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It was recently established that for convex optimization problems with sparse optimal solutions (be it entry-wise sparsity or matrix rank-wise sparsity) it is possible to design first-order methods with linear convergence rates that depend…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Dan Garber

This paper focuses on convex constrained optimization problems, where the solution is subject to a convex inequality constraint. In particular, we aim at challenging problems for which both projection into the constrained domain and a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-06-13 Tianbao Yang , Qihang Lin , Lijun Zhang

We propose a family of optimization methods that achieve linear convergence using first-order gradient information and constant step sizes on a class of convex functions much larger than the smooth and strongly convex ones. This larger…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-14 Chris J. Maddison , Daniel Paulin , Yee Whye Teh , Brendan O'Donoghue , Arnaud Doucet

The Douglas-Rachford and Peaceman-Rachford algorithms have been successfully employed to solve convex optimization problems, or more generally find zeros of monotone inclusions. Recently, the behaviour of these methods in the inconsistent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-28 Regina S. Burachik , Bethany I. Caldwell , C. Yalçın Kaya , Walaa M. Moursi , Matthew Saurette

In this paper, we consider first-order convergence theory and algorithms for solving a class of non-convex non-concave min-max saddle-point problems, whose objective function is weakly convex in the variables of minimization and weakly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-08 Mingrui Liu , Hassan Rafique , Qihang Lin , Tianbao Yang

In arXiv:2305.03945 [math.NA], a first-order optimization algorithm has been introduced to solve time-implicit schemes of reaction-diffusion equations. In this research, we conduct theoretical studies on this first-order algorithm equipped…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Shu Liu , Xinzhe Zuo , Stanley Osher , Wuchen Li

The proximal gradient algorithm has been popularly used for convex optimization. Recently, it has also been extended for nonconvex problems, and the current state-of-the-art is the nonmonotone accelerated proximal gradient algorithm.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-24 Quanming Yao , James T. Kwok , Fei Gao , Wei Chen , Tie-Yan Liu

This work is concerned with the convergence rate analysis of the Douglas-Rachford splitting (DRS) method for finding a zero of the sum of two maximally monotone operators. We obtain an exact rate of convergence for the DRS algorithm and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Hadi Abbaszadehpeivasti , Moslem Zamani

Operator splitting schemes are a class of powerful algorithms that solve complicated monotone inclusion and convex optimization problems that are built from many simpler pieces. They give rise to algorithms in which all simple pieces of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-07-09 Damek Davis

Motivated by recent work of Renegar, we present new computational methods and associated computational guarantees for solving convex optimization problems using first-order methods. Our problem of interest is the general convex optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-10 Robert M. Freund , Haihao Lu

This work presents a universal accelerated first-order primal-dual method for affinely constrained convex optimization problems. It can handle both Lipschitz and H\"{o}lder gradients but does not need to know the smoothness level of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-09 Hao Luo

Classical convergence analyses for optimization algorithms rely on the widely-adopted uniform smoothness assumption. However, recent experimental studies have demonstrated that many machine learning problems exhibit non-uniform smoothness,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Zhenyu Sun , Ermin Wei

We study decentralized smooth optimization problems over compact submanifolds. Recasting it as a composite optimization problem, we propose a decentralized Douglas-Rachford splitting algorithm, DDRS. When the proximal operator of the local…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-29 Kangkang Deng , Jiang Hu , Hongxia Wang

Constrained optimization problems where both the objective and constraints may be nonsmooth and nonconvex arise across many learning and data science settings. In this paper, we show for any Lipschitz, weakly convex objectives and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-17 Zhichao Jia , Benjamin Grimmer

In this paper we propose two proximal gradient algorithms for fractional programming problems in real Hilbert spaces, where the numerator is a proper, convex and lower semicontinuous function and the denominator is a smooth function, either…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-02-01 Radu Ioan Bot , Ernö Robert Csetnek

The Douglas-Rachford algorithm is a classical and powerful splitting method for minimizing the sum of two convex functions and, more generally, finding a zero of the sum of two maximally monotone operators. Although this algorithm is well…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-14 Minh N. Dao , Hung M. Phan

This paper proposes an algorithm for solving structured optimization problems, which covers both the backward-backward and the Douglas-Rachford algorithms as special cases, and analyzes its convergence. The set of fixed points of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-19 Nguyen Hieu Thao

In this paper, we consider gradient methods for minimizing smooth convex functions, which employ the information obtained at the previous iterations in order to accelerate the convergence towards the optimal solution. This information is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-02 Yurii Nesterov , Mihai I. Florea

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 propose a variant of the random coordinate descent method for solving linearly constrained convex optimization problems with composite objective functions. If the smooth part of the objective function has Lipschitz…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-02-14 Ion Necoara , Andrei Patrascu