge with learning machine. In this paper, we consider constraining the signs of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Kenya Tajima , Takahiko Henmi , Kohei Tsuchida , Esmeraldo Ronnie R. Zara , Tsuyoshi Kato

We present a unified duality approach to Bayesian persuasion. The optimal dual variable, interpreted as a price function on the state space, is shown to be a supergradient of the concave closure of the objective function at the prior…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2024-06-05 Piotr Dworczak , Anton Kolotilin

Some variant of the Frank-Wolfe method for convex optimization problems with adaptive selection of the step parameter corresponding to information about the smoothness of the objective function (the Lipschitz constant of the gradient).…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-01 G. V. Aivazian , F. S. Stonyakin , D. A. Pasechnyuk , M. S. Alkousa , A. M. Raigorodskii

Tight and efficient neural network bounding is crucial to the scaling of neural network verification systems. Many efficient bounding algorithms have been presented recently, but they are often too loose to verify more challenging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Alessandro De Palma , Harkirat Singh Behl , Rudy Bunel , Philip H. S. Torr , M. Pawan Kumar

Aiming at convex optimization under structural constraints, this work introduces and analyzes a variant of the Frank Wolfe (FW) algorithm termed ExtraFW. The distinct feature of ExtraFW is the pair of gradients leveraged per iteration,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-11 Bingcong Li , Lingda Wang , Georgios B. Giannakis , Zhizhen Zhao

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

In this paper, we study the problem of speeding up a type of optimization algorithms called Frank-Wolfe, a conditional gradient method. We develop and employ two novel inner product search data structures, improving the prior fastest…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Zhao Song , Zhaozhuo Xu , Yuanyuan Yang , Lichen Zhang

We introduce a new projection-free (Frank-Wolfe) method for optimizing structured nonconvex functions that are expressed as a difference of two convex functions. This problem class subsumes smooth nonconvex minimization, positioning our…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-01 Hoomaan Maskan , Yikun Hou , Suvrit Sra , Alp Yurtsever

We consider the differentiation of the value function for parametric optimization problems. Such problems are ubiquitous in Machine Learning applications such as structured support vector machines, matrix factorization and min-min or…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-29 Sheheryar Mehmood , Peter Ochs

The Frank-Wolfe algorithm is a classic method for constrained optimization problems. It has recently been popular in many machine learning applications because its projection-free property leads to more efficient iterations. In this paper,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-23 Cheng Chen , Luo Luo , Weinan Zhang , Yong Yu

Differentiable optimization has received a significant amount of attention due to its foundational role in the domain of machine learning based on neural networks. This paper proposes a differentiable layer, named Differentiable Frank-Wolfe…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Zixuan Liu , Liu Liu , Xueqian Wang , Peilin Zhao