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Proximal point algorithm has found many applications, and it has been playing fundamental roles in the understanding, design, and analysis of many first-order methods. In this paper, we derive the tight convergence rate in subgradient norm…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-10 Guoyong Gu , Junfeng Yang

We propose a proximal variable smoothing algorithm for a nonsmooth optimization problem whose cost function is the sum of three functions including a weakly convex composite function. The proposed algorithm has a single-loop structure…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-09 Keita Kume , Isao Yamada

In contrast with many other convex optimization classes, state-of-the-art semidefinite programming solvers are yet unable to efficiently solve large scale instances. This work aims to reduce this scalability gap by proposing a novel…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-20 Mario Souto , Joaquim D. Garcia , Alvaro Veiga

In the present article, we study the numerical approximation of a system of Hamilton-Jacobi and transport equations arising in geometrical optics. We consider a semi-Lagrangian scheme. We prove the well posedness of the discrete problem and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-10-20 Yves Achdou , Fabio Camilli , Lucilla Corrias

We propose a globally-accelerated, first-order method for the optimization of smooth and (strongly or not) geodesically-convex functions in a wide class of Hadamard manifolds. We achieve the same convergence rates as Nesterov's accelerated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-18 David Martínez-Rubio , Sebastian Pokutta

In this work, we analyze two of the most fundamental algorithms in geodesically convex optimization: Riemannian gradient descent and (possibly inexact) Riemannian proximal point. We quantify their rates of convergence and produce different…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-18 David Martínez-Rubio , Christophe Roux , Sebastian Pokutta

We propose a proximal variable smoothing algorithm for nonsmooth optimization problem with sum of three functions involving weakly convex composite function. The proposed algorithm is designed as a time-varying forward-backward splitting…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-29 Keita Kume , Isao Yamada

The method of generalized Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations (GHJB) is a powerful way of creating near-optimal controllers by learning. It is based on the fact that if we have a feedback controller, and we learn to compute the gradient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-08-21 Douglas Tweed

In this paper, a class of high order numerical schemes is proposed for solving Hamilton-Jacobi (H-J) equations. This work is regarded as an extension of our previous work for nonlinear degenerate parabolic equations, see Christlieb et al.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-01-30 Andrew Christlieb , Wei Guo , Yan Jiang

Recently, various high-order methods have been developed to solve the convex optimization problem. The auxiliary problem of these methods shares the general form that is the same as the high-order proximal operator proposed by Nesterov. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Jingyu Gao , Xiurui Geng

The proximal gradient method is a splitting algorithm for the minimization of the sum of two convex functions, one of which is smooth. It has applications in areas such as mechanics, inverse problems, machine learning, image reconstruction,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-14 Patrick L. Combettes

The convergence rate of various first-order optimization algorithms is a pivotal concern within the numerical optimization community, as it directly reflects the efficiency of these algorithms across different optimization problems. Our…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-23 Chenyi Li , Ziyu Wang , Wanyi He , Yuxuan Wu , Shengyang Xu , Zaiwen Wen

Joint diagonalization, the process of finding a shared set of approximate eigenvectors for a collection of matrices, arises in diverse applications such as multidimensional harmonic analysis or quantum information theory. This task is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-12 Erik Troedsson , Marcus Carlsson , Herwig Wendt

The usual approach to developing and analyzing first-order methods for smooth convex optimization assumes that the gradient of the objective function is uniformly smooth with some Lipschitz constant $L$. However, in many settings the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-11 Haihao Lu , Robert M. Freund , Yurii Nesterov

Sparse coding consists in representing signals as sparse linear combinations of atoms selected from a dictionary. We consider an extension of this framework where the atoms are further assumed to be embedded in a tree. This is achieved…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2011-08-18 Rodolphe Jenatton , Julien Mairal , Guillaume Obozinski , Francis Bach

The relaxation in the calculus of variation motivates the numerical analysis of a class of degenerate convex minimization problems with non-strictly convex energy densities with some convexity control and two-sided $p$-growth. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-03 C. Carstensen , N. T. Tran

In this work, we consider a connected network of finitely many agents working cooperatively to solve a min-max problem with convex-concave structure. We propose a decentralised first-order algorithm which can be viewed as a non-trivial…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Yura Malitsky , Matthew K. Tam

We discuss how to evaluate the proximal operator of a convex and increasing function of a nuclear norm, which forms the key computational step in several first-order optimization algorithms such as (accelerated) proximal gradient descent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-16 Zhengyuan Zhou , Yi Ma

For compact self-adjoint operators in Hilbert spaces, two algorithms are proposed to provide fully computable a posteriori error estimate for eigenfunction approximation. Both algorithms apply well to the case of tight clusters and multiple…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-19 Xuefeng Liu , Tomáš Vejchodský

Presented is a method for efficient computation of the Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) equation for time-optimal control problems using the generalized Hopf formula. Typically, numerical methods to solve the HJ equation rely on a discrete grid of the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Matthew R. Kirchner , Gary Hewer , Jerome Darbon , Stanley Osher