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Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-02 Jerome Bolte , Edouard Pauwels , Rodolfo Rios-Zertuche

We investigate the convergence rate of the recently proposed subgradient-push method for distributed optimization over time-varying directed graphs. The subgradient-push method can be implemented in a distributed way without requiring…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-02-17 Angelia Nedic , Alex Olshevsky

We propose a distributed algorithm based on Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) to minimize the sum of locally known convex functions using communication over a network. This optimization problem emerges in many applications…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-01-05 Ali Makhdoumi , Asuman Ozdaglar

We consider the problem of minimizing the sum of a Lipschitz differentiable convex function $f$ and a proper closed convex function $h$ that admits efficient linear minimization oracles, subject to multiple smooth convex inequality…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Xiaozhou Wang , Ting Kei Pong , Zev Woodstock

We introduce a novel gradient descent algorithm extending the well-known Gradient Sampling methodology to the class of stratifiably smooth objective functions, which are defined as locally Lipschitz functions that are smooth on some regular…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Jacob Leygonie , Mathieu Carrière , Théo Lacombe , Steve Oudot

An algorithm is proposed, analyzed, and tested for minimizing locally Lipschitz objective functions that may be nonconvex and/or nonsmooth. The algorithm, which is built upon the gradient-sampling methodology, is designed specifically for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Albert S. Berahas , Frank E. Curtis , Lara Zebiane

In infinite-dimensional Hilbert spaces we device a class of strongly convergent primal-dual schemes for solving variational inequalities defined by a Lipschitz continuous and pseudomonote map. Our novel numerical scheme is based on Tseng's…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-27 Benoit Duvocelle , Dennis Meier , Mathias Staudigl , Phan Tu Vuong

This paper presents a tractable algorithm for estimating an unknown Lipschitz function from noisy observations and establishes an upper bound on its convergence rate. The approach extends max-affine methods from convex shape-restricted…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-20 Gábor Balázs

This paper addresses the minimization of a finite sum of prox-convex functions under Lipschitz continuity of each component. We propose two variants of the splitting proximal point algorithms proposed in \cite{Bacak,Bertsekas}: one…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Jose de Brito , Felipe Lara , Tran Van Thang

In this paper, we propose an efficient and flexible algorithm to solve dynamic mean-field planning problems based on an accelerated proximal gradient method. Besides an easy-to-implement gradient descent step in this algorithm, a crucial…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-01 Jiajia Yu , Rongjie Lai , Wuchen Li , Stanley Osher

We develop multi-step gradient methods for network-constrained optimization of strongly convex functions with Lipschitz-continuous gradients. Given the topology of the underlying network and bounds on the Hessian of the objective function,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-06-12 Euhanna Ghadimi , Iman Shames , Mikael Johansson

Randomized smoothing is a widely adopted technique for optimizing nonsmooth objective functions. However, its efficiency analysis typically relies on global Lipschitz continuity, a condition rarely met in practical applications. To address…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-10 Jingfan Xia , Zhenwei Lin , Qi Deng

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-03 Fedor Stonyakin , Alexey Stepanov , Alexander Gasnikov , Alexander Titov

Preconditioning is a crucial operation in gradient-based numerical optimisation. It helps decrease the local condition number of a function by appropriately transforming its gradient. For a convex function, where the gradient can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-29 Dmitrii A. Pasechnyuk , Alexander Gasnikov , Martin Takáč

We consider the problem of minimizing the sum of two convex functions: one is the average of a large number of smooth component functions, and the other is a general convex function that admits a simple proximal mapping. We assume the whole…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-03-20 Lin Xiao , Tong Zhang

In this paper, we analyze the iteration-complexity of Generalized Forward--Backward (GFB) splitting algorithm, as proposed in \cite{gfb2011}, for minimizing a large class of composite objectives $f + \sum_{i=1}^n h_i$ on a Hilbert space,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-02-11 Jingwei Liang , Jalal M. Fadili , Gabriel Peyré

Most existing methodologies of estimating low-rank matrices rely on Burer-Monteiro factorization, but these approaches can suffer from slow convergence, especially when dealing with solutions characterized by a large condition number,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-06 Teng Zhang , Xing Fan

Composite optimization problems involve minimizing the composition of a smooth map with a convex function. Such objectives arise in numerous data science and signal processing applications, including phase retrieval, blind deconvolution,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-06 Mateo Díaz , Liwei Jiang , Abdel Ghani Labassi

We establish the convergence of the forward-backward splitting algorithm based on Bregman distances for the sum of two monotone operators in reflexive Banach spaces. Even in Euclidean spaces, the convergence of this algorithm has so far…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-29 Minh N. Bùi , Patrick L. Combettes

We study differentiable strongly quasiconvex functions for providing new properties for algorithmic and monotonicity purposes. Furthemore, we provide insights into the decreasing behaviour of strongly quasiconvex functions, applying this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-07 Felipe Lara , Raúl T. Marcavillaca , Phan T. Vuong
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