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In this paper, the convergence of alternating minimization is established for non-smooth convex optimization in Banach spaces, and novel rates of convergence are provided. As objective function a composition of a smooth and a non-smooth…

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We study the non-smooth optimization problems in machine learning, where both the loss function and the regularizer are non-smooth functions. Previous studies on efficient empirical loss minimization assume either a smooth loss function or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-07-29 Tianbao Yang , Mehrdad Mahdavi , Rong Jin , Shenghuo Zhu

Hidden convexity is a powerful idea in optimization: under the right transformations, nonconvex problems that are seemingly intractable can be solved efficiently using convex optimization. We introduce the notion of a Lagrangian dual…

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In this paper, we investigate a class of nonconvex and nonsmooth fractional programming problems, where the numerator composed of two parts: a convex, nonsmooth function and a differentiable, nonconvex function, and the denominator consists…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-18 Deren Han , Min Tao , Zihao Xia

Monotone operators, especially in the form of subdifferential operators, are of basic importance in optimization. It is well known since Minty, Rockafellar, and Bertsekas-Eckstein that in Hilbert space, monotone operators can be understood…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2008-10-22 Heinz H. Bauschke , Xianfu Wang , Liangjin Yao

This article discusses nonconforming finite element methods for convex minimization problems and systematically derives dual mixed formulations. Duality relations lead to simple error estimates that avoid an explicit treatment of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-07 Sören Bartels

We address the optimization problem in a data-driven variational reconstruction framework, where the regularizer is parameterized by an input-convex neural network (ICNN). While gradient-based methods are commonly used to solve such…

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We propose a new first-order primal-dual optimization framework for a convex optimization template with broad applications. Our optimization algorithms feature optimal convergence guarantees under a variety of common structure assumptions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-23 Quoc Tran-Dinh , Olivier Fercoq , Volkan Cevher

We formulate and solve a class of finite-time transport and mixing problems in the set-oriented framework. The aim is to obtain optimal discrete-time perturbations in nonlinear dynamical systems to transport a specified initial measure on…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-11-22 Piyush Grover , Karthik Elamvazhuthi

We focus on nonconvex and nonsmooth minimization problems with a composite objective, where the differentiable part of the objective is freed from the usual and restrictive global Lipschitz gradient continuity assumption. This longstanding…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-06-21 Jérôme Bolte , Shoham Sabach , Marc Teboulle , Yakov Vaisbourd

Consider the problem of minimizing the sum of a smooth convex function and a separable nonsmooth convex function subject to linear coupling constraints. Problems of this form arise in many contemporary applications including signal…

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In this work we present TRFD, a derivative-free trust-region method based on finite differences for minimizing composite functions of the form $f(x)=h(F(x))$, where $F$ is a black-box function assumed to have a Lipschitz continuous…

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This article is devoted to investigate a nonsmooth/nonconvex uncertain multiobjective optimization problem with composition fields (CUP) for brevity) over arbitrary Asplund spaces. Employing some advanced techniques of variational analysis…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-12 Maryam Saadati , Morteza Oveisiha

Nonconvex and nonsmooth optimization problems are frequently encountered in much of statistics, business, science and engineering, but they are not yet widely recognized as a technology in the sense of scalability. A reason for this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-19 Bo Jiang , Tianyi Lin , Shiqian Ma , Shuzhong Zhang

We propose an algorithmic framework for convex minimization problems of a composite function with two terms: a self-concordant function and a possibly nonsmooth regularization term. Our method is a new proximal Newton algorithm that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-03-20 Quoc Tran Dinh , Anastasios Kyrillidis , Volkan Cevher

A fruitful approach for solving signal deconvolution problems consists of resorting to a frame-based convex variational formulation. In this context, parallel proximal algorithms and related alternating direction methods of multipliers have…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-05-28 Nelly Pustelnik , Jean-Christophe Pesquet , Caroline Chaux

This article is devoted to the stability of error bounds (local and global) for semi-infinite convex constraint systems in Banach spaces. We provide primal characterizations of the stability of local and global error bounds when systems are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-07 Zhou Wei , Michel Théra , Jen-Chih Yao

This paper presents a unified Least-Squares framework for solving nonlinear partial differential equations by recasting the governing system as a residual minimisation problem. A Least-Squares functional is formulated and the corresponding…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-10 Fleurianne Bertrand , Maximilian Brodbeck , Tim Ricken , Henrik Schneider

In this paper we investigate the sensitivity analysis of parameterized nonlinear variational inequalities of second kind in a Hilbert space. The challenge of the present work is to take into account a perturbation on all the data of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-27 Samir Adly , Loïc Bourdin