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We introduce new optimized first-order methods for smooth unconstrained convex minimization. Drori and Teboulle recently described a numerical method for computing the $N$-iteration optimal step coefficients in a class of first-order…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-14 Donghwan Kim , Jeffrey A. Fessler

This paper investigates online algorithms for smooth time-varying optimization problems, focusing first on methods with constant step-size, momentum, and extrapolation-length. Assuming strong convexity, precise results for the tracking…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-16 Liam Madden , Stephen Becker , Emiliano Dall'Anese

It is well-known that the lower bound of iteration complexity for solving nonconvex unconstrained optimization problems is $\Omega(1/\epsilon^2)$, which can be achieved by standard gradient descent algorithm when the objective function is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-02 Jiawei Zhang , Wenqiang Pu , Zhi-Quan Luo

In recent years, there have been significant advances in efficiently solving $\ell_s$-regression using linear system solvers and $\ell_2$-regression [Adil-Kyng-Peng-Sachdeva, J. ACM'24]. Would efficient smoothed $\ell_p$-norm solvers lead…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-16 Deeksha Adil , Brian Bullins , Arun Jambulapati , Aaron Sidford

Accelerated coordinate descent is widely used in optimization due to its cheap per-iteration cost and scalability to large-scale problems. Up to a primal-dual transformation, it is also the same as accelerated stochastic gradient descent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-05-30 Zeyuan Allen-Zhu , Zheng Qu , Peter Richtárik , Yang Yuan

We introduce a generic scheme for accelerating first-order optimization methods in the sense of Nesterov, which builds upon a new analysis of the accelerated proximal point algorithm. Our approach consists of minimizing a convex objective…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-10-27 Hongzhou Lin , Julien Mairal , Zaid Harchaoui

This work presents a universal accelerated first-order primal-dual method for affinely constrained convex optimization problems. It can handle both Lipschitz and H\"{o}lder gradients but does not need to know the smoothness level of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-09 Hao Luo

Extrapolation is a well-known technique for solving convex optimization and variational inequalities and recently attracts some attention for non-convex optimization. Several recent works have empirically shown its success in some machine…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-06 Yi Xu , Zhuoning Yuan , Sen Yang , Rong Jin , Tianbao Yang

We provide a novel accelerated first-order method that achieves the asymptotically optimal convergence rate for smooth functions in the first-order oracle model. To this day, Nesterov's Accelerated Gradient Descent (AGD) and variations…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-13 Jelena Diakonikolas , Lorenzo Orecchia

We develop a machine-learning framework to learn hyperparameter sequences for accelerated first-order methods (e.g., the step size and momentum sequences in accelerated gradient descent) to quickly solve parametric convex optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Rajiv Sambharya , Jinho Bok , Nikolai Matni , George Pappas

In the paper we propose an accelerated directional search method with non-euclidian prox-structure. We consider convex unconstraint optimization problem in $\mathbb{R}^n$. For simplicity we start from the zero point. We expect in advance…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-27 Evgeniya Vorontsova , Alexander Gasnikov , Eduard Gorbunov

A framework is developed for applying accelerated methods to general hyperbolic programming, including linear, second-order cone, and semidefinite programming as special cases. The approach replaces a hyperbolic program with a convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-30 James Renegar

On solving a convex-concave bilinear saddle-point problem (SPP), there have been many works studying the complexity results of first-order methods. These results are all about upper complexity bounds, which can determine at most how many…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-10 Yuyuan Ouyang , Yangyang Xu

While popular optimization methods such as SGD, AdamW, and Lion depend on steepest descent updates in either $\ell_2$ or $\ell_\infty$ norms, there remains a critical gap in handling the non-Euclidean structure observed in modern deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Xinyu Luo , Cedar Site Bai , Bolian Li , Petros Drineas , Ruqi Zhang , Brian Bullins

We propose a globally-accelerated, first-order method for the optimization of smooth and (strongly or not) geodesically-convex functions in a wide class of Hadamard manifolds. We achieve the same convergence rates as Nesterov's accelerated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-18 David Martínez-Rubio , Sebastian Pokutta

This paper discusses several (sub)gradient methods attaining the optimal complexity for smooth problems with Lipschitz continuous gradients, nonsmooth problems with bounded variation of subgradients, weakly smooth problems with H\"older…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-05-02 Masoud Ahookhosh

We present a family of algorithms, called descent algorithms, for optimizing convex and non-convex functions. We also introduce a new first-order algorithm, called rescaled gradient descent (RGD), and show that RGD achieves a faster…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-07 Ashia Wilson , Lester Mackey , Andre Wibisono

In this paper, we suggest a new framework for analyzing primal subgradient methods for nonsmooth convex optimization problems. We show that the classical step-size rules, based on normalization of subgradient, or on the knowledge of optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-27 Yurii Nesterov

Gradient-free/zeroth-order methods for black-box convex optimization have been extensively studied in the last decade with the main focus on oracle calls complexity. In this paper, besides the oracle complexity, we focus also on iteration…

Performance analysis of first-order algorithms with inexact oracles has gained recent attention due to various emerging applications in which obtaining exact gradients is impossible or computationally expensive. Previous research has…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Yin Liu , Sam Davanloo Tajbakhsh