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The computational bottleneck in applying online learning to massive data sets is usually the projection step. We present efficient online learning algorithms that eschew projections in favor of much more efficient linear optimization steps…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-06-22 Elad Hazan , Satyen Kale

In this paper, we study the problem of speeding up a type of optimization algorithms called Frank-Wolfe, a conditional gradient method. We develop and employ two novel inner product search data structures, improving the prior fastest…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Zhao Song , Zhaozhuo Xu , Yuanyuan Yang , Lichen Zhang

In this paper, we consider large-scale linearly constrained composite convex optimization problem, whose objective is a sum of a smooth function and a possibly nonsmooth function. We propose a scalable \textbf{F}rank-\textbf{W}olfe based…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-10-13 Ya-Feng Liu , Xiangfeng Wang , Xin Liu , Shiqian Ma

We investigate the convergence properties of exact and inexact forward-backward algorithms to minimise the sum of two weakly convex functions defined on a Hilbert space, where one has a Lipschitz-continuous gradient. We show that the exact…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-24 Ewa Bednarczuk , Giovanni Bruccola , Gabriele Scrivanti , The Hung Tran

Recovering matrices from compressive and grossly corrupted observations is a fundamental problem in robust statistics, with rich applications in computer vision and machine learning. In theory, under certain conditions, this problem can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-31 Cun Mu , Yuqian Zhang , John Wright , Donald Goldfarb

The convolution potential arises in a wide variety of application areas, and its efficient and accurate evaluation encounters three challenges: singularity, nonlocality and anisotropy. We introduce a fast algorithm based on a far-field…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-29 Xin Liu , Yong Zhang

The approximate Carath\'eodory theorem states that given a compact convex set $\mathcal{C}\subset\mathbb{R}^n$ and $p\in\left[2,+\infty\right[$, each point $x^*\in\mathcal{C}$ can be approximated to $\epsilon$-accuracy in the $\ell_p$-norm…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-07 Cyrille W. Combettes , Sebastian Pokutta

We propose the pivoting meta algorithm (PM) to enhance optimization algorithms that generate iterates as convex combinations of vertices of a feasible region $C\subseteq \mathbb{R}^n$, including Frank-Wolfe (FW) variants. PM guarantees that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-06 Elias Wirth , Mathieu Besançon , Sebastian Pokutta

Recently, the numerical schemes of the Fokker-Planck equations describing anomalous diffusion with two internal states have been proposed in [Nie, Sun and Deng, arXiv: 1811.04723], which use convolution quadrature to approximate the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Jing Sun , Daxin Nie , Weihua Deng

We prove the quasi-optimal convergence of a standard adaptive finite element method (AFEM) for nonlinear elliptic second-order equations of monotone type. The adaptive algorithm is based on residual-type a posteriori error estimators and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-10-07 Eduardo M. Garau , Pedro Morin , Carlos Zuppa

We introduce a fast algorithm for generating long self-affine profiles. The algorithm, which is based on the fast wavelet transform, is faster than the conventional Fourier filtering algorithm. In addition to increased performance for large…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2010-05-04 Ingve Simonsen , Alex Hansen

We study the problem of sampling from a distribution $\target$ using the Langevin Monte Carlo algorithm and provide rate of convergences for this algorithm in terms of Wasserstein distance of order $2$. Our result holds as long as the…

Computation · Statistics 2016-07-04 Thomas Bonis

We investigate algorithmic variants of the Frank-Wolfe (FW) optimization method for pruning convolutional neural networks. This is motivated by the "Lottery Ticket Hypothesis", which suggests the existence of smaller sub-networks within…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Hamza ElMokhtar Shili , Natasha Patnaik , Isabelle Ruble , Kathryn Jarjoura , Daniel Suarez Aguirre

We propose a randomized block-coordinate variant of the classic Frank-Wolfe algorithm for convex optimization with block-separable constraints. Despite its lower iteration cost, we show that it achieves a similar convergence rate in duality…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-01-15 Simon Lacoste-Julien , Martin Jaggi , Mark Schmidt , Patrick Pletscher

We present two first-order primal-dual algorithms for solving saddle point formulations of linear programs, namely FWLP (Frank-Wolfe Linear Programming) and FWLP-P. The former iteratively applies the Frank-Wolfe algorithm to both the primal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-29 Matthew Hough , Stephen A. Vavasis

Point source localisation is generally modelled as a Lasso-type problem on measures. However, optimisation methods in non-Hilbert spaces, such as the space of Radon measures, are much less developed than in Hilbert spaces. Most numerical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-14 Tuomo Valkonen

In this paper, we study the problem of finding the Euclidean distance to a convex cone generated by a set of discrete points in $\mathbb{R}^n_+$. In particular, we are interested in problems where the discrete points are the set of feasible…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-04-24 Ali Fattahi , Sriram Dasu , Reza Ahmadi

We investigate the robustness of the Frank-Wolfe method when gradients are computed inexactly and examine the relative computational cost of the linear minimization oracle (LMO) versus projection. For smooth nonconvex functions, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Tao Hu

To solve the issue of segmenting rich texture images, a novel detection methods based on the affine invariable principle is proposed. Considering the similarity between the texture areas, we first take the affine transform to get numerous…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-12-27 Jianwei Zhang , Xu Chen , Xuezhong Xiao

We explore computational aspects of maximum likelihood estimation of the mixture proportions of a nonparametric finite mixture model -- a convex optimization problem with old roots in statistics and a key member of the modern data analysis…

Computation · Statistics 2023-12-11 Haoyue Wang , Shibal Ibrahim , Rahul Mazumder