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This work analyzes the inverse optimal transport (IOT) problem under Bregman regularization. We establish well-posedness results, including existence, uniqueness (up to equivalence classes of solutions), and stability, under several…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Chenglong Bao , Zanyu Li , Yunan Yang

In this work we study the method of Bregman projections for deterministic and stochastic convex feasibility problems with three types of control sequences for the selection of sets during the algorithmic procedure: greedy, random, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-06 Vladimir Kostic , Saverio Salzo

Randomized Kaczmarz-type methods are widely used for their simplicity and efficiency in solving large-scale linear systems and optimization problems. However, their applicability is limited when dealing with inconsistent systems or…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-11 Zeyu Dong , Aqin Xiao , Guojian Yin , Junfeng Yin

In this work we propose a batch version of the Greenkhorn algorithm for multimarginal regularized optimal transport problems. Our framework is general enough to cover, as particular cases, some existing algorithms like Sinkhorn and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-12-07 Vladimir Kostic , Saverio Salzo , Massimilano Pontil

We propose a unifying algorithm for non-smooth non-convex optimization. The algorithm approximates the objective function by a convex model function and finds an approximate (Bregman) proximal point of the convex model. This approximate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-27 Peter Ochs , Jalal Fadili , Thomas Brox

In this paper, we proposed an alternating projection based algorithm to solve a class of distributed MIN-MAX convex optimization problems. We firstly transform this MINMAX problem into the problem of searching for the minimum distance…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-06-11 Chunhe Hu , Zongji Chen

Block majorization-minimization (BMM) is a simple iterative algorithm for constrained nonconvex optimization that sequentially minimizes majorizing surrogates of the objective function in each block while the others are held fixed. BMM…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Hanbaek Lyu , Yuchen Li

We introduce and analyze BPALM and A-BPALM, two multi-block proximal alternating linearized minimization algorithms using Bregman distances for solving structured nonconvex problems. The objective function is the sum of a multi-block…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-20 Masoud Ahookhosh , Le Thi Khanh Hien , Nicolas Gillis , Panagiotis Patrinos

This paper considers estimation of sparse covariance matrices and establishes the optimal rate of convergence under a range of matrix operator norm and Bregman divergence losses. A major focus is on the derivation of a rate sharp minimax…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-02-14 T. Tony Cai , Harrison H. Zhou

We propose an extension of a special form of gradient descent -- in the literature known as linearised Bregman iteration -- to a larger class of non-convex functions. We replace the classical (squared) two norm metric in the gradient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-26 Martin Benning , Marta M. Betcke , Matthias J. Ehrhardt , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

This work is concerned with the optimization of nonconvex, nonsmooth composite optimization problems, whose objective is a composition of a nonlinear mapping and a nonsmooth nonconvex function, that can be written as an infimal convolution…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-28 Emanuel Laude , Daniel Cremers

This paper introduces a dual-regularized ADMM approach to distributed, time-varying optimization. The proposed algorithm is designed in a prediction-correction framework, in which the computing nodes predict the future local costs based on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-07 Nicola Bastianello , Andrea Simonetto , Ruggero Carli

In this paper we propose a distributed dual gradient algorithm for minimizing linearly constrained separable convex problems and analyze its rate of convergence. In particular, we prove that under the assumption of strong convexity and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-10-01 Ion Necoara , Valentin Nedelcu

We consider the computation of the entanglement-assisted quantum rate-distortion function, which plays a central role in quantum information theory. We propose an efficient alternating minimization algorithm based on the Lagrangian…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Lingyi Chen , Deheng Yuan , Wenyi Zhang , Hao Wu , Huihui Wu

In this short note we derive a relationship between the Bregman divergence from the current policy to the optimal policy and the suboptimality of the current value function in a regularized Markov decision process. This result has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Brendan O'Donoghue

We investigate convergence of alternating Bregman projections between non-convex sets and prove convergence to a point in the intersection, or to points realizing a gap between the two sets. The speed of convergence is generally sub-linear,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-30 Dominikus Noll

The paper presents primal-dual proximal splitting methods for convex optimization, in which generalized Bregman distances are used to define the primal and dual proximal update steps. The methods extend the primal and dual Condat-Vu…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-20 Xin Jiang , Lieven Vandenberghe

In this paper, we compute the stationary states of the multicomponent phase-field crystal model by formulating it as a block constrained minimization problem. The original infinite-dimensional non-convex minimization problem is approximated…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-16 Chenglong Bao , Chang Chen , Kai Jiang

We propose a forward-backward splitting algorithm based on Bregman distances for composite minimization problems in general reflexive Banach spaces. The convergence is established using the notion of variable quasi-Bregman monotone…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-10 Quang Van Nguyen

A systematic procedure is proposed for deriving all the gauge symmetries of the general, not necessarily variational, equations of motion. For the variational equations, this procedure reduces to the Dirac-Bergmann algorithm for the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 S. L. Lyakhovich , A. A. Sharapov