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We design inexact proximal augmented Lagrangian based decomposition methods for convex composite programming problems with dual block-angular structures. Our methods are particularly well suited for convex quadratic programming problems…

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The complexity in large-scale optimization can lie in both handling the objective function and handling the constraint set. In this respect, stochastic Frank-Wolfe algorithms occupy a unique position as they alleviate both computational…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-16 Cyrille W. Combettes , Christoph Spiegel , Sebastian Pokutta

In this paper we consider a class of convex conic programming. In particular, we first propose an inexact augmented Lagrangian (I-AL) method that resembles the classical I-AL method for solving this problem, in which the augmented…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-22 Zhaosong Lu , Zirui Zhou

Training of neural networks amounts to nonconvex optimization problems that are typically solved by using backpropagation and (variants of) stochastic gradient descent. In this work we propose an alternative approach by viewing the training…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-14 Brecht Evens , Puya Latafat , Andreas Themelis , Johan Suykens , Panagiotis Patrinos

Over the past two decades, descent methods have received substantial attention within the multiobjective optimization field. Nonetheless, both theoretical analyses and empirical evidence reveal that existing first-order methods for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-13 Jian Chen , Liping Tang , Xinmin Yang

We consider a wide range of regularized stochastic minimization problems with two regularization terms, one of which is composed with a linear function. This optimization model abstracts a number of important applications in artificial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-02 Tianyi Lin , Linbo Qiao , Teng Zhang , Jiashi Feng , Bofeng Zhang

This paper proposes a projection-free primal-dual dynamics for the nonsmooth composite optimization problems with equality and inequality constraints. To deal with optimization constraints, this paper departs from the use of gradient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Wei Ni , Yangfan Qiu , Yanyan Xiao

This work introduces an unconventional inexact augmented Lagrangian method where the augmenting term is a Euclidean norm raised to a power between one and two. The proposed algorithm is applicable to a broad class of constrained nonconvex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Alexander Bodard , Konstantinos Oikonomidis , Emanuel Laude , Panagiotis Patrinos

The Euclidean projection onto a convex set is an important problem that arises in numerous constrained optimization tasks. Unfortunately, in many cases, computing projections is computationally demanding. In this work, we focus on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-22 Ilnura Usmanova , Maryam Kamgarpour , Andreas Krause , Kfir Yehuda Levy

We consider a generic decentralized constrained optimization problem over static, directed communication networks, where each agent has exclusive access to only one convex, differentiable, local objective term and one convex constraint set.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-09 Firooz Shahriari-Mehr , Ashkan Panahi

Despite the non-convexity of most modern machine learning parameterizations, Lagrangian duality has become a popular tool for addressing constrained learning problems. We revisit Augmented Lagrangian methods, which aim to mitigate the…

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As a mathematical model of high-speed flow and shock wave propagation in a complex multimaterial setting, Lagrangian hydrodynamics is characterized by moving meshes, advection-dominated solutions, and moving shock fronts with sharp…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-24 Dylan Matthew Copeland , Siu Wun Cheung , Kevin Huynh , Youngsoo Choi

The linear primal-dual hybrid gradient (PDHG) method is a first-order method that splits convex optimization problems with saddle-point structure into smaller subproblems. Unlike those obtained in most splitting methods, these subproblems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-05 Jérôme Darbon , Gabriel P. Langlois

The augmented Lagrangian method (ALM) is a benchmark for convex programming problems with linear constraints; ALM and its variants for linearly equality-constrained convex minimization models have been well studied in the literature.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Bingsheng He , Shengjie Xu , Jing Yuan

We derive several numerical methods for designing optimized first-order algorithms in unconstrained convex optimization settings. Our methods are based on the Performance Estimation Problem (PEP) framework, which casts the worst-case…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Yassine Kamri , Julien M. Hendrickx , François Glineur

Gradient methods are widely used in optimization problems. In practice, while the smoothness parameter can be estimated utilizing techniques such as backtracking, estimating the strong convexity parameter remains a challenge; moreover, even…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Xiaozhe Hu , Sara Pollock , Zhongqin Xue , Yunrong Zhu

With advances in deep learning, exponential data growth and increasing model complexity, developing efficient optimization methods are attracting much research attention. Several implementations favor the use of Conjugate Gradient (CG) and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Buse Melis Ozyildirim , Mariam Kiran

In this paper, we consider nonlinear optimization problems with nonlinear equality constraints and bound constraints on the variables. For the solution of such problems, many augmented Lagrangian methods have been defined in the literature.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-12 Andrea Cristofari , Gianni Di Pillo , Giampaolo Liuzzi , Stefano Lucidi

This paper considers a convex composite optimization problem with affine constraints, which includes problems that take the form of minimizing a smooth convex objective function over the intersection of (simple) convex sets, or regularized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-23 Dan Garber , Tsur Livney , Shoham Sabach