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Recently, Bai and Benzi proposed a class of regularized Hermitian and skew-Hermitian splitting methods (RHSS) iteration methods for solving the nonsingular saddle point problem. In this paper, we apply this method to solve the singular…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-26 Zhen Chao , Guoliang Chen

In this work, we consider strongly convex strongly concave (SCSC) saddle point (SP) problems $\min_{x\in\mathbb{R}^{d_x}}\max_{y\in\mathbb{R}^{d_y}}f(x,y)$ where $f$ is $L$-smooth, $f(.,y)$ is $\mu$-strongly convex for every $y$, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-22 Bugra Can , Mert Gurbuzbalaban , Necdet Serhat Aybat

Nonconvex optimization underlies many modern machine learning and control tasks, where saddle points pose the dominant obstacle to reliable convergence in high-dimensional settings. Escaping these saddle points deterministically using…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Liraz Mudrik , Isaac Kaminer , Sean Kragelund , Abram H. Clark

In this paper we propose a primal-dual proximal extragradient algorithm to solve the generalized Dantzig selector (GDS) estimation problem, based on a new convex-concave saddle-point (SP) reformulation. Our new formulation makes it possible…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-06-03 Sangkyun Lee , Damian Brzyski , Malgorzata Bogdan

Recently, saddle point problems have received much attention due to their powerful modeling capability for a lot of problems from diverse domains. Applications of these problems occur in many applied areas, such as robust optimization,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-15 Mohammad Alkousa , Alexander Gasnikov , Pavel Dvurechensky , Abdurakhmon Sadiev , Lama Razouk

Recently, Stochastic Gradient Markov Chain Monte Carlo (SG-MCMC) methods have been proposed for scaling up Monte Carlo computations to large data problems. Whilst these approaches have proven useful in many applications, vanilla SG-MCMC…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-12-13 Umut Şimşekli , Roland Badeau , A. Taylan Cemgil , Gaël Richard

We introduce an inertial quasi-Newton Forward-Backward Splitting Algorithm to solve a class of monotone inclusion problems. While the inertial step is computationally cheap, in general, the bottleneck is the evaluation of the resolvent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-18 Shida Wang , Jalal Fadili , Peter Ochs

Though quasi-Newton methods have been extensively studied in the literature, they either suffer from local convergence or use a series of line searches for global convergence which is not acceptable in the distributed setting. In this work,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-01 Yubo Du , Keyou You

Non-asymptotic analysis of quasi-Newton methods have gained traction recently. In particular, several works have established a non-asymptotic superlinear rate of $\mathcal{O}((1/\sqrt{t})^t)$ for the (classic) BFGS method by exploiting the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-17 Qiujiang Jin , Alec Koppel , Ketan Rajawat , Aryan Mokhtari

We introduce two novel primal-dual algorithms for addressing nonconvex, nonconcave, and nonsmooth saddle point problems characterized by the weak Minty Variational Inequality (MVI). The first algorithm, Nonconvex-Nonconcave Primal-Dual…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-19 Iyad Walwil , Olivier Fercoq

The article is devoted to the development of algorithmic methods ensuring efficient complexity bounds for strongly convex-concave saddle point problems in the case when one of the groups of variables is high-dimensional, and the other is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-26 Egor Gladin , Ilya Kuruzov , Fedor Stonyakin , Dmitry Pasechnyuk , Mohammad Alkousa , Alexander Gasnikov

This paper develops a unified distributed method for solving two classes of constrained networked optimization problems, i.e., optimal consensus problem and resource allocation problem with non-identical set constraints. We first transform…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-17 Yi Huang , Ziyang Meng , Jian Sun , Wei Ren

In this paper, we study the problem of escaping from saddle points in smooth nonconvex optimization problems subject to a convex set $\mathcal{C}$. We propose a generic framework that yields convergence to a second-order stationary point of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-10 Aryan Mokhtari , Asuman Ozdaglar , Ali Jadbabaie

In this paper, we propose an inexact multi-block ADMM-type first-order method for solving a class of high-dimensional convex composite conic optimization problems to moderate accuracy. The design of this method combines an inexact 2-block…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-09 Liang Chen , Defeng Sun , Kim-Chuan Toh

In this paper we study the convex-concave saddle-point problem $\min_x \max_y f(x) + y^T \mathbf{A} x - g(y)$, where $f(x)$ and $g(y)$ are smooth and convex functions. We propose an Accelerated Primal-Dual Gradient Method (APDG) for solving…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-10 Dmitry Kovalev , Alexander Gasnikov , Peter Richtárik

We search saddle points for a large class of convex-concave Lagrangian. A generalized explicit iterative scheme based on Arrow-Hurwicz method converges to a saddle point of the problem. We also propose in this work, a convergent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-12 Minh Phan , Cedric Galusinski

Recently, in (M. Masoudi, D.K. Salkuyeh, An extension of positive-definite and skew-Hermitian splitting method for preconditioning of generalized saddle point problems, Computers \& Mathematics with Application,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-13 Mohsen Masoudi , Davod Khojasteh Salkuyeh

We consider saddle point problems which objective functions are the average of $n$ strongly convex-concave individual components. Recently, researchers exploit variance reduction methods to solve such problems and achieve linear-convergence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Luo Luo , Cheng Chen , Yujun Li , Guangzeng Xie , Zhihua Zhang

In this paper, we focus on solving a class of constrained non-convex non-concave saddle point problems in a decentralized manner by a group of nodes in a network. Specifically, we assume that each node has access to a summand of a global…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-01 Weijie Liu , Aryan Mokhtari , Asuman Ozdaglar , Sarath Pattathil , Zebang Shen , Nenggan Zheng