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In this paper, we propose a globally convergent method for solving constrained nonlinear systems. The method combines an efficient Newton conditional gradient method with a derivative-free and nonmonotone linesearch strategy. The global…

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Optimization models with non-convex constraints arise in many tasks in machine learning, e.g., learning with fairness constraints or Neyman-Pearson classification with non-convex loss. Although many efficient methods have been developed…

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We consider the use of a curvature-adaptive step size in gradient-based iterative methods, including quasi-Newton methods, for minimizing self-concordant functions, extending an approach first proposed for Newton's method by Nesterov. This…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-13 Wenbo Gao , Donald Goldfarb

We consider the problem of minimizing a convex, nonsmooth function subject to a closed convex constraint domain. The methods that we propose are reforms of subgradient methods based on Metel--Takeda's paper [Optimization Letters 15.4…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-24 Thi Lan Dinh , Ngoc Hoang Anh Mai

We prove convergence of a single time-scale stochastic subgradient method with subgradient averaging for constrained problems with a nonsmooth and nonconvex objective function having the property of generalized differentiability. As a tool…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-17 Andrzej Ruszczynski

The purpose of this manuscript is to derive new convergence results for several subgradient methods applied to minimizing nonsmooth convex functions with H\"olderian growth. The growth condition is satisfied in many applications and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-19 Patrick R. Johnstone , Pierre Moulin

In this paper, we consider a class of possibly nonconvex, nonsmooth and non-Lipschitz optimization problems arising in many contemporary applications such as machine learning, variable selection and image processing. To solve this class of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-29 Lei Yang

A block decomposition method is proposed for minimizing a (possibly non-convex) continuously differentiable function subject to one linear equality constraint and simple bounds on the variables. The proposed method iteratively selects a…

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We propose a novel study of the stochastic proximal gradient method for minimizing the sum of two convex functions, one of which is smooth. Under suitable assumptions and without requiring any boundedness or control of the variance of the…

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We describe a novel constructive technique for devising efficient first-order methods for a wide range of large-scale convex minimization settings, including smooth, non-smooth, and strongly convex minimization. The technique builds upon a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-27 Yoel Drori , Adrien B. Taylor

Mini-batch algorithms have been proposed as a way to speed-up stochastic convex optimization problems. We study how such algorithms can be improved using accelerated gradient methods. We provide a novel analysis, which shows how standard…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2011-06-24 Andrew Cotter , Ohad Shamir , Nathan Srebro , Karthik Sridharan

This paper discusses several (sub)gradient methods attaining the optimal complexity for smooth problems with Lipschitz continuous gradients, nonsmooth problems with bounded variation of subgradients, weakly smooth problems with H\"older…

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In this paper we consider non-smooth convex optimization problems with (possibly) infinite intersection of constraints. In contrast to the classical approach, where the constraints are usually represented as intersection of simple sets,…

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We propose two novel conditional gradient-based methods for solving structured stochastic convex optimization problems with a large number of linear constraints. Instances of this template naturally arise from SDP-relaxations of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Maria-Luiza Vladarean , Ahmet Alacaoglu , Ya-Ping Hsieh , Volkan Cevher

This paper tackles the unconstrained minimization of a class of nonsmooth and nonconvex functions that can be written as finite max-functions. A gradient and function-based sampling method is proposed which, under special circumstances,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-03 Elias S. Helou , Sandra A. Santos , Lucas E. A. Simões

In this paper, we present a new ellipsoid-type algorithm for solving nonsmooth problems with convex structure. Examples of such problems include nonsmooth convex minimization problems, convex-concave saddle-point problems and variational…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-28 Anton Rodomanov , Yurii Nesterov

This paper introduces and studies the convergence properties of a new class of explicit $\epsilon$-subgradient methods for the task of minimizing a convex function over the set of minimizers of another convex minimization problem. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-03 Elias Salomão Helou , Lucas Eduardo Azevedo Simões

In this paper, we propose a novel reformulation of the smooth nonconvex-strongly-concave (NC-SC) minimax problems that casts the problem as a joint minimization. We show that our reformulation preserves not only first-order stationarity,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-16 Bohao Ma , Nachuan Xiao , Junyu Zhang

This work introduces a simple and efficient linesearch method for composite minimization that accelerates proximal-gradient iterations with fast Newton-type directions. Our algorithm is based on simple operations and only requires the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-17 Alexander Bodard , Pieter Pas , Andreas Themelis , Panagiotis Patrinos

Recent works have shown that line search methods can speed up Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) and Adam in modern over-parameterized settings. However, existing line searches may take steps that are smaller than necessary since they…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-26 Leonardo Galli , Holger Rauhut , Mark Schmidt