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This paper focuses on solving a stochastic variational inequality (SVI) problem under relaxed smoothness assumption for a class of structured non-monotone operators. The SVI problem has attracted significant interest in the machine learning…

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Yang et al. (2023) recently showed how to use first-order gradient methods to solve general variational inequalities (VIs) under a limiting assumption that analytic solutions of specific subproblems are available. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-08-06 Tatjana Chavdarova , Tong Yang , Matteo Pagliardini , Michael I. Jordan

We study convex composite optimization problems, where the objective function is given by the sum of a prox-friendly function and a convex function whose subgradients are estimated under heavy-tailed noise. Existing work often employs…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Chuan He , Zhaosong Lu

In this paper, we study nonconvex constrained optimization problems with both equality and inequality constraints, covering deterministic and stochastic settings. We propose a novel first-order algorithm framework that employs a…

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In this paper, we first propose a general inertial proximal point method for the mixed variational inequality (VI) problem. Based on our knowledge, without stronger assumptions, convergence rate result is not known in the literature for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-08-04 Caihua Chen , Shiqian Ma , Junfeng Yang

We consider stochastic convex optimization problems with affine constraints and develop several methods using either primal or dual approach to solve it. In the primal case, we use a special penalization technique to make the initial…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-13 Eduard Gorbunov , Darina Dvinskikh , Alexander Gasnikov

Extrapolation is a well-known technique for solving convex optimization and variational inequalities and recently attracts some attention for non-convex optimization. Several recent works have empirically shown its success in some machine…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-06 Yi Xu , Zhuoning Yuan , Sen Yang , Rong Jin , Tianbao Yang

Cyclic block coordinate methods are a fundamental class of optimization methods widely used in practice and implemented as part of standard software packages for statistical learning. Nevertheless, their convergence is generally not well…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-09 Chaobing Song , Jelena Diakonikolas

In this paper, we propose a multilevel stochastic framework for the solution of nonconvex unconstrained optimization problems. The proposed approach uses random regularized first-order models that exploit an available hierarchical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-27 Filippo Marini , Margherita Porcelli , Elisa Riccietti

This paper introduces a family of stochastic extragradient-type algorithms for a class of nonconvex-nonconcave problems characterized by the weak Minty variational inequality (MVI). Unlike existing results on extragradient methods in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-20 Thomas Pethick , Olivier Fercoq , Puya Latafat , Panagiotis Patrinos , Volkan Cevher

The article is devoted to the development of numerical methods for solving saddle point problems and variational inequalities with simplified requirements for the smoothness conditions of functionals. Recently there were proposed some…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-22 Alexander Titov , Fedor Stonyakin , Mohammad Alkousa , Alexander Gasnikov

In this paper, we study federated optimization for solving stochastic variational inequalities (VIs), a problem that has attracted growing attention in recent years. Despite substantial progress, a significant gap remains between existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Guanghui Wang , Satyen Kale

In this paper we consider convex optimization problems with stochastic composite objective function subject to (possibly) infinite intersection of constraints. The objective function is expressed in terms of expectation operator over a sum…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-03 Ion Necoara , Nitesh Kumar Singh

We consider a class of optimization problems with Cartesian variational inequality (CVI) constraints, where the objective function is convex and the CVI is associated with a monotone mapping and a convex Cartesian product set. This…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-16 Harshal D. Kaushik , Farzad Yousefian

We introduce a class of first-order methods for smooth constrained optimization that are based on an analogy to non-smooth dynamical systems. Two distinctive features of our approach are that (i) projections or optimizations over the entire…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-15 Michael Muehlebach , Michael I. Jordan

In this paper we propose new algorithms for solving a class of structured monotone variational inequality (VI) problems over compact feasible sets. By identifying the gradient components existing in the operator of VI, we show that it is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-02 Guanghui Lan , Yuyuan Ouyang

We consider stochastic variational inequality problems where the mapping is monotone over a compact convex set. We present two robust variants of stochastic extragradient algorithms for solving such problems. Of these, the first scheme…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-03-25 Farzad Yousefian , Angelia Nedic , Uday V. Shanbhag

In this paper, we study a class of deterministically constrained stochastic optimization problems. Existing methods typically aim to find an $\epsilon$-stochastic stationary point, where the expected violations of both constraints and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Zhaosong Lu , Sanyou Mei , Yifeng Xiao

Stochastic first-order methods are standard for training large-scale machine learning models. Random behavior may cause a particular run of an algorithm to result in a highly suboptimal objective value, whereas theoretical guarantees are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-02 Eduard Gorbunov , Marina Danilova , Innokentiy Shibaev , Pavel Dvurechensky , Alexander Gasnikov

In this note, we propose a FISTA-type first order algorithm, VAR-FISTA, to solve a composite optimization problem. A distinctive feature of VAR-FISTA is its ability to exploit the convexity of the function in the problem, resulting in an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-25 Chee-Khian Sim