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For bilevel programs with a convex lower level program, the classical approach replaces the lower level program with its Karush-Kuhn-Tucker condition and solve the resulting mathematical program with complementarity constraint (MPCC). It is…
Bilevel programs are optimization problems where some variables are solutions to optimization problems themselves, and they arise in a variety of control applications, including: control of vehicle traffic networks, inverse reinforcement…
Gradient-based optimization methods for hyperparameter tuning guarantee theoretical convergence to stationary solutions when for fixed upper-level variable values, the lower level of the bilevel program is strongly convex (LLSC) and smooth…
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Since introduced by Martinet and Rockafellar, the proximal point algorithm was generalized in many fruitful directions. More recently, in 2002, Pennanen studied the proximal point algorithm without monotonicity. A year later, Iusem and…
In this paper, we consider bilevel optimization problem where the lower-level has coupled constraints, i.e. the constraints depend both on the upper- and lower-level variables. In particular, we consider two settings for the lower-level…
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This paper considers a bilevel program, which has many applications in practice. To develop effective numerical algorithms, it is generally necessary to transform the bilevel program into a single-level optimization problem. The most…
We investigate a difference-of-convex (DC) formulation where the second term is allowed to be weakly convex. We examine the precise behavior of a single iteration of the difference-of-convex algorithm (DCA), providing a tight…
We consider a difference-of-convex formulation where one of the terms is allowed to be hypoconvex (or weakly convex). We first examine the precise behavior of a single iteration of the Difference-of-Convex algorithm (DCA), giving a tight…
This paper presents a multilevel FISTA algorithm, based on the use of the Moreau envelope to build the correction brought by the coarse models, which is easy to compute when the explicit form of the proximal operator of the considered…
This paper focuses on developing effective algorithms for solving bilevel program. The most popular approach is to replace the lower-level problem by its Karush-Kuhn-Tucker conditions to generate a mathematical program with complementarity…
In optimization-based image restoration models, the correct selection of hyperparameters is crucial for achieving superior performance. However, current research typically involves manual tuning of these hyperparameters, which is highly…
Hyperparameter tuning is an important task of machine learning, which can be formulated as a bilevel program (BLP). However, most existing algorithms are not applicable for BLP with non-smooth lower-level problems. To address this, we…
In this paper, we study a class of bilevel programming problem where the inner objective function is strongly convex. More specifically, under some mile assumptions on the partial derivatives of both inner and outer objective functions, we…
This paper considers a bilevel program. To solve this bilevel program, it is generally necessary to transform it into some single-level optimization problem. One approach is to replace the lower-level program by its KKT conditions to…
Bilevel optimization has found successful applications in various machine learning problems, including hyper-parameter optimization, data cleaning, and meta-learning. However, its huge computational cost presents a significant challenge for…
We investigate a family of bilevel imaging learning problems where the lower-level instance corresponds to a convex variational model involving first- and second-order nonsmooth sparsity-based regularizers. By using geometric properties of…
In this work the minimization problem for the difference of convex (DC) functions is studied by using Moreau envelopes and the descent method with Moreau gradient is employed to approximate the numerical solution. The main regularization…