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We revisit the smooth convex-concave bilinearly-coupled saddle-point problem of the form $\min_x\max_y f(x) + \langle y,\mathbf{B} x\rangle - g(y)$. In the highly specific case where each of the functions $f(x)$ and $g(y)$ is either affine…

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We proposed an iterate scheme for solving convex-concave saddle-point problems associated with general convex-concave functions. We demonstrated that when our iterate scheme is applied to a special class of convex-concave functions, which…

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We give a continuous perspective on the Inertial Corrected Primal-Dual Proximal Splitting (IC-PDPS) proposed by Valkonen ({\it SIAM J. Optim.}, 30(2): 1391--1420, 2020) for solving saddle-point problems. The algorithm possesses nonergodic…