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The subgradient method is a classical and foundational approach in non-smooth convex optimization; its simplicity, robustness, and role as a conceptual and algorithmic starting point have made it the backbone of many significant…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-26 G. C. Bento , J. X. Cruz Neto , J. O. Lopes , I. D. L. Melo

We consider the composite minimization problem with the objective function being the sum of a continuously differentiable and a merely lower semicontinuous and extended-valued function. The proximal gradient method is probably the most…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-20 Christian Kanzow , Leo Lehmann

This work studies a composite minimization problem involving a differentiable function q and a nonsmooth function h, both of which may be nonconvex. This problem is ubiquitous in signal processing and machine learning yet remains…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-22 Yiming Zhou , Wei Dai

In this paper, we explore two fundamental first-order algorithms in convex optimization, namely, gradient descent (GD) and proximal gradient method (ProxGD). Our focus is on making these algorithms entirely adaptive by leveraging local…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-13 Yura Malitsky , Konstantin Mishchenko

This paper proposes a stochastic gradient descent method with an adaptive Gaussian noise term for the global minimization of nearly convex functions, which are nonconvex and possess multiple strict local minimizers. The noise term,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-05 Chenglong Bao , Liang Chen , Weizhi Shao

We propose a Riemannian limited-memory BFGS method for optimization problems with Euclidean bounds. The method combines a limited-memory quasi-Newton update in the tangent space with a Riemannian adaptation of the generalized Cauchy point…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Mateusz Baran , Ronny Bergmann , Patryk Przybysz

In this paper we consider the composite self-concordant (CSC) minimization problem, which minimizes the sum of a self-concordant function $f$ and a (possibly nonsmooth) proper closed convex function $g$. The CSC minimization is the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-07-04 Zhaosong Lu

In practical conjugate gradient (CG) computations it is important to monitor the quality of the approximate solution to $Ax=b$ so that the CG algorithm can be stopped when the required accuracy is reached. The relevant convergence…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-05 Gérard Meurant , Petr Tichý

Subspace minimization conjugate gradient (SMCG) methods have become a class of quite efficient iterative methods for unconstrained optimization and have attracted extensive attention recently. Usually, the search directions of SMCG methods…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-24 Zexian Liu , Yan Ni , Hongwei Liu , Wumei Sun

We further research on the accelerated optimization phenomenon on Riemannian manifolds by introducing accelerated global first-order methods for the optimization of $L$-smooth and geodesically convex (g-convex) or $\mu$-strongly g-convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-16 David Martínez-Rubio

This paper presents a unified analysis for the proximal subgradient method (Prox-SubGrad) type approach to minimize an overall objective of $f(x)+r(x)$, subject to convex constraints, where both $f$ and $r$ are weakly convex, nonsmooth, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-23 Daoli Zhu , Lei Zhao , Shuzhong Zhang

In this paper, we propose a simple acceleration scheme for Riemannian gradient methods by extrapolating iterates on manifolds. We show when the iterates are generated from Riemannian gradient descent method, the accelerated scheme achieves…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-16 Andi Han , Bamdev Mishra , Pratik Jawanpuria , Junbin Gao

We introduce a notion of self-concordant smoothing for minimizing the sum of two convex functions, one of which is smooth and the other nonsmooth. The key highlight is a natural property of the resulting problem's structure that yields a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-01 Adeyemi D. Adeoye , Alberto Bemporad

The conjugate gradient (CG) method is an efficient iterative method for solving large-scale strongly convex quadratic programming (QP). In this paper we propose some generalized CG (GCG) methods for solving the $\ell_1$-regularized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-02-15 Zhaosong Lu , Xiaojun Chen

In this paper, we consider the dual formulation of minimizing $\sum_{i\in I}f_i(x_i)+\sum_{j\in J} g_j(\mathcal{A}_jx)$ with the index sets $I$ and $J$ being large. To address the difficulties from the high dimension of the variable $x$…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-03 Hui Zhang , Yu-Hong Dai , Lei Guo

An efficient proximal-gradient-based method, called proximal extrapolated gradient method, is designed for solving monotone variational inequality in Hilbert space. The proposed method extends the acceptable range of parameters to obtain…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-05 Xiaokai Chang , Sanyang Liu , Jianchao Bai , Jun Yang

We consider optimization problems over the Stiefel manifold whose objective function is the summation of a smooth function and a nonsmooth function. Existing methods for solving this kind of problems can be classified into three classes.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-14 Shixiang Chen , Shiqian Ma , Anthony Man-Cho So , Tong Zhang

By restricting the iterate on a nonlinear manifold, the recently proposed Riemannian optimization methods prove to be both efficient and effective in low rank tensor completion problems. However, existing methods fail to exploit the easily…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-02-24 Tengfei Zhou , Hui Qian , Zebang Shen , Congfu Xu

We present two approximate versions of the proximal subgradient method for minimizing the sum of two convex functions (not necessarily differentiable). The algorithms involve, at each iteration, inexact evaluations of the proximal operator…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-12 Reinier Díaz Millán , Majela Pentón Machado

We study a Newton-like method for the minimization of an objective function that is the sum of a smooth convex function and an l-1 regularization term. This method, which is sometimes referred to in the literature as a proximal Newton…

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