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Stochastic gradient methods are among the most important algorithms in training machine learning problems. While classical assumptions such as strong convexity allow a simple analysis they are rarely satisfied in applications. In recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Simon Weissmann , Sara Klein , Waïss Azizian , Leif Döring

We prove the local convergence to minima and estimates on the rate of convergence for the stochastic gradient descent method in the case of not necessarily globally convex nor contracting objective functions. In particular, the results are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-02 Benjamin Fehrman , Benjamin Gess , Arnulf Jentzen

We propose an accelerated forward-backward method with fast convergence rate for finding a minimizer of a decomposable nonsmooth convex function over a closed convex set, and name it smoothing accelerated proximal gradient (SAPG) algorithm.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-05 Wei Bian , Fan Wu

In this paper we analyze a class of nonconvex optimization problem from the viewpoint of abstract convexity. Using the respective generalizations of the subgradient we propose an abstract notion proximal operator and derive a number of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-29 Ewa Bednarczuk , Dirk Lorenz , The Hung Tran

Random feature approximation is arguably one of the most widely used techniques for kernel methods in large-scale learning algorithms. In this work, we analyze the generalization properties of random feature methods, extending previous…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-23 Mike Nguyen , Nicole Mücke

In this article, we study the convergence behavior of the regularization-based algorithm for solving the polynomial regression model when both input data and responses are from infinite-dimensional Hilbert spaces. We derive convergence…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Naveen Gupta , Sivananthan Sampath

We propose a novel study of the stochastic proximal gradient method for minimizing the sum of two convex functions, one of which is smooth. Under suitable assumptions and without requiring any boundedness or control of the variance of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Javier I. Madariaga

This letter presents an almost sure convergence of the zeroth-order mirror descent algorithm. The algorithm admits non-smooth convex functions and a biased oracle which only provides noisy function value at any desired point. We approximate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-02 Anik Kumar Paul , Arun D Mahindrakar , Rachel K Kalaimani

In a separable Hilbert space, we study the minimization problem of a convex smooth function with Lipschitz continuous gradient whose evaluations are corrupted by random noise. To this end, we associate a stochastic inertial system that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-18 Chiara Schindler

We present a new algorithm for solving optimization problems with objective functions that are the sum of a smooth function and a (potentially) nonsmooth regularization function, and nonlinear equality constraints. The algorithm may be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-12 Yutong Dai , Xiaoyi Qu , Daniel P. Robinson

We propose a unifying algorithm for non-smooth non-convex optimization. The algorithm approximates the objective function by a convex model function and finds an approximate (Bregman) proximal point of the convex model. This approximate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-27 Peter Ochs , Jalal Fadili , Thomas Brox

This work investigates the properties of the proximity operator for quasar-convex functions and establishes the convergence of the proximal point algorithm to a global minimizer with a particular focus on its convergence rate. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-16 José de Brito , Felipe Lara , Di Liu

Under investigation is the problem of finding the best approximation of a function in a Hilbert space subject to convex constraints and prescribed nonlinear transformations. We show that in many instances these prescriptions can be…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-17 Patrick L. Combettes , Zev C. Woodstock

Given a Hilbert space $\mathcal H$ and a finite measure space $\Omega$, the approximation of a vector-valued function $f: \Omega \to \mathcal H$ by a $k$-dimensional subspace $\mathcal U \subset \mathcal H$ plays an important role in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-07 Daniel Kressner , Tingting Ni , André Uschmajew

In this paper, we derive a Fast Reflected Forward-Backward (Fast RFB) algorithm to solve the problem of finding a zero of the sum of a maximally monotone operator and a monotone and Lipschitz continuous operator in a real Hilbert space. Our…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Radu Ioan Bot , Dang-Khoa Nguyen , Chunxiang Zong

We consider the problem of minimizing a convex objective which is the sum of a smooth part, with Lipschitz continuous gradient, and a nonsmooth part. Inspired by various applications, we focus on the case when the nonsmooth part is a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-08-28 Ting Kei Pong

Two optimization algorithms are proposed for solving a stochastic programming problem for which the objective function is given in the form of the expectation of convex functions and the constraint set is defined by the intersection of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-09 Hideaki Iiduka

We consider the class of convex minimization problems, composed of a self-concordant function, such as the $\log\det$ metric, a convex data fidelity term $h(\cdot)$ and, a regularizing -- possibly non-smooth -- function $g(\cdot)$. This…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-05-14 Anastasios Kyrillidis , Rabeeh Karimi Mahabadi , Quoc Tran-Dinh , Volkan Cevher

We consider stochastic gradient methods under the interpolation regime where a perfect fit can be obtained (minimum loss at each observation). While previous work highlighted the implicit regularization of such algorithms, we consider an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-01 Anant Raj , Francis Bach

The problem of minimization of the sum of two convex functions has various theoretical and real-world applications. One of the popular methods for solving this problem is the proximal gradient method (proximal forward-backward algorithm). A…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-12 Daniel Reem , Simeon Reich , Alvaro De Pierro