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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

We study the Frank-Wolfe algorithm for constrained optimization problems with relatively smooth objectives. Building upon our previous work, we propose a fully adaptive variant of the Frank-Wolfe method that dynamically adjusts the step…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-27 A. A. Vyguzov , F. S. Stonyakin

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

The paper introduces a new adaptive version of the Frank-Wolfe algorithm for relatively smooth convex functions. It is proposed to use the Bregman divergence other than half the square of the Euclidean norm in the formula for step-size.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-23 Alexander Vyguzov , Fedor Stonyakin

The Conditional Gradient (or Frank-Wolfe) method is one of the most well-known methods for solving constrained optimization problems appearing in various machine learning tasks. The simplicity of iteration and applicability to many…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-17 Ruslan Nazykov , Aleksandr Shestakov , Vladimir Solodkin , Aleksandr Beznosikov , Gauthier Gidel , Alexander Gasnikov

We consider the problem of solving LP relaxations of MAP-MRF inference problems, and in particular the method proposed recently in (Swoboda, Kolmogorov 2019; Kolmogorov, Pock 2021). As a key computational subroutine, it uses a variant of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-26 Vladimir Kolmogorov

The circumcentered-reflection method (CRM) has been recently proposed as a methodology for accelerating several algorithms for solving the Convex Feasibility Problem (CFP), equivalent to finding a common fixed-point of the orthogonal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-07 Reza Arefidamghani , Roger Behling , Alfredo N. Iusem , Luiz-Rafael Santos

Projection-free optimization via different variants of the Frank-Wolfe (FW) method has become one of the cornerstones in large scale optimization for machine learning and computational statistics. Numerous applications within these fields…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-03 Pavel Dvurechensky , Kamil Safin , Shimrit Shtern , Mathias Staudigl

We study the linear convergence of variants of the Frank-Wolfe algorithms for some classes of strongly convex problems, using only affine-invariant quantities. As in Guelat & Marcotte (1986), we show the linear convergence of the standard…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-01-06 Simon Lacoste-Julien , Martin Jaggi

The Frank-Wolfe (FW) optimization algorithm has lately re-gained popularity thanks in particular to its ability to nicely handle the structured constraints appearing in machine learning applications. However, its convergence rate is known…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-11-19 Simon Lacoste-Julien , Martin Jaggi

The stochastic Frank-Wolfe method has recently attracted much general interest in the context of optimization for statistical and machine learning due to its ability to work with a more general feasible region. However, there has been a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-06 Haihao Lu , Robert M. Freund

Symmetric nonnegative matrix factorization has found abundant applications in various domains by providing a symmetric low-rank decomposition of nonnegative matrices. In this paper we propose a Frank-Wolfe (FW) solver to optimize the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-27 Han Zhao , Geoff Gordon

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

Frank-Wolfe methods (FW) have gained significant interest in the machine learning community due to its ability to efficiently solve large problems that admit a sparse structure (e.g. sparse vectors and low-rank matrices). However the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-22 Edward Cheung , Yuying Li

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

Recent papers have shown that the Frank-Wolfe algorithm (FW) with open-loop step-sizes exhibits rates of convergence faster than the iconic $\mathcal{O}(t^{-1})$ rate. In particular, when the minimizer of a strongly convex function over a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Elias Wirth , Javier Pena , Sebastian Pokutta

We present and analyze an away-step Frank-Wolfe method for the convex optimization problem ${\min}_{x\in\mathcal{X}} \; f(\mathsf{A} x) + \langle{c},{x}\rangle$, where $f$ is a $\theta$-logarithmically-homogeneous self-concordant barrier,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-30 Renbo Zhao

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

In this paper, we study the problem of finding the Euclidean distance to a convex cone generated by a set of discrete points in $\mathbb{R}^n_+$. In particular, we are interested in problems where the discrete points are the set of feasible…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-04-24 Ali Fattahi , Sriram Dasu , Reza Ahmadi

It is known that the Frank-Wolfe (FW) algorithm, which is affine-covariant, enjoys accelerated convergence rates when the constraint set is strongly convex. However, these results rely on norm-dependent assumptions, usually incurring…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-09 Thomas Kerdreux , Lewis Liu , Simon Lacoste-Julien , Damien Scieur