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In this manuscript, we study the properties of a family of second-order differential equations with damping, its discretizations and their connections with accelerated optimization algorithms for $m$-strongly convex and $L$-smooth…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-12 J. M. Sanz-Serna , Konstantinos C. Zygalakis

This work aims to minimize a continuously differentiable convex function with Lipschitz continuous gradient under linear equality constraints. The proposed inertial algorithm results from the discretization of the second-order primal-dual…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-03 Radu Ioan Bot , Ernö Robert Csetnek , Dang-Khoa Nguyen

Optimization problems emerging in most of the real-world applications are dynamic, where either the objective function or the constraints change continuously over time. This paper proposes projected primal-dual dynamical system approaches…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-19 Rejitha Raveendran , Arun D. Mahindrakar , Umesh Vaidya

First-order methods are often analyzed via their continuous-time models, where their worst-case convergence properties are usually approached via Lyapunov functions. In this work, we provide a systematic and principled approach to find and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-12 Céline Moucer , Adrien Taylor , Francis Bach

In this work, we propose a high-order regularization method to solve the ill-conditioned problems in robot localization. Numerical solutions to robot localization problems are often unstable when the problems are ill-conditioned. A typical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Xinghua Liu , Ming Cao

Entropy regularized Markov decision processes have been widely used in reinforcement learning. This paper is concerned with the primal-dual formulation of the entropy regularized problems. Standard first-order methods suffer from slow…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-13 Haoya Li , Hsiang-fu Yu , Lexing Ying , Inderjit Dhillon

We develop a globalized Proximal Newton method for composite and possibly non-convex minimization problems in Hilbert spaces. Additionally, we impose less restrictive assumptions on the composite objective functional considering…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-02 Bastian Pötzl , Anton Schiela , Patrick Jaap

The goal of this paper is to study approaches to bridge the gap between first-order and second-order type methods for composite convex programs. Our key observations are: i) Many well-known operator splitting methods, such as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-27 Xiantao Xiao , Yongfeng Li , Zaiwen Wen , Liwei Zhang

In this paper, we propose two novel non-stationary first-order primal-dual algorithms to solve nonsmooth composite convex optimization problems. Unlike existing primal-dual schemes where the parameters are often fixed, our methods use…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-13 Quoc Tran-Dinh , Yuzixuan Zhu

In this paper, we generalize (accelerated) Newton's method with cubic regularization under inexact second-order information for (strongly) convex optimization problems. Under mild assumptions, we provide global rate of convergence of these…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-17 Saeed Ghadimi , Han Liu , Tong Zhang

The numerical solution of linear discrete ill-posed problems typically requires regularization, i.e., replacement of the available ill-conditioned problem by a nearby better conditioned one. The most popular regularization methods for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-02-11 Silvia Noschese , Lothar Reichel

Second-order optimization methods exhibit fast convergence to critical points, however, in nonconvex optimization, these methods often require restrictive step-sizes to ensure a monotonically decreasing objective function. In the presence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-11 Aayushya Agarwal , Larry Pileggi , Ronald Rohrer

Although the \emph{residual method}, or \emph{constrained regularization}, is frequently used in applications, a detailed study of its properties is still missing. This sharply contrasts the progress of the theory of Tikhonov…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-12-06 Markus Grasmair , Markus Haltmeier , Otmar Scherzer

We propose and analyze a class of second-order dynamical systems for continuous-time optimization that incorporate fractional-order gradient terms. The system is given by \begin{equation} \ddot{x}(t) + \frac{\alpha}{t}\dot{x}(t) +…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Tumelo Ranoto

In infinite-dimensional Hilbert spaces we device a class of strongly convergent primal-dual schemes for solving variational inequalities defined by a Lipschitz continuous and pseudomonote map. Our novel numerical scheme is based on Tseng's…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-27 Benoit Duvocelle , Dennis Meier , Mathias Staudigl , Phan Tu Vuong

In this paper, we study a bilinear saddle point problem of the form $\min_{x}\max_{y} F(x) + \langle Ax, y \rangle - G(y)$, where $F$ and $G$ are $\mu_F$- and $\mu_G$-strongly convex functions, respectively. By incorporating Nesterov…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-11 Xin He , Ya-Ping Fang

We study a class of non-convex and non-smooth problems with \textit{rank} regularization to promote sparsity in optimal solution. We propose to apply the proximal gradient descent method to solve the problem and accelerate the process with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-28 Mengyuan Zhang , Kai Liu

Primal-dual methods for solving convex optimization problems with functional constraints often exhibit a distinct two-stage behavior. Initially, they converge towards a solution at a sublinear rate. Then, after a certain point, the method…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Mateo Díaz , Pedro Izquierdo Lehmann , Haihao Lu , Jinwen Yang

We develop a second order primal-dual method for optimization problems in which the objective function is given by the sum of a strongly convex twice differentiable term and a possibly nondifferentiable convex regularizer. After introducing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-31 Neil K. Dhingra , Sei Zhen Khong , Mihailo R. Jovanović

In this paper, we deal with nonlinear ill-posed problems involving monotone operators and consider Lavrentiev's regularization method. This approach, in contrast to Tikhonov's regularization method, does not make use of the adjoint of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-04-20 Bernd Hofmann , Barbara Kaltenbacher , Elena Resmerita