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The Polyak stepsize has been widely used in subgradient methods for non-smooth convex optimization. However, calculating the stepsize requires the optimal value, which is generally unknown. Therefore, dynamic estimations of the optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-09 Anbang Liu , Mikhail A. Bragin , Xi Chen , Xiaohong Guan

We propose primal-dual stochastic mirror descent for the convex optimization problems with functional constraints. We obtain the rate of convergence in terms of probability of large deviations.

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-01 Anastasia Bayandina , Alexander Gasnikov , Evgenia Gasnikova , Sergey Matsievsky

We consider minimizing an objective function subject to constraints defined by the intersection of lower-level sets of convex functions. We study two cases: (i) strongly convex and Lipschitz-smooth objective function and (ii) convex but…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-29 Abhishek Chakraborty , Angelia Nedić

The gradient method for minimize a differentiable convex function on Riemannian manifolds with lower bounded sectional curvature is analyzed in this paper. The analysis of the method is presented with three different finite procedures for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-08 O. P. Ferreira , M. S. Louzeiro , L. F. Prudente

In this work, we propose an adaptive variation on the classical Heavy-ball method for convex quadratic minimization. The adaptivity crucially relies on so-called "Polyak step-sizes", which consists in using the knowledge of the optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-13 Baptiste Goujaud , Adrien Taylor , Aymeric Dieuleveut

This paper studies the last iterate of subgradient method with Polyak step size when applied to the minimization of a nonsmooth convex function with bounded subgradients. We show that the subgradient method with Polyak step size achieves a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-23 Moslem Zamani , François Glineur

This paper seeks to address how to solve non-smooth convex and strongly convex optimization problems with functional constraints. The introduced Mirror Descent (MD) method with adaptive stepsizes is shown to have a better convergence rate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-08 Anastasia Bayandina

This paper is devoted to a new modification of a recently proposed adaptive stochastic mirror descent algorithm for constrained convex optimization problems in the case of several convex functional constraints. Algorithms, standard and its…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-22 Mohammad S. Alkousa

Recently, the stochastic Polyak step size (SPS) has emerged as a competitive adaptive step size scheme for stochastic gradient descent. Here we develop ProxSPS, a proximal variant of SPS that can handle regularization terms. Developing a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-05 Fabian Schaipp , Robert M. Gower , Michael Ulbrich

In this paper, we consider the problem of phase retrieval, which consists of recovering an $n$-dimensional real vector from the magnitude of its $m$ linear measurements. We propose a mirror descent (or Bregman gradient descent) algorithm…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-21 Jean-Jacques Godeme , Jalal Fadili , Xavier Buet , Myriam Zerrad , Michel Lequime , Claude Amra

We contribute to the growing body of knowledge on more powerful and adaptive stepsizes for convex optimization, empowered by local curvature information. We do not go the route of fully-fledged second-order methods which require the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-28 Peter Richtárik , Simone Maria Giancola , Dymitr Lubczyk , Robin Yadav

In this paper, the optimal convergence rate $O\left(N^{-1/2}\right)$ (where $N$ is the total number of iterations performed by the algorithm), without the presence of a logarithmic factor, is proved for mirror descent algorithms with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-04 Mohammad Alkousa , Fedor Stonyakin , Asmaa Abdo , Mohammad Alcheikh

In this paper we propose a generalized condition for a sharp minimum, somewhat similar to the inexact oracle proposed recently by Devolder-Glineur-Nesterov. The proposed approach makes it possible to extend the class of applicability of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-13 S. S. Ablaev , D. V. Makarenko , F. S. Stonyakin , M. S. Alkousa , I. V. Baran

In the paper, we propose a class of efficient adaptive bilevel methods based on mirror descent for nonconvex bilevel optimization, where its upper-level problem is nonconvex possibly with nonsmooth regularization, and its lower-level…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-21 Feihu Huang

In this work, we describe a generic approach to show convergence with high probability for stochastic convex optimization. In previous works, either the convergence is only in expectation or the bound depends on the diameter of the domain.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-04 Alina Ene , Huy L. Nguyen

The steepest descent method for multiobjective optimization on Riemannian manifolds with lower bounded sectional curvature is analyzed in this paper. The aim of the paper is twofold. Firstly, an asymptotic analysis of the method is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-17 Orizon P. Ferreira , Maurício S. Louzeiro , Leandro F. Prudente

In this paper, we propose a multi-step inertial Forward--Backward splitting algorithm for minimizing the sum of two non-necessarily convex functions, one of which is proper lower semi-continuous while the other is differentiable with a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-28 Jingwei Liang , Jalal Fadili , Gabriel Peyré

Variational inequalities play a key role in machine learning research, such as generative adversarial networks, reinforcement learning, adversarial training, and generative models. This paper is devoted to the constrained variational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Mohammad S. Alkousa , Fedor S. Stonyakin , Belal A. Alashqar , Seydamet S. Ablaev

Based on a result by Taylor, Hendrickx, and Glineur (J. Optim. Theory Appl., 178(2):455--476, 2018) on the attainable convergence rate of gradient descent for smooth and strongly convex functions in terms of function values, an elementary…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-25 André Uschmajew , Bart Vandereycken

Mirror descent plays a crucial role in constrained optimization and acceleration schemes, along with its corresponding low-resolution ordinary differential equations (ODEs) framework have been proposed. However, the low-resolution ODEs are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-11 Ya-xiang Yuan , Yi Zhang