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We revisit the Ou-Wang's approach to the cone restriction problem via polynomial partitioning. By recasting their inductive scheme as a recursive algorithm and incorporating the nested polynomial Wolff axioms, we obtain improved bounds for…
We present an exact algorithm for mean-risk optimization subject to a budget constraint, where decision variables may be continuous or integer. The risk is measured by the covariance matrix and weighted by an arbitrary monotone function,…
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…
Frank-Wolfe algorithms (FW) are popular first-order methods for solving constrained convex optimization problems that rely on a linear minimization oracle instead of potentially expensive projection-like oracles. Many works have identified…
This paper addresses constrained smooth saddle-point problems in settings where projection onto the feasible sets is computationally expensive. We bridge the gap between projection-based and projection-free optimization by introducing a…
In this paper we present a new algorithmic realization of a projection-based scheme for general convex constrained optimization problem. The general idea is to transform the original optimization problem to a sequence of feasibility…
We propose a primal heuristic for quadratic mixed-integer problems. Our method extends the Boscia framework -- originally a mixed-integer convex solver leveraging a Frank-Wolfe-based branch-and-bound approach -- to address nonconvex…
We address the problem of projecting a point onto a quadratic hypersurface, more specifically a central quadric. We show how this problem reduces to finding a given root of a scalar-valued nonlinear function. We completely characterize one…
Frank-Wolfe methods (FW) have gained significant interest in the machine learning community due to its ability to efficiently solve large problems that admit a sparse structure (e.g. sparse vectors and low-rank matrices). However the…
In the present paper, we formulate two versions of Frank--Wolfe algorithm or conditional gradient method to solve the DC optimization problem with an adaptive step size. The DC objective function consists of two components; the first is…
Hyperbolic Programming (HP) --minimizing a linear functional over an affine subspace of a finite-dimensional real vector space intersected with the so-called hyperbolicity cone-- is a class of convex optimization problems that contains…
We propose several variants of the Frank-Wolfe algorithm to minimize a sum of functions. The main proposed algorithm is inspired from the dual averaging scheme of Nesterov adapted for Frank Wolfe in a stochastic setting. A distributed…
We consider the eigenvalue problem $K x = \lambda x$. Our analysis focuses on the convergence rates of eigenvalue and spectral subspace approximations for compact linear integral operator $K$ with Green's kernels. By employing orthogonal…
We consider optimization problems in which the goal is find a $k$-dimensional subspace of $\mathbb{R}^n$, $k<<n$, which minimizes a convex and smooth loss. Such problems generalize the fundamental task of principal component analysis (PCA)…
Similarity and metric learning provides a principled approach to construct a task-specific similarity from weakly supervised data. However, these methods are subject to the curse of dimensionality: as the number of features grows large,…
Semidefinite programming is a fundamental problem class in convex optimization, but despite recent advances in solvers, solving large-scale semidefinite programs remains challenging. Generally the matrix functions involved are spectral or…
We study the convergence properties of the 'greedy' Frank-Wolfe algorithm with a unit step size, for a convex maximization problem over a compact set. We assume the function satisfies smoothness and strong convexity. These assumptions…
We model a problem motivated by road design as a feasibility problem. Projections onto the constraint sets are obtained, and projection methods for solving the feasibility problem are studied. We present results of numerical experiments…
Eigensolvers involving complex moments can determine all the eigenvalues in a given region in the complex plane and the corresponding eigenvectors of a regular linear matrix pencil. The complex moment acts as a filter for extracting…