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Regularisation theory in Banach spaces, and non--norm-squared regularisation even in finite dimensions, generally relies upon Bregman divergences to replace norm convergence. This is comparable to the extension of first-order optimisation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-19 Tuomo Valkonen

Fixed point iterations are a fundamental tool in numerical analysis and scientific computing for the approximation of solutions to nonlinear problems. Their convergence is often established via the Banach fixed point theorem, provided that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Thomas P. Wihler

We consider independent long-range percolation models on locally finite vertex-transitive graphs. Using coupling ideas we prove strict monotonicity of the critical points with respect to local perturbations in the connection function,…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-31 Stein Andreas Bethuelsen , Christian Mönch

This work is motivated by numerical solutions to Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman quasi-variational inequalities (HJBQVIs) associated with combined stochastic and impulse control problems. In particular, we consider (i) direct control, (ii)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-26 Parsiad Azimzadeh , Peter A. Forsyth

Recent progress in center-based clustering algorithms combats poor local minima by implicit annealing, using a family of generalized means. These methods are variations of Lloyd's celebrated $k$-means algorithm, and are most appropriate for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-06-23 Adithya Vellal , Saptarshi Chakraborty , Jason Xu

The paper introduces scaled Bregman distances of probability distributions which admit non-uniform contributions of observed events. They are introduced in a general form covering not only the distances of discrete and continuous stochastic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Wolfgang Stummer , Igor Vajda

In the present work, we present numerical results for an iterative method for solving an optimal control problem with inequality contraints. The method is based on generalized Bregman distances. Under a combination of a source condition and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-06-07 Frank Pörner

This paper investigates first-order variable metric backward forward dynamical systems associated with monotone inclusion and convex minimization problems in real Hilbert space. The operators are chosen so that the backward-forward…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-15 Pankaj Gautam , D. R. Sahu , J. C. Yao

This work analyzes the inverse optimal transport (IOT) problem under Bregman regularization. We establish well-posedness results, including existence, uniqueness (up to equivalence classes of solutions), and stability, under several…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Chenglong Bao , Zanyu Li , Yunan Yang

Given a set of dissimilarity measurements amongst data points, determining what metric representation is most "consistent" with the input measurements or the metric that best captures the relevant geometric features of the data is a key…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Rishi Sonthalia , Anna C. Gilbert

In this work we propose a batch version of the Greenkhorn algorithm for multimarginal regularized optimal transport problems. Our framework is general enough to cover, as particular cases, some existing algorithms like Sinkhorn and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-12-07 Vladimir Kostic , Saverio Salzo , Massimilano Pontil

We introduce a new extragradient iterative process, motivated and inspired by [S. H. Khan, A Picard-Mann Hybrid Iterative Process, Fixed Point Theory and Applications, doi:10.1186/1687-1812-2013-69], for finding a common element of the set…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2014-03-14 Ibrahim Karahan , Murat Ozdemir

Fej\'er monotonicity is a well-established property often observed in sequences generated by optimization algorithms. In this paper, we study an extension of this property, called Fej\'er* monotonicity, which was initially proposed in [SIAM…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Roger Behling , Yunier Bello-Cruz , Alfredo Noel Iusem , Ademir Alves Ribeiro , Luiz-Rafael Santos

Separable Bregman divergences induce Riemannian metric spaces that are isometric to the Euclidean space after monotone embeddings. We investigate fixed rate quantization and its codebook Voronoi diagrams, and report on experimental…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-26 Erika Gomes-Gonçalves , Henryk Gzyl , Frank Nielsen

Monotone operator splitting is a powerful paradigm that facilitates parallel processing for optimization problems where the cost function can be split into two convex functions. We propose a generalized form of monotone operator splitting…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-13 Kenta Niwa , W. Bastiaan Kleijn

In this paper, we address variational inequalities (VI) with a finite-sum structure. We introduce a novel single-loop stochastic variance-reduced algorithm, incorporating the Bregman distance function, and establish an optimal convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Zeinab Alizadeh , Erfan Yazdandoost Hamedani , Afrooz Jalilzadeh

The notion of quasi-Fej\'er monotonicity has proven to be an efficient tool to simplify and unify the convergence analysis of various algorithms arising in applied nonlinear analysis. In this paper, we extend this notion in the context of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-09-03 Patrick L. Combettes , Bang C. Vu

We investigate the convergence properties of exact and inexact forward-backward algorithms to minimise the sum of two weakly convex functions defined on a Hilbert space, where one has a Lipschitz-continuous gradient. We show that the exact…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-24 Ewa Bednarczuk , Giovanni Bruccola , Gabriele Scrivanti , The Hung Tran

Minimization of suitable statistical distances~(between the data and model densities) has proved to be a very useful technique in the field of robust inference. Apart from the class of $\phi$-divergences of \cite{a} and \cite{b}, the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-01-25 Sancharee Basak , Ayanendranath Basu

In this paper we propose a new fast splitting algorithm to solve the Weighted Split Bregman minimization problem in the backward step of an accelerated Forward-Backward algorithm. Beside proving the convergence of the method, numerical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-01 D. Lazzaro , E. Loli Piccolomini , F. Zama