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In this paper, we propose a generalized conditional gradient method for multiobjective optimization, which can be viewed as an improved extension of the classical Frank-Wolfe (conditional gradient) method for single-objective optimization.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-25 Anteneh Getachew Gebrie , Ellen Hidemi Fukuda

In this project, we reviewed a paper that deals graph-structured convex optimization (GSCO) problem with the approximate Frank-Wolfe (FW) algorithm. We analyzed and implemented the original algorithm and introduced some extensions based on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-26 Yijian Pan , Hongjiao Qiang

We provide a template to derive convergence rates for the following popular versions of the Frank-Wolfe algorithm on polytopes: vanilla Frank-Wolfe, Frank-Wolfe with away steps, Frank-Wolfe with blended pairwise steps, and Frank-Wolfe with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-21 Elias Wirth , Javier Pena , Sebastian Pokutta

An extension of the Frank-Wolfe Algorithm (FWA), also known as Conditional Gradient algorithm, is proposed. In its standard form, the FWA allows to solve constrained optimization problems involving $\beta$-smooth cost functions, calling at…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-28 Guilherme Mazanti , Thibault Moquet , Laurent Pfeiffer

This work proposes a new algorithm for training a re-weighted L2 Support Vector Machine (SVM), inspired on the re-weighted Lasso algorithm of Cand\`es et al. and on the equivalence between Lasso and SVM shown recently by Jaggi. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-16 Carlos M. Alaíz , Johan A. K. Suykens

We exploit analogies between first-order algorithms for constrained optimization and non-smooth dynamical systems to design a new class of accelerated first-order algorithms for constrained optimization. Unlike Frank-Wolfe or projected…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-02 Michael Muehlebach , Michael I. Jordan

In this paper, we consider conditional gradient methods. These are methods that use a linear minimization oracle, which, for a given vector $p \in \mathbb{R}^n$, computes the solution of the subproblem $$\arg \min_{x\in X}{\langle p,x…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-17 Artem Agafonov

In this paper, we study the problem of finding the Euclidean distance to a convex cone generated by a set of discrete points in $\mathbb{R}^n_+$. In particular, we are interested in problems where the discrete points are the set of feasible…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-04-24 Ali Fattahi , Sriram Dasu , Reza Ahmadi

The Frank-Wolfe algorithm has regained much interest in its use in structurally constrained machine learning applications. However, one major limitation of the Frank-Wolfe algorithm is the slow local convergence property due to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-02 Zhaoyue Chen , Mokhwa Lee , Yifan Sun

We consider the oracle complexity of constrained convex optimization given access to a Linear Minimization Oracle (LMO) for the constraint set and a gradient oracle for the $L$-smooth, strongly convex objective. This model includes…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Benjamin Grimmer , Ning Liu

Projection-free optimization algorithms, which are mostly based on the classical Frank-Wolfe method, have gained significant interest in the machine learning community in recent years due to their ability to handle convex constraints that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Dan Garber , Ben Kretzu

The Frank-Wolfe algorithm has seen a resurgence in popularity due to its ability to efficiently solve constrained optimization problems in machine learning and high-dimensional statistics. As such, there is much interest in establishing…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-05-19 Suhas Vijaykumar

We study projection-free methods for constrained Riemannian optimization. In particular, we propose the Riemannian Frank-Wolfe (RFW) method. We analyze non-asymptotic convergence rates of RFW to an optimum for (geodesically) convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-29 Melanie Weber , Suvrit Sra

This paper considers distributed online convex constrained optimization, in which various agents in a multi-agent system cooperate to minimize a global cost function through communicating with neighbors over a time-varying network. When the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-02 Wentao Zhang , Yang Shi , Baoyong Zhang , Deming Yuan

In many online learning problems the computational bottleneck for gradient-based methods is the projection operation. For this reason, in many problems the most efficient algorithms are based on the Frank-Wolfe method, which replaces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-17 Elad Hazan , Edgar Minasyan

We propose a fast and scalable Polyatomic Frank-Wolfe (P-FW) algorithm for the resolution of high-dimensional LASSO regression problems. The latter improves upon traditional Frank-Wolfe methods by considering generalized greedy steps with…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-03 Adrian Jarret , Julien Fageot , Matthieu Simeoni

Greedy optimization methods such as Matching Pursuit (MP) and Frank-Wolfe (FW) algorithms regained popularity in recent years due to their simplicity, effectiveness and theoretical guarantees. MP and FW address optimization over the linear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-21 Francesco Locatello , Michael Tschannen , Gunnar Rätsch , Martin Jaggi

We consider the problem of finding critical points of functions that are non-convex and non-smooth. Studying a fairly broad class of such problems, we analyze the behavior of three gradient-based methods (gradient descent, proximal update,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-04-26 Koulik Khamaru , Martin J. Wainwright

The analysis of Frank Wolfe (FW) variants is often complicated by the presence of different kinds of "good" and "bad" steps. In this article we aim to simplify the convergence analysis of some of these variants by getting rid of such a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-22 Francesco Rinaldi , Damiano Zeffiro

The move from hand-designed to learned optimizers in machine learning has been quite successful for gradient-based and -free optimizers. When facing a constrained problem, however, maintaining feasibility typically requires a projection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Patrick Schramowski , Christian Bauckhage , Kristian Kersting