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Convex quadratic programs (QPs) constitute a fundamental computational primitive across diverse domains including financial optimization, control systems, and machine learning. The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) has…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-15 Xi Gao , Jinxin Xiong , Linxin Yang , Akang Wang , Weiwei Xu , Jiang Xue

Deep learning models have gained great success in many real-world applications. However, most existing networks are typically designed in heuristic manners, thus lack of rigorous mathematical principles and derivations. Several recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-18 Risheng Liu , Xin Fan , Shichao Cheng , Xiangyu Wang , Zhongxuan Luo

Physical laws, such as the conversation of mass and momentum, are fundamental principles in many physical systems. Neural operators have achieved promising performance in learning the solutions to those systems, but often fail to ensure…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Chaoyu Liu , Yangming Li , Zhongying Deng , Chris Budd , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

First-order methods (FOMs) have been widely used for solving large-scale problems. A majority of existing works focus on problems without constraint or with simple constraints. Several recent works have studied FOMs for problems with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-10 Zichong Li , Yangyang Xu

Neural operator learning methods have garnered significant attention in scientific computing for their ability to approximate infinite-dimensional operators. However, increasing their complexity often fails to substantially improve their…

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,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Abdurakhmon Sadiev , Laurent Condat , Peter Richtárik

We exploit analogies between first-order algorithms for constrained optimization and non-smooth dynamical systems to design a new class of accelerated first-order algorithms for constrained optimization. Unlike Frank-Wolfe or projected…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-02 Michael Muehlebach , Michael I. Jordan

Physics-informed neural networks and operator networks have shown promise for effectively solving equations modeling physical systems. However, these networks can be difficult or impossible to train accurately for some systems of equations.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Amanda A Howard , Sarah H Murphy , Shady E Ahmed , Panos Stinis

Many applications using large datasets require efficient methods for minimizing a proximable convex function subject to satisfying a set of linear constraints within a specified tolerance. For this task, we present a proximal projection…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-10 Howard Heaton

This paper proposes a general incremental policy iteration adaptive dynamic programming (ADP) algorithm for model-free robust optimal control of unknown nonlinear systems. The approach integrates recursive least squares estimation with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-01 Qingkai Meng , Fenglan Wang , Lin Zhao

It's well-known that inverse problems are ill-posed and to solve them meaningfully, one has to employ regularization methods. Traditionally, popular regularization methods are the penalized Variational approaches. In recent years, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Abinash Nayak

The proximal bundle method (PBM) is a fundamental and computationally effective algorithm for solving optimization problems with nonsmooth components. In this paper, we conduct a theoretical investigation of a modified proximal bundle…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-13 David Fersztand , Xu Andy Sun

Numerous tasks at the core of statistics, learning and vision areas are specific cases of ill-posed inverse problems. Recently, learning-based (e.g., deep) iterative methods have been empirically shown to be useful for these problems.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-17 Risheng Liu , Shichao Cheng , Yi He , Xin Fan , Zhouchen Lin , Zhongxuan Luo

In this paper we study nonconvex and nonsmooth multi-block optimization over Riemannian manifolds with coupled linear constraints. Such optimization problems naturally arise from machine learning, statistical learning, compressive sensing,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-09 Junyu Zhang , Shiqian Ma , Shuzhong Zhang

In this paper, we present a convergence rate analysis for the inexact Krasnosel'skii-Mann iteration built from nonexpansive operators. Our results include two main parts: we first establish global pointwise and ergodic iteration-complexity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-09-17 Jingwei Liang , Jalal Fadili , Gabriel Peyré

Non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) approximates a given matrix as a product of two non-negative matrices. Multiplicative algorithms deliver reliable results, but they show slow convergence for high-dimensional data and may be stuck…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-12-05 Felipe Yanez , Francis Bach

Operator splitting techniques have recently gained popularity in convex optimization problems arising in various control fields. Being fixed-point iterations of nonexpansive operators, such methods suffer many well known downsides, which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-01 Andreas Themelis , Panagiotis Patrinos

Operator learning has become a powerful tool for accelerating the solution of parameterized partial differential equations (PDEs), enabling rapid prediction of full spatiotemporal fields for new initial conditions or forcing functions.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Hongjin Mi , Huiqiang Lun , Changhong Mou , Yeyu Zhang

A generic data-assisted control architecture within the port-Hamiltonian framework is proposed, introducing a physically meaningful observable that links conservative dynamics to all actuation, dissipation, and disturbance channels. A…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-12 Mostafa Eslami , Maryam Babazadeh

This paper introduces a novel approach to solving multi-block nonconvex composite optimization problems through a proximal linearized Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM). This method incorporates an Increasing Penalization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Ganzhao Yuan