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This paper proposes a novel family of primal-dual-based distributed algorithms for smooth, convex, multi-agent optimization over networks that uses only gradient information and gossip communications. The algorithms can also employ…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-04 Jinming Xu , Ye Tian , Ying Sun , Gesualdo Scutari

We study a continuous-time primal-dual algorithm for distributed optimization with nonconvex local cost functions over weight-unbalanced digraphs, and analyze its performance from a dissipativity-based perspective. We first reformulate the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Weijian Li , Panos J. Antsaklis , Hai Lin

Reinforcement learning is widely used in applications where one needs to perform sequential decisions while interacting with the environment. The problem becomes more challenging when the decision requirement includes satisfying some safety…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Qinbo Bai , Amrit Singh Bedi , Mridul Agarwal , Alec Koppel , Vaneet Aggarwal

Regularized empirical risk minimization problem with linear predictor appears frequently in machine learning. In this paper, we propose a new stochastic primal-dual method to solve this class of problems. Different from existing methods,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-06 Conghui Tan , Tong Zhang , Shiqian Ma , Ji Liu

Primal-dual algorithms for the resolution of convex-concave saddle point problems usually come with one or several step size parameters. Within the range where convergence is guaranteed, choosing well the step size can make the difference…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-29 Olivier Fercoq

Majorization-minimization algorithms consist of successively minimizing a sequence of upper bounds of the objective function so that along the iterations the objective function decreases. Such a simple principle allows to solve a large…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-04 Ion Necoara , Daniela Lupu

The saddle-point problems (SPPs) with nonlinear coupling operators frequently arise in various control systems, such as dynamic programming optimization, H-infinity control, and Lyapunov stability analysis. However, traditional primal-dual…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-21 Sai Wang , Yi Gong

In this paper, we introduce two golden ratio algorithms with new stepsize rules for solving pseudomonotone and Lipschitz variational inequalities in finite dimensional Hilbert spaces. The presented stepsize rules allow the resulting…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-17 Dang Van Hieu , Yeol Je Cho , Yi-bin Xiao

In this paper, we consider a nonsmooth convex finite-sum problem with a conic constraint. To overcome the challenge of projecting onto the constraint set and computing the full (sub)gradient, we introduce a primal-dual incremental gradient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-10 Afrooz Jalilzadeh

We propose an enhanced zeroth-order stochastic Frank-Wolfe framework to address constrained finite-sum optimization problems, a structure prevalent in large-scale machine-learning applications. Our method introduces a novel double variance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Haishan Ye , Yinghui Huang , Hao Di , Xiangyu Chang

We study geometric duality for convex vector optimization problems. For a primal problem with a $q$-dimensional objective space, we formulate a dual problem with a $(q+1)$-dimensional objective space. Consequently, different from an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-27 Çağın Ararat , Simay Tekgül , Firdevs Ulus

Stochastic Gradient (SG) is the defacto iterative technique to solve stochastic optimization (SO) problems with a smooth (non-convex) objective $f$ and a stochastic first-order oracle. SG's attractiveness is due in part to its simplicity of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-08 David Newton , Raghu Bollapragada , Raghu Pasupathy , Nung Kwan Yip

Grover's algorithm is a fundamental quantum algorithm that achieves a quadratic speedup for unstructured search problems of size $N$. Recent studies have reformulated this task as a maximization problem on the unitary manifold and solved it…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-06 Zhijian Lai , Dong An , Jiang Hu , Zaiwen Wen

We consider the problem of finding the minimization of the sum of a convex function and the composition of another convex function with a continuous linear operator from the view of fixed point algorithms based on proximity operators. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-04-19 Meng Wen , Shigang Yue , Yuchao Tang , Jigen Peng

A subgradient method is presented for solving general convex optimization problems, the main requirement being that a strictly-feasible point is known. A feasible sequence of iterates is generated, which converges to within user-specified…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-05-30 James Renegar

We propose an extended primal-dual algorithm framework for solving a general nonconvex optimization model. This work is motivated by image reconstruction problems in a class of nonlinear imaging, where the forward operator can be formulated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-28 Yu Gao , Xiaochuan Pan , Chong Chen

This paper introduces a novel Homogeneous Second-order Descent Ascent (HSDA) algorithm for nonconvex-strongly concave minimax optimization problems. At each iteration, HSDA uniquely computes a search direction by solving a homogenized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Jia-Hao Chen , Zi Xu , Hui-Ling Zhang

We study the problem of recovery of matrices that are simultaneously low rank and row and/or column sparse. Such matrices appear in recent applications in cognitive neuroscience, imaging, computer vision, macroeconomics, and genetics. We…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-04-11 Ming Yu , Varun Gupta , Mladen Kolar

This paper introduces new parameter-free first-order methods for convex optimization problems in which the objective function exhibits H\"{o}lder smoothness. Inspired by the recently proposed distance-over-gradient (DOG) technique, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Yijin Ren , Haifeng Xu , Qi Deng

We develop a line-search second-order algorithmic framework for minimizing finite sums. We do not make any convexity assumptions, but require the terms of the sum to be continuously differentiable and have Lipschitz-continuous gradients.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-28 Daniela di Serafino , Nataša Krejić , Nataša Krklec Jerinkić , Marco Viola