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We show that the set of fixed points of the average of two resolvents can be found from the set of fixed points for compositions of two resolvents associated with scaled monotone operators. Recently, the proximal average has attracted…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2010-03-26 Xianfu Wang , Heinz H. Bauschke

The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of recent development related to Bregman distances outside its native areas of optimization and statistics. We discuss approaches in inverse problems and image processing based on Bregman…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-05-21 Martin Burger

We develop a novel stochastic primal dual splitting method with Bregman distances for solving a structured composite problems involving infimal convolutions in non-Euclidean spaces. The sublinear convergence in expectation of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-17 Nguyen Van Dung , Băng Công Vũ

In this paper a new family of minimum divergence estimators based on the Bregman divergence is proposed, where the defining convex function has an exponential nature. These estimators avoid the necessity of using an intermediate kernel…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-11-25 Taranga Mukherjee , Abhijit Mandal , Ayanendranath Basu

Deep metric learning techniques have been used for visual representation in various supervised and unsupervised learning tasks through learning embeddings of samples with deep networks. However, classic approaches, which employ a fixed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Zhiyuan Li , Ziru Liu , Anna Zou , Anca L. Ralescu

The aim of this paper is to study the characteristics of a general method to produce a new approximation sequence from a given one, by using suitable convex combinations.

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Lorenzo D'Ambrosio , Elisabetta Mangino

In this paper, we propose new accelerated methods for smooth convex optimization, called contracting proximal methods. At every step of these methods, we need to minimize a contracted version of the objective function augmented by a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-21 Nikita Doikov , Yurii Nesterov

Motivated by a constrained minimization problem, it is studied the gradient flows with respect to Hessian Riemannian metrics induced by convex functions of Legendre type. The first result characterizes Hessian Riemannian structures on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-27 Felipe Alvarez , Jérôme Bolte , Olivier Brahic

Within convex analysis, a rich theory with various applications has been evolving since the proximal average of convex functions was first introduced over a decade ago. When one considers the subdifferential of the proximal average, a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-05-12 Sedi Bartz , Heinz H. Bauschke , Sarah M. Moffat , Xianfu Wang

The Bregman distance is a central tool in convex optimization, particularly in first-order gradient descent and proximal-based algorithms. Such methods enable optimization of functions without Lipschitz continuous gradients by leveraging…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-28 Max Nilsson , Pontus Giselsson

We introduce and investigate an iterative scheme for approximating common fixed point of a family of Bregman relatively-nonexpansive mappings in real reflexive Banach spaces. We prove strong convergence theorem of the sequence generated by…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2017-07-27 Oladipo Abiodun Timoye , Enyinnaya Ekuma-Okereke

Given a collection of computational models that all estimate values of the same natural process, we compare the performance of the average of the collection to the individual member whose estimates are nearest a given set of observations.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2008-07-10 C. L. Winter , D. Nychka

This paper studies a novel algorithm for nonconvex composite minimization which can be interpreted in terms of dual space nonlinear preconditioning for the classical proximal gradient method. The proposed scheme can be applied to additive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Emanuel Laude , Panagiotis Patrinos

We propose an extension of a special form of gradient descent -- in the literature known as linearised Bregman iteration -- to a larger class of non-convex functions. We replace the classical (squared) two norm metric in the gradient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-26 Martin Benning , Marta M. Betcke , Matthias J. Ehrhardt , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

We develop a Bregman proximal gradient method for structure learning on linear structural causal models. While the problem is non-convex, has high curvature and is in fact NP-hard, Bregman gradient methods allow us to neutralize at least…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-06 Manon Romain , Alexandre d'Aspremont

Regularized empirical risk minimization with constrained labels (in contrast to fixed labels) is a remarkably general abstraction of learning. For common loss and regularization functions, this optimization problem assumes the form of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-02-23 Iaroslav Shcherbatyi , Bjoern Andres

We present a generalization of the proximal operator defined through a convex combination of convex objectives, where the coefficients are updated in a minimax fashion. We prove that this new operator is Bregman firmly nonexpansive with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-14 Mastane Achab

This paper establishes various variational properties of parametrized versions of two convexity-preserving constructs that were recently introduced in the literature: the proximal composition of a function and a linear operator, and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-27 Patrick L. Combettes , Diego J. Cornejo

The problem of minimization of the sum of two convex functions has various theoretical and real-world applications. One of the popular methods for solving this problem is the proximal gradient method (proximal forward-backward algorithm). A…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-12 Daniel Reem , Simeon Reich , Alvaro De Pierro

This paper discusses basic results and recent developments on variational regularization methods, as developed for inverse problems. In a typical setup we review basic properties needed to obtain a convergent regularization scheme and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Martin Burger