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We study projection-free methods for constrained Riemannian optimization. In particular, we propose the Riemannian Frank-Wolfe (RFW) method. We analyze non-asymptotic convergence rates of RFW to an optimum for (geodesically) convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-29 Melanie Weber , Suvrit Sra

In constrained convex optimization, existing methods based on the ellipsoid or cutting plane method do not scale well with the dimension of the ambient space. Alternative approaches such as Projected Gradient Descent only provide a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-11 Zakaria Mhammedi

Optimal transport (OT), which provides a distance between two probability distributions by considering their spatial locations, has been applied to widely diverse applications. Computing an OT problem requires solution of linear programming…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Takumi Fukunaga , Hiroyuki Kasai

We propose a fast and scalable Polyatomic Frank-Wolfe (P-FW) algorithm for the resolution of high-dimensional LASSO regression problems. The latter improves upon traditional Frank-Wolfe methods by considering generalized greedy steps with…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-03 Adrian Jarret , Julien Fageot , Matthieu Simeoni

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 study the convergence properties of the original and away-step Frank-Wolfe algorithms for linearly constrained stochastic optimization assuming the availability of unbiased objective function gradient estimates. The objective function is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Natthawut Boonsiriphatthanajaroen , Shane G. Henderson

We introduce a new class of Frank-Wolfe algorithms for minimizing differentiable functionals over probability measures. This framework can be shown to encompass a diverse range of tasks in areas such as artificial intelligence,…

Computation · Statistics 2021-05-13 Carson Kent , Jose Blanchet , Peter Glynn

We give a simple proof that the Frank-Wolfe algorithm obtains a stationary point at a rate of $O(1/\sqrt{t})$ on non-convex objectives with a Lipschitz continuous gradient. Our analysis is affine invariant and is the first, to the best of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-07-07 Simon Lacoste-Julien

Similarity and metric learning provides a principled approach to construct a task-specific similarity from weakly supervised data. However, these methods are subject to the curse of dimensionality: as the number of features grows large,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-09-10 Kuan Liu , Aurélien Bellet

Maximizing a DR-submodular function subject to a general convex set is an NP-hard problem arising from many applications in combinatorial optimization and machine learning. While it is highly desirable to design efficient approximation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Donglei Du , Zhicheng Liu , Chenchen Wu , Dachuan Xu , Yang Zhou

In this paper, we consider Frank-Wolfe-based algorithms for composite convex optimization problems with objective involving a logarithmically-homogeneous, self-concordant functions. Recent Frank-Wolfe-based methods for this class of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-24 Nimita Shinde , Vishnu Narayanan , James Saunderson

This paper considers distributed online convex constrained optimization, in which various agents in a multi-agent system cooperate to minimize a global cost function through communicating with neighbors over a time-varying network. When the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-02 Wentao Zhang , Yang Shi , Baoyong Zhang , Deming Yuan

Frank-Wolfe algorithms for convex minimization have recently gained considerable attention from the Optimization and Machine Learning communities, as their properties make them a suitable choice in a variety of applications. However, as…

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

Mixed-integer nonlinear optimization encompasses a broad class of problems that present both theoretical and computational challenges. We propose a new type of method to solve these problems based on a branch-and-bound algorithm with convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-19 Deborah Hendrych , Hannah Troppens , Mathieu Besançon , Sebastian Pokutta

This paper focuses on the problem of \emph{constrained} \emph{stochastic} optimization. A zeroth order Frank-Wolfe algorithm is proposed, which in addition to the projection-free nature of the vanilla Frank-Wolfe algorithm makes it gradient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Anit Kumar Sahu , Manzil Zaheer , Soummya Kar

We study the properties of the Frank-Wolfe algorithm to solve the m-EXACT-SPARSE reconstruction problem, where a signal y must be expressed as a sparse linear combination of a predefined set of atoms, called dictionary. We prove that when…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-28 Farah Cherfaoui , Valentin Emiya , Liva Ralaivola , Sandrine Anthoine

The complexity in large-scale optimization can lie in both handling the objective function and handling the constraint set. In this respect, stochastic Frank-Wolfe algorithms occupy a unique position as they alleviate both computational…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-16 Cyrille W. Combettes , Christoph Spiegel , Sebastian Pokutta

We develop parallel and distributed Frank-Wolfe algorithms; the former on shared memory machines with mini-batching, and the latter in a delayed update framework. Whenever possible, we perform computations asynchronously, which helps attain…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-02-16 Yu-Xiang Wang , Veeranjaneyulu Sadhanala , Wei Dai , Willie Neiswanger , Suvrit Sra , Eric P. Xing

To deal with non-stationary online problems with complex constraints, we investigate the dynamic regret of online Frank-Wolfe (OFW), which is an efficient projection-free algorithm for online convex optimization. It is well-known that in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Yuanyu Wan , Lijun Zhang , Mingli Song

We consider the oracle complexity of constrained convex optimization given access to a Linear Minimization Oracle (LMO) for the constraint set and a gradient oracle for the $L$-smooth, strongly convex objective. This model includes…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Benjamin Grimmer , Ning Liu