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A class of finite-state and discrete-time optimal control problems is introduced. The problems involve a large number of agents with independent dynamics, which interact through an aggregative term in the cost function. The problems are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-10 Kang Liu , Nadia Oudjane , Laurent Pfeiffer

The Frank-Wolfe algorithm, a very first optimization method and also known as the conditional gradient method, was introduced by Frank and Wolfe in 1956. Due to its simple linear subproblems, the Frank-Wolfe algorithm has recently been…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-23 Hong-Kun Xu

In this article, we propose an algorithm for the nonlinear conjugate gradient method to find a Pareto critical point of unconstrained multiobjective interval optimization problems. In this algorithm, we use the Wolfe line search procedure…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-09 Tapas Mondal , Debdas Ghosh , Jingxin Liu , Jie Li

We present a new proximal bundle method for Maximum-A-Posteriori (MAP) inference in structured energy minimization problems. The method optimizes a Lagrangean relaxation of the original energy minimization problem using a multi plane…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Paul Swoboda , Vladimir Kolmogorov

We propose a semi-stochastic Frank-Wolfe algorithm with away-steps for regularized empirical risk minimization and extend it to problems with block-coordinate structure. Our algorithms use adaptive step-size and we show that they converge…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-02-16 Donald Goldfarb , Garud Iyengar , Chaoxu Zhou

In this note we observe that for constrained convex minimization problems $\min_{x \in P}f(x)$ over a polytope $P$, dual prices for the linear program $\min_{z \in P} \nabla f(x) z$ obtained from linearization at approximately optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-08 Gábor Braun , Sebastian Pokutta

Minimizing a function over an intersection of convex sets is an important task in optimization that is often much more challenging than minimizing it over each individual constraint set. While traditional methods such as Frank-Wolfe (FW) or…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-11 Gauthier Gidel , Fabian Pedregosa , Simon Lacoste-Julien

Learning sparse combinations is a frequent theme in machine learning. In this paper, we study its associated optimization problem in the distributed setting where the elements to be combined are not centrally located but spread over a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-25 Aurélien Bellet , Yingyu Liang , Alireza Bagheri Garakani , Maria-Florina Balcan , Fei Sha

Frank-Wolfe algorithm (FW) and its variants have gained a surge of interests in machine learning community due to its projection-free property. Recently people have reduced the gradient evaluation complexity of FW algorithm to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-22 Yan Li , Chao Qu , Huan Xu

Sparse inverse covariance selection is a fundamental problem for analyzing dependencies in high dimensional data. However, such a problem is difficult to solve since it is NP-hard. Existing solutions are primarily based on convex…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2018-04-05 Ganzhao Yuan , Haoxian Tan , Wei-Shi Zheng

We propose an algorithm which appears to be the first bridge between the fields of conditional gradient methods and abs-smooth optimization. Our problem setting is motivated by various applications that lead to nonsmoothness, such as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-20 Timo Kreimeier , Sebastian Pokutta , Andrea Walther , Zev Woodstock

An extension of the Frank-Wolfe Algorithm (FWA), also known as Conditional Gradient algorithm, is proposed. In its standard form, the FWA allows to solve constrained optimization problems involving $\beta$-smooth cost functions, calling at…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-28 Guilherme Mazanti , Thibault Moquet , Laurent Pfeiffer

Frank--Wolfe methods avoid projections, but over curved feasible regions the full-space linear minimization oracle (LMO) can itself become the computational bottleneck. We introduce random-subspace Frank--Wolfe (RSFW), the first…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Pierre-Louis Poirion , Sebastian Pokutta , Akiko Takeda

We introduce novel techniques to enhance Frank-Wolfe algorithms by leveraging function smoothness beyond traditional short steps. Our study focuses on Frank-Wolfe algorithms with step sizes that incorporate primal-dual guarantees, offering…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-03 David Martínez-Rubio , Sebastian Pokutta

This paper considers distributed online convex constrained optimization, in which various agents in a multi-agent system cooperate to minimize a global cost function through communicating with neighbors over a time-varying network. When the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-02 Wentao Zhang , Yang Shi , Baoyong Zhang , Deming Yuan

This paper presents a reinforcement learning (RL) framework that utilizes Frank-Wolfe policy optimization to solve Coding-Tree-Unit (CTU) bit allocation for Region-of-Interest (ROI) intra-frame coding. Most previous RL-based methods employ…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-28 Yung-Han Ho , Chia-Hao Kao , Wen-Hsiao Peng , Ping-Chun Hsieh

In planning problems, it is often challenging to fully model the desired specifications. In particular, in human-robot interaction, such difficulty may arise due to human's preferences that are either private or complex to model.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Mahsa Ghasemi , Evan Scope Crafts , Bo Zhao , Ufuk Topcu

How can we efficiently mitigate the overhead of gradient communications in distributed optimization? This problem is at the heart of training scalable machine learning models and has been mainly studied in the unconstrained setting. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Mingrui Zhang , Lin Chen , Aryan Mokhtari , Hamed Hassani , Amin Karbasi

Dense conditional random fields (CRF) with Gaussian pairwise potentials have emerged as a popular framework for several computer vision applications such as stereo correspondence and semantic segmentation. By modeling long-range…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-23 Alban Desmaison , Rudy Bunel , Pushmeet Kohli , Philip H. S. Torr , M. Pawan Kumar

We consider the oracle complexity of constrained convex optimization given access to a Linear Minimization Oracle (LMO) for the constraint set and a gradient oracle for the $L$-smooth, strongly convex objective. This model includes…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Benjamin Grimmer , Ning Liu