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We propose and analyze the convergence of a novel stochastic forward-backward splitting algorithm for solving monotone inclusions given by the sum of a maximal monotone operator and a single-valued maximal monotone cocoercive operator. This…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-02-23 Lorenzo Rosasco , Silvia Villa , Bang Công Vũ

In this paper we investigate in a Hilbert space setting a second order dynamical system of the form $$\ddot{x}(t)+\g(t)\dot{x}(t)+x(t)-J_{\lambda(t) A}\big(x(t)-\lambda(t) D(x(t))-\lambda(t)\beta(t)B(x(t))\big)=0,$$ where $A:{\mathcal…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-01-20 Radu Ioan Bot , Ernö Robert Csetnek , Szilárd Csaba László

Low-rank tensor completion problem aims to recover a tensor from limited observations, which has many real-world applications. Due to the easy optimization, the convex overlapping nuclear norm has been popularly used for tensor completion.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-24 Quanming Yao , James T Kwok , Bo Han

Fixed-point solvers are ubiquitous in nonlinear PDEs, yet their progress collapses whenever the Jacobian at the solution carries an eigenvalue arbitrarily close to one. We ask whether such stagnation can be removed without storing long…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-06 Francesco Alemanno

This paper investigates the asymptotic convergence behavior of high-order proximal-point algorithms (HiPPA) toward global minimizers, extending the analysis beyond sublinear convergence rate results. Specifically, we consider the proximal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-28 Masoud Ahookhosh , Alfredo Iusem , Alireza Kabgani , Felipe Lara

This paper resolves a longstanding open question pertaining to the design of near-optimal first-order algorithms for smooth and strongly-convex-strongly-concave minimax problems. Current state-of-the-art first-order algorithms find an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-27 Tianyi Lin , Chi Jin , Michael. I. Jordan

Stochastic gradient descent with momentum (SGDM) is the dominant algorithm in many optimization scenarios, including convex optimization instances and non-convex neural network training. Yet, in the stochastic setting, momentum interferes…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-28 Junhyung Lyle Kim , Panos Toulis , Anastasios Kyrillidis

We consider the problem of optimizing the sum of a smooth convex function and a non-smooth convex function using proximal-gradient methods, where an error is present in the calculation of the gradient of the smooth term or in the proximity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2011-12-02 Mark Schmidt , Nicolas Le Roux , Francis Bach

In many statistical learning problems, it is desired that the optimal solution conforms to an a priori known sparsity structure represented by a directed acyclic graph. Inducing such structures by means of convex regularizers requires…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-20 Dewei Zhang , Yin Liu , Sam Davanloo Tajbakhsh

This work aims to solve a stochastic nonconvex nonsmooth composite optimization problem. Previous works on composite optimization problem requires the major part to satisfy Lipschitz smoothness or some relaxed smoothness conditions, which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Ziyi Chen , Peiran Yu , Heng Huang

In this paper, based on inertial and Tseng's ideas, we propose two projection-based algorithms to solve a monotone inclusion problem in infinite dimensional Hilbert spaces. Solution theorems of strong convergence are obtained under the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-31 Bing Tan , Zheng Zhou , Xiaolong Qin

The paper presents a fully explicit algorithm for monotone variational inequalities. The method uses variable stepsizes that are computed using two previous iterates as an approximation of the local Lipschitz constant without running a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-27 Yura Malitsky

We propose stochastic splitting algorithms for solving large-scale composite inclusion problems involving monotone and linear operators. They activate at each iteration blocks of randomly selected resolvents of monotone operators and,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-07 Patrick L. Combettes , Javier I. Madariaga

We leverage the connections between nonexpansive maps, monotone Lipschitz operators, and proximal mappings to obtain near-optimal (i.e., optimal up to poly-log factors in terms of iteration complexity) and parameter-free methods for solving…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-14 Jelena Diakonikolas

Decentralized optimization is a powerful paradigm that finds applications in engineering and learning design. This work studies decentralized composite optimization problems with non-smooth regularization terms. Most existing gradient-based…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-29 Sulaiman A. Alghunaim , Kun Yuan , Ali H. Sayed

This paper studies bilinear saddle point problems $\min_{\bf{x}} \max_{\bf{y}} g(\bf{x}) + \bf{x}^{\top} \bf{A} \bf{y} - h(\bf{y})$, where the functions $g, h$ are smooth and strongly-convex. When the gradient and proximal oracle related to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Guangzeng Xie , Yuze Han , Zhihua Zhang

We propose a method for solving constrained fixed point problems involving compositions of Lipschitz pseudo contractive and firmly nonexpansive operators in Hilbert spaces. Each iteration of the method uses separate evaluations of these…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-01-10 Luis M. Briceño-Arias

We present a new interior-point potential-reduction algorithm for solving monotone linear complementarity problems (LCPs) that have a particular special structure: their matrix $M\in{\mathbb R}^{n\times n}$ can be decomposed as $M=\Phi U +…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-01-01 Geoffrey J. Gordon

Since introduced by Martinet and Rockafellar, the proximal point algorithm was generalized in many fruitful directions. More recently, in 2002, Pennanen studied the proximal point algorithm without monotonicity. A year later, Iusem and…

In this work, we examine sampling problems with non-smooth potentials. We propose a novel Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm for sampling from non-smooth potentials. We provide a non-asymptotical analysis of our algorithm and establish a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-11 Jiaming Liang , Yongxin Chen