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The restarted primal-dual hybrid gradient method (rPDHG) has recently emerged as an important tool for solving large-scale linear programs (LPs). For LPs with unique optima, we present an iteration bound of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Zikai Xiong

Line search procedures are often employed in primal-dual methods for bilinear saddle point problems, especially when the norm of the linear operator is large or difficult to compute. In this paper, we demonstrate that line search is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-04 Guanghui Lan , Tianjiao Li

We investigate the use of low-precision first-order methods (FOMs) within a fix-and-propagate (FP) framework for solving mixed-integer programming problems (MIPs). We employ GPU-accelerated PDLP, a variant of the Primal-Dual Hybrid Gradient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-05 Nils-Christian Kempke , Thorsten Koch

The Primal-Dual hybrid gradient (PDHG) method is a powerful optimization scheme that breaks complex problems into simple sub-steps. Unfortunately, PDHG methods require the user to choose stepsize parameters, and the speed of convergence is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-25 Tom Goldstein , Min Li , Xiaoming Yuan , Ernie Esser , Richard Baraniuk

Various first order approaches have been proposed in the literature to solve Linear Programming (LP) problems, recently leading to practically efficient solvers for large-scale LPs. From a theoretical perspective, linear convergence rates…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-29 Richard Cole , Christoph Hertrich , Yixin Tao , László A. Végh

In this paper we study nonconvex and nonsmooth multi-block optimization over Riemannian manifolds with coupled linear constraints. Such optimization problems naturally arise from machine learning, statistical learning, compressive sensing,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-09 Junyu Zhang , Shiqian Ma , Shuzhong Zhang

In this paper, based a novel primal-dual dynamical model with adaptive scaling parameters and Bregman divergences, we propose new accelerated primal-dual proximal gradient splitting methods for solving bilinear saddle-point problems with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Hao Luo

We consider empirical risk minimization of linear predictors with convex loss functions. Such problems can be reformulated as convex-concave saddle point problems, and thus are well suitable for primal-dual first-order algorithms. However,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-09 Jialei Wang , Lin Xiao

Solving large scale convex semidefinite programming (SDP) problems has long been a challenging task numerically. Fortunately, several powerful solvers including SDPNAL, SDPNAL+ and QSDPNAL have recently been developed to solve linear and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-05 Ying Cui , Defeng Sun , Kim-Chuan Toh

We propose restarted accelerated primal-dual algorithms with (non-monotone) backtracking (rAPDB) for convex nonlinear conic programs, with quadratically constrained quadratic programs (QCQPs) as a special case. Unlike linear and quadratic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Necdet Serhat Aybat , Jinxin Wang

The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) is widely used for solving large-scale semidefinite programs (SDPs), yet on instances with multiple primal-dual optimal solution pairs, it often enters prolonged slow-convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-04 Shucheng Kang , Heng Yang

Recent enhancements to the Primal-Dual Hybrid Gradient (PDHG) algorithm have enabled GPUs to efficiently solve large linear programming problems, often faster than the long-dominant simplex and interior-point methods. The solutions found by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-19 Edward Rothberg

We present a unified viewpoint of proximal point method (PPM), primal-dual hybrid gradient (PDHG) and alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) for solving convex-concave primal-dual problems. This viewpoint shows the equivalence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-18 Haihao Lu , Jinwen Yang

The primal-dual hybrid gradient (PDHG) algorithm is popular in solving min-max problems which are being widely used in a variety of areas. To improve the applicability and efficiency of PDHG for different application scenarios, we focus on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-10 Yumin Ma , Xingju Cai , Bo Jiang , Deren Han

First-order methods based on the PDHG algorithm have recently emerged as a viable option for efficiently solving large-scale linear programming problems. One highly desirable property of these methods is that they can make effective use of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-29 Edward Rothberg

Dual first-order methods are essential techniques for large-scale constrained convex optimization. However, when recovering the primal solutions, we need $T(\epsilon^{-2})$ iterations to achieve an $\epsilon$-optimal primal solution when we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-08-16 Huan Li , Zhouchen Lin

We develop two new variants of alternating direction methods of multipliers (ADMM) and two parallel primal-dual decomposition algorithms to solve a wide range class of constrained convex optimization problems. Our approach relies on a novel…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-15 Quoc Tran-Dinh , Yuzixuan Zhu

Solving large-scale linear programming (LP) problems is an important task in various areas such as communication networks, power systems, finance and logistics. Recently, two distinct approaches have emerged to expedite LP solving: (i)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Bingheng Li , Linxin Yang , Yupeng Chen , Senmiao Wang , Qian Chen , Haitao Mao , Yao Ma , Akang Wang , Tian Ding , Jiliang Tang , Ruoyu Sun

We present two first-order primal-dual algorithms for solving saddle point formulations of linear programs, namely FWLP (Frank-Wolfe Linear Programming) and FWLP-P. The former iteratively applies the Frank-Wolfe algorithm to both the primal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-29 Matthew Hough , Stephen A. Vavasis

We propose two variants of the Primal Dual Hybrid Gradient (PDHG) algorithm for saddle point problems with block decomposable duals, hereafter called Multi-Timescale PDHG (MT-PDHG) and its accelerated variant (AMT-PDHG). Through novel…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Junhui Zhang , Patrick Jaillet