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Recently, several works have shown that natural modifications of the classical conditional gradient method (aka Frank-Wolfe algorithm) for constrained convex optimization, provably converge with a linear rate when: i) the feasible set is a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-05-23 Dan Garber , Ofer Meshi

The Frank-Wolfe algorithm has regained much interest in its use in structurally constrained machine learning applications. However, one major limitation of the Frank-Wolfe algorithm is the slow local convergence property due to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-18 Zhaoyue Chen , Yifan Sun

Deep neural networks is today one of the most popular choices in classification, regression and function approximation. However, the training of such deep networks is far from trivial as there are often millions of parameters to tune.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Jakob Stigenberg

We consider continuous-time dynamics for distributed optimization with set constraints in the paper. To handle the computational complexity of projection-based dynamics due to solving a general quadratic optimization subproblem with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-24 Guanpu Chen , Peng Yi , Yiguang Hong , Jie Chen

Learning sparse combinations is a frequent theme in machine learning. In this paper, we study its associated optimization problem in the distributed setting where the elements to be combined are not centrally located but spread over a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-25 Aurélien Bellet , Yingyu Liang , Alireza Bagheri Garakani , Maria-Florina Balcan , Fei Sha

We study the problem of decomposing a graph into a weighted sum of a small number of matchings, a task that arises in network resource allocation problems such as peer-to-peer energy exchange. Computing such decompositions is challenging…

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

In Bayesian inference, the posterior distributions are difficult to obtain analytically for complex models such as neural networks. Variational inference usually uses a parametric distribution for approximation, from which we can easily…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-02-01 Futoshi Futami , Zhenghang Cui , Issei Sato , Masashi Sugiyama

Decomposing a flow on a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) into a weighted sum of a small number of paths is an essential task in operations research and bioinformatics. This problem, referred to as Sparse Flow Decomposition (SFD), has gained…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Mathieu Besançon

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

Greedy optimization methods such as Matching Pursuit (MP) and Frank-Wolfe (FW) algorithms regained popularity in recent years due to their simplicity, effectiveness and theoretical guarantees. MP and FW address optimization over the linear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-21 Francesco Locatello , Michael Tschannen , Gunnar Rätsch , Martin Jaggi

Model merging has emerged as a promising approach for multi-task learning (MTL), offering a data-efficient alternative to conventional fine-tuning. However, with the rapid development of the open-source AI ecosystem and the increasing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Hao Mark Chen , Shell Xu Hu , Wayne Luk , Timothy Hospedales , Hongxiang Fan

We consider the problem of minimizing a smooth and convex function over the $n$-dimensional spectrahedron -- the set of real symmetric $n\times n$ positive semidefinite matrices with unit trace, which underlies numerous applications in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Dan Garber

In this paper, we consider non-convex optimization problems under \textit{unknown} yet safety-critical constraints. Such problems naturally arise in a variety of domains including robotics, manufacturing, and medical procedures, where it is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Mohammad Fereydounian , Zebang Shen , Aryan Mokhtari , Amin Karbasi , Hamed Hassani

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 design Local LMO - a new projection-free gradient-type method for constrained optimization. The key algorithmic idea is to replace the global linear minimization oracle over the constraint set used by Frank-Wolfe (FW) with a local linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Peter Richtárik , Kaja Gruntkowska , Hanmin Li

In tensor completion, the latent nuclear norm is commonly used to induce low-rank structure, while substantially failing to capture the global information due to the utilization of unbalanced unfolding scheme. To overcome this drawback, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Jinshi Yu , Weijun Sun , Yuning Qiu , Shengli Xie

The purpose of this survey is to serve both as a gentle introduction and a coherent overview of state-of-the-art Frank--Wolfe algorithms, also called conditional gradient algorithms, for function minimization. These algorithms are…

We present and analyze a new generalized Frank-Wolfe method for the composite optimization problem $(P):{\min}_{x\in\mathbb{R}^n}\; f(\mathsf{A} x) + h(x)$, where $f$ is a $\theta$-logarithmically-homogeneous self-concordant barrier,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-07 Renbo Zhao , Robert M. Freund

We propose an algorithm which appears to be the first bridge between the fields of conditional gradient methods and abs-smooth optimization. Our problem setting is motivated by various applications that lead to nonsmoothness, such as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-20 Timo Kreimeier , Sebastian Pokutta , Andrea Walther , Zev Woodstock