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The monotone variational inequality is a central problem in mathematical programming that unifies and generalizes many important settings such as smooth convex optimization, two-player zero-sum games, convex-concave saddle point problems,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-17 Yang Cai , Argyris Oikonomou , Weiqiang Zheng

The bilevel variational inequality (BVI) problem is a general model that captures various optimization problems, including VI-constrained optimization and equilibrium problems with equilibrium constraints (EPECs). This paper introduces a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-16 Mohammad Khalafi , Digvijay Boob

We extend our recently introduced stochastic nonlocal traffic flow model to more general random perturbations, including Markovian noise derived from a discretized Jacobi-type stochastic differential equation. Invoking a deterministic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-26 Timo Böhme , Simone Göttlich , Andreas Neuenkirch

Stochastic first-order methods such as Stochastic Extragradient (SEG) or Stochastic Gradient Descent-Ascent (SGDA) for solving smooth minimax problems and, more generally, variational inequality problems (VIP) have been gaining a lot of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-02 Eduard Gorbunov , Marina Danilova , David Dobre , Pavel Dvurechensky , Alexander Gasnikov , Gauthier Gidel

We introduce a class of Markov chains, that contains the model of stochastic approximation by averaging and non-averaging. Using martingale approximation method, we establish various deviation inequalities for separately Lipschitz functions…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-09-16 Xiequan Fan , Pierre Alquier , Paul Doukhan

Algorithmic analysis of Markov decision processes (MDP) and stochastic games (SG) in practice relies on value-iteration (VI) algorithms. Since basic VI does not provide guarantees on the precision of the result, variants of VI have been…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Muqsit Azeem , Jan Kretinsky , Maximilian Weininger

The variational inequality problem in finite-dimensional Euclidean space is addressed in this paper, and two inexact variants of the extragradient method are proposed to solve it. Instead of computing exact projections on the constraint…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-24 R. Díaz Millán , O. P. Ferreira , J. Ugon

This paper introduces a new extragradient-type algorithm for a class of nonconvex-nonconcave minimax problems. It is well-known that finding a local solution for general minimax problems is computationally intractable. This observation has…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-21 Thomas Pethick , Puya Latafat , Panagiotis Patrinos , Olivier Fercoq , Volkan Cevher

Stochastic gradient methods with momentum are widely used in applications and at the core of optimization subroutines in many popular machine learning libraries. However, their sample complexities have not been obtained for problems beyond…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-12 Vien V. Mai , Mikael Johansson

We revisit random search for stochastic optimization, where only noisy function evaluations are available. We show that the method works under weaker smoothness assumptions than previously considered, and that stronger assumptions enable…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-19 El Mahdi Chayti , Taha El Bakkali El Kadi , Omar Saadi , Martin Jaggi

In this paper, we propose universal proximal mirror methods to solve the variational inequality problem with Holder continuous operators in both deterministic and stochastic settings. The proposed methods automatically adapt not only to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-07 Anton Klimza , Alexander Gasnikov , Fedor Stonyakin , Mohammad Alkousa

In this work we investigate the practicality of stochastic gradient descent and recently introduced variants with variance-reduction techniques in imaging inverse problems. Such algorithms have been shown in the machine learning literature…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-26 Junqi Tang , Karen Egiazarian , Mohammad Golbabaee , Mike Davies

The article is devoted to the development of numerical methods for solving saddle point problems and variational inequalities with simplified requirements for the smoothness conditions of functionals. Recently there were proposed some…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-22 Alexander Titov , Fedor Stonyakin , Mohammad Alkousa , Alexander Gasnikov

In this work, we present a novel approach for solving stochastic shape optimization problems. Our method is the extension of the classical stochastic gradient method to infinite-dimensional shape manifolds. We prove convergence of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-03 Caroline Geiersbach , Estefania Loayza-Romero , Kathrin Welker

We introduce a linear-scaling stochastic method to compute real-space maps of any positive local spectral operator in a tight-binding model. By employing positive-definite estimators, the sampling error at each site can be rigorously…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-11-18 H. P. Veiga , D. R. Pinheiro , J. P. Santos Pires , J. M. Viana Parente Lopes

Variational Inference (VI) is a method that approximates a difficult-to-compute posterior density using better behaved distributional families. VI is an alternative to the already well-studied Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) method of…

Computation · Statistics 2022-03-25 Neil Dey , Emmett B. Kendall

Algorithmic analysis of Markov decision processes (MDP) and stochastic games (SG) in practice relies on value-iteration (VI) algorithms. Since the basic version of VI does not provide guarantees on the precision of the result, variants of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Muqsit Azeem , Jan Kretinsky , Maximilian Weininger

We consider unconstrained minimization of smooth convex functions. We propose a novel variational perspective using forced Euler-Lagrange equation that allows for studying high-resolution ODEs. Through this, we obtain a faster convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-06 Hoomaan Maskan , Konstantinos C. Zygalakis , Alp Yurtsever

This paper proposes a predefined-time (PDT) neurodynamic approach with time-varying coefficients for solving mixed variational inequality problems (MVIs). A class of first-order proximal neurodynamic models is developed to guarantee…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Vajahat Karim Khan , Md. Kalimuddin Ahmad

Algorithms for min-max optimization and variational inequalities are often studied under monotonicity assumptions. Motivated by non-monotone machine learning applications, we follow the line of works [Diakonikolas et al., 2021, Lee and Kim,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Eduard Gorbunov , Adrien Taylor , Samuel Horváth , Gauthier Gidel