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We introduce a new sequential subspace optimization method for large-scale saddle-point problems. It solves iteratively a sequence of auxiliary saddle-point problems in low-dimensional subspaces, spanned by directions derived from…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-24 Yoni Choukroun , Michael Zibulevsky , Pavel Kisilev

Stochastic saddle point (SSP) problems are, in general, less studied compared to stochastic minimization problems. However, SSP problems emerge from machine learning (adversarial training, e.g., GAN, AUC maximization), statistics (robust…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-14 Vitali Pirau

In this paper, we propose an inexact golden ratio primal-dual algorithm with linesearch step(IP-GRPDAL) for solving the saddle point problems, where two subproblems can be approximately solved by applying the notations of inexact extended…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Changjie Fang , Jinxiu Liu , Jingtao Qiu , Shenglan Chen

This paper addresses the challenge of developing efficient algorithms for large-scale nonconvex multiobjective optimization problems (MOPs). While quasi-Newton methods are effective, their traditional application to MOPs is computationally…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Hua Liu

We revisit the smooth convex-concave bilinearly-coupled saddle-point problem of the form $\min_x\max_y f(x) + \langle y,\mathbf{B} x\rangle - g(y)$. In the highly specific case where each of the functions $f(x)$ and $g(y)$ is either affine…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-25 Dmitry Kovalev , Ekaterina Borodich

Stochastic gradient descent and other first-order variants, such as Adam and AdaGrad, are commonly used in the field of deep learning due to their computational efficiency and low-storage memory requirements. However, these methods do not…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-19 Aditya Ranganath , Mukesh Singhal , Roummel Marcia

This is a continuation of our previous work entitled \enquote{Alternating Proximity Mapping Method for Convex-Concave Saddle-Point Problems}, in which we proposed the alternating proximal mapping method and showed convergence results on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-01 Hui Ouyang

In this paper, we derive a randomized version of the Mirror-Prox method for solving some structured matrix saddle-point problems, such as the maximal eigenvalue minimization problem. Deterministic first-order schemes, such as Nesterov's…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-12-07 Michel Baes , Michael Bürgisser , Arkadi Nemirovski

In a recent joint work, the author has developed a modification of Newton's method, named New Q-Newton's method, which can avoid saddle points and has quadratic rate of convergence. While good theoretical convergence guarantee has not been…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-10 Tuyen Trung Truong

In this paper, we propose a variance-reduced primal-dual algorithm with Bregman distance for solving convex-concave saddle-point problems with finite-sum structure and nonbilinear coupling function. This type of problems typically arises in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-02 Erfan Yazdandoost Hamedani , Afrooz Jalilzadeh

We consider the convex-concave saddle point problem $\min_{\mathbf{x}}\max_{\mathbf{y}}\Phi(\mathbf{x},\mathbf{y})$, where the decision variables $\mathbf{x}$ and/or $\mathbf{y}$ subject to a multi-block structure and affine coupling…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-17 Junyu Zhang , Mengdi Wang , Mingyi Hong , Shuzhong Zhang

Despite their popularity in the field of continuous optimisation, second-order quasi-Newton methods are challenging to apply in machine learning, as the Hessian matrix is intractably large. This computational burden is exacerbated by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Elre T. Oldewage , Ross M. Clarke , José Miguel Hernández-Lobato

Stochastic nonconvex-concave min-max saddle point problems appear in many machine learning and control problems including distributionally robust optimization, generative adversarial networks, and adversarial learning. In this paper, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-12 Morteza Boroun , Zeinab Alizadeh , Afrooz Jalilzadeh

A quasi-Newton method with cubic regularization is designed for solving Riemannian unconstrained nonconvex optimization problems. The proposed algorithm is fully adaptive with at most ${\cal O} (\epsilon_g^{-3/2})$ iterations to achieve a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-21 Mauricio S. Louzeiro , Gilson N. Silva , Jinyun Yuan , Daoping Zhang

In this paper, we propose new methods to efficiently solve convex optimization problems encountered in sparse estimation, which include a new quasi-Newton method that avoids computing the Hessian matrix and improves efficiency, and we prove…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Ryosuke Shimmura , Joe Suzuki

We consider the class of optimization problems arising from computationally intensive L1-regularized M-estimators, where the function or gradient values are very expensive to compute. A particular instance of interest is the L1-regularized…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-01-26 Kai Zhong , Ian E. H. Yen , Inderjit S. Dhillon , Pradeep Ravikumar

A class of monotone operator equations, which can be decomposed into sum of the gradient of a strongly convex function and a linear and skew-symmetric operator, is considered in this work. Based on discretization of the generalized gradient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Long Chen , Jingrong Wei

Gaussian process (GP) regression provides a strategy for accelerating saddle point searches on high-dimensional energy surfaces by reducing the number of times the energy and its derivatives with respect to atomic coordinates need to be…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-12-03 Rohit Goswami , Hannes Jónsson

We consider strongly-convex-strongly-concave saddle point problems assuming we have access to unbiased stochastic estimates of the gradients. We propose a stochastic accelerated primal-dual (SAPD) algorithm and show that SAPD sequence,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Xuan Zhang , Necdet Serhat Aybat , Mert Gürbüzbalaban

This study develops a fixed-time convergent saddle point dynamical system for solving min-max problems under a relaxation of standard convexity-concavity assumption. In particular, it is shown that by leveraging the dynamical systems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-28 Kunal Garg , Mayank Baranwal