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We introduce a new paradigm for solving regularized variational problems. These are typically formulated to address ill-posed inverse problems encountered in signal and image processing. The objective function is traditionally defined by…

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In this note, we provide convergence results for the proximal point algorithm and a splitting variant thereof in the setting of CAT$(\kappa)$ spaces with $\kappa > 0$ using a recent definition for the resolvent of a convex, lower…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-12-05 Rafa Espínola , Adriana Nicolae

In this paper, we propose an inertial forward backward splitting algorithm to compute a zero of the sum of two monotone operators, with one of the two operators being co-coercive. The algorithm is inspired by the accelerated gradient method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-09-15 Dirk A. Lorenz , Thomas Pock

Primal-dual splitting schemes are a class of powerful algorithms that solve complicated monotone inclusions and convex optimization problems that are built from many simpler pieces. They decompose problems that are built from sums, linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-07-31 Damek Davis

Primal-dual algorithm (PDA) is a classic and popular scheme for convex-concave saddle point problems. It is universally acknowledged that the proximal terms in the subproblems about the primal and dual variables are crucial to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-24 Shuning Liu , Zexian Liu

The goal of Sparse Convex Optimization is to optimize a convex function $f$ under a sparsity constraint $s\leq s^*\gamma$, where $s^*$ is the target number of non-zero entries in a feasible solution (sparsity) and $\gamma\geq 1$ is an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Kyriakos Axiotis , Maxim Sviridenko

Projective splitting is a family of methods for solving inclusions involving sums of maximal monotone operators. First introduced by Eckstein and Svaiter in 2008, these methods have enjoyed significant innovation in recent years, becoming…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-19 Patrick R. Johnstone , Jonathan Eckstein

This paper is concerned with the computation of the high-dimensional zero-norm penalized quantile regression estimator, defined as a global minimizer of the zero-norm penalized check loss function. To seek a desirable approximation to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-24 Dongdong Zhang , Shaohua Pan , Shujun Bi

We introduce an inertial quasi-Newton Forward-Backward Splitting Algorithm to solve a class of monotone inclusion problems. While the inertial step is computationally cheap, in general, the bottleneck is the evaluation of the resolvent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-18 Shida Wang , Jalal Fadili , Peter Ochs

In this paper, we propose a randomized intertial block-coordinate primaldual fixed point algorithm to solve a wide array of monotone inclusion problems base on the modification of the heavy ball method of Nesterov. These methods rely on a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-17 Meng Wen , Shigang Yue , Yuchao Tan , Jigen Peng

Proximal splitting algorithms for monotone inclusions (and convex optimization problems) in Hilbert spaces share the common feature to guarantee for the generated sequences in general weak convergence to a solution. In order to achieve…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-21 Radu Ioan Bot , Ernö Robert Csetnek , Dennis Meier

We propose an abstract stochastic scheme for solving a broad range of monotone operator inclusion problems in Hilbert spaces. This framework allows for the introduction of stochasticity at several levels in monotone operator splitting…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-13 Patrick L. Combettes , Javier I. Madariaga

We deal with monotone inclusion problems of the form $0\in Ax+Dx+N_C(x)$ in real Hilbert spaces, where $A$ is a maximally monotone operator, $D$ a cocoercive operator and $C$ the nonempty set of zeros of another cocoercive operator. We…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2013-06-04 Radu Ioan Bot , Ernö Robert Csetnek

Penalty methods are a well known class of algorithms for constrained optimization. They transform a constrained problem into a sequence of unconstrained \emph{penalized} problems in the hope that approximate solutions of the latter converge…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-01 Youssef Diouane , Maxence Gollier , Dominique Orban

We propose an inertial Douglas-Rachford splitting algorithm for finding the set of zeros of the sum of two maximally monotone operators in Hilbert spaces and investigate its convergence properties. To this end we formulate first the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-03-31 Radu Ioan Bot , Ernö Robert Csetnek , Christopher Hendrich

The latent variable proximal point (LVPP) algorithm is a framework for solving infinite-dimensional variational problems with pointwise inequality constraints. The algorithm is a saddle point reformulation of the Bregman proximal point…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Jørgen S. Dokken , Patrick E. Farrell , Brendan Keith , Ioannis P. A. Papadopoulos , Thomas M. Surowiec

We consider a regularized least squares problem, with regularization by structured sparsity-inducing norms, which extend the usual $\ell_1$ and the group lasso penalty, by allowing the subsets to overlap. Such regularizations lead to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-09-04 Silvia Villa , Lorenzo Rosasco , Sofia Mosci , Alessandro Verri

In this paper, we investigate optimization problems with nonnegative and orthogonal constraints, where any feasible matrix of size $n \times p$ exhibits a sparsity pattern such that each row accommodates at most one nonzero entry. Our…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-06 Lei Wang , Xin Liu , Xiaojun Chen

Optimal Transport (OT) problems arise in a wide range of applications, from physics to economics. Getting numerical approximate solution of these problems is a challenging issue of practical importance. In this work, we investigate the…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-05-15 Aurélien Alfonsi , Rafaël Coyaud , Virginie Ehrlacher , Damiano Lombardi

We propose an inexact proximal augmented Lagrangian framework with explicit inner problem termination rule for composite convex optimization problems. We consider arbitrary linearly convergent inner solver including in particular stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-23 Fei Li , Zheng Qu