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We consider problems of minimizing functionals $\mathcal{F}$ of probability measures on the Euclidean space. To propose an accelerated gradient descent algorithm for such problems, we consider gradient flow of transport maps that give…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Ken'ichiro Tanaka

For a linear equality constrained convex optimization problem involving two objective functions with a ``nonsmooth" + ``nonsmooth" composite structure, we study two algorithms derived from a mixed-order dynamical system which incorporates…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-25 Geng-Hua Li , Hai-Yi Zhao , Xiangkai Sun

Various distributed gradient descent algorithms for multi-agent optimization have incorporated the Nesterov accelerated gradient method, where the use of momentum enhances convergence rates. These algorithms have found broad applications in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Zihao Ren , Lei Wang , Guodong Shi

Anderson Acceleration is a well-established method that allows to speed up or encourage convergence of fixed-point iterations. It has been successfully used in a variety of applications, in particular within the Self-Consistent Field (SCF)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-08 Ning Wan , Agnieszka Międlar

We extend the Approximate-Proximal Point (aProx) family of model-based methods for solving stochastic convex optimization problems, including stochastic subgradient, proximal point, and bundle methods, to the minibatch and accelerated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-08 Karan Chadha , Gary Cheng , John C. Duchi

Despite their frequent slow convergence, proximal gradient schemes are widely used in large-scale optimization tasks due to their tremendous stability, scalability, and ease of computation. In this paper, we develop and investigate a…

Computation · Statistics 2025-08-19 Nicholas C. Henderson , Ravi Varadhan

We analyze the convergence rate of the monotone accelerated proximal gradient method, which can be used to solve structured convex composite optimization problems. A linear convergence rate is established when the smooth part of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-16 Zepeng Wang , Juan Peypouquet

In simulation-based inferences for partially observed Markov process models (POMP), the by-product of the Monte Carlo filtering is an approximation of the log likelihood function. Recently, iterated filtering [14, 13] has originally been…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-02-26 Dao Nguyen

This paper delves into the investigation of a distributed aggregative optimization problem within a network. In this scenario, each agent possesses its own local cost function, which relies not only on the local state variable but also on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Jiaxu Liu , Song Chen , Shengze Cai , Chao Xu , Jian Chu

Alternating minimization (AM) procedures are practically efficient in many applications for solving convex and non-convex optimization problems. On the other hand, Nesterov's accelerated gradient is theoretically optimal first-order method…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-16 Sergey Guminov , Pavel Dvurechensky , Nazarii Tupitsa , Alexander Gasnikov

This paper focus on the convergence of stochastic approximation with Nesterov momentum. Nesterov acceleration has proven effective in machine learning for its ability to reduce computational complexity. The issue of delayed information in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-11 Zhang Ming-Kun

This paper addresses a distributed convex optimization problem with a class of coupled constraints, which arise in a multi-agent system composed of multiple communities modeled by cliques. First, we propose a fully distributed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-21 Yuto Watanabe , Kazunori Sakurama

In this paper, we propose Nesterov Accelerated Shuffling Gradient (NASG), a new algorithm for the convex finite-sum minimization problems. Our method integrates the traditional Nesterov's acceleration momentum with different shuffling…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-14 Trang H. Tran , Katya Scheinberg , Lam M. Nguyen

In this paper, we develop a distributed mixing-accelerated primal-dual proximal algorithm, referred to as MAP-Pro, which enables nodes in multi-agent networks to cooperatively minimize the sum of their nonconvex, smooth local cost functions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-12 Zichong Ou , Chenyang Qiu , Dandan Wang , Jie Lu

In this work, we study the computational complexity of reducing the squared gradient magnitude for smooth minimax optimization problems. First, we present algorithms with accelerated $\mathcal{O}(1/k^2)$ last-iterate rates, faster than the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-11 TaeHo Yoon , Ernest K. Ryu

We analyze a modified version of Nesterov accelerated gradient algorithm, which applies to affine fixed point problems with non self-adjoint matrices, such as the ones appearing in the theory of Markov decision processes with discounted or…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-05 Marianne Akian , Stéphane Gaubert , Zheng Qu , Omar Saadi

In this paper, we propose a new algorithm to speed-up the convergence of accelerated proximal gradient (APG) methods. In order to minimize a convex function $f(\mathbf{x})$, our algorithm introduces a simple line search step after each…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-06-19 Ziming Zhang , Venkatesh Saligrama

This work introduces a moving anchor acceleration technique to extragradient algorithms for smooth structured minimax problems. The moving anchor is introduced as a generalization of the original algorithmic anchoring framework, i.e. the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-03 James K. Alcala , Yat Tin Chow , Mahesh Sunkula

This paper introduces a general framework for iterative optimization algorithms and establishes under general assumptions that their convergence is asymptotically geometric. We also prove that under appropriate assumptions, the rate of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-02-27 Randal Douc , Sylvain Le Corff

We present a totally asynchronous algorithm for convex optimization that is based on a novel generalization of Nesterov's accelerated gradient method. This algorithm is developed for fast convergence under "total asynchrony," i.e., allowing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-17 Ellie Pond , April Sebok , Zachary Bell , Matthew Hale