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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

The method of block coordinate gradient descent (BCD) has been a powerful method for large-scale optimization. This paper considers the BCD method that successively updates a series of blocks selected according to a Markov chain. This kind…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-26 Tao Sun , Yuejiao Sun , Yangyang Xu , Wotao Yin

This paper is concerned with some new projection methods for solving variational inequality problems with monotone and Lipschitz-continuous mapping in Hilbert space. First, we propose the projected reflected gradient algorithm with a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-26 Yu. Malitsky

We propose a new framework to design and analyze accelerated methods that solve general monotone equation (ME) problems $F(x)=0$. Traditional approaches include generalized steepest descent methods and inexact Newton-type methods. If $F$ is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-22 Tianyi Lin , Michael. I. Jordan

The block coordinate descent (BCD) method is widely used for minimizing a continuous function f of several block variables. At each iteration of this method, a single block of variables is optimized, while the remaining variables are held…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-09-12 Meisam Razaviyayn , Mingyi Hong , Zhi-Quan Luo

Block coordinate descent (BCD) methods are prevalent in large scale optimization problems due to the low memory and computational costs per iteration, the predisposition to parallelization, and the ability to exploit the structure of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-31 Luis Briceño-Arias , Paulo Gonçalves , Guillaume Lauga , Nelly Pustelnik , Elisa Riccietti

In this paper, we consider the monotone generalized variational inequality (MGVI) where the monotone operator is Lipschitz continuous. Inspired by the extragradient method and the projection contraction algorithms for monotone variational…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-09 Yu You

In this paper we consider the problem of minimizing a convex function using a randomized block coordinate descent method. One of the key steps at each iteration of the algorithm is determining the update to a block of variables. Existing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-12-11 Rachael Tappenden , Peter Richtárik , Jacek Gondzio

We propose an extragradient method with stepsizes bounded away from zero for stochastic variational inequalities requiring only pseudo-monotonicity. We provide convergence and complexity analysis, allowing for an unbounded feasible set,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-02 Alfredo Iusem , Alejandro Jofré , Roberto I. Oliveira , Philip Thompson

We study the block-coordinate forward-backward algorithm in which the blocks are updated in a random and possibly parallel manner, according to arbitrary probabilities. The algorithm allows different stepsizes along the block-coordinates to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-30 Saverio Salzo , Silvia Villa

In this paper we consider a general matrix factorization model which covers a large class of existing models with many applications in areas such as machine learning and imaging sciences. To solve this possibly nonconvex, nonsmooth and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-16 Lei Yang , Ting Kei Pong , Xiaojun Chen

Some adaptive analogue of the Mirror Prox method for variational inequalities is proposed. In this work we consider the adaptation not only to the value of the Lipschitz constant, but also to the magnitude of the oracle error. This…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-27 Fedor Stonyakin , Evgeniya Vorontsova , Mohammad Alkousa

This paper considers the problems of unconstrained minimization of large scale smooth convex functions having block-coordinate-wise Lipschitz continuous gradients. The block coordinate descent (BCD) method are among the first optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-18 Ziqiang Shi , Rujie Liu

The development of efficient numerical methods for kinetic equations with stochastic parameters is a challenge due to the high dimensionality of the problem. Recently we introduced a multiscale control variate strategy which is capable to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-12-14 Giacomo Dimarco , Lorenzo Pareschi

The randomized Kaczmarz method is an iterative algorithm that solves overdetermined systems of linear equations. Recently, the method was extended to systems of equalities and inequalities by Leventhal and Lewis. Even more recently, Needell…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-09-04 Jonathan Briskman , Deanna Needell

We consider the problem of minimizing a convex, separable, nonsmooth function subject to linear constraints. The numerical method we propose is a block-coordinate extension of the Chambolle-Pock primal-dual algorithm. We prove convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-26 D. Russell Luke , Yura Malitsky

Monotone variational inequalities (VIs) provide a unifying framework for convex minimization, equilibrium computation, and convex-concave saddle-point problems. Extragradient-type methods are among the most effective first-order algorithms…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Lingqing Shen , Fatma Kılınç-Karzan

In this paper we propose a general algorithmic framework for first-order methods in optimization in a broad sense, including minimization problems, saddle-point problems and variational inequalities. This framework allows to obtain many…

The paper investigates two inertial extragradient algorithms for seeking a common solution to a variational inequality problem involving a monotone and Lipschitz continuous mapping and a fixed point problem with a demicontractive mapping in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-08 Bing Tan , Liya Liu , Xiaolong Qin

This paper can be seen as an attempt of rethinking the {\em Extra-Gradient Philosophy} for solving Variational Inequality Problems. We show that the properly defined {\em Reduced Gradients} can be used instead for finding approximate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-05 Yurii Nesterov