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Composite optimization problems, formulated as the minimization of three functions, are ubiquitous in large-scale machine learning and signal processing. While state-of-the-art splitting methods such as Condat-V\~{u} (CV) [Condat, 2013,…
This paper considers an explicit continuation method and the trust-region updating strategy for the unconstrained optimization problem. Moreover, in order to improve its computational efficiency and robustness, the new method uses the…
In this paper, we present a new framework how a PDE with constraints can be formulated into a sequence of PDEs with no constraints, whose solutions are convergent to the solution of the PDE with constraints. This framework is then used to…
The Peaceman-Rachford splitting method is efficient for minimizing a convex optimization problem with a separable objective function and linear constraints. However, its convergence was not guaranteed without extra requirements. He {\it et…
Primal-Dual Interior-Point methods are capable of solving constrained convex optimization problems to tight tolerances in a fast and robust manner. The derivatives of the primal-dual solution with respect to the problem matrices can be…
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We present a new accelerated stochastic second-order method that is robust to both gradient and Hessian inexactness, which occurs typically in machine learning. We establish theoretical lower bounds and prove that our algorithm achieves…
Time-dependent Partial Differential Equations with given initial conditions are considered in this paper. New differentiation techniques of the unknown solution with respect to time variable are proposed. It is shown that the proposed…
This paper describes a regularized variant of the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) for solving linearly constrained convex programs. It is shown that the pointwise iteration-complexity of the new method is better than the…
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In this work, we introduce the notion of warped Yosida regularization and study the asymptotic behavior of the orbit of dynamical systems generated by warped Yosida regularization, which includes Douglas-Rachford dynamical system. We…
We address the solution of time-varying optimization problems characterized by the sum of a time-varying strongly convex function and a time-invariant nonsmooth convex function. We design an online algorithmic framework based on…
We propose a globally-accelerated, first-order method for the optimization of smooth and (strongly or not) geodesically-convex functions in a wide class of Hadamard manifolds. We achieve the same convergence rates as Nesterov's accelerated…
In this paper, we introduce some adaptive methods for solving variational inequalities with relatively strongly monotone operators. Firstly, we focus on the modification of the recently proposed, in smooth case [1], adaptive numerical…
We introduce generalised finite difference methods for solving fully nonlinear elliptic partial differential equations. Methods are based on piecewise Cartesian meshes augmented by additional points along the boundary. This allows for…
In this paper we present a novel derivation for an existing node-based algorithm for distributed optimisation termed the primal-dual method of multipliers (PDMM). In contrast to its initial derivation, in this work monotone operator theory…
The primal dual hybrid gradient algorithm (PDHG), which is also known as the Arrow-Hurwicz method, is a fundamental algorithm for saddle point problems especially in imaging. It also inspires a great number of influential algorithms such as…
In this paper, we propose new proximal Newton-type methods for convex optimization problems in composite form. The applications include model predictive control (MPC) and embedded MPC. Our new methods are computationally attractive since…
The authors in (Banjac et al., 2019) recently showed that the Douglas-Rachford algorithm provides certificates of infeasibility for a class of convex optimization problems. In particular, they showed that the difference between consecutive…