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Decentralized primal-dual methods are widely used for solving decentralized optimization problems, but their updates often rely on the potentially crude first-order Taylor approximations of the objective functions, which can limit…

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This paper proposes low-complexity algorithms for finding approximate second-order stationary points (SOSPs) of problems with smooth non-convex objective and linear constraints. While finding (approximate) SOSPs is computationally…

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In this paper, in the setting of Hilbert spaces, we consider a Tikhonov regularized second-order plus first-order primal-dual dynamical system with asymptotically vanishing damping for a linear equality constrained convex optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-23 Ting Ting Zhu , Rong Hu , Ya Ping Fang

At the heart of Newton based optimization methods is a sequence of symmetric linear systems. Each consecutive system in this sequence is similar to the next, so solving them separately is a waste of computational effort. Here we describe…

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We introduce a new algorithm for solving unconstrained discrete-time optimal control problems. Our method follows a direct multiple shooting approach, and consists of applying the SQP method together with an $\ell_2$ augmented Lagrangian…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-02 João Sousa-Pinto , Dominique Orban

We propose a new first-order optimisation algorithm to solve high-dimensional non-smooth composite minimisation problems. Typical examples of such problems have an objective that decomposes into a non-smooth empirical risk part and a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-07-07 Niao He , Zaid Harchaoui

An universal primal-dual approach of description equilibriums in large class of hierarchical congestion population games is proposed. At the very core of the approach is hierarchy of enclosed to each other transport networks. In different…

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In this paper, we propose a second-order continuous primal-dual dynamical system with time-dependent positive damping terms for a separable convex optimization problem with linear equality constraints. By the Lyapunov function approach, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-27 Xin He , Rong Hu , Ya-Ping Fang

The aim of this article is to present two different primal-dual methods for solving structured monotone inclusions involving parallel sums of compositions of maximally monotone operators with linear bounded operators. By employing some…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2013-07-30 Radu Ioan Bot , Christopher Hendrich

Indicator functions of taking values of zero or one are essential to numerous applications in machine learning and statistics. The corresponding primal optimization model has been researched in several recent works. However, its dual…

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Based on the needs of convergence proofs of preconditioned proximal point methods, we introduce notions of partial strong submonotonicity and partial (metric) subregularity of set-valued maps. We study relationships between these two…

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We present a primal--dual memory efficient algorithm for solving a relaxed version of the general transportation problem. Our approach approximates the original cost function with a differentiable one that is solved as a sequence of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-30 Mariano Rivera

A framework is developed for applying accelerated methods to general hyperbolic programming, including linear, second-order cone, and semidefinite programming as special cases. The approach replaces a hyperbolic program with a convex…

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We develop block structure adapted primal-dual algorithms for non-convex non-smooth optimisation problems whose objectives can be written as compositions $G(x)+F(K(x))$ of non-smooth block-separable convex functions $G$ and $F$ with a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-25 Stanislav Mazurenko , Jyrki Jauhiainen , Tuomo Valkonen

This work aims to solve a stochastic nonconvex nonsmooth composite optimization problem. Previous works on composite optimization problem requires the major part to satisfy Lipschitz smoothness or some relaxed smoothness conditions, which…

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This work proposes an accelerated primal-dual dynamical system for affine constrained convex optimization and presents a class of primal-dual methods with nonergodic convergence rates. In continuous level, exponential decay of a novel…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-12 Hao Luo

This paper introduces an efficient algorithm for computing the best approximation of a given matrix onto the intersection of linear equalities, inequalities and the doubly nonnegative cone (the cone of all positive semidefinite matrices…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-20 Ying Cui , Defeng Sun , Kim-Chuan Toh

We propose a new class of primal-dual Fejer monotone algorithms for solving systems of com- posite monotone inclusions. Our construction is inspired by a framework used by Eckstein and Svaiter for the basic problem of finding a zero of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-10-07 Abdullah Alotaibi , Patrick L. Combettes , N. Shahzad

Quasi-Newton algorithms are among the most popular iterative methods for solving unconstrained minimization problems, largely due to their favorable superlinear convergence property. However, existing results for these algorithms are…

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