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The aim of this paper is to design computationally-efficient and optimal algorithms for the online and stochastic exp-concave optimization settings. Typical algorithms for these settings, such as the Online Newton Step (ONS), can guarantee…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-15 Zakaria Mhammedi , Khashayar Gatmiry

First-order methods for solving convex optimization problems have been at the forefront of mathematical optimization in the last 20 years. The rapid development of this important class of algorithms is motivated by the success stories…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-07 Pavel Dvurechensky , Mathias Staudigl , Shimrit Shtern

Quasi-Newton methods are well known techniques for large-scale numerical optimization. They use an approximation of the Hessian in optimization problems or the Jacobian in system of nonlinear equations. In the Interior Point context,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-13 Jacek Gondzio , Francisco N. C. Sobral

In the paper, we generalize the approach Gasnikov et. al, 2017, which allows to solve (stochastic) convex optimization problems with an inexact gradient-free oracle, to the convex-concave saddle-point problem. The proposed approach works,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-13 Aleksandr Beznosikov , Abdurakhmon Sadiev , Alexander Gasnikov

This paper proposes a nonmonotone proximal quasi-Newton algorithm for unconstrained convex multiobjective composite optimization problems. To design the search direction, we minimize the max-scalarization of the variations of the Hessian…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-04 Xiaoxue Jiang

We introduce new global and local inexact oracle concepts for a wide class of convex functions in composite convex minimization. Such inexact oracles naturally come from primal-dual framework, barrier smoothing, inexact computations of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-25 Tianxiao Sun , Ion Necoara , Quoc Tran-Dinh

This paper considers a class of convex optimization problems where both, the objective function and the constraints, have a continuously varying dependence on time. Our goal is to develop an algorithm to track the optimal solution as it…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-10-07 Mahyar Fazlyab , Santiago Paternain , Victor M. Preciado , Alejandro Ribeiro

The combinatorial problem Max-Cut has become a benchmark in the evaluation of local search heuristics for both quantum and classical optimisers. In contrast to local search, which only provides average-case performance guarantees, the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-27 D. A. Herrera-Martí , E. Guthmuller , J. Fereyre

Quasar-convex functions form a broad nonconvex class with applications to linear dynamical systems, generalized linear models, and Riemannian optimization, among others. Current nearly optimal algorithms work only in affine spaces due to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-01 David Martínez-Rubio

Benson's outer approximation algorithm and its variants are the most frequently used methods for solving linear multiobjective optimization problems. These algorithms have two intertwined components: one-dimensional linear optimization one…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-21 Laszlo Csirmaz

We present two quantum interior point methods for semidefinite optimization problems, building on recent advances in quantum linear system algorithms. The first scheme, more similar to a classical solution algorithm, computes an inexact…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-13 Brandon Augustino , Giacomo Nannicini , Tamás Terlaky , Luis F. Zuluaga

We develop an interior-point method for nonsmooth regularized bound-constrained optimization problems. Our method consists of iteratively solving a sequence of unconstrained nonsmooth barrier subproblems. We use a variant of the proximal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-29 Geoffroy Leconte , Dominique Orban

The linear conjugate gradient method is widely used in physical simulation, particularly for solving large-scale linear systems derived from Newton's method. The nonlinear conjugate gradient method generalizes the conjugate gradient method…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-15 Xing Shen , Runyuan Cai , Mengxiao Bi , Tangjie Lv

One of the most effective algorithms for differentially private learning and optimization is objective perturbation. This technique augments a given optimization problem (e.g. deriving from an ERM problem) with a random linear term, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Seth Neel , Aaron Roth , Giuseppe Vietri , Zhiwei Steven Wu

We propose an inexact proximal augmented Lagrangian framework with explicit inner problem termination rule for composite convex optimization problems. We consider arbitrary linearly convergent inner solver including in particular stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-23 Fei Li , Zheng Qu

We consider Riemannian optimization problems with inequality and equality constraints and analyze a class of Riemannian interior point methods for solving them. The algorithm of interest consists of outer and inner iterations. We show that,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Mitsuaki Obara , Takayuki Okuno , Akiko Takeda

Interior point methods for solving linearly constrained convex programming involve a variable projection matrix at each iteration to deal with the linear constraints. This matrix often becomes ill-conditioned near the boundary of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-31 Xun Qian , Li-Zhi Liao , Jie Sun

We introduce a new quantum optimization algorithm for dense Linear Programming problems, which can be seen as the quantization of the Interior Point Predictor-Corrector algorithm \cite{Predictor-Corrector} using a Quantum Linear System…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-15 P. A. M. Casares , M. A. Martin-Delgado

A very simple first-order algorithm is proposed for solving nonlinear optimization problems with deterministic nonlinear equality constraints. This algorithm adaptively selects steps in the plane tangent to the constraints or steps that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Serge Gratton , Philippe L. Toint

The focus in this paper is interior-point methods for bound-constrained nonlinear optimization, where the system of nonlinear equations that arise are solved with Newton's method. There is a trade-off between solving Newton systems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-04 David Ek , Anders Forsgren