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The Golub-Kahan-Tikhonov method is a popular solution technique for large linear discrete ill-posed problems. This method first applies partial Golub-Kahan bidiagonalization to reduce the size of the given problem and then uses Tikhonov…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Davide Bianchi , Marco Donatelli , Davide Furchì , Lothar Reichel

In this paper, for a convex-concave bilinear saddle point problem, we propose a Tikhonov regularized second-order primal-dual dynamical system with slow damping, extrapolation and general time scaling parameters. Depending on the vanishing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-10 Xiangkai Sun , Liang He , Xian-Jun Long

In this paper, we propose a preconditioner based on the shift-splitting method for generalized saddle point problems with nonsymmetric positive definite (1,1)-block and symmetric positive semidefinite $(2,2)$-block. The proposed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-16 Davod Khojasteh Salkuyeh , Mohsen Masoudi , Davod Hezari

Recently, Krukier et al. [Generalized skew-Hermitian triangular splitting iteration methods for saddle-point linear systems, Numer. Linear Algebra Appl. 21 (2014) 152-170] proposed an efficient generalized skew-Hermitian triangular…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-02-25 Yan Dou , Ai-Li Yang , Yu-Jiang Wu

We study a block-structured class of convex-concave saddle-point problems in which both the primal and dual variables admit natural separable decompositions. Motivated by large-scale applications where a full update on either side can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Yiheng Xiao , Huikang Liu

We consider a generic convex-concave saddle point problem with separable structure, a form that covers a wide-ranged machine learning applications. Under this problem structure, we follow the framework of primal-dual updates for saddle…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-06-15 Zhanxing Zhu , Amos J. Storkey

In this paper, we propose an inexact golden ratio primal-dual algorithm with linesearch step(IP-GRPDAL) for solving the saddle point problems, where two subproblems can be approximately solved by applying the notations of inexact extended…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Changjie Fang , Jinxiu Liu , Jingtao Qiu , Shenglan Chen

We propose a doubly stochastic primal-dual coordinate optimization algorithm for empirical risk minimization, which can be formulated as a bilinear saddle-point problem. In each iteration, our method randomly samples a block of coordinates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-04-13 Adams Wei Yu , Qihang Lin , Tianbao Yang

In this paper, we adapt proximal incremental aggregated gradient methods to saddle point problems, which is motivated by decoupling linear transformations in regularized empirical risk minimization models. First, the Primal-Dual Proximal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-14 Zhou Xianchen , Peng Wei , Wang Hongxia

In this paper, we propose a class of general second-order primal-dual dynamical systems with Tikhonov regularization and Hessian-driven damping for solving convex-concave bilinear saddle point problems. The proposed dynamical system…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Bohan Zhang , Xiaojun Zhang

We consider (stochastic) convex-concave saddle point (SP) problems with high-dimensional decision variables, arising in various applications including machine learning problems. To contend with the challenges in computing full gradients, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Erfan Yazdandoost Hamedani , Afrooz Jalilzadeh , Necdet Serhat Aybat

We consider the smooth convex-concave bilinearly-coupled saddle-point problem, $\min_{\mathbf{x}}\max_{\mathbf{y}}~F(\mathbf{x}) + H(\mathbf{x},\mathbf{y}) - G(\mathbf{y})$, where one has access to stochastic first-order oracles for $F$,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-15 Simon S. Du , Gauthier Gidel , Michael I. Jordan , Chris Junchi Li

Saddle point problems arise in many important practical applications. In this paper we propose and analyze some algorithms for solving symmetric saddle point problems which are based upon the block Gram-Schmidt method. In particular, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-12-19 Felicja Okulicka-Dłużewska , Alicja Smoktunowicz

We provide an overview of primal-dual algorithms for nonsmooth and non-convex-concave saddle-point problems. This flows around a new analysis of such methods, using Bregman divergences to formulate simplified conditions for convergence.

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-03 Tuomo Valkonen

A central challenge to using first-order methods for optimizing nonconvex problems is the presence of saddle points. First-order methods often get stuck at saddle points, greatly deteriorating their performance. Typically, to escape from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-06 Sashank J Reddi , Manzil Zaheer , Suvrit Sra , Barnabas Poczos , Francis Bach , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , Alexander J Smola

In this paper we consider solving saddle point problems using two variants of Gradient Descent-Ascent algorithms, Extra-gradient (EG) and Optimistic Gradient Descent Ascent (OGDA) methods. We show that both of these algorithms admit a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-06 Aryan Mokhtari , Asuman Ozdaglar , Sarath Pattathil

Recently, the problem of local minima in very high dimensional non-convex optimization has been challenged and the problem of saddle points has been introduced. This paper introduces a dynamic type of normalization that forces the system to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-02-08 Armen Aghajanyan

Bilevel optimization has recently regained interest owing to its applications in emerging machine learning fields such as hyperparameter optimization, meta-learning, and reinforcement learning. Recent results have shown that simple…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-09 Quan Xiao , Songtao Lu , Tianyi Chen

Recently, in (M. Masoudi, D.K. Salkuyeh, An extension of positive-definite and skew-Hermitian splitting method for preconditioning of generalized saddle point problems, Computers \& Mathematics with Application,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-13 Mohsen Masoudi , Davod Khojasteh Salkuyeh

Consider the classical problem of solving a general linear system of equations $Ax=b$. It is well known that the (successively over relaxed) Gauss-Seidel scheme and many of its variants may not converge when $A$ is neither diagonally…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-14 Meisam Razaviyayn , Mingyi Hong , Navid Reyhanian , Zhi-Quan Luo