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We consider the mirror-prox algorithm for solving monotone Variational Inequality (VI) problems. As the mirror-prox algorithm is not practically implementable, except in special instances of VIs (such as affine VIs), we consider its…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-27 Abhishek Chakraborty , Angelia Nedić

The growing prevalence of nonsmooth optimization problems in machine learning has spurred significant interest in generalized smoothness assumptions. Among these, the (L0, L1)-smoothness assumption has emerged as one of the most prominent.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Zhirayr Tovmasyan , Grigory Malinovsky , Laurent Condat , Peter Richtárik

We present an adaptive step-size method, which does not include line-search techniques, for solving a wide class of nonconvex multiobjective programming problems on an unbounded constraint set. We also prove convergence of a general…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-12 Nguyen Anh Minh , Le Dung Muu , Tran Ngoc Thang

Variable projection solves structured optimization problems by completely minimizing over a subset of the variables while iterating over the remaining variables. Over the last 30 years, the technique has been widely used, with empirical and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-23 Tristan van Leeuwen , Aleksandr Aravkin

In this paper, we design and analyze a new family of adaptive subgradient methods for solving an important class of weakly convex (possibly nonsmooth) stochastic optimization problems. Adaptive methods that use exponential moving averages…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-26 Parvin Nazari , Davoud Ataee Tarzanagh , George Michailidis

In this paper we propose new algorithms for solving a class of structured monotone variational inequality (VI) problems over compact feasible sets. By identifying the gradient components existing in the operator of VI, we show that it is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-02 Guanghui Lan , Yuyuan Ouyang

The constrained gradient method (CGM) has recently been proposed to solve convex optimization and monotone variational inequality (VI) problems with general functional constraints. While existing literature has established convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-24 Danqing Zhou , Hongmei Chen , Shiqian Ma , Junfeng Yang

In stochastic convex optimization problems, most existing adaptive methods rely on prior knowledge about the diameter bound $D$ when the smoothness or the Lipschitz constant is unknown. This often significantly affects performance as only a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-08 Clément Lezane , Alexandre d'Aspremont

Many modern unsupervised or semi-supervised machine learning algorithms rely on Bayesian probabilistic models. These models are usually intractable and thus require approximate inference. Variational inference (VI) lets us approximate a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Cheng Zhang , Judith Butepage , Hedvig Kjellstrom , Stephan Mandt

The article is devoted to the development of numerical methods for solving variational inequalities with relatively strongly monotone operators. We consider two classes of variational inequalities related to some analogs of the Lipschitz…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-25 F. S. Stonyakin , A. A. Titov , D. V. Makarenko , M. S. Alkousa

In this paper, we employ Tseng's extragradient method with the self-adaptive stepsize to solve variational inequality problems involving non-Lipschitz continuous and quasimonotone operators in real Hilbert spaces. The convergence of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-10 Meiying Wang , Hongwei Liu , Jun Yang

Monotone variational inequalities (VIs) provide a unifying framework for convex minimization, equilibrium computation, and convex-concave saddle-point problems. Extragradient-type methods are among the most effective first-order algorithms…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Lingqing Shen , Fatma Kılınç-Karzan

The core principle of Variational Inference (VI) is to convert the statistical inference problem of computing complex posterior probability densities into a tractable optimization problem. This property enables VI to be faster than several…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Ankush Ganguly , Sanjana Jain , Ukrit Watchareeruetai

Algorithms that solve zero-sum games, multi-objective agent objectives, or, more generally, variational inequality (VI) problems are notoriously unstable on general problems. Owing to the increasing need for solving such problems in machine…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-07-15 Tatjana Chavdarova , Ya-Ping Hsieh , Michael I. Jordan

The standard assumption for proving linear convergence of first order methods for smooth convex optimization is the strong convexity of the objective function, an assumption which does not hold for many practical applications. In this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-10 I. Necoara , Yu. Nesterov , F. Glineur

In this paper we consider stochastic composite convex optimization problems with the objective function satisfying a stochastic bounded gradient condition, with or without a quadratic functional growth property. These models include the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-10 Ion Necoara

In this paper, we provide some sufficient conditions for the existence of solutions to non-monotone Variational Inequalities (VIs) based on inverse mapping theory and degree theory. We have obtained several applicable sufficient conditions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-06 Sina Arefizadeh , Angelia Nedić

In this technical note, we are concerned with the problem of solving variational inequalities with improved convergence rates. Motivated by Nesterov's accelerated gradient method for convex optimization, we propose a Nesterov's accelerated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-21 Shaolin Tan , Jinhu Lu

While Variational Inequality (VI) is a well-established mathematical framework that subsumes Nash equilibrium and saddle-point problems, less is known about its extension, Quasi-Variational Inequalities (QVI). QVI allows for cases where the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Zeinab Alizadeh , Afrooz Jalilzadeh

A new adaptive approach is proposed for variational inequalities with a Lipschitz-continuous field. Estimates of the necessary number of iterations are obtained to achieve a given quality of the variational inequality solution. A…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-27 Fedor Stonyakin , Alexander Gasnikov , Pavel Dvurechensky , Alexander Titov