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Learning-to-optimize is an emerging framework that seeks to speed up the solution of certain optimization problems by leveraging training data. Learned optimization solvers have been shown to outperform classical optimization algorithms in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-27 Hong Ye Tan , Subhadip Mukherjee , Junqi Tang , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

In this paper, we introduce faster accelerated primal-dual algorithms for minimizing a convex function subject to strongly convex function constraints. Prior to our work, the best complexity bound was $\mathcal{O}(1/{\varepsilon})$,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-28 Zhenwei Lin , Qi Deng

An inexact accelerated stochastic Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (AS-ADMM) scheme is developed for solving structured separable convex optimization problems with linear constraints. The objective function is the sum of a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-27 Jianchao Bai , William W. Hager , Hongchao Zhang

This work is concerned with the optimization of nonconvex, nonsmooth composite optimization problems, whose objective is a composition of a nonlinear mapping and a nonsmooth nonconvex function, that can be written as an infimal convolution…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-28 Emanuel Laude , Daniel Cremers

In this paper, we develop a symmetric accelerated stochastic Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (SAS-ADMM) for solving separable convex optimization problems with linear constraints. The objective function is the sum of a possibly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-21 Jianchao Bai , Deren Han , Hao Sun , Hongchao Zhang

This paper introduces a parallel and distributed extension to the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) for solving convex problem: minimize $\sum_{i=1}^N f_i(x_i)$ subject to $\sum_{i=1}^N A_i x_i=c, x_i\in \mathcal{X}_i$. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-03-20 Wei Deng , Ming-Jun Lai , Zhimin Peng , Wotao Yin

The subgradient method is one of the most fundamental algorithmic schemes for nonsmooth optimization. The existing complexity and convergence results for this method are mainly derived for Lipschitz continuous objective functions. In this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-01 Xiao Li , Lei Zhao , Daoli Zhu , Anthony Man-Cho So

The nonconvex and nonsmooth finite-sum optimization problem with linear constraint has attracted much attention in the fields of artificial intelligence, computer, and mathematics, due to its wide applications in machine learning and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-11 Yuxuan Zeng , Zhiguo Wang , Jianchao Bai , Xiaojing Shen

The goal of the paper is development of an optimization method with the superlinear convergence rate for a nonsmooth convex function. For optimization an approximation is used that is similar to the Steklov integral averaging. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-03 I. M. Prudnikov

We provide a new adaptive method for online convex optimization, MetaGrad, that is robust to general convex losses but achieves faster rates for a broad class of special functions, including exp-concave and strongly convex functions, but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Tim van Erven , Wouter M. Koolen , Dirk van der Hoeven

We propose Frank--Wolfe (FW) algorithms with an adaptive Bregman step-size strategy for smooth adaptable (also called: relatively smooth) (weakly-) convex functions. This means that the gradient of the objective function is not necessarily…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-19 Shota Takahashi , Sebastian Pokutta , Akiko Takeda

This article reports an algorithm for multi-agent distributed optimization problems with a common decision variable, local linear equality and inequality constraints and set constraints with convergence rate guarantees.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-17 Vivek Khatana , Murti V. Salapaka

This paper develops an adaptive proximal alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) for solving linearly constrained, composite optimization problems under the assumption that the smooth component of the objective is weakly convex,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-04 Leandro Farias Maia , David H. Gutman , Renato D. C. Monteiro , Gilson N. Silva

The Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) has been studied for years. The traditional ADMM algorithm needs to compute, at each iteration, an (empirical) expected loss function on all training examples, resulting in a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-06-10 Peilin Zhao , Jinwei Yang , Tong Zhang , Ping Li

This paper introduces a novel approach to solving multi-block nonconvex composite optimization problems through a proximal linearized Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM). This method incorporates an Increasing Penalization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Ganzhao Yuan

The work is devoted to the construction of efficient and applicable to real tasks first-order methods of convex optimization, that is, using only values of the target function and its derivatives. Construction uses OGM-G, fast gradient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-10 Nikita Pletnev

We propose a unifying algorithm for non-smooth non-convex optimization. The algorithm approximates the objective function by a convex model function and finds an approximate (Bregman) proximal point of the convex model. This approximate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-27 Peter Ochs , Jalal Fadili , Thomas Brox

Modern statistical applications often involve minimizing an objective function that may be nonsmooth and/or nonconvex. This paper focuses on a broad Bregman-surrogate algorithm framework including the local linear approximation, mirror…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-20 Yiyuan She , Zhifeng Wang , Jiuwu Jin

We consider a class of structured, nonconvex, nonsmooth optimization problems under orthogonality constraints, where the objectives combine a smooth function, a nonsmooth concave function, and a nonsmooth weakly convex function. This class…

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