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Finding a zero of a maximal monotone operator is fundamental in convex optimization and monotone operator theory, and \emph{proximal point algorithm} (PPA) is a primary method for solving this problem. PPA converges not only globally under…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-14 Guoyong Gu , Junfeng Yang

In this paper, we study a class of fractional optimization problems, in which the numerator of the objective is the sum of a convex function and a differentiable function with a Lipschitz continuous gradient, while the denominator is a…

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In this paper, we propose a Bregman frame for several classical alternating minimization algorithms. In the frame, these algorithms have uniform mathematical formulation. We also present convergence analysis for the frame algorithm. Under…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-27 Tao Sun , Lizhi Cheng

In view of the minimization of a function which is the sum of a differentiable function $f$ and a convex function $g$ we introduce descent methods which can be viewed as produced by inexact auxiliary problem principleor inexact variable…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-13 Jean-Philippe Chancelier

In this paper, we consider solving a class of nonconvex and nonsmooth problems frequently appearing in signal processing and machine learning research. The traditional alternating direction method of multipliers encounters troubles in both…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Tao Sun , Hao Jiang , Lizhi Cheng , Wei Zhu

We consider optimization problems over the Stiefel manifold whose objective function is the summation of a smooth function and a nonsmooth function. Existing methods for solving this kind of problems can be classified into three classes.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-14 Shixiang Chen , Shiqian Ma , Anthony Man-Cho So , Tong Zhang

The classical Krasnoselskii-Mann iteration is broadly used for approximating fixed points of nonexpansive operators. To accelerate the convergence of the Krasnoselskii-Mann iteration, the inertial methods were received much attention in…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-09 Fuying Cui , Yang Yang , Yuchao Tang , Chuanxi Zhu

We study the local convergence rate of stochastic first-order methods under a local $\alpha$-Polyak-Lojasiewicz ($\alpha$-PL) condition in a neighborhood of a target connected component $\mathcal{M}$ of the local minimizer set. The…

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In this paper we study a second order dynamical system with variable coefficients in connection to the minimization problem of a smooth nonconvex function. The convergence of the trajectories generated by the dynamical system to a critical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Szilárd Csaba László

Gradient descent methods are fundamental first-order optimization algorithms in both Euclidean spaces and Riemannian manifolds. However, the exact gradient is not readily available in many scenarios. This paper proposes a novel inexact…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-18 Juan Zhou , Kangkang Deng , Hongxia Wang , Zheng Peng

In this work, we develop a level-set subdifferential error bound condition aiming towards convergence rate analysis of a variable Bregman proximal gradient (VBPG) method for a broad class of nonsmooth and nonconvex optimization problems. It…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-01 Daoli Zhu , Sien Deng , Minghua Li , Lei Zhao

In this paper, we study an algorithm for solving a class of nonconvex and nonsmooth nonseparable optimization problems. Based on proximal alternating linearized minimization (PALM), we propose a new iterative algorithm which combines…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-14 Chenzheng Guo , Jing Zhao

The proximal algorithm is a powerful tool to minimize nonlinear and nonsmooth functionals in a general metric space. Motivated by the recent progress in studying the training dynamics of the noisy gradient descent algorithm on two-layer…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Shuailong Zhu , Xiaohui Chen

In 1963, Polyak proposed a simple condition that is sufficient to show a global linear convergence rate for gradient descent. This condition is a special case of the \L{}ojasiewicz inequality proposed in the same year, and it does not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Hamed Karimi , Julie Nutini , Mark Schmidt

We study the convergence rate of gradient-based local search methods for solving low-rank matrix recovery problems with general objectives in both symmetric and asymmetric cases, under the assumption of the restricted isometry property.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-10 Yingjie Bi , Haixiang Zhang , Javad Lavaei

A fundamental class of matrix optimization problems that arise in many areas of science and engineering is that of quadratic optimization with orthogonality constraints. Such problems can be solved using line-search methods on the Stiefel…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-10-06 Huikang Liu , Weijie Wu , Anthony Man-Cho So

Mathematical programs with complementarity constraints (MPCCs) are a challenging class of nonlinear optimization problems, because their nonlinear programming reformulations violate standard constraint qualifications at every feasible…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Armin Nurkanović

In this paper we aim to minimize the sum of two nonsmooth (possibly also nonconvex) functions in separate variables connected by a smooth coupling function. To tackle this problem we chose a continuous forward-backward approach and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-29 Radu Ioan Bot , Laura Kanzler

In this paper we analyze approximation and recovery properties with respect to systems satisfying universal sampling discretization property and a special incoherence property. We apply a powerful nonlinear approximation method -- the Weak…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-02 V. Temlyakov

In this note, we provide convergence results for the proximal point algorithm and a splitting variant thereof in the setting of CAT$(\kappa)$ spaces with $\kappa > 0$ using a recent definition for the resolvent of a convex, lower…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-12-05 Rafa Espínola , Adriana Nicolae