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In this paper, we consider large-scale linearly constrained composite convex optimization problem, whose objective is a sum of a smooth function and a possibly nonsmooth function. We propose a scalable \textbf{F}rank-\textbf{W}olfe based…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-10-13 Ya-Feng Liu , Xiangfeng Wang , Xin Liu , Shiqian Ma

Some variant of the Frank-Wolfe method for convex optimization problems with adaptive selection of the step parameter corresponding to information about the smoothness of the objective function (the Lipschitz constant of the gradient).…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-01 G. V. Aivazian , F. S. Stonyakin , D. A. Pasechnyuk , M. S. Alkousa , A. M. Raigorodskii

We investigate variants of the Frank-Wolfe (FW) algorithm for smoothing and strongly convex optimization over polyhedral sets, with the goal of designing algorithms that achieve linear convergence while minimizing per-iteration complexity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Haoning Wang , Houduo Qi , Liping Zhang

This paper proposes a new variant of Frank-Wolfe (FW), called $k$FW. Standard FW suffers from slow convergence: iterates often zig-zag as update directions oscillate around extreme points of the constraint set. The new variant, $k$FW,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-17 Lijun Ding , Jicong Fan , Madeleine Udell

We study Frank-Wolfe methods for nonconvex stochastic and finite-sum optimization problems. Frank-Wolfe methods (in the convex case) have gained tremendous recent interest in machine learning and optimization communities due to their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-01 Sashank J. Reddi , Suvrit Sra , Barnabas Poczos , Alex Smola

As edge computing capabilities increase, model learning deployments in diverse edge environments have emerged. In experimental design networks, introduced recently, network routing and rate allocation are designed to aid the transfer of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Yuanyuan Li , Lili Su , Carlee Joe-Wong , Edmund Yeh , Stratis Ioannidis

We revisit the Frank-Wolfe (FW) optimization under strongly convex constraint sets. We provide a faster convergence rate for FW without line search, showing that a previously overlooked variant of FW is indeed faster than the standard…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-01 Jarrid Rector-Brooks , Jun-Kun Wang , Barzan Mozafari

We propose a rank-$k$ variant of the classical Frank-Wolfe algorithm to solve convex optimization over a trace-norm ball. Our algorithm replaces the top singular-vector computation ($1$-SVD) in Frank-Wolfe with a top-$k$ singular-vector…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-10 Zeyuan Allen-Zhu , Elad Hazan , Wei Hu , Yuanzhi Li

In this paper, we consider non-convex optimization problems under \textit{unknown} yet safety-critical constraints. Such problems naturally arise in a variety of domains including robotics, manufacturing, and medical procedures, where it is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Mohammad Fereydounian , Zebang Shen , Aryan Mokhtari , Amin Karbasi , Hamed Hassani

We propose Frank--Wolfe (FW) algorithms with an adaptive Bregman step-size strategy for smooth adaptable (also called: relatively smooth) (weakly-) convex functions. This means that the gradient of the objective function is not necessarily…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-19 Shota Takahashi , Sebastian Pokutta , Akiko Takeda

Online optimization has been a successful framework for solving large-scale problems under computational constraints and partial information. Current methods for online convex optimization require either a projection or exact gradient…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-15 Lin Chen , Christopher Harshaw , Hamed Hassani , Amin Karbasi

Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) often relies on the separability condition for tractable algorithm design. Separability-based NMF is mainly handled by two types of approaches, namely, greedy pursuit and convex programming. A notable…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-20 Tri Nguyen , Xiao Fu , Ruiyuan Wu

We consider variants of the classical Frank-Wolfe algorithm for constrained smooth convex minimization, that instead of access to the standard oracle for minimizing a linear function over the feasible set, have access to an oracle that can…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-10 Dan Garber , Noam Wolf

A broad class of convex optimization problems can be formulated as a semidefinite program (SDP), minimization of a convex function over the positive-semidefinite cone subject to some affine constraints. The majority of classical SDP solvers…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-30 Francesco Locatello , Alp Yurtsever , Olivier Fercoq , Volkan Cevher

The Frank-Wolfe algorithm is a classic method for constrained optimization problems. It has recently been popular in many machine learning applications because its projection-free property leads to more efficient iterations. In this paper,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-23 Cheng Chen , Luo Luo , Weinan Zhang , Yong Yu

We present and analyze a new generalized Frank-Wolfe method for the composite optimization problem $(P):{\min}_{x\in\mathbb{R}^n}\; f(\mathsf{A} x) + h(x)$, where $f$ is a $\theta$-logarithmically-homogeneous self-concordant barrier,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-07 Renbo Zhao , Robert M. Freund

The Frank-Wolfe algorithm is a popular method for minimizing a smooth convex function $f$ over a compact convex set $\mathcal{C}$. While many convergence results have been derived in terms of function values, hardly nothing is known about…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-18 Jérôme Bolte , Cyrille W. Combettes , Édouard Pauwels

We extend the Frank-Wolfe (FW) optimization algorithm to solve constrained smooth convex-concave saddle point (SP) problems. Remarkably, the method only requires access to linear minimization oracles. Leveraging recent advances in FW…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-07 Gauthier Gidel , Tony Jebara , Simon Lacoste-Julien

Aiming at convex optimization under structural constraints, this work introduces and analyzes a variant of the Frank Wolfe (FW) algorithm termed ExtraFW. The distinct feature of ExtraFW is the pair of gradients leveraged per iteration,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-11 Bingcong Li , Lingda Wang , Georgios B. Giannakis , Zhizhen Zhao

This paper considers distributed online convex constrained optimization, in which various agents in a multi-agent system cooperate to minimize a global cost function through communicating with neighbors over a time-varying network. When the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-02 Wentao Zhang , Yang Shi , Baoyong Zhang , Deming Yuan