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This paper is concerned with solving some structured multi-linear systems, which are called tensor absolute value equations. This kind of absolute value equations is closely related to tensor complementarity problems and is a generalization…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-19 Shouqiang Du , Liping Zhang , Chiyu Chen , Liqun Qi

In this paper we develop a randomized block-coordinate descent method for minimizing the sum of a smooth and a simple nonsmooth block-separable convex function and prove that it obtains an $\epsilon$-accurate solution with probability at…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-07-15 Peter Richtárik , Martin Takáč

This manuscript develops edge-averaged virtual element (EAVE) methodologies to address convection-diffusion problems effectively in the convection-dominated regime. It introduces a variant of EAVE that ensures monotonicity (producing an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-14 Shuhao Cao , Long Chen , Seulip Lee

We consider whether conditions exist under which block-coordinate descent is asymptotically efficient in evolutionary multi-objective optimization, addressing an open problem. Block-coordinate descent, where an optimization problem is…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Benjamin Doerr , Joshua Knowles , Aneta Neumann , Frank Neumann

In this paper, we introduce both monotone and nonmonotone variants of LiBCoD, a \textbf{Li}nearized \textbf{B}lock \textbf{Co}ordinate \textbf{D}escent method for solving composite optimization problems. At each iteration, a random block is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-17 Yassine Nabou , Lahcen El Bourkhissi , Sebastian U. Stich , Tuomo Valkonen

The SOR-like iteration method for solving the absolute value equations~(AVE) of finding a vector $x$ such that $Ax - |x| - b = 0$ with $\nu = \|A^{-1}\|_2 < 1$ is investigated. The convergence conditions of the SOR-like iteration method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-17 Cairong Chen , Dongmei Yu , Deren Han

We consider the generalized Newton method (GNM) for the absolute value equation (AVE) $Ax-|x|=b$. The method has finite termination property whenever it is convergent, no matter whether the AVE has a unique solution. We prove that GNM is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-24 Chun-Hua Guo

The aim of this paper is to present the convergence analysis of a very general class of gradient projection methods for smooth, constrained, possibly nonconvex, optimization. The key features of these methods are the Armijo linesearch along…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-13 Silvia Bonettini , Marco Prato , Simone Rebegoldi

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

Coordinate descent methods have considerable impact in global optimization because global (or, at least, almost global) minimization is affordable for low-dimensional problems. Coordinate descent methods with high-order regularized models…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-28 V. S. Amaral , R. Andreani , E. G. Birgin , D. S. Marcondes , J. M. Martínez

Invex programs are a special kind of non-convex problems which attain global minima at every stationary point. While classical first-order gradient descent methods can solve them, they converge very slowly. In this paper, we propose new…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-11 Adarsh Barik , Suvrit Sra , Jean Honorio

An inverse-free neural network model with mixed delays is proposed for solving the absolute value equation (AVE) $Ax -|x| - b =0$, which includes an inverse-free neural network model with discrete delay as a special case. By using the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-10-18 Dongmei Yu , Gehao Zhang , Cairong Chen , Deren Han

Anisotropic rotation averaging has recently been explored as a natural extension of respective isotropic methods. In the anisotropic formulation, uncertainties of the estimated relative rotations -- obtained via standard two-view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Yaroslava Lochman , Carl Olsson , Christopher Zach

This paper introduces an abstract framework for randomized subspace correction methods for convex optimization, which unifies and generalizes a broad class of existing algorithms, including domain decomposition, multigrid, and block…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Boou Jiang , Jongho Park , Jinchao Xu

We present a numerical method for solving the Monge-Ampere equation based on the characterization of the solution of the Dirichlet problem as the minimizer of a convex functional of the gradient and under convexity and nonlinear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-10-05 Gerard Awanou , Leopold Matamba Messi

In this paper we show how to accelerate randomized coordinate descent methods and achieve faster convergence rates without paying per-iteration costs in asymptotic running time. In particular, we show how to generalize and efficiently…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-05-09 Yin Tat Lee , Aaron Sidford

Block-coordinate descent algorithms and alternating minimization methods are fundamental optimization algorithms and an important primitive in large-scale optimization and machine learning. While various block-coordinate-descent-type…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-02 Jelena Diakonikolas , Lorenzo Orecchia

This paper deals with convex nonsmooth optimization problems. We introduce a general smooth approximation framework for the original function and apply random (accelerated) coordinate descent methods for minimizing the corresponding smooth…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-10 Flavia Chorobura , Ion Necoara

Submodular function minimization is a fundamental optimization problem that arises in several applications in machine learning and computer vision. The problem is known to be solvable in polynomial time, but general purpose algorithms have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-02-10 Alina Ene , Huy L. Nguyen

Block coordinate methods have been extensively studied for minimization problems, where they come with significant complexity improvements whenever the considered problems are compatible with block decomposition and, moreover, block…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-31 Jelena Diakonikolas