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Anderson Acceleration (AA) is a popular algorithm designed to enhance the convergence of fixed-point iterations. In this paper, we introduce a variant of AA based on a Truncated Gram-Schmidt process (AATGS) which has a few advantages over…
We present a novel approach for accelerating AI performance by leveraging Anderson extrapolation, a vector-to-vector mapping technique based on a window of historical iterations. By identifying the crossover point (Fig. 1) where a mixing…
We exploit analogies between first-order algorithms for constrained optimization and non-smooth dynamical systems to design a new class of accelerated first-order algorithms for constrained optimization. Unlike Frank-Wolfe or projected…
For a linear equality constrained convex optimization problem involving two objective functions with a ``nonsmooth" + ``nonsmooth" composite structure, we study two algorithms derived from a mixed-order dynamical system which incorporates…
Parametric manifold optimization problems frequently arise in various machine learning tasks, where state functions are defined on infinite-dimensional manifolds. We propose a unified accelerated natural gradient descent (ANGD) framework to…
In this paper we explore acceleration techniques for large scale nonconvex optimization problems with special focuses on deep neural networks. The extrapolation scheme is a classical approach for accelerating stochastic gradient descent for…
We propose two new alternating direction methods to solve "fully" nonsmooth constrained convex problems. Our algorithms have the best known worst-case iteration-complexity guarantee under mild assumptions for both the objective residual and…
This work studies a class of non-smooth decentralized multi-agent optimization problems where the agents aim at minimizing a sum of local strongly-convex smooth components plus a common non-smooth term. We propose a general primal-dual…
In this paper, we study the stochastic gradient descent (SGD) method for the nonconvex nonsmooth optimization, and propose an accelerated SGD method by combining the variance reduction technique with Nesterov's extrapolation technique.…
In this paper, the Newton-Anderson method, which results from applying an extrapolation technique known as Anderson acceleration to Newton's method, is shown both analytically and numerically to provide superlinear convergence to non-simple…
This paper applies the Anderson Acceleration (AA) technique to accelerate the Fenchel dual gradient method (FDGM) to solve constrained optimization problems over time-varying networks. AA is originally designed for accelerating fixed-point…
In this work, we consider methods for solving large-scale optimization problems with a possibly nonsmooth objective function. The key idea is to first specify a class of optimization algorithms using a generic iterative scheme involving…
We propose an adaptive accelerated gradient method for solving smooth convex optimization problems. The method incorporates a scheme to determine the step size adaptively, by means of a local estimation of the smoothness constant, which is…
The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) has been widely adopted in low-rank approximation and low-order model identification tasks; however, the performance of nonconvex ADMM is highly reliant on the choice of penalty…
This paper examines a number of extrapolation and acceleration methods, and introduces a few modifications of the standard Shanks transformation that deal with general sequences. One of the goals of the paper is to lay out a general…
In this report, we present a versatile and efficient preconditioned Anderson acceleration (PAA) method for fixed-point iterations. The proposed framework offers flexibility in balancing convergence rates (linear, super-linear, or quadratic)…
We provide improved convergence rates for various \emph{non-smooth} optimization problems via higher-order accelerated methods. In the case of $\ell_\infty$ regression, we achieves an $O(\epsilon^{-4/5})$ iteration complexity, breaking the…
Stochastic nonconvex optimization problems with nonlinear constraints have a broad range of applications in intelligent transportation, cyber-security, and smart grids. In this paper, first, we propose an inexact-proximal accelerated…
We present a stochastic setting for optimization problems with nonsmooth convex separable objective functions over linear equality constraints. To solve such problems, we propose a stochastic Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers…
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…