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This paper deals with a second-order primal-dual dynamical system with Hessian-driven damping and Tikhonov regularization terms in connection with a convex-concave bilinear saddle point problem. We first obtain a fast convergence rate of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Xiangkai Sun , Liang He , Xianjun Long

We propose and analyze a general framework called nonlinear preconditioned primal-dual with projection for solving nonconvex-nonconcave and non-smooth saddle-point problems. The framework consists of two steps. The first is a nonlinear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-11 Lu Zhang , Hongxia Wang , Hui Zhang

Using convex combination and linesearch techniques, we introduce a novel primal-dual algorithm for solving structured convex-concave saddle point problems with a generic smooth nonbilinear coupling term. Our adaptive linesearch strategy…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-17 Xiaokai Chang , Junfeng Yang , Hongchao Zhang

This work examines the conditions for asymptotic and exponential convergence of saddle flow dynamics of convex-concave functions. First, we propose an observability-based certificate for asymptotic convergence, directly bridging the gap…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-10 Pengcheng You , Yingzhu Liu , Enrique Mallada

The primal-dual hybrid gradient (PDHG) method is one of the most popular algorithms for solving saddle point problems. However, when applying the PDHG method and its many variants to some real-world models commonly encountered in signal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-10 Jintao Yu , Hongjin He

This paper studies equality-constrained minimization problems through the lens of feedback control. We introduce a unified control-theoretic framework by showing that a PID feedback law acting on the dual variable induces the PID…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Veronica Centorrino , Rawan Hoteit , Efe C. Balta , John Lygeros

Recent advancements in data science have significantly elevated the importance of orthogonally constrained optimization problems. The Riemannian approach has become a popular technique for addressing these problems due to the advantageous…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Linglingzhi Zhu , Wentao Ding , Shangyuan Liu , Anthony Man-Cho So

We develop an inexact primal-dual first-order smoothing framework to solve a class of non-bilinear saddle point problems with primal strong convexity. Compared with existing methods, our framework yields a significant improvement over the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-25 Le Thi Khanh Hien , Renbo Zhao , William B. Haskell

The paper proposes a variational-inequality based primal-dual dynamic that has a globally exponentially stable saddle-point solution when applied to solve linear inequality constrained optimization problems. A Riemannian geometric framework…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-07 P. Bansode , V. Chinde , S. R. Wagh , R. Pasumarthy , N. M. Singh

In this paper, we propose a variance-reduced primal-dual algorithm with Bregman distance for solving convex-concave saddle-point problems with finite-sum structure and nonbilinear coupling function. This type of problems typically arises in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-02 Erfan Yazdandoost Hamedani , Afrooz Jalilzadeh

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

We study preconditioned proximal point methods for a class of saddle point problems, where the preconditioner decouples the overall proximal point method into an alternating primal--dual method. This is akin to the Chambolle--Pock method or…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-13 Tuomo Valkonen

Continuous time primal-dual gradient dynamics that find a saddle point of a Lagrangian of an optimization problem have been widely used in systems and control. While the global asymptotic stability of such dynamics has been well-studied, it…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-17 Guannan Qu , Na Li

We consider strongly-convex-strongly-concave saddle point problems assuming we have access to unbiased stochastic estimates of the gradients. We propose a stochastic accelerated primal-dual (SAPD) algorithm and show that SAPD sequence,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Xuan Zhang , Necdet Serhat Aybat , Mert Gürbüzbalaban

In this paper, for a convex-concave bilinear saddle point problem, we propose a Tikhonov regularized second-order primal-dual dynamical system with slow damping, extrapolation and general time scaling parameters. Depending on the vanishing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-10 Xiangkai Sun , Liang He , Xian-Jun Long

This work proposes an accelerated primal-dual dynamical system for affine constrained convex optimization and presents a class of primal-dual methods with nonergodic convergence rates. In continuous level, exponential decay of a novel…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-12 Hao Luo

In this paper, we design an inertial accelerated primal-dual algorithm to address the convex-concave saddle point problem, which is formulated as $\min_{x}\max_{y} f(x) + \langle Kx, y \rangle - g(y)$. Remarkably, both functions $f$ and $g$…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-17 X. He , N. J. Huang , Y. P. Fang

In this paper, we propose a primal-dual algorithm with a novel momentum term using the partial gradients of the coupling function that can be viewed as a generalization of the method proposed by Chambolle and Pock in 2016 to solve saddle…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-22 Erfan Yazdandoost Hamedani , Necdet Serhat Aybat

For a class of nonsmooth composite optimization problems with linear equality constraints, we utilize a Lyapunov-based approach to establish the global exponential stability of the primal-dual gradient flow dynamics based on the proximal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-03 Dongsheng Ding , Mihailo R. Jovanović

In this paper, we propose a class of general second-order primal-dual dynamical systems with Tikhonov regularization and Hessian-driven damping for solving convex-concave bilinear saddle point problems. The proposed dynamical system…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Bohan Zhang , Xiaojun Zhang