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This paper addresses a distributed convex optimization problem with a class of coupled constraints, which arise in a multi-agent system composed of multiple communities modeled by cliques. First, we propose a fully distributed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-21 Yuto Watanabe , Kazunori Sakurama

We consider optimizing a function smooth convex function $f$ that is the average of a set of differentiable functions $f_i$, under the assumption considered by Solodov [1998] and Tseng [1998] that the norm of each gradient $f_i'$ is bounded…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-08-30 Mark Schmidt , Nicolas Le Roux

We present a strikingly simple proof that two rules are sufficient to automate gradient descent: 1) don't increase the stepsize too fast and 2) don't overstep the local curvature. No need for functional values, no line search, no…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-18 Yura Malitsky , Konstantin Mishchenko

Gradient-based iterative optimization methods are the workhorse of modern machine learning. They crucially rely on careful tuning of parameters like learning rate and momentum. However, one typically sets them using heuristic approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Dravyansh Sharma

The proximal inertial gradient descent is efficient for the composite minimization and applicable for broad of machine learning problems. In this paper, we revisit the computational complexity of this algorithm and present other novel…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-19 Tao Sun , Linbo Qiao , Dongsheng Li

Drori and Teboulle [4] conjectured that the minimax optimal constant stepsize for N steps of gradient descent is given by the stepsize that balances performance on Huber and quadratic objective functions. This was numerically supported by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-17 Benjamin Grimmer , Kevin Shu , Alex L. Wang

We consider gradient descent (GD) with a constant stepsize applied to logistic regression with linearly separable data, where the constant stepsize $\eta$ is so large that the loss initially oscillates. We show that GD exits this initial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Jingfeng Wu , Peter L. Bartlett , Matus Telgarsky , Bin Yu

Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) for strongly convex functions converges at the rate $\bO(1/k)$. However, achieving good results in practice requires tuning the parameters (for example the learning rate) of the algorithm. In this paper we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-15 Adam M. Oberman , Mariana Prazeres

This paper generalizes the dynamical system proposed by Wang et al. [Siam. J. Sci. Comput., 2021] to multiobjective optimization by investigating a multiobjective accelerated gradient-like flow with asymptotically vanishing normalized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Yingdong Yin

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

We present a family of algorithms, called descent algorithms, for optimizing convex and non-convex functions. We also introduce a new first-order algorithm, called rescaled gradient descent (RGD), and show that RGD achieves a faster…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-07 Ashia Wilson , Lester Mackey , Andre Wibisono

The analysis of gradient descent-type methods typically relies on the Lipschitz continuity of the objective gradient. This generally requires an expensive hyperparameter tuning process to appropriately calibrate a stepsize for a given…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-16 Albert S. Berahas , Lindon Roberts , Fred Roosta

In this paper, we propose a fast proximal gradient algorithm for multiobjective optimization, it is proved that the convergence rate of the accelerated algorithm for multiobjective optimization developed by Tanabe et al. can be improved…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-13 Jie Zhang , Xinmin Yang

We analyze the convergence rate of the monotone accelerated proximal gradient method, which can be used to solve structured convex composite optimization problems. A linear convergence rate is established when the smooth part of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-16 Zepeng Wang , Juan Peypouquet

Recent works by Altschuler and Parrilo and the authors have shown that it is possible to accelerate the convergence of gradient descent on smooth convex functions, even without momentum, just by picking special stepsizes. In this paper, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Benjamin Grimmer , Kevin Shu , Alex L. Wang

We propose a first-order method for stochastic strongly convex optimization that attains $O(1/n)$ rate of convergence, analysis show that the proposed method is simple, easily to implement, and in worst case, asymptotically four times…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-10-14 Peng Cheng

Gradient descent and stochastic gradient descent are central to modern machine learning, yet their behavior under large step sizes remains theoretically unclear. Recent work suggests that acceleration often arises near the edge of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Sacchit Kale , Piyushi Manupriya , Pierre Marion , Francis Bach , Anant Raj

A vast literature on convergence guarantees for gradient descent and derived methods exists at the moment. However, a simple practical situation remains unexplored: when a fixed step size is used, can we expect gradient descent to converge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Alexandru Crăciun , Debarghya Ghoshdastidar

This paper considers stochastic optimization problems for a large class of objective functions, including convex and continuous submodular. Stochastic proximal gradient methods have been widely used to solve such problems; however, their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-13 Aryan Mokhtari , Hamed Hassani , Amin Karbasi

A set of accelerated first order algorithms with memory are proposed for minimising strongly convex functions. The algorithms are differentiated by their use of the iterate history for the gradient step. The increased convergence rate of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-31 Ross Drummond , Stephen Duncan