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We present a proximal gradient method for solving convex multiobjective optimization problems, where each objective function is the sum of two convex functions, with one assumed to be continuously differentiable. The algorithm incorporates…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-18 Yunier Bello-Cruz , J. G. Melo , L. F. Prudente , R. V. G. Serra

We consider optimization methods for convex minimization problems under inexact information on the objective function. We introduce inexact model of the objective, which as a particular cases includes $(\delta,L)$ inexact oracle and…

Incremental gradient and incremental proximal methods are a fundamental class of optimization algorithms used for solving finite sum problems, broadly studied in the literature. Yet, without strong convexity, their convergence guarantees…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-01 Xufeng Cai , Jelena Diakonikolas

We survey incremental methods for minimizing a sum $\sum_{i=1}^mf_i(x)$ consisting of a large number of convex component functions $f_i$. Our methods consist of iterations applied to single components, and have proved very effective in…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-12-21 Dimitri P. Bertsekas

We present a subgradient method for minimizing non-smooth, non-Lipschitz convex optimization problems. The only structure assumed is that a strictly feasible point is known. We extend the work of Renegar [5] by taking a different…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-28 Benjamin Grimmer

The incremental gradient method is a prominent algorithm for minimizing a finite sum of smooth convex functions, used in many contexts including large-scale data processing applications and distributed optimization over networks. It is a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-09 Mert Gürbüzbalaban , Asuman Ozdaglar , Pablo Parrilo

In this paper, we propose some accelerated methods for solving optimization problems under the condition of relatively smooth and relatively Lipschitz continuous functions with an inexact oracle. We consider the problem of minimizing the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-27 O. S. Savchuk , M. S. Alkousa , A. S. Shushko , A. A. Vyguzov , F. S. Stonyakin , D. A. Pasechnyuk , A. V. Gasnikov

Making the gradients small is a fundamental optimization problem that has eluded unifying and simple convergence arguments in first-order optimization, so far primarily reserved for other convergence criteria, such as reducing the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-29 Jelena Diakonikolas , Puqian Wang

This paper considers stochastic optimization problems for a large class of objective functions, including convex and continuous submodular. Stochastic proximal gradient methods have been widely used to solve such problems; however, their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-13 Aryan Mokhtari , Hamed Hassani , Amin Karbasi

We suggest simple modifications of the conditional gradient method for smooth optimization problems, which maintain the basic convergence properties, but reduce the implementation cost of each iteration essentially. Namely, we propose the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-17 Igor Konnov

We propose two novel conditional gradient-based methods for solving structured stochastic convex optimization problems with a large number of linear constraints. Instances of this template naturally arise from SDP-relaxations of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Maria-Luiza Vladarean , Ahmet Alacaoglu , Ya-Ping Hsieh , Volkan Cevher

We focus on the optimization problem with smooth, possibly nonconvex objectives and a convex constraint set for which the Euclidean projection operation is practically available. Focusing on this setting, we carry out a general convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-23 Matteo Lapucci , Giampaolo Liuzzi , Stefano Lucidi , Marco Sciandrone , Diego Scuppa

We propose an optimization proxy in terms of iterative implicit gradient methods for solving constrained optimization problems with nonconvex loss functions. This framework can be applied to a broad range of machine learning settings,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Harshal D. Kaushik , Ming Jin

Recent advances in convex optimization have leveraged computer-assisted proofs to develop optimized first-order methods that improve over classical algorithms. However, each optimized method is specially tailored for a particular problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Jinho Bok , Jason M. Altschuler

A generalized conditional gradient method for minimizing the sum of two convex functions, one of them differentiable, is presented. This iterative method relies on two main ingredients: First, the minimization of a partially linearized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-01 Karl Kunisch , Daniel Walter

In this paper, we study a class of bilevel optimization problems, also known as simple bilevel optimization, where we minimize a smooth objective function over the optimal solution set of another convex constrained optimization problem.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-25 Ruichen Jiang , Nazanin Abolfazli , Aryan Mokhtari , Erfan Yazdandoost Hamedani

Motivated by applications to distributed optimization over networks and large-scale data processing in machine learning, we analyze the deterministic incremental aggregated gradient method for minimizing a finite sum of smooth functions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-16 Mert Gurbuzbalaban , Asuman Ozdaglar , Pablo Parrilo

We develop subgradient- and gradient-based methods for minimizing strongly convex functions under a notion which generalizes the standard Euclidean strong convexity. We propose a unifying framework for subgradient methods which yields two…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-19 Masaru Ito

We propose a family of optimization methods that achieve linear convergence using first-order gradient information and constant step sizes on a class of convex functions much larger than the smooth and strongly convex ones. This larger…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-14 Chris J. Maddison , Daniel Paulin , Yee Whye Teh , Brendan O'Donoghue , Arnaud Doucet

Second-order methods, which utilize gradients as well as Hessians to optimize a given function, are of major importance in mathematical optimization. In this work, we prove tight bounds on the oracle complexity of such methods for smooth…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-18 Yossi Arjevani , Ohad Shamir , Ron Shiff