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Adaptive gradient-descent optimizers are the standard choice for training neural network models. Despite their faster convergence than gradient-descent and remarkable performance in practice, the adaptive optimizers are not as well…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Kushal Chakrabarti , Mayank Baranwal

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

In this paper, we propose and analyze algorithms for zeroth-order optimization of non-convex composite objectives, focusing on reducing the complexity dependence on dimensionality. This is achieved by exploiting the low dimensional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-16 Weijia Shao , Sahin Albayrak

In this paper, we study the problem of solving a simple bilevel optimization problem, where the upper-level objective is minimized over the solution set of the lower-level problem. We focus on the general setting in which both the upper-…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-01 Jincheng Cao , Ruichen Jiang , Erfan Yazdandoost Hamedani , Aryan Mokhtari

We propose a new family of adaptive first-order methods for a class of convex minimization problems that may fail to be Lipschitz continuous or smooth in the standard sense. Specifically, motivated by a recent flurry of activity on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-19 Kimon Antonakopoulos , Panayotis Mertikopoulos

Bilevel optimization is widely applied in many machine learning tasks such as hyper-parameter learning, meta learning and reinforcement learning. Although many algorithms recently have been developed to solve the bilevel optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-26 Feihu Huang

The mirror descent algorithm is known to be effective in situations where it is beneficial to adapt the mirror map to the underlying geometry of the optimization model. However, the effect of mirror maps on the geometry of distributed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-13 Anastasia Borovykh , Nikolas Kantas , Panos Parpas , Grigorios A. Pavliotis

We propose some adaptive mirror descent dethods for convex programming problems with delta-subgradients and prove some theoretical results.

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-24 Fedor S. Stonyakin

Many important machine learning applications involve regularized nonconvex bi-level optimization. However, the existing gradient-based bi-level optimization algorithms cannot handle nonconvex or nonsmooth regularizers, and they suffer from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Ziyi Chen , Bhavya Kailkhura , Yi Zhou

The Polyak-Lojasiewicz (PL) inequality is a sufficient condition for establishing linear convergence of gradient descent, even in non-convex settings. While several recent works use a PL-based analysis to establish linear convergence of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Adityanarayanan Radhakrishnan , Mikhail Belkin , Caroline Uhler

Bilevel optimization is a hierarchical framework where an upper-level optimization problem is constrained by a lower-level problem, commonly used in machine learning applications such as hyperparameter optimization. Existing bilevel…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Yuman Wu , Xiaochuan Gong , Jie Hao , Mingrui Liu

In this paper, we focus on simple bilevel optimization problems, where we minimize a convex smooth objective function over the optimal solution set of another convex smooth constrained optimization problem. We present a novel bilevel…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-03 Jincheng Cao , Ruichen Jiang , Erfan Yazdandoost Hamedani , Aryan Mokhtari

We introduce a notion of inexact model of a convex objective function, which allows for errors both in the function and in its gradient. For this situation, a gradient method with an adaptive adjustment of some parameters of the model is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-12 Fedor S. Stonyakin

Consider composite nonconvex optimization problems where the objective function consists of a smooth nonconvex term (with Lipschitz-continuous gradient) and a convex (possibly nonsmooth) term. Existing parameter-free methods for such…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-08 Zilong Ye , Shiqian Ma , Junfeng Yang , Danqing Zhou

Bilevel optimization reveals the inner structure of otherwise oblique optimization problems, such as hyperparameter tuning, neural architecture search, and meta-learning. A common goal in bilevel optimization is to minimize a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Lesi Chen , Jing Xu , Jingzhao Zhang

Recently there were proposed some innovative convex optimization concepts, namely, relative smoothness [1] and relative strong convexity [2,3]. These approaches have significantly expanded the class of applicability of gradient-type methods…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-19 Fedor Stonyakin , Alexander Titov , Mohammad Alkousa , Oleg Savchuk , Alexander Gasnikov

There are much recent interests in solving noncovnex min-max optimization problems due to its broad applications in many areas including machine learning, networked resource allocations, and distributed optimization. Perhaps, the most…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-20 Thinh T. Doan

In this paper, we describe a stochastic adaptive fast gradient descent method based on the mirror variant of similar triangles method. To our knowledge, this is the first attempt to use adaptivity in stochastic method. Additionally, a main…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-04 Alexander Tyurin

In this paper, we study a class of stochastic bilevel optimization problems, also known as stochastic simple bilevel optimization, where we minimize a smooth stochastic objective function over the optimal solution set of another stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-16 Jincheng Cao , Ruichen Jiang , Nazanin Abolfazli , Erfan Yazdandoost Hamedani , Aryan Mokhtari

In this paper, we derive a new linear convergence rate for the gradient method with fixed step lengths for non-convex smooth optimization problems satisfying the Polyak-Lojasiewicz (PL) inequality. We establish that the PL inequality is a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-05 Hadi Abbaszadehpeivasti , Etienne de Klerk , Moslem Zamani