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We develop a generalization of Nesterov's accelerated gradient descent method which is designed to deal with orthogonality constraints. To demonstrate the effectiveness of our method, we perform numerical experiments which demonstrate that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-07 Jonathan W. Siegel

Nonnegative matrix factorization has been widely applied in face recognition, text mining, as well as spectral analysis. This paper proposes an alternating proximal gradient method for solving this problem. With a uniformly positive lower…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-12 Yangyang Xu

Recently, there has been an increasing interest in using tools from dynamical systems to analyze the behavior of simple optimization algorithms such as gradient descent and accelerated variants. This paper strengthens such connections by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-02 Guilherme França , Daniel P. Robinson , René Vidal

While momentum-based optimization algorithms are commonly used in the notoriously non-convex optimization problems of deep learning, their analysis has historically been restricted to the convex and strongly convex setting. In this article,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-14 Kanan Gupta , Stephan Wojtowytsch

Nesterov's accelerated gradient (AG) is a popular technique to optimize objective functions comprising two components: a convex loss and a penalty function. While AG methods perform well for convex penalties, such as the LASSO, convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-04 Kai Yang , Masoud Asgharian , Sahir Bhatnagar

In this paper, we propose a unified view of gradient-based algorithms for stochastic convex composite optimization by extending the concept of estimate sequence introduced by Nesterov. This point of view covers the stochastic gradient…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-08 Andrei Kulunchakov , Julien Mairal

We consider unconstrained minimization of smooth convex functions. We propose a novel variational perspective using forced Euler-Lagrange equation that allows for studying high-resolution ODEs. Through this, we obtain a faster convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-06 Hoomaan Maskan , Konstantinos C. Zygalakis , Alp Yurtsever

The proximal point method (PPM) is a fundamental method in optimization that is often used as a building block for designing optimization algorithms. In this work, we use the PPM method to provide conceptually simple derivations along with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-03 Kwangjun Ahn , Suvrit Sra

There has been significant interest in generalizations of the Nesterov accelerated gradient descent algorithm due to its improved performance guarantee compared to the standard gradient descent algorithm, and its applicability to large…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-29 Taeyoung Lee , Molei Tao , Melvin Leok

We propose the first global accelerated gradient method for Riemannian manifolds. Toward establishing our result we revisit Nesterov's estimate sequence technique and develop an alternative analysis for it that may also be of independent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-27 Kwangjun Ahn , Suvrit Sra

We describe convergence acceleration schemes for multistep optimization algorithms. The extrapolated solution is written as a nonlinear average of the iterates produced by the original optimization method. Our analysis does not need the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-18 Raghu Bollapragada , Damien Scieur , Alexandre d'Aspremont

In this paper, we study a bilinear saddle point problem of the form $\min_{x}\max_{y} F(x) + \langle Ax, y \rangle - G(y)$, where $F$ and $G$ are $\mu_F$- and $\mu_G$-strongly convex functions, respectively. By incorporating Nesterov…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-11 Xin He , Ya-Ping Fang

Recently, {\it stochastic momentum} methods have been widely adopted in training deep neural networks. However, their convergence analysis is still underexplored at the moment, in particular for non-convex optimization. This paper fills the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-05-06 Tianbao Yang , Qihang Lin , Zhe Li

We consider $N$ counters taking integer values which are subject to the following dynamics. At every time, a pair of distinct counters is chosen uniformly at random and their states are updated according to the following rule. If the states…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-12-08 Denis Denisov , Seva Shneer , Vitali Wachtel

This paper presents a novel restarted version of Nesterov's accelerated gradient method and establishes its optimal iteration-complexity for solving convex smooth composite optimization problems. The proposed restart accelerated gradient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-09 Jiaming Liang

We show how one can obtain nonaccelerated randomized coordinate descent method (Yu. Nesterov, 2010) and nonaccelerated method of randomization of sum-type functional (Le Roux-Schmidt-Bach, 2012) from the optimal method for the stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-29 Alexander Gasnikov , Pavel Dvurechensky , Ilnura Usmanova

In this paper, we present two variants of DCA (Different of Convex functions Algorithm) to solve the constrained sum of differentiable function and composite functions minimization problem, with the aim of increasing the convergence speed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-27 Hoai An Le Thi , Hoai Minh Le , Duy Nhat Phan , Bach Tran

We investigate the integration of Nesterov-type acceleration into primal-dual methods for structured convex optimization. While proximal splitting algorithms efficiently handle composite problems of the form $\min_x f(x)+g(x)+h(Kx)$,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Laurent Condat , Abdurakhmon Sadiev , Peter Richtárik

We propose a new method for unconstrained optimization of a smooth and strongly convex function, which attains the optimal rate of convergence of Nesterov's accelerated gradient descent. The new algorithm has a simple geometric…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-06-30 Sébastien Bubeck , Yin Tat Lee , Mohit Singh

We propose a class of \textit{Euler-Lagrange} equations indexed by a pair of parameters ($\alpha,r$) that generalizes Nesterov's accelerated gradient methods for convex ($\alpha=1$) and strongly convex ($\alpha=0$) functions from a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Xu Cheng , Jiaqi Liu , Zaijiu Shang