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This work investigates the convergence behavior of augmented Lagrangian methods (ALMs) when applied to convex optimization problems that may be infeasible. ALMs are a popular class of algorithms for solving constrained optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Roland Andrews , Justin Carpentier , Adrien Taylor

We consider stochastic gradient methods under the interpolation regime where a perfect fit can be obtained (minimum loss at each observation). While previous work highlighted the implicit regularization of such algorithms, we consider an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-01 Anant Raj , Francis Bach

We introduce and analyze BPALM and A-BPALM, two multi-block proximal alternating linearized minimization algorithms using Bregman distances for solving structured nonconvex problems. The objective function is the sum of a multi-block…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-20 Masoud Ahookhosh , Le Thi Khanh Hien , Nicolas Gillis , Panagiotis Patrinos

We develop a new proximal-gradient method for minimizing the sum of a differentiable, possibly nonconvex, function plus a convex, possibly non differentiable, function. The key features of the proposed method are the definition of a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-13 Silvia Bonettini , Ignace Loris , Federica Porta , Marco Prato

In this paper, we present a relaxation proximal point method with double inertial effects to approximate a solution of a non-convex equilibrium problem. We give global convergence results of the iterative sequence generated by our…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-18 Nam Van Tran

The MM principle is a device for creating optimization algorithms satisfying the ascent or descent property. The current survey emphasizes the role of the MM principle in nonlinear programming. For smooth functions, one can construct an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-07-29 Kenneth Lange , Kevin L. Keys

We present a new method for minimizing the sum of a differentiable convex function and an $\ell_1$-norm regularizer. The main features of the new method include: $(i)$ an evolving set of indices corresponding to variables that are predicted…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-02-24 Tianyi Chen , Frank E. Curtis , Daniel P. Robinson

In this paper we study the convergence of an iterative algorithm for finding zeros with constraints for not necessarily monotone set-valued operators in a reflexive Banach space. This algorithm, which we call the proximal-projection method…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2007-11-16 Dan Butnariu , Gabor Kassay

We study the problem of minimizing a $m$-weakly convex and possibly nonsmooth function. Weak convexity provides a broad framework that subsumes convex, smooth, and many composite nonconvex functions. In this work, we propose a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-04 Feng-Yi Liao , Yang Zheng

We present a new feasible proximal gradient method for constrained optimization where both the objective and constraint functions are given by the summation of a smooth, possibly nonconvex function and a convex simple function. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-01 Digvijay Boob , Qi Deng , Guanghui Lan

The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) algorithm is a powerful and flexible tool for complex optimization problems of the form $\min\{f(x)+g(y) : Ax+By=c\}$. ADMM exhibits robust empirical performance across a range of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-08 Rina Foygel Barber , Emil Y. Sidky

We present a subgradient method for minimizing non-smooth, non-Lipschitz convex optimization problems. The only structure assumed is that a strictly feasible point is known. We extend the work of Renegar [5] by taking a different…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-28 Benjamin Grimmer

We study the question of extracting a sequence of functions $\{\boldsymbol{f}_i, \boldsymbol{g}_i\}_{i=1}^s$ from observing only the sum of their convolutions, i.e., from $\boldsymbol{y} = \sum_{i=1}^s \boldsymbol{f}_i\ast…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-29 Shuyang Ling , Thomas Strohmer

We propose a new family of subgradient- and gradient-based methods which converges with optimal complexity for convex optimization problems whose feasible region is simple enough. This includes cases where the objective function is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-19 Masaru Ito , Mituhiro Fukuda

We consider the problem of minimizing the sum of a smooth function $h$ with a bounded Hessian, and a nonsmooth function. We assume that the latter function is a composition of a proper closed function $P$ and a surjective linear map $\cal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-11-17 Guoyin Li , Ting Kei Pong

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in mathematical models leading to the minimization, in a symmetric matrix space, of a Bregman divergence coupled with a regularization term. We address problems of this type within a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-10 A. Benfenati , E. Chouzenoux , J. -C. Pesquet

We propose a stochastic optimization method for the minimization of the sum of three convex functions, one of which has Lipschitz continuous gradient as well as restricted strong convexity. Our approach is most suitable in the setting where…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-01 Alp Yurtsever , Bang Cong Vu , Volkan Cevher

We consider the convex minimization model with both linear equality and inequality constraints, and reshape the classic augmented Lagrangian method (ALM) by balancing its subproblems. As a result, one of its subproblems decouples the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-20 Bingsheng He , Xiaoming Yuan

We consider the problem of minimizing a convex function over the intersection of finitely many simple sets which are easy to project onto. This is an important problem arising in various domains such as machine learning. The main difficulty…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-19 Achintya Kundu , Francis Bach , Chiranjib Bhattacharyya

This paper introduces adaptive Bregman proximal gradient algorithms for solving convex composite minimization problems without relying on global relative smoothness or strong convexity assumptions. Building upon recent advances in adaptive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-05 Hongjia Ou , Puya Latafat , Andreas Themelis