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Nonsmooth composite optimization with orthogonality constraints has a wide range of applications in statistical learning and data science. However, this problem is challenging due to its nonsmooth objective and computationally expensive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Ganzhao Yuan

Coordinate descent algorithms are widely used in machine learning and large-scale data analysis due to their strong optimality guarantees and impressive empirical performance in solving non-convex problems. In this work, we introduce Block…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-17 Zhijie Yuan , Ganzhao Yuan , Lei Sun

The cyclic block coordinate descent-type (CBCD-type) methods, which performs iterative updates for a few coordinates (a block) simultaneously throughout the procedure, have shown remarkable computational performance for solving strongly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-23 Xingguo Li , Tuo Zhao , Raman Arora , Han Liu , Mingyi Hong

In this paper we present a novel randomized block coordinate descent method for the minimization of a convex composite objective function. The method uses (approximate) partial second-order (curvature) information, so that the algorithm…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-05-11 Kimon Fountoulakis , Rachael Tappenden

We study (constrained) nonconvex (composite) optimization problems where the decision variables vector can be split into blocks of variables. Random block projection is a popular technique to handle this kind of problem for its remarkable…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-17 Zhan Yu , Daniel W. C. Ho

Block-coordinate descent (BCD) is a popular framework for large-scale regularized optimization problems with block-separable structure. Existing methods have several limitations. They often assume that subproblems can be solved exactly at…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-05 Ching-pei Lee , Stephen J. Wright

The block coordinate descent (BCD) method is widely used for minimizing a continuous function f of several block variables. At each iteration of this method, a single block of variables is optimized, while the remaining variables are held…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-09-12 Meisam Razaviyayn , Mingyi Hong , Zhi-Quan Luo

We study the worst-case behavior of Block Coordinate Descent (BCD) type algorithms for unconstrained minimization of coordinate-wise smooth convex functions. This behavior is indeed not completely understood, and the practical success of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-23 Yassine Kamri , François Glineur , Julien M. Hendrickx , Ion Necoara

Block-coordinate descent (BCD) is the method of choice to solve numerous large scale optimization problems, however their theoretical study for non-convex optimization, has received less attention. In this paper, we present a new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Guillaume Lauga

Block coordinate descent (BCD) methods are prevalent in large scale optimization problems due to the low memory and computational costs per iteration, the predisposition to parallelization, and the ability to exploit the structure of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-31 Luis Briceño-Arias , Paulo Gonçalves , Guillaume Lauga , Nelly Pustelnik , Elisa Riccietti

In this paper we explore the use of block coordinate descent (BCD) to optimize the centroidal momentum dynamics for dynamically consistent multi-contact behaviors. The centroidal dynamics have recently received a large amount of attention…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Paarth Shah , Avadesh Meduri , Wolfgang Merkt , Majid Khadiv , Ioannis Havoutis , Ludovic Righetti

Block coordinate descent (BCD) methods approach optimization problems by performing gradient steps along alternating subgroups of coordinates. This is in contrast to full gradient descent, where a gradient step updates all coordinates…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-29 Simon Rabanser , Lukas Neumann , Markus Haltmeier

Block-coordinate descent algorithms and alternating minimization methods are fundamental optimization algorithms and an important primitive in large-scale optimization and machine learning. While various block-coordinate-descent-type…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-02 Jelena Diakonikolas , Lorenzo Orecchia

In this paper, we propose a gradient-based block coordinate descent (BCD-G) framework to solve the joint approximate diagonalization of matrices defined on the product of the complex Stiefel manifold and the special linear group. Instead of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-26 Jianze Li , Konstantin Usevich , Pierre Comon

Block coordinate descent (BCD) methods are widely used for large-scale numerical optimization because of their cheap iteration costs, low memory requirements, amenability to parallelization, and ability to exploit problem structure. Three…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-02 Julie Nutini , Issam Laradji , Mark Schmidt

Two types of low cost-per-iteration gradient descent methods have been extensively studied in parallel. One is online or stochastic gradient descent (OGD/SGD), and the other is randomzied coordinate descent (RBCD). In this paper, we combine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-07-29 Huahua Wang , Arindam Banerjee

Many optimization problems require balancing multiple conflicting objectives. As gradient descent is limited to single-objective optimization, we introduce its direct generalization: Jacobian descent (JD). This algorithm iteratively updates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Pierre Quinton , Valérian Rey

The optimal transport (OT) problem can be reduced to a linear programming (LP) problem through discretization. In this paper, we introduced the random block coordinate descent (RBCD) methods to directly solve this LP problem. Our approach…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-27 Yue Xie , Zhongjian Wang , Zhiwen Zhang

Block coordinate descent is an optimization paradigm that iteratively updates one block of variables at a time, making it quite amenable to big data applications due to its scalability and performance. Its convergence behavior has been…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-13 Liangzu Peng , René Vidal

This paper considers the problems of unconstrained minimization of large scale smooth convex functions having block-coordinate-wise Lipschitz continuous gradients. The block coordinate descent (BCD) method are among the first optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-18 Ziqiang Shi , Rujie Liu
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