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In this paper, we investigate accelerated first-order methods for smooth convex optimization problems under inexact information on the gradient of the objective. The noise in the gradient is considered to be additive with two possibilities:…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-10 Vasin Artem , Alexander Gasnikov , Pavel Dvurechensky , Vladimir Spokoiny

Primal-dual algorithm (PDA) is a classic and popular scheme for convex-concave saddle point problems. It is universally acknowledged that the proximal terms in the subproblems about the primal and dual variables are crucial to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-24 Shuning Liu , Zexian Liu

Online and stochastic gradient methods have emerged as potent tools in large scale optimization with both smooth convex and nonsmooth convex problems from the classes $C^{1,1}(\reals^p)$ and $C^{1,0}(\reals^p)$ respectively. However to our…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-10-30 Ziqiang Shi , Rujie Liu

Based on the needs of convergence proofs of preconditioned proximal point methods, we introduce notions of partial strong submonotonicity and partial (metric) subregularity of set-valued maps. We study relationships between these two…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-02 Tuomo Valkonen

In this paper, under the monotonicity of pairs of operators, we propose some Generalized Proximal Point Algorithms to solve non-monotone inclusions using warped resolvents and transformed resolvents. The weak, strong, and linear convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-24 Ba Khiet Le , Minh N. Dao , Michel Théra

Large-scale constrained optimization problems are at the core of many tasks in control, signal processing, and machine learning. Notably, problems with functional constraints arise when, beyond a performance{\nobreakdash-}centric goal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-15 Antesh Upadhyay , Sang Bin Moon , Abolfazl Hashemi

Variational inequality problems are recognized for their broad applications across various fields including machine learning and operations research. First-order methods have emerged as the standard approach for solving these problems due…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-24 Liang Zhang , Niao He , Michael Muehlebach

This paper studies the complexity of finding an $\epsilon$-stationary point for stochastic bilevel optimization when the upper-level problem is nonconvex and the lower-level problem is strongly convex. Recent work proposed the first-order…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Lesi Chen , Junru Li , El Mahdi Chayti , Jingzhao Zhang

We study the performance of stochastic first-order methods for finding saddle points of convex-concave functions. A notorious challenge faced by such methods is that the gradients can grow arbitrarily large during optimization, which may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Gergely Neu , Nneka Okolo

The paper proposes a linesearch for a primal-dual method. Each iteration of the linesearch requires to update only the dual (or primal) variable. For many problems, in particular for regularized least squares, the linesearch does not…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-26 Yura Malitsky , Thomas Pock

The recently introduced Gradient Methods with Memory use a subset of the past oracle information to create an accurate model of the objective function that enables them to surpass the Gradient Method in practical performance. The model…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-30 Mihai I. Florea

In this paper we consider a non-monotone (mixed) variational inequality model with (nonlinear) convex conic constraints. Through developing an equivalent Lagrangian function-like primal-dual saddle-point system for the VI model in question,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-05 Lei Zhao , Daoli Zhu , Shuzhong Zhang

This work considers the problem of finding a first-order stationary point of a non-convex function with potentially unbounded smoothness constant using a stochastic gradient oracle. We focus on the class of $(L_0,L_1)$-smooth functions…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-02-14 Matthew Faw , Litu Rout , Constantine Caramanis , Sanjay Shakkottai

We propose and analyze the convergence of a novel stochastic algorithm for solving monotone inclusions that are the sum of a maximal monotone operator and a monotone, Lipschitzian operator. The propose algorithm requires only unbiased…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-18 Nguyen Van Dung , Bang Cong Vu

Due to the non-smoothness of optimization problems in Machine Learning, generalized smoothness assumptions have been gaining a lot of attention in recent years. One of the most popular assumptions of this type is $(L_0,L_1)$-smoothness…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-30 Eduard Gorbunov , Nazarii Tupitsa , Sayantan Choudhury , Alen Aliev , Peter Richtárik , Samuel Horváth , Martin Takáč

High-order tensor methods that employ Taylor-based local models (of degree $p\ge 3$) within adaptive regularization frameworks have been recently proposed for both convex and nonconvex optimization problems. They have been shown to have…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-19 Wenqi Zhu , Coralia Cartis

We propose and analyze an adaptive step-size variant of the Davis-Yin three operator splitting. This method can solve optimization problems composed by a sum of a smooth term for which we have access to its gradient and an arbitrary number…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-02 Fabian Pedregosa , Gauthier Gidel

We propose and analyze several inexact regularized Newton-type methods for finding a global saddle point of convex-concave unconstrained min-max optimization problems. Compared to first-order methods, our understanding of second-order…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Tianyi Lin , Panayotis Mertikopoulos , Michael I. Jordan

We consider the monotone inclusion problems in real Hilbert spaces. Proximal splitting algorithms are very popular technique to solve it and generally achieve weak convergence under mild assumptions. Researchers assume the strong conditions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-05 Avinash Dixit , D. R. Sahu , Pankaj Gautam , T. Som

We propose a modified primal-dual method for general convex optimization problems with changing constraints. We obtain properties of Lagrangian saddle points for these problems which enable us to establish convergence of the proposed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-04 Igor Konnov