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We consider the problem of minimizing a smooth and convex function over the $n$-dimensional spectrahedron -- the set of real symmetric $n\times n$ positive semidefinite matrices with unit trace, which underlies numerous applications in…
We give a simple and natural method for computing approximately optimal solutions for minimizing a convex function $f$ over a convex set $K$ given by a separation oracle. Our method utilizes the Frank--Wolfe algorithm over the cone of valid…
In this work, we consider strongly convex strongly concave (SCSC) saddle point (SP) problems $\min_{x\in\mathbb{R}^{d_x}}\max_{y\in\mathbb{R}^{d_y}}f(x,y)$ where $f$ is $L$-smooth, $f(.,y)$ is $\mu$-strongly convex for every $y$, and…
We study acceleration and preconditioning strategies for a class of Douglas-Rachford methods aiming at the solution of convex-concave saddle-point problems associated with Fenchel-Rockafellar duality. While the basic iteration converges…
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This study develops a fixed-time convergent saddle point dynamical system for solving min-max problems under a relaxation of standard convexity-concavity assumption. In particular, it is shown that by leveraging the dynamical systems…
We demonstrate how to scalably solve a class of constrained self-concordant minimization problems using linear minimization oracles (LMO) over the constraint set. We prove that the number of LMO calls of our method is nearly the same as…
Saddle-point problems have recently gained increased attention from the machine learning community, mainly due to applications in training Generative Adversarial Networks using stochastic gradients. At the same time, in some applications…
The optimistic gradient method has seen increasing popularity for solving convex-concave saddle point problems. To analyze its iteration complexity, a recent work [arXiv:1906.01115] proposed an interesting perspective that interprets this…
This paper is devoted to the design of efficient primal-dual algorithm (PDA) for solving convex optimization problems with known saddle-point structure. We present a new PDA with larger acceptable range of parameters and correction, which…
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The article is devoted to the development of numerical methods for solving saddle point problems and variational inequalities with simplified requirements for the smoothness conditions of functionals. Recently there were proposed some…
We consider the problem of finding an approximate second-order stationary point of a constrained non-convex optimization problem. We first show that, unlike the gradient descent method for unconstrained optimization, the vanilla projected…
We consider the convex-concave saddle point problem $\min_{\mathbf{x}}\max_{\mathbf{y}}\Phi(\mathbf{x},\mathbf{y})$, where the decision variables $\mathbf{x}$ and/or $\mathbf{y}$ subject to a multi-block structure and affine coupling…
In this paper we consider a class of optimization problems with a strongly convex objective function and the feasible set given by an intersection of a simple convex set with a set given by a number of linear equality and inequality…
We consider stochastic strongly-convex-strongly-concave (SCSC) saddle point (SP) problems which frequently arise in applications ranging from distributionally robust learning to game theory and fairness in machine learning. We focus on the…
We develop a novel primal-dual algorithm to solve a class of nonsmooth and nonlinear compositional convex minimization problems, which covers many existing and brand-new models as special cases. Our approach relies on a combination of a new…
Recently, saddle point problems have received much attention due to their powerful modeling capability for a lot of problems from diverse domains. Applications of these problems occur in many applied areas, such as robust optimization,…
The approximate Carath\'eodory theorem states that given a compact convex set $\mathcal{C}\subset\mathbb{R}^n$ and $p\in\left[2,+\infty\right[$, each point $x^*\in\mathcal{C}$ can be approximated to $\epsilon$-accuracy in the $\ell_p$-norm…
We present and analyze an away-step Frank-Wolfe method for the convex optimization problem ${\min}_{x\in\mathcal{X}} \; f(\mathsf{A} x) + \langle{c},{x}\rangle$, where $f$ is a $\theta$-logarithmically-homogeneous self-concordant barrier,…