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We develop new accelerated first-order algorithms in the Frank-Wolfe (FW) family for minimizing smooth convex functions over compact convex sets, with a focus on two prominent constraint classes: (1) polytopes and (2) matrix domains given…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-05 Dan Garber

Frank-Wolfe methods (FW) have gained significant interest in the machine learning community due to its ability to efficiently solve large problems that admit a sparse structure (e.g. sparse vectors and low-rank matrices). However the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-22 Edward Cheung , Yuying Li

The Frank-Wolfe algorithm is a popular method for minimizing a smooth convex function $f$ over a compact convex set $\mathcal{C}$. While many convergence results have been derived in terms of function values, hardly nothing is known about…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-18 Jérôme Bolte , Cyrille W. Combettes , Édouard Pauwels

The Frank-Wolfe (FW) method, which implements efficient linear oracles that minimize linear approximations of the objective function over a fixed compact convex set, has recently received much attention in the optimization and machine…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-19 Liaoyuan Zeng , Yongle Zhang , Guoyin Li , Ting Kei Pong , Xiaozhou Wang

Decentralized optimization algorithms have received much attention due to the recent advances in network information processing. However, conventional decentralized algorithms based on projected gradient descent are incapable of handling…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-29 Hoi-To Wai , Jean Lafond , Anna Scaglione , Eric Moulines

This paper analyzes the convergence rates of the {\it Frank-Wolfe } method for solving convex constrained multiobjective optimization. We establish improved convergence rates under different assumptions on the objective function, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-11 Douglas S. Gonçalves , Max L. N. Gonçalves , Jefferson G. Melo

We propose a fast and scalable Polyatomic Frank-Wolfe (P-FW) algorithm for the resolution of high-dimensional LASSO regression problems. The latter improves upon traditional Frank-Wolfe methods by considering generalized greedy steps with…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-03 Adrian Jarret , Julien Fageot , Matthieu Simeoni

Symmetric nonnegative matrix factorization has found abundant applications in various domains by providing a symmetric low-rank decomposition of nonnegative matrices. In this paper we propose a Frank-Wolfe (FW) solver to optimize the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-27 Han Zhao , Geoff Gordon

The Frank-Wolfe (FW) algorithm has been widely used in solving nuclear norm constrained problems, since it does not require projections. However, FW often yields high rank intermediate iterates, which can be very expensive in time and space…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-10-17 Edward Cheung , Yuying Li

We propose a simple variant of the generalized Frank-Wolfe method for solving strongly convex composite optimization problems, by introducing an additional averaging step on the dual variables. We show that in this variant, one can choose a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-27 Renbo Zhao , Qiuyun Zhu

We revisit the Frank-Wolfe (FW) optimization under strongly convex constraint sets. We provide a faster convergence rate for FW without line search, showing that a previously overlooked variant of FW is indeed faster than the standard…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-01 Jarrid Rector-Brooks , Jun-Kun Wang , Barzan Mozafari

It is known that the Frank-Wolfe (FW) algorithm, which is affine-covariant, enjoys accelerated convergence rates when the constraint set is strongly convex. However, these results rely on norm-dependent assumptions, usually incurring…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-09 Thomas Kerdreux , Lewis Liu , Simon Lacoste-Julien , Damien Scieur

Frank-Wolfe algorithm (FW) and its variants have gained a surge of interests in machine learning community due to its projection-free property. Recently people have reduced the gradient evaluation complexity of FW algorithm to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-22 Yan Li , Chao Qu , Huan Xu

We study Frank-Wolfe methods for nonconvex stochastic and finite-sum optimization problems. Frank-Wolfe methods (in the convex case) have gained tremendous recent interest in machine learning and optimization communities due to their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-01 Sashank J. Reddi , Suvrit Sra , Barnabas Poczos , Alex Smola

We investigate variants of the Frank-Wolfe (FW) algorithm for smoothing and strongly convex optimization over polyhedral sets, with the goal of designing algorithms that achieve linear convergence while minimizing per-iteration complexity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Haoning Wang , Houduo Qi , Liping Zhang

The Frank-Wolfe method is a popular method in sparse constrained optimization, due to its fast per-iteration complexity. However, the tradeoff is that its worst case global convergence is comparatively slow, and importantly, is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-25 Zhaoyue Chen , Yifan Sun

In recent years it was proved that simple modifications of the classical Frank-Wolfe algorithm (aka conditional gradient algorithm) for smooth convex minimization over convex and compact polytopes, converge with linear rate, assuming the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-08 Dan Garber

We propose a rank-$k$ variant of the classical Frank-Wolfe algorithm to solve convex optimization over a trace-norm ball. Our algorithm replaces the top singular-vector computation ($1$-SVD) in Frank-Wolfe with a top-$k$ singular-vector…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-10 Zeyuan Allen-Zhu , Elad Hazan , Wei Hu , Yuanzhi Li

We study the Frank-Wolfe algorithm for constrained optimization problems with relatively smooth objectives. Building upon our previous work, we propose a fully adaptive variant of the Frank-Wolfe method that dynamically adjusts the step…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-27 A. A. Vyguzov , F. S. Stonyakin

In this paper, we consider Frank-Wolfe-based algorithms for composite convex optimization problems with objective involving a logarithmically-homogeneous, self-concordant functions. Recent Frank-Wolfe-based methods for this class of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-24 Nimita Shinde , Vishnu Narayanan , James Saunderson