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Superlinear convergence has been an elusive goal for black-box nonsmooth optimization. Even in the convex case, the subgradient method is very slow, and while some cutting plane algorithms, including traditional bundle methods, are popular…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-30 Adrian Lewis , Calvin Wylie

This paper considers general rank-constrained optimization problems that minimize a general objective function $f(X)$ over the set of rectangular $n\times m$ matrices that have rank at most $r$. To tackle the rank constraint and also to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Zhihui Zhu , Qiuwei Li , Gongguo Tang , Michael B. Wakin

We study the robustness of accelerated first-order algorithms to stochastic uncertainties in gradient evaluation. Specifically, for unconstrained, smooth, strongly convex optimization problems, we examine the mean-squared error in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-21 Hesameddin Mohammadi , Meisam Razaviyayn , Mihailo R. Jovanović

In this paper, we study first-order methods on a large variety of low-rank matrix optimization problems, whose solutions only live in a low dimensional eigenspace. Traditional first-order methods depend on the eigenvalue decomposition at…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-25 Yongfeng Li , Haoyang Liu , Zaiwen Wen , Yaxiang Yuan

When the nonconvex problem is complicated by stochasticity, the sample complexity of stochastic first-order methods may depend linearly on the problem dimension, which is undesirable for large-scale problems. To alleviate this linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Yue Xie , Jiawen Bi , Hongcheng Liu

In this letter, we study the deterministic sampling patterns for the completion of low rank matrix, when corrupted with a sparse noise, also known as robust matrix completion. We extend the recent results on the deterministic sampling…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-14 Morteza Ashraphijuo , Vaneet Aggarwal , Xiaodong Wang

We study the asymmetric matrix factorization problem under a natural nonconvex formulation with arbitrary overparametrization. The model-free setting is considered, with minimal assumption on the rank or singular values of the observed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Liwei Jiang , Yudong Chen , Lijun Ding

Low-rank approximation of a matrix by means of structured random sampling has been consistently efficient in its extensive empirical studies around the globe, but adequate formal support for this empirical phenomenon has been missing so…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-07-21 Victor Pan , John Svadlenka , Liang Zhao

We develop an efficient alternating framework for learning a generalized version of Factorization Machine (gFM) on steaming data with provable guarantees. When the instances are sampled from $d$ dimensional random Gaussian vectors and the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-10-27 Ming Lin , Jieping Ye

One of the most important optimality conditions to aid to solve a vector optimization problem is the first-order necessary optimality condition that generalizes the Karush-Kuhn-Tucker condition. However, to obtain the sufficient optimality…

We propose and analyze a sequential quadratic programming algorithm for minimizing a noisy nonlinear smooth function subject to noisy nonlinear smooth equality constraints. The algorithm uses a step decomposition strategy and, as a result,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Albert S. Berahas , Jiahao Shi , Baoyu Zhou

Risk minimization for nonsmooth nonconvex problems naturally leads to first-order sampling or, by an abuse of terminology, to stochastic subgradient descent. We establish the convergence of this method in the path-differentiable case and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-24 Jérôme Bolte , Tam Le , Edouard Pauwels

Composite minimization involves a collection of functions which are aggregated in a nonsmooth manner. It covers, as a particular case, smooth approximation of minimax games, minimization of max-type functions, and simple composite…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-04 Yassine Nabou , Ion Necoara

Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (NMF) is a widely used technique in many applications such as face recognition, motion segmentation, etc. It approximates the nonnegative data in an original high dimensional space with a linear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-04-12 Bin Shen , Luo Si , Rongrong Ji , Baodi Liu

In this work, we consider the distributed optimization of non-smooth convex functions using a network of computing units. We investigate this problem under two regularity assumptions: (1) the Lipschitz continuity of the global objective…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-04 Kevin Scaman , Francis Bach , Sébastien Bubeck , Yin Tat Lee , Laurent Massoulié

Intercurrent events, common in clinical trials and observational studies, affect the existence or interpretation of final outcomes. Principal stratification addresses this challenge by defining local average treatment effect estimands…

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We introduce an efficient first-order primal-dual method for the solution of nonsmooth PDE-constrained optimization problems. We achieve this efficiency through not solving the PDE or its linearisation on each iteration of the optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-11 Bjørn Jensen , Tuomo Valkonen

In this paper we study the problem of recovering a low-rank matrix from a number of random linear measurements that are corrupted by outliers taking arbitrary values. We consider a nonsmooth nonconvex formulation of the problem, in which we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Xiao Li , Zhihui Zhu , Anthony Man-Cho So , Rene Vidal

Random matrices tend to be well conditioned, and we employ this well known property to advance matrix computations. We prove that our algorithms employing Gaussian random matrices are efficient, but in our tests the algorithms have…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-10-30 Victor Y. Pan , Guoliang Qian , Ai-Long Zheng

Several recent applications of optimal transport (OT) theory to machine learning have relied on regularization, notably entropy and the Sinkhorn algorithm. Because matrix-vector products are pervasive in the Sinkhorn algorithm, several…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-03-09 Meyer Scetbon , Marco Cuturi , Gabriel Peyré