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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

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

Recently, there has been a renewed interest in the machine learning community for variants of a sparse greedy approximation procedure for concave optimization known as {the Frank-Wolfe (FW) method}. In particular, this procedure has been…

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One of the beauties of the projected gradient descent method lies in its rather simple mechanism and yet stable behavior with inexact, stochastic gradients, which has led to its wide-spread use in many machine learning applications.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-11 Mingrui Zhang , Zebang Shen , Aryan Mokhtari , Hamed Hassani , Amin Karbasi

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

Recovering matrices from compressive and grossly corrupted observations is a fundamental problem in robust statistics, with rich applications in computer vision and machine learning. In theory, under certain conditions, this problem can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-31 Cun Mu , Yuqian Zhang , John Wright , Donald Goldfarb

Structured constraints in Machine Learning have recently brought the Frank-Wolfe (FW) family of algorithms back in the spotlight. While the classical FW algorithm has poor local convergence properties, the Away-steps and Pairwise FW…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-09 Fabian Pedregosa , Geoffrey Negiar , Armin Askari , Martin Jaggi

Owing to their low-complexity iterations, Frank-Wolfe (FW) solvers are well suited for various large-scale learning tasks. When block-separable constraints are present, randomized block FW (RB-FW) has been shown to further reduce complexity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-22 Liang Zhang , Gang Wang , Daniel Romero , Georgios B. Giannakis

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

Some variant of the Frank-Wolfe method for convex optimization problems with adaptive selection of the step parameter corresponding to information about the smoothness of the objective function (the Lipschitz constant of the gradient).…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-01 G. V. Aivazian , F. S. Stonyakin , D. A. Pasechnyuk , M. S. Alkousa , A. M. Raigorodskii

Pruning is a common technique to reduce the compute and storage requirements of Neural Networks. While conventional approaches typically retrain the model to recover pruning-induced performance degradation, state-of-the-art Large Language…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Christophe Roux , Max Zimmer , Alexandre d'Aspremont , Sebastian Pokutta

We propose an enhanced zeroth-order stochastic Frank-Wolfe framework to address constrained finite-sum optimization problems, a structure prevalent in large-scale machine-learning applications. Our method introduces a novel double variance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Haishan Ye , Yinghui Huang , Hao Di , Xiangyu Chang

Federated learning (FL) has gained a lot of attention in recent years for building privacy-preserving collaborative learning systems. However, FL algorithms for constrained machine learning problems are still limited, particularly when the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Ali Dadras , Sourasekhar Banerjee , Karthik Prakhya , Alp Yurtsever

We propose a new version of the Frank-Wolfe method, called the (L0, L1)-Frank-Wolfe algorithm, developed for optimization problems with (L0, L1)-smooth objectives. We establish that this algorithm achieves superior theoretical convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-21 A. A. Vyguzov , F. S. Stonyakin

This paper showcases the theoretical and numerical performance of the Sliding Frank-Wolfe, which is a novel optimization algorithm to solve the BLASSO sparse spikes super-resolution problem. The BLASSO is a continuous (i.e. off-the-grid or…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-16 Quentin Denoyelle , Vincent Duval , Gabriel Peyré , Emmanuel Soubies

In this paper, we consider large-scale linearly constrained composite convex optimization problem, whose objective is a sum of a smooth function and a possibly nonsmooth function. We propose a scalable \textbf{F}rank-\textbf{W}olfe based…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-10-13 Ya-Feng Liu , Xiangfeng Wang , Xin Liu , Shiqian Ma

Conditional Gradient algorithms (aka Frank-Wolfe algorithms) form a classical set of methods for constrained smooth convex minimization due to their simplicity, the absence of projection steps, and competitive numerical performance. While…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-20 Thomas Kerdreux , Alexandre d'Aspremont , Sebastian Pokutta

We develop a Frank-Wolfe algorithm with corrective steps, generalizing previous algorithms including blended conditional gradients, blended pairwise conditional gradients, and fully-corrective Frank-Wolfe. For this, we prove tight…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Jannis Halbey , Seta Rakotomandimby , Mathieu Besançon , Sébastien Designolle , Sebastian Pokutta

Frank-Wolfe algorithms have recently regained the attention of the Machine Learning community. Their solid theoretical properties and sparsity guarantees make them a suitable choice for a wide range of problems in this field. In addition,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-10-27 Emanuele Frandi , Ricardo Nanculef , Johan A. K. Suykens

We demonstrate how to scalably solve a class of constrained self-concordant minimization problems using linear minimization oracles (LMO) over the constraint set. We prove that the number of LMO calls of our method is nearly the same as…

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