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Composite minimization involves a collection of smooth functions which are aggregated in a nonsmooth manner. In the convex setting, we design an algorithm by linearizing each smooth component in accordance with its main curvature. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-26 Jérôme Bolte , Zheng Chen , Edouard Pauwels

We aim to solve a structured convex optimization problem, where a nonsmooth function is composed with a linear operator. When opting for full splitting schemes, usually, primal-dual type methods are employed as they are effective and also…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-17 Radu Ioan Bot , Axel Böhm

We develop a novel and single-loop variance-reduced algorithm to solve a class of stochastic nonconvex-convex minimax problems involving a nonconvex-linear objective function, which has various applications in different fields such as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-27 Quoc Tran-Dinh , Deyi Liu , Lam M. Nguyen

Recently there were proposed some innovative convex optimization concepts, namely, relative smoothness [1] and relative strong convexity [2,3]. These approaches have significantly expanded the class of applicability of gradient-type methods…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-19 Fedor Stonyakin , Alexander Titov , Mohammad Alkousa , Oleg Savchuk , Alexander Gasnikov

This paper is devoted to the variational inequality problems. We consider two classes of problems, the first is classical constrained variational inequality and the second is the same problem with functional (inequality type) constraints.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-04 Mohammad S. Alkousa , Belal A. Alashqar , Fedor S. Stonyakin , Tarek Nabhani , Seydamet S. Ablaev

In the paper, we develop a composite version of Mirror Prox algorithm for solving convex-concave saddle point problems and monotone variational inequalities of special structure, allowing to cover saddle point/variational analogies of what…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-05-23 Niao He , Anatoli Juditsky , Arkadi Nemirovski

Low-rank and nonsmooth matrix optimization problems capture many fundamental tasks in statistics and machine learning. While significant progress has been made in recent years in developing efficient methods for \textit{smooth} low-rank…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-10 Dan Garber , Atara Kaplan

The proximal extrapolated gradient method \cite{Malitsky18a} is an extension of the projected reflected gradient method \cite{Malitsky15}. Both methods were proposed for solving the classic variational inequalities. In this paper, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-19 Volkan Cevher , Bang Cong Vu

This paper introduces a family of stochastic extragradient-type algorithms for a class of nonconvex-nonconcave problems characterized by the weak Minty variational inequality (MVI). Unlike existing results on extragradient methods in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-20 Thomas Pethick , Olivier Fercoq , Puya Latafat , Panagiotis Patrinos , Volkan Cevher

We introduce a relaxed-projection splitting algorithm for solving variational inequalities in Hilbert spaces for the sum of nonsmooth maximal monotone operators, where the feasible set is defined by a nonlinear and nonsmooth continuous…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-12-31 J. Y. Bello Cruz , R. Diaz Millan

The paper is devoted to new modifications of recently proposed adaptive methods of Mirror Descent for convex minimization problems in the case of several convex functional constraints. Methods for problems of two classes are considered. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-29 Fedor S. Stonyakin , Mohammad S. Alkousa , Alexey N. Stepanov , Maxim A. Barinov

In this paper we consider stochastic weakly convex composite problems, however without the existence of a stochastic subgradient oracle. We present a derivative free algorithm that uses a two point approximation for computing a gradient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-20 V. Kungurtsev , F. Rinaldi

Composite optimization problems, where the sum of a smooth and a merely lower semicontinuous function has to be minimized, are often tackled numerically by means of proximal gradient methods as soon as the lower semicontinuous part of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-05 Christian Kanzow , Patrick Mehlitz

We propose a new first-order optimisation algorithm to solve high-dimensional non-smooth composite minimisation problems. Typical examples of such problems have an objective that decomposes into a non-smooth empirical risk part and a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-07-07 Niao He , Zaid Harchaoui

Motivated by multi-user optimization problems and non-cooperative Nash games in uncertain regimes, we consider stochastic Cartesian variational inequalities (SCVI) where the set is given as the Cartesian product of a collection of component…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-16 Farzad Yousefian , Angelia Nedich , Uday V. Shanbhag

We are concerned with optimization in a broad sense through the lens of solving variational inequalities (VIs) -- a class of problems that are so general that they cover as particular cases minimization of functions, saddle-point (minimax)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Pavel Dvurechensky , Andrea Ebner , Johannes Carl Schnebel , Shimrit Shtern , Mathias Staudigl

In this paper, we examine the convergence of mirror descent in a class of stochastic optimization problems that are not necessarily convex (or even quasi-convex), and which we call variationally coherent. Since the standard technique of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-17 Zhengyuan Zhou , Panayotis Mertikopoulos , Nicholas Bambos , Stephen Boyd , Peter Glynn

In this paper, we propose a proximal gradient method and an accelerated proximal gradient method for solving composite optimization problems, where the objective function is the sum of a smooth and a convex, possibly nonsmooth, function. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Raghu Bollapragada , Shagun Gupta

In this paper, we propose and analyze algorithms for zeroth-order optimization of non-convex composite objectives, focusing on reducing the complexity dependence on dimensionality. This is achieved by exploiting the low dimensional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-16 Weijia Shao , Sahin Albayrak

In this paper, we propose a general algorithmic framework for first-order methods in optimization in a broad sense, including minimization problems, saddle-point problems, and variational inequalities. This framework allows obtaining many…