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This work addresses arbitrary convex vector optimization problems, which constitute a general framework for multi-criteria decision-making in diverse real-world applications. Due to their complexity, such problems are typically tackled…

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The Barzilai and Borwein (BB) gradient method is one of the most widely-used line-search gradient methods. It computes the step-size for the current iterate by using the information carried in the previous iteration. Recently, William Kahan…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-11 Yifeng Meng , Chungen Shen , Linuo Xue , Lei-Hong Zhang

In this contribution we present an accelerated optimization-based approach for combined state and parameter reduction of a parametrized linear control system which is then used as a surrogate model in a Bayesian inverse setting. Following…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-22 Christian Himpe , Mario Ohlberger

The Moment/Sum-of-squares hierarchy provides a way to compute the global minimizers of polynomial optimization problems (POP), at the cost of solving a sequence of increasingly large semidefinite programs (SDPs). We consider large-scale…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-13 Johannes Aspman , Gilles Bareilles , Vyacheslav Kungurtsev , Jakub Marecek , Martin Takáč

We consider simple bilevel optimization problems where the goal is to compute among the optimal solutions of a composite convex optimization problem, one that minimizes a secondary objective function. Our main contribution is threefold. (i)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-14 Sepideh Samadi , Daniel Burbano , Farzad Yousefian

In this paper, we propose a conditional gradient method for solving constrained vector optimization problems with respect to a partial order induced by a closed, convex and pointed cone with nonempty interior. When the partial order under…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-12 Wang Chen , Xinmin Yang , Yong Zhao

We consider distributed nonconvex optimization over an undirected network, where each node privately possesses its local objective and communicates exclusively with its neighboring nodes, striving to collectively achieve a common optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Zichong Ou , Jie Lu

For the general problem of minimizing a convex function over a compact convex domain, we will investigate a simple iterative approximation algorithm based on the method by Frank & Wolfe 1956, that does not need projection steps in order to…

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Discrete optimization belongs to the set of $\mathcal{NP}$-hard problems, spanning fields such as mixed-integer programming and combinatorial optimization. A current standard approach to solving convex discrete optimization problems is the…

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This paper provides a block coordinate descent algorithm to solve unconstrained optimization problems. In our algorithm, computation of function values or gradients is not required. Instead, pairwise comparison of function values is used.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-09-16 Kota Matsui , Wataru Kumagai , Takafumi Kanamori

We present a new feasible proximal gradient method for constrained optimization where both the objective and constraint functions are given by the summation of a smooth, possibly nonconvex function and a convex simple function. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-01 Digvijay Boob , Qi Deng , Guanghui Lan

Stochastic Gradient Descent-Ascent (SGDA) is one of the most prominent algorithms for solving min-max optimization and variational inequalities problems (VIP) appearing in various machine learning tasks. The success of the method led to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-09 Aleksandr Beznosikov , Eduard Gorbunov , Hugo Berard , Nicolas Loizou

Majorization-minimization algorithms consist of iteratively minimizing a majorizing surrogate of an objective function. Because of its simplicity and its wide applicability, this principle has been very popular in statistics and in signal…

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This paper proposes a unified approach for designing stochastic optimization algorithms that robustly scale to the federated learning setting. Our work studies a class of Majorize-Minimization (MM) problems, which possesses a linearly…

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The Frank-Wolfe algorithm has become a popular first-order optimization algorithm for it is simple and projection-free, and it has been successfully applied to a variety of real-world problems. Its main drawback however lies in its…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-25 Cyrille W. Combettes , Sebastian Pokutta

We consider a class of nonconvex nonsmooth optimization problems whose objective is the sum of a smooth function and a finite number of nonnegative proper closed possibly nonsmooth functions (whose proximal mappings are easy to compute),…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-29 Tianxiang Liu , Ting Kei Pong , Akiko Takeda

In this paper, we study the norm-based robust (efficient) solutions of a Vector Optimization Problem (VOP). We define two kinds of non-ascent directions in terms of Clarke's generalized gradient and characterize norm-based robustness by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-18 Morteza Rahimi , Majid Soleimani-damaneh

In machine learning, nonconvex optimization problems with multiple local optimums are often encountered. Graduated Optimization Algorithm (GOA) is a popular heuristic method to obtain global optimums of nonconvex problems through…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Li Chen , Shuisheng Zhou , Zhuan Zhang

In constrained convex optimization, existing methods based on the ellipsoid or cutting plane method do not scale well with the dimension of the ambient space. Alternative approaches such as Projected Gradient Descent only provide a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-11 Zakaria Mhammedi

Single-call stochastic extragradient methods, like stochastic past extragradient (SPEG) and stochastic optimistic gradient (SOG), have gained a lot of interest in recent years and are one of the most efficient algorithms for solving…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-14 Sayantan Choudhury , Eduard Gorbunov , Nicolas Loizou