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Theoretical estimates of the convergence rate of many well-known gradient-type optimization methods are based on quadratic interpolation, provided that the Lipschitz condition for the gradient is satisfied. In this article we obtain a…
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Based on the ideas of arXiv:1710.06612, we consider the problem of minimization of the Holder-continuous non-smooth functional $f$ with non-positive convex (generally, non-smooth) Lipschitz-continuous functional constraint. We propose some…
A quasi-Newton method with cubic regularization is designed for solving Riemannian unconstrained nonconvex optimization problems. The proposed algorithm is fully adaptive with at most ${\cal O} (\epsilon_g^{-3/2})$ iterations to achieve a…
The techniques and analysis presented in this paper provide new methods to solve optimization problems posed on Riemannian manifolds. A new point of view is offered for the solution of constrained optimization problems. Some classical…
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In this paper, we deal with the Front Steepest Descent algorithm for multi-objective optimization. We point out that the algorithm from the literature is often incapable, by design, of spanning large portions of the Pareto front. We thus…
The steepest descent method proposed by Fliege et al. motivates the research on descent methods for multiobjective optimization, which has received increasing attention in recent years. However, empirical results show that the Armijo line…
Riemannian accelerated gradient methods have been well studied for smooth optimization, typically treating geodesically convex and geodesically strongly convex cases separately. However, their extension to nonsmooth problems on manifolds…
We consider a class of constrained optimization problems with a possibly nonconvex non-Lipschitz objective and a convex feasible set being the intersection of a polyhedron and a possibly degenerate ellipsoid. Such problems have a wide range…
Convex optimization is a well-established research area with applications in almost all fields. Over the decades, multiple approaches have been proposed to solve convex programs. The development of interior-point methods allowed solving a…
We propose a general scheme for solving convex and non-convex optimization problems on manifolds. The central idea is that, by adding a multiple of the squared retraction distance to the objective function in question, we "convexify" the…
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