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This paper studies a class of double-loop (inner-outer) algorithms for convex composite optimization. For unconstrained problems, we develop a restarted accelerated composite gradient method that attains the optimal first-order complexity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-23 Matthew X. Burns , Jiaming Liang

We introduce a class of specially structured linear programming (LP) problems, which has favorable modeling capability for important application problems in different areas such as optimal transport, discrete tomography and economics. To…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-26 Hong T. M. Chu , Ling Liang , Kim-Chuan Toh , Lei Yang

In this paper, we propose an inexact block coordinate descent algorithm for large-scale nonsmooth nonconvex optimization problems. At each iteration, a particular block variable is selected and updated by inexactly solving the original…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-12 Yang Yang , Marius Pesavento , Zhi-Quan Luo , Björn Ottersten

This paper is concerned with convex composite minimization problems in a Hilbert space. In these problems, the objective is the sum of two closed, proper, and convex functions where one is smooth and the other admits a computationally…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-19 Patrick R. Johnstone , Pierre Moulin

In this paper, the proximal point algorithm for quasi-convex minimization problem in nonpositive curvature metric spaces is studied. We prove $\Delta$-convergence of the generated sequence to a critical point (which is defined in the text)…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-08 Hadi Khatibzadeh , Vahid Mohebbi

Stochastic nonconvex optimization problems with nonlinear constraints have a broad range of applications in intelligent transportation, cyber-security, and smart grids. In this paper, first, we propose an inexact-proximal accelerated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-08 Morteza Boroun , Afrooz Jalilzadeh

Locating proximal points is a component of numerous minimization algorithms. This work focuses on developing a method to find the proximal point of a convex function at a point, given an inexact oracle. Our method assumes that exact…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-03 Warren Hare , Chayne Planiden

Many scientific and engineering applications feature nonsmooth convex minimization problems over convex sets. In this paper, we address an important instance of this broad class where we assume that the nonsmooth objective is equipped with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-06-23 Quoc Tran Dinh , Anastasios Kyrillidis , Volkan Cevher

This paper proposes a novel CTA (Combine-Then-Adapt)-based decentralized algorithm for solving convex composite optimization problems over undirected and connected networks. The local loss function in these problems contains both smooth and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-07 Luyao Guo , Xinli Shi , Jinde Cao , Zihao Wang

Since introduced by Martinet and Rockafellar, the proximal point algorithm was generalized in many fruitful directions. More recently, in 2002, Pennanen studied the proximal point algorithm without monotonicity. A year later, Iusem and…

Stochastic gradient descent with momentum (SGDM) is the dominant algorithm in many optimization scenarios, including convex optimization instances and non-convex neural network training. Yet, in the stochastic setting, momentum interferes…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-28 Junhyung Lyle Kim , Panos Toulis , Anastasios Kyrillidis

This work introduces an unconventional inexact augmented Lagrangian method where the augmenting term is a Euclidean norm raised to a power between one and two. The proposed algorithm is applicable to a broad class of constrained nonconvex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Alexander Bodard , Konstantinos Oikonomidis , Emanuel Laude , Panagiotis Patrinos

In this work, we establish convergence results for the distributed proximal point algorithm (DPPA) for distributed optimization problems. We consider the problem on the whole domain Rd and find a general condition on the stepsize and cost…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-11 Woocheol Choi

In machine learning research, the proximal gradient methods are popular for solving various optimization problems with non-smooth regularization. Inexact proximal gradient methods are extremely important when exactly solving the proximal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Bin Gu , De Wang , Zhouyuan Huo , Heng Huang

Proximal gradient algorithms (PGA), while foundational for inverse problems like image reconstruction, often yield unstable convergence and suboptimal solutions by violating the critical non-negativity constraint. We identify the gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Hanzhang Wang , Zonglin Liu , Jingyi Xu , Chenyang Wang , Zhiwei Zhong , Qiangqiang Shen

A regularization algorithm using inexact function values and inexact derivatives is proposed and its evaluation complexity analyzed. This algorithm is applicable to unconstrained problems and to problems with inexpensive constraints (that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-22 S. Bellavia , G. Gurioli , B. Morini , Ph. L. Toint

In this paper, we investigate the convergence behavior of the Accelerated Newton Proximal Extragradient (A-NPE) method when employing inexact Hessian information. The exact A-NPE method was the pioneer near-optimal second-order approach,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-20 Ziyu Huang , Bo Jiang , Yuntian Jiang

We analyze worst-case complexity of a Proximal augmented Lagrangian (Proximal AL) framework for nonconvex optimization with nonlinear equality constraints. When an approximate first-order (second-order) optimal point is obtained in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-03 Yue Xie , Stephen J. Wright

In [19], a general, inexact, efficient proximal quasi-Newton algorithm for composite optimization problems has been proposed and a sublinear global convergence rate has been established. In this paper, we analyze the convergence properties…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2017-10-18 Hiva Ghanbari , Katya Scheinberg

In this paper, we first study nonsmooth steepest descent method for nonsmooth functions defined on Hilbert space and establish the corresponding algorithm by proximal subgradients. Then, we use this algorithm to find stationary points for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-02-25 Zhou Wei , Qing Hai He