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First-order operator splitting methods are ubiquitous among many fields through science and engineering, such as inverse problems, signal/image processing, statistics, data science and machine learning, to name a few. In this paper, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-10 Clarice Poon , Jingwei Liang

The paper starts with a concise description of the recently developed semismooth* Newton method for the solution of general inclusions. This method is then applied to a class of variational inequalities of the second kind. As a result, one…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-23 Helmut Gfrerer , Jiri V. Outrata , Jan Valdman

This work proposes a universal and adaptive second-order method for minimizing second-order smooth, convex functions. Our algorithm achieves $O(\sigma / \sqrt{T})$ convergence when the oracle feedback is stochastic with variance $\sigma^2$,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-13 Kimon Antonakopoulos , Ali Kavis , Volkan Cevher

We study the optimization of non-convex functions that are not necessarily smooth (gradient and/or Hessian are Lipschitz) using first order methods. Smoothness is a restrictive assumption in machine learning in both theory and practice,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-27 Daniel Yiming Cao , August Y. Chen , Karthik Sridharan , Benjamin Tang

The monotone Variational Inequality (VI) is a general model with important applications in various engineering and scientific domains. In numerous instances, the VI problems are accompanied by function constraints that can be data-driven,…

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We consider a generic convex-concave saddle point problem with separable structure, a form that covers a wide-ranged machine learning applications. Under this problem structure, we follow the framework of primal-dual updates for saddle…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-06-15 Zhanxing Zhu , Amos J. Storkey

In this paper we investigate the convergence of a recently popular class of first-order primal-dual algorithms for saddle point problems under the presence of errors occurring in the proximal maps and gradients. We study several types of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-26 Julian Rasch , Antonin Chambolle

The paper concerns with novel first-order methods for monotone variational inequalities. They use a very simple linesearch procedure that takes into account a local information of the operator. Also the methods do not require…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-26 Yura Malitsky

In this paper, we first propose a general inertial proximal point method for the mixed variational inequality (VI) problem. Based on our knowledge, without stronger assumptions, convergence rate result is not known in the literature for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-08-04 Caihua Chen , Shiqian Ma , Junfeng Yang

Inspired by the adaptive Golden Ratio Algorithm (aGRAAL), we propose two new methods for solving monotone variational inequalities. We show that by selecting the momentum parameter beyond the golden ratio in aGRAAL, the convergence speed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Reza Rahimi Baghbadorani , Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani , Sergio Grammatico

One of the most attractive recent approaches to processing well-structured large-scale convex optimization problems is based on smooth convex-concave saddle point reformu-lation of the problem of interest and solving the resulting problem…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-05-22 Aharon Ben-Tal , Arkadi Nemirovski

First order optimization algorithms play a major role in large scale machine learning. A new class of methods, called adaptive algorithms, were recently introduced to adjust iteratively the learning rate for each coordinate. Despite great…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-01 André Belotto da Silva , Maxime Gazeau

In this paper we propose a class of randomized primal-dual methods to contend with large-scale saddle point problems defined by a convex-concave function $\mathcal{L}(\mathbf{x},y)\triangleq\sum_{i=1}^m f_i(x_i)+\Phi(\mathbf{x},y)-h(y)$. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-17 E. Yazdandoost Hamedani , A. Jalilzadeh , N. S. Aybat

We introduce an inertial quasi-Newton Forward-Backward Splitting Algorithm to solve a class of monotone inclusion problems. While the inertial step is computationally cheap, in general, the bottleneck is the evaluation of the resolvent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-18 Shida Wang , Jalal Fadili , Peter Ochs

Yang et al. (2023) recently showed how to use first-order gradient methods to solve general variational inequalities (VIs) under a limiting assumption that analytic solutions of specific subproblems are available. In this paper, we…

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In this paper, acceleration of gradient methods for convex optimization problems with weak levels of convexity and smoothness is considered. Starting from the universal fast gradient method which was designed to be an optimal method for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-10 Jongho Park

The optimistic gradient method has seen increasing popularity for solving convex-concave saddle point problems. To analyze its iteration complexity, a recent work [arXiv:1906.01115] proposed an interesting perspective that interprets this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-11 Ruichen Jiang , Aryan Mokhtari

This paper presents a modified iterative approach to solve the variational inequality problem using the double inertial technique in the context of a real Hilbert space. Our iterative technique involves a projection onto a generalized…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-19 Watanjeet Singh , Sumit Chandok

We propose in this paper a unifying scheme for several algorithms from the literature dedicated to the solving of monotone inclusion problems involving compositions with linear continuous operators in infinite dimensional Hilbert spaces. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-08 Radu Ioan Bot , Ernö Robert Csetnek

This paper focuses on solving a stochastic variational inequality (SVI) problem under relaxed smoothness assumption for a class of structured non-monotone operators. The SVI problem has attracted significant interest in the machine learning…

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