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We prove that the Douglas--Rachford method applied to two closed convex cones in the Euclidean plane converges in finitely many steps if and only if the set of fixed points of the Douglas--Rachford operator is nontrivial. We analyze this…
For time-dependent PDEs, the numerical schemes can be rendered bound-preserving without losing conservation and accuracy, by a post processing procedure of solving a constrained minimization in each time step. Such a constrained…
We study the convergence of a Douglas-Rachford type splitting algorithm for the infinite dimensional stochastic differential equation $$dX+A(t)(X)dt=X\,dW\mbox{ in }(0,T);\ X(0)=x,$$ where $A(t):V\to V'$ is a nonlinear, monotone, coercive…
The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) is a widely used method for solving many convex minimization models arising in signal and image processing. In this paper, we propose an inertial ADMM for solving a two-block separable…
We study nonconvex distributed optimization in multi-agent networks with time-varying (nonsymmetric) connectivity. We introduce the first algorithmic framework for the distributed minimization of the sum of a smooth (possibly nonconvex and…
Minimax optimization has been central in addressing various applications in machine learning, game theory, and control theory. Prior literature has thus far mainly focused on studying such problems in the continuous domain, e.g.,…
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This paper introduces the distributed Halpern Peaceman--Rachford (dHPR) method, an efficient algorithm for solving distributed convex composite optimization problems with non-smooth objectives, which achieves a non-ergodic $O(1/k)$…
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.…
We consider the task of decentralized minimization of the sum of smooth strongly convex functions stored across the nodes of a network. For this problem, lower bounds on the number of gradient computations and the number of communication…
We establish linear convergence of relocated fixed-point iterations as introduced by Atenas et al. (2025) assuming the algorithmic operator satisfies a linear error bound. In particular, this framework applies to the setting where the…
The objective of this paper is to develop methods for solving image recovery problems subject to constraints on the solution. More precisely, we will be interested in problems which can be formulated as the minimization over a closed convex…
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Many large-scale and distributed optimization problems can be brought into a composite form in which the objective function is given by the sum of a smooth term and a nonsmooth regularizer. Such problems can be solved via a proximal…
For a linear equality constrained convex optimization problem involving two objective functions with a ``nonsmooth" + ``nonsmooth" composite structure, we study two algorithms derived from a mixed-order dynamical system which incorporates…
In this work we address the problem of distributed optimization of the sum of convex cost functions in the context of multi-agent systems over lossy communication networks. Building upon operator theory, first, we derive an ADMM-like…
Submodular function minimization is a fundamental optimization problem that arises in several applications in machine learning and computer vision. The problem is known to be solvable in polynomial time, but general purpose algorithms have…
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Learning from a stream of tasks usually pits plasticity against stability: acquiring new knowledge often causes catastrophic forgetting of past information. Most methods address this by summing competing loss terms, creating gradient…
In this work we focus on the problem of minimizing the sum of convex cost functions in a distributed fashion over a peer-to-peer network. In particular, we are interested in the case in which communications between nodes are prone to…