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This paper focuses on stochastic saddle point problems with decision-dependent distributions. These are problems whose objective is the expected value of a stochastic payoff function and whose data distribution drifts in response to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-15 Killian Wood , Emiliano Dall'Anese

This paper investigates the problem of tracking solutions of stochastic optimization problems with time-varying costs that depend on random variables with decision-dependent distributions. In this context, we propose the use of an online…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-29 Killian Wood , Gianluca Bianchin , Emiliano Dall'Anese

We consider a generic convex-concave saddle point problem with separable structure, a form that covers a wide-ranged machine learning applications. Under this problem structure, we follow the framework of primal-dual updates for saddle…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-06-15 Zhanxing Zhu , Amos J. Storkey

This paper develops a unified distributed method for solving two classes of constrained networked optimization problems, i.e., optimal consensus problem and resource allocation problem with non-identical set constraints. We first transform…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-17 Yi Huang , Ziyang Meng , Jian Sun , Wei Ren

We consider (stochastic) convex-concave saddle point (SP) problems with high-dimensional decision variables, arising in various applications including machine learning problems. To contend with the challenges in computing full gradients, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Erfan Yazdandoost Hamedani , Afrooz Jalilzadeh , Necdet Serhat Aybat

We consider convex-concave saddle point problems with a separable structure and non-strongly convex functions. We propose an efficient stochastic block coordinate descent method using adaptive primal-dual updates, which enables flexible…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-11-24 Zhanxing Zhu , Amos J. Storkey

Saddle point problems arise from many wireless applications, and primal-dual iterative algorithms are widely applied to find the saddle points. In the existing literature, the convergence results of such algorithms are established assuming…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-26 Junting Chen , Vincent K. N. Lau

This article establishes a method to answer a finite set of linear queries on a given dataset while ensuring differential privacy. To achieve this, we formulate the corresponding task as a saddle-point problem, i.e. an optimization problem…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-11-05 Giorgio Micali , Clement Lezane , Annika Betken

In this paper we deal with stochastic optimization problems where the data distributions change in response to the decision variables. Traditionally, the study of optimization problems with decision-dependent distributions has assumed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-05 Zifan Wang , Changxin Liu , Thomas Parisini , Michael M. Zavlanos , Karl H. Johansson

We develop stochastic first-order primal-dual algorithms to solve a class of convex-concave saddle-point problems. When the saddle function is strongly convex in the primal variable, we develop the first stochastic restart scheme for this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-13 Renbo Zhao

Saddle-point or primal-dual methods have recently attracted renewed interest as a systematic technique to design distributed algorithms which solve convex optimization problems. When implemented online for streaming data or as dynamic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-22 John W. Simpson-Porco , Bala Kameshwar Poolla , Nima Monshizadeh , Florian Dorfler

This paper tackles the problem of solving stochastic optimization problems with a decision-dependent distribution in the setting of stochastic strongly-monotone games and when the distributional dependence is unknown. A two-stage approach…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-22 Killian Wood , Ahmed Zamzam , Emiliano Dall'Anese

We propose a doubly stochastic primal-dual coordinate optimization algorithm for empirical risk minimization, which can be formulated as a bilinear saddle-point problem. In each iteration, our method randomly samples a block of coordinates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-04-13 Adams Wei Yu , Qihang Lin , Tianbao Yang

Stochastic optimization problems often involve data distributions that change in reaction to the decision variables. This is the case for example when members of the population respond to a deployed classifier by manipulating their features…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-15 Dmitriy Drusvyatskiy , Lin Xiao

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

We propose a stochastic extension of the primal-dual hybrid gradient algorithm studied by Chambolle and Pock in 2011 to solve saddle point problems that are separable in the dual variable. The analysis is carried out for general…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-11 Antonin Chambolle , Matthias J. Ehrhardt , Peter Richtárik , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

We introduce a new sequential subspace optimization method for large-scale saddle-point problems. It solves iteratively a sequence of auxiliary saddle-point problems in low-dimensional subspaces, spanned by directions derived from…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-24 Yoni Choukroun , Michael Zibulevsky , Pavel Kisilev

We consider stochastic strongly-convex-strongly-concave (SCSC) saddle point (SP) problems which frequently arise in applications ranging from distributionally robust learning to game theory and fairness in machine learning. We focus on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-17 Yassine Laguel , Necdet Serhat Aybat , Mert Gürbüzbalaban

We propose two variants of the Primal Dual Hybrid Gradient (PDHG) algorithm for saddle point problems with block decomposable duals, hereafter called Multi-Timescale PDHG (MT-PDHG) and its accelerated variant (AMT-PDHG). Through novel…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Junhui Zhang , Patrick Jaillet

Large-scale saddle-point problems arise in such machine learning tasks as GANs and linear models with affine constraints. In this paper, we study distributed saddle-point problems (SPP) with strongly-convex-strongly-concave smooth…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-04 Dmitriy Metelev , Alexander Rogozin , Alexander Gasnikov , Dmitry Kovalev
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