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This paper addresses smooth convexly constrained optimization problems where the Euclidean projection onto the feasible set is computationally tractable. Although momentum techniques like Polyak's heavy-ball are known for accelerating…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Federica Donnini , Pierluigi Mansueto

This paper considers a conceptual version of a convex optimization algorithm whic is based on replacing a convex optimization problem with the root-finding problem for the approximate sub-differential mapping which is solved by repeated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-18 Evgeni Nurminski

This paper is devoted to the study of an inertial accelerated primal-dual algorithm, which is based on a second-order differential system with time scaling, for solving a non-smooth convex optimization problem with linear equality…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Huan Zhang , Xiangkai Sun , Shengjie Li , Kok Lay Teo

We prove global convergence of classical projection algorithms for feasibility problems involving union convex sets, which refer to sets expressible as the union of a finite number of closed convex sets. We present a unified strategy for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-18 Jan Harold Alcantara , Ching-pei Lee

Traditional algorithms for stochastic optimization require projecting the solution at each iteration into a given domain to ensure its feasibility. When facing complex domains, such as positive semi-definite cones, the projection operation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-04-03 Lijun Zhang , Tianbao Yang , Rong Jin , Xiaofei He

In this paper the simplicial cone constrained convex quadratic programming problem is studied. The optimality conditions of this problem consist in a linear complementarity problem. This fact, under a suitable condition, leads to an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-11 J. G. Barrios , O. P. Ferreira , S. Z. Németh

We consider several classes of highly important semidefinite optimization problems that involve both a convex objective function (smooth or nonsmooth) and additional linear or nonlinear smooth and convex constraints, which are ubiquitous in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Dan Garber , Atara Kaplan

In this paper we provide a detailed analysis of the iteration complexity of dual first order methods for solving conic convex problems. When it is difficult to project on the primal feasible set described by convex constraints, we use the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-16 Ion Necoara , Andrei Patrascu

This paper addresses the numerical computation of critical angles between two convex cones in finite-dimensional Euclidean spaces. We present a novel approach to computing these critical angles by reducing the problem to finding stationary…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-03 Welington de Oliveira , Valentina Sessa , David Sossa

Variable projection solves structured optimization problems by completely minimizing over a subset of the variables while iterating over the remaining variables. Over the last 30 years, the technique has been widely used, with empirical and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-23 Tristan van Leeuwen , Aleksandr Aravkin

We consider the problem of minimizing a convex function over the intersection of finitely many simple sets which are easy to project onto. This is an important problem arising in various domains such as machine learning. The main difficulty…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-19 Achintya Kundu , Francis Bach , Chiranjib Bhattacharyya

This paper primarily focuses on computing the Euclidean projection of a vector onto the $\ell_{p}$ ball in which $p\in(0,1)$. Such a problem emerges as the core building block in statistical machine learning and signal processing tasks…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-28 Xiangyu Yang , Jiashan Wang , Hao Wang

When the nonconvex problem is complicated by stochasticity, the sample complexity of stochastic first-order methods may depend linearly on the problem dimension, which is undesirable for large-scale problems. To alleviate this linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Yue Xie , Jiawen Bi , Hongcheng Liu

The classical convex feasibility problem in a finite dimensional Euclidean space is studied in the present paper. We are interested in two cases. First, we assume to know how to compute an exact project onto one of the sets involved and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-10 R. Díaz Millán , O. P. Ferreira , L. F. Prudente

Convex approximation sets for multiobjective optimization problems are a well-studied relaxation of the common notion of approximation sets. Instead of approximating each image of a feasible solution by the image of some solution in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-13 Stephan Helfrich , Stefan Ruzika , Clemens Thielen

Optimization problems with convex quadratic cost and polyhedral constraints are ubiquitous in signal processing, automatic control and decision-making. We consider here an enlarged problem class that allows to encode logical conditions and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-09 Alberto De Marchi

We introduce a class of first-order methods for smooth constrained optimization that are based on an analogy to non-smooth dynamical systems. Two distinctive features of our approach are that (i) projections or optimizations over the entire…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-15 Michael Muehlebach , Michael I. Jordan

This paper presents an iterative scheme that converges to the solution of a pseudo-monotone variational inequality problem in the setting of $\mathbb{R}^{n}$. Traditional methods often require projections onto the feasible set…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Watanjeet Singh , Sumit Chandok

We present Epsilon, a system for general convex programming using fast linear and proximal operators. As with existing convex programming frameworks, users specify convex optimization problems using a natural grammar for mathematical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-11-17 Matt Wytock , Po-Wei Wang , J. Zico Kolter

In this paper, we suggest a new framework for analyzing primal subgradient methods for nonsmooth convex optimization problems. We show that the classical step-size rules, based on normalization of subgradient, or on the knowledge of optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-27 Yurii Nesterov