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In this paper, the optimal convergence rate $O\left(N^{-1/2}\right)$ (where $N$ is the total number of iterations performed by the algorithm), without the presence of a logarithmic factor, is proved for mirror descent algorithms with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-04 Mohammad Alkousa , Fedor Stonyakin , Asmaa Abdo , Mohammad Alcheikh

In this paper, we analyze the local convergence rate of optimistic mirror descent methods in stochastic variational inequalities, a class of optimization problems with important applications to learning theory and machine learning. Our…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-06 Waïss Azizian , Franck Iutzeler , Jérôme Malick , Panayotis Mertikopoulos

The technique of modifying the geometry of a problem from Euclidean to Hessian metric has proved to be quite effective in optimization, and has been the subject of study for sampling. The Mirror Langevin Diffusion (MLD) is a sampling…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Ruilin Li , Molei Tao , Santosh S. Vempala , Andre Wibisono

In a Hilbert setting, we develop fast methods for convex unconstrained optimization. We rely on the asymptotic behavior of an inertial system combining geometric damping with temporal scaling. The convex function to minimize enters the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-17 Hedy Attouch , Aicha Balhag , Zaki Chbani , Hassan Riahi

The paper is devoted to a special Mirror Descent algorithm for problems of convex minimization with functional constraints. The objective function may not satisfy the Lipschitz condition, but it must necessarily have the Lipshitz-continuous…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-17 Fedor S. Stonyakin , Alexander A. Titov

In this paper, we consider the problem of phase retrieval, which consists of recovering an $n$-dimensional real vector from the magnitude of its $m$ linear measurements. We propose a mirror descent (or Bregman gradient descent) algorithm…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-21 Jean-Jacques Godeme , Jalal Fadili , Xavier Buet , Myriam Zerrad , Michel Lequime , Claude Amra

The part of the analysis of the convergence rate of the mirror descent method that is connected with the adaptive time-varying step size rules due to Alkousa et al. (MOTOR 2024, pp. 3-18) is corrected. Moreover, a Lipschitz-free mirror…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-03 Bowen Yuan , Mohammad S. Alkousa

This paper is concerned with multi-agent optimization problem. A distributed randomized gradient-free mirror descent (DRGFMD) method is developed by introducing a randomized gradient-free oracle in the mirror descent scheme where the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-12 Zhan Yu , Daniel W. C. Ho , Deming Yuan

We propose primal-dual stochastic mirror descent for the convex optimization problems with functional constraints. We obtain the rate of convergence in terms of probability of large deviations.

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-01 Anastasia Bayandina , Alexander Gasnikov , Evgenia Gasnikova , Sergey Matsievsky

We study discrete-time mirror descent applied to the unregularized empirical risk in matrix sensing. In both the general case of rectangular matrices and the particular case of positive semidefinite matrices, a simple potential-based…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-28 Fan Wu , Patrick Rebeschini

We present a primal only derivation of Mirror Descent as a "partial" discretization of gradient flow on a Riemannian manifold where the metric tensor is the Hessian of the Mirror Descent potential. We contrast this discretization to Natural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-05 Suriya Gunasekar , Blake Woodworth , Nathan Srebro

We formulate and study a general family of (continuous-time) stochastic dynamics for accelerated first-order minimization of smooth convex functions. Building on an averaging formulation of accelerated mirror descent, we propose a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-07-20 Walid Krichene , Peter L. Bartlett

Gradient descent is the primary workhorse for optimizing large-scale problems in machine learning. However, its performance is highly sensitive to the choice of the learning rate. A key limitation of gradient descent is its lack of natural…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Oscar Smee , Fred Roosta , Stephen J. Wright

We consider distributed optimization with smooth convex objective functions defined on an undirected connected graph. Inspired by mirror descent mehod and RLC circuits, we propose a novel distributed mirror descent method. Compared with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-25 Yue Yu , Behçet Açıkmeşe

We study two variants of the mirror descent-ascent (MDA) algorithm for solving min-max problems on the space of measures: simultaneous and alternating. We work under assumptions of convexity-concavity and relative smoothness of the payoff…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Razvan-Andrei Lascu , Mateusz B. Majka , Łukasz Szpruch

Bayesian methods are appealing in their flexibility in modeling complex data and ability in capturing uncertainty in parameters. However, when Bayes' rule does not result in tractable closed-form, most approximate inference algorithms lack…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-09 Bo Dai , Niao He , Hanjun Dai , Le Song

Mirror descent is an elegant optimization technique that leverages a dual space of parametric models to perform gradient descent. While originally developed for convex optimization, it has increasingly been applied in the field of machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Hyungjoon Soh , Dongyeob Kim , Juno Hwang , Junghyo Jo

We give curvature-dependant convergence rates for the optimization of weakly convex functions defined on a manifold of 1-bounded geometry via Riemannian gradient descent and via the dynamic trivialization algorithm. In order to do this, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-07 Mario Lezcano-Casado

We present a new perspective on the celebrated Sinkhorn algorithm by showing that is a special case of incremental/stochastic mirror descent. In order to see this, one should simply plug Kullback-Leibler divergence in both mirror map and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Konstantin Mishchenko

In this paper, we consider the online proximal mirror descent for solving the time-varying composite optimization problems. For various applications, the algorithm naturally involves the errors in the gradient and proximal operator. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-11 Woocheol Choi , Myeong-Su Lee , Seok-Bae Yun