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We study the linear convergence of the primal-dual hybrid gradient method. After a review of current analyses, we show that they do not explain properly the behavior of the algorithm, even on the most simple problems. We thus introduce the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-25 Olivier Fercoq

In this work we consider a possibility to use the conception of $(\delta, L)$-model of a function for optimization tasks, whereby solving a primal problem there is a necessity to recover a solution of a dual problem. The conception of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-25 Alexander Tyurin

The problem of constrained Markov decision process (CMDP) is investigated, where an agent aims to maximize the expected accumulated discounted reward subject to multiple constraints on its utilities/costs. A new primal-dual approach is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-22 Tianjiao Li , Ziwei Guan , Shaofeng Zou , Tengyu Xu , Yingbin Liang , Guanghui Lan

This paper investigates a category of constrained fractional optimization problems that emerge in various practical applications. The objective function for this category is characterized by the ratio of a numerator and denominator, both…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Yizun Lin , Jian-Feng Cai , Zhao-Rong Lai , Cheng Li

Motivated by an inertial primal-dual dynamical system with vanishing damping, we propose a class of accelerated augmented Lagrangian methods with Nesterov extrapolation parameters for a linearly constrained convex optimization problem with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Xin He , Nan-Jing Huang , Yi-Bin Xiao , Ya-Ping Fang

We improve the understanding of the $\textit{golden ratio algorithm}$, which solves monotone variational inequalities (VI) and convex-concave min-max problems via the distinctive feature of adapting the step sizes to the local Lipschitz…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-29 Ahmet Alacaoglu , Axel Böhm , Yura Malitsky

In this paper, we focus on the relaxed proximal point algorithm (RPPA) for solving convex (possibly nonsmooth) optimization problems. We conduct a comprehensive study on three types of relaxation schedules: (i) constant schedule with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-14 Bofan Wang , Shiqian Ma , Junfeng Yang , Danqing Zhou

The linear primal-dual hybrid gradient (PDHG) method is a first-order method that splits convex optimization problems with saddle-point structure into smaller subproblems. Unlike those obtained in most splitting methods, these subproblems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-05 Jérôme Darbon , Gabriel P. Langlois

In this article, we provide a modification to the Bregman Golden Ratio Algorithm (B-GRAAL). We analyze the B-GRAAL algorithm with a new step size rule, where the step size increases after a certain number of iterations and does not require…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Gourav Kumar , V. Vetrivel

Adaptive gradient methods have shown their ability to adjust the stepsizes on the fly in a parameter-agnostic manner, and empirically achieve faster convergence for solving minimization problems. When it comes to nonconvex minimax…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-10 Xiang Li , Junchi Yang , Niao He

The primal dual hybrid gradient algorithm (PDHG), which is also known as the Arrow-Hurwicz method, is a fundamental algorithm for saddle point problems especially in imaging. It also inspires a great number of influential algorithms such as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Shengjie Xu , Bingsheng He

We propose the particle dual averaging (PDA) method, which generalizes the dual averaging method in convex optimization to the optimization over probability distributions with quantitative runtime guarantee. The algorithm consists of an…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-01-25 Atsushi Nitanda , Denny Wu , Taiji Suzuki

The primal-dual hybrid gradient method (PDHG) is useful for optimization problems that commonly appear in image reconstruction. A downside of PDHG is that there are typically three user-set parameters and performance of the algorithm is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-25 Alex McManus , Stephen Becker , Nicholas Dwork

We propose a new randomized algorithm for solving convex optimization problems that have a large number of constraints (with high probability). Existing methods like interior-point or Newton-type algorithms are hard to apply to such…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-25 Bo Wei , William B. Haskell , Sixiang Zhao

In this paper, we consider a class of finite-sum convex optimization problems whose objective function is given by the summation of $m$ ($\ge 1$) smooth components together with some other relatively simple terms. We first introduce a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-10-27 Guanghui Lan , Yi Zhou

Non-linear, especially convex, objective functions have been extensively studied in recent years in which approaches relies crucially on the convexity property of cost functions. In this paper, we present primal-dual approaches based on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-08-17 Nguyen Kim Thang

In this paper, we propose a variance-reduced primal-dual algorithm with Bregman distance for solving convex-concave saddle-point problems with finite-sum structure and nonbilinear coupling function. This type of problems typically arises in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-02 Erfan Yazdandoost Hamedani , Afrooz Jalilzadeh

We provide a unified analysis of two-timescale gradient descent ascent (TTGDA) for solving structured nonconvex minimax optimization problems in the form of $\min_\textbf{x} \max_{\textbf{y} \in Y} f(\textbf{x}, \textbf{y})$, where the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Tianyi Lin , Chi Jin , Michael. I. Jordan

We consider the convex-concave saddle point problem $\min_{x}\max_{y} f(x)+y^\top A x-g(y)$ where $f$ is smooth and convex and $g$ is smooth and strongly convex. We prove that if the coupling matrix $A$ has full column rank, the vanilla…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-05 Simon S. Du , Wei Hu

This paper proposes a universal algorithm for convex minimization problems of the composite form $g_0(x)+h(g_1(x),\dots, g_m(x)) + u(x)$. We allow each $g_j$ to independently range from being nonsmooth Lipschitz to smooth, from convex to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-15 Aaron Zoll , Benjamin Grimmer