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Multi-objective Bayesian optimization (MOBO) provides a principled framework for optimizing expensive black-box functions with multiple objectives. However, existing MOBO methods often struggle with coverage, scalability with respect to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Yaohong Yang , Sammie Katt , Samuel Kaski

We study the convergence rate of Bregman gradient methods for convex optimization in the space of measures on a $d$-dimensional manifold. Under basic regularity assumptions, we show that the suboptimality gap at iteration $k$ is in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-15 Lénaïc Chizat

The Bregman proximal gradient method (BPGM), which uses the Bregman distance as a proximity measure in the iterative scheme, has recently been re-developed for minimizing convex composite problems without the global Lipschitz gradient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-16 Lei Yang , Kim-Chuan Toh

We introduce some new proximal quasi-Newton methods for unconstrained multiobjective optimization problems (in short, UMOP), where each objective function is the sum of a twice continuously differentiable strongly convex function and a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-08 Jian-Wen Peng , Jie Ren

In this paper, we present an efficient algorithm for solving a linear optimization problem with entropic constraints, a class of problems that arises in game theory and information theory. Our analysis distinguishes between the cases of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Luis M. Briceño-Arias , Maël Le Treust

Stochastic multi-objective optimization (SMOO) has recently emerged as a powerful framework for addressing machine learning problems with multiple objectives. The bias introduced by the nonlinearity of the subproblem solution mapping…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-10 Linxi Yang , Liping Tang , Jiahao Lv , Yuehong He , Xinmin Yang

This paper studies a class of simple bilevel optimization problems where we minimize a composite convex function at the upper-level subject to a composite convex lower-level problem. Existing methods either provide asymptotic guarantees for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-06 Jiulin Wang , Xu Shi , Rujun Jiang

One of the major issues in stochastic gradient descent (SGD) methods is how to choose an appropriate step size while running the algorithm. Since the traditional line search technique does not apply for stochastic optimization algorithms,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-05-24 Conghui Tan , Shiqian Ma , Yu-Hong Dai , Yuqiu Qian

In this paper, we propose the approximate Bregman proximal gradient algorithm (ABPG) for solving composite nonconvex optimization problems. ABPG employs a new distance that approximates the Bregman distance, making the subproblem of ABPG…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-25 Shota Takahashi , Akiko Takeda

The proximal bundle method (PBM) is a powerful and widely used approach for minimizing nonsmooth convex functions. However, for smooth objectives, its best-known convergence rate remains suboptimal, and whether PBM can be accelerated…

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Bilevel optimization has been developed for many machine learning tasks with large-scale and high-dimensional data. This paper considers a constrained bilevel optimization problem, where the lower-level optimization problem is convex with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Siyuan Xu , Minghui Zhu

Variable metric proximal gradient methods with different metric selections have been widely used in composite optimization. Combining the Barzilai-Borwein (BB) method with a diagonal selection strategy for the metric, the diagonal BB…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-05 Tengteng Yu , Xin-Wei Liu , Yu-Hong Dai , Jie Sun

The Barzilai-Borwein (BB) method is a popular and efficient tool for solving large-scale unconstrained optimization problems. Its search direction is the same as for the steepest descent (Cauchy) method, but its stepsize rule is different.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-13 Oleg Burdakov , Yu-Hong Dai , Na Huang

In this paper we consider a class of optimization problems with a strongly convex objective function and the feasible set given by an intersection of a simple convex set with a set given by a number of linear equality and inequality…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-05-11 Alexey Chernov , Pavel Dvurechensky , Alexander Gasnikov

We consider the problem of optimizing the sum of a smooth convex function and a non-smooth convex function using proximal-gradient methods, where an error is present in the calculation of the gradient of the smooth term or in the proximity…

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Multi-objective optimization (MOO) has received growing attention in applications that require learning under multiple criteria. However, the existing MOO formulations do not explicitly account for distributional shifts in the data. We…

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This article introduces the multi-objective adaptive order Caputo fractional gradient descent (MOAOCFGD) algorithm for solving unconstrained multi-objective problems. The proposed method performs equally well for both smooth and non-smooth…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-11 Barsha Shaw , Md Abu Talhamainuddin Ansary

A novel gradient stepsize is derived at the motivation of equipping the Barzilai-Borwein (BB) method with two dimensional quadratic termination property. A remarkable feature of the novel stepsize is that its computation only depends on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-12 Yakui Huang , Yu-Hong Dai , Xin-Wei Liu

We present two approximate versions of the proximal subgradient method for minimizing the sum of two convex functions (not necessarily differentiable). The algorithms involve, at each iteration, inexact evaluations of the proximal operator…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-12 Reinier Díaz Millán , Majela Pentón Machado

In this paper we consider stochastic composite convex optimization problems with the objective function satisfying a stochastic bounded gradient condition, with or without a quadratic functional growth property. These models include the…

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