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In this work we are interested in stochastic particle methods for multi-objective optimization. The problem is formulated using parametrized, single-objective sub-problems which are solved simultaneously. To this end a consensus based…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-03 Giacomo Borghi , Michael Herty , Lorenzo Pareschi

This paper focuses on stochastic methods for solving smooth non-convex strongly-concave min-max problems, which have received increasing attention due to their potential applications in deep learning (e.g., deep AUC maximization,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Zhishuai Guo , Yan Yan , Zhuoning Yuan , Tianbao Yang

The problem we consider is a multi-objective optimization problem, in which the goal is to find an optimal value of a vector function representing various criteria. The aim of this work is to develop an algorithm which utilizes the trust…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Nataša Krejić , Nataša Krklec Jerinkić , Luka Rutešić

Many real-world problems not only have complicated nonconvex functional constraints but also use a large number of data points. This motivates the design of efficient stochastic methods on finite-sum or expectation constrained problems. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-20 Zichong Li , Pin-Yu Chen , Sijia Liu , Songtao Lu , Yangyang Xu

Many real-world decision-making problems involve optimizing multiple objectives simultaneously, rendering the selection of the most preferred solution a non-trivial problem: All Pareto optimal solutions are viable candidates, and it is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Niclas Boehmer , Maximilian T. Wittmann

We develop both first and second order numerical optimization methods to solve non-smooth optimization problems featuring a shared sparsity penalty, constrained by differential equations with uncertainty. To alleviate the curse of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-18 Harbir Antil , Sergey Dolgov , Akwum Onwunta

In this article we develop a gradient-based algorithm for the solution of multiobjective optimization problems with uncertainties. To this end, an additional condition is derived for the descent direction in order to account for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-02 Sebastian Peitz , Michael Dellnitz

This paper considers stochastic first-order algorithms for convex-concave minimax problems of the form $\min_{\bf x}\max_{\bf y}f(\bf x, \bf y)$, where $f$ can be presented by the average of $n$ individual components which are $L$-average…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-01 Luo Luo , Guangzeng Xie , Tong Zhang , Zhihua Zhang

Many descent algorithms for multiobjective optimization have been developed in the last two decades. Tanabe et al. (Comput Optim Appl 72(2):339--361, 2019) proposed a proximal gradient method for multiobjective optimization, which can solve…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-11 Hiroki Tanabe , Ellen H. Fukuda , Nobuo Yamashita

Nonlinearly constrained nonconvex and nonsmooth optimization models play an increasingly important role in machine learning, statistics and data analytics. In this paper, based on the augmented Lagrangian function we introduce a flexible…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-27 Daoli Zhu , Lei Zhao , Shuzhong Zhang

We settle the computational complexity of fundamental questions related to multicriteria integer linear programs, when the dimensions of the strategy space and of the outcome space are considered fixed constants. In particular we construct:…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-01-03 Jesús A. De Loera , Raymond Hemmecke , Matthias Köppe

Nonsmooth nonconvex optimization problems involving the $\ell^p$ quasi-norm, $p \in (0, 1]$, of a linear map are considered. A monotonically convergent scheme for a regularized version of the original problem is developed and necessary…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-20 Daria Ghilli , Karl Kunisch

A proximal safeguarded augmented Lagrangian method for minimizing the difference of convex (DC) functions over a nonempty, closed and convex set with additional linear equality as well as convex inequality constraints is presented. Thereby,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Christian Kanzow , Tanja Neder

We analyze worst-case complexity of a Proximal augmented Lagrangian (Proximal AL) framework for nonconvex optimization with nonlinear equality constraints. When an approximate first-order (second-order) optimal point is obtained in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-03 Yue Xie , Stephen J. Wright

The proximal point algorithm (PPA) has been developed to solve the monotone variational inequality problem. It provides a theoretical foundation for some methods, such as the augmented Lagrangian method (ALM) and the alternating direction…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-16 Jingyu Gao , Xiurui Geng

We present an algorithm for multi-objective optimization of computationally expensive problems. The proposed algorithm is based on solving a set of surrogate problems defined by models of the real one, so that only solutions estimated to be…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Santiago Cuervo , Miguel Melgarejo , Angie Blanco-Cañon , Laura Reyes-Fajardo , Sergio Rojas-Galeano

We present a new algorithm for solving optimization problems with objective functions that are the sum of a smooth function and a (potentially) nonsmooth regularization function, and nonlinear equality constraints. The algorithm may be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-12 Yutong Dai , Xiaoyi Qu , Daniel P. Robinson

Consider the regularized sparse minimization problem, which involves empirical sums of loss functions for $n$ data points (each of dimension $d$) and a nonconvex sparsity penalty. We prove that finding an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-06-20 Yichen Chen , Dongdong Ge , Mengdi Wang , Zizhuo Wang , Yinyu Ye , Hao Yin

This paper develops the proximal method of multipliers for a class of nonsmooth convex optimization. The method generates a sequence of minimization problems (subproblems). We show that the sequence of approximations to the solutions of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-14 Tomoya Takeuchi

We propose a primal-dual smoothing framework for finding a near-stationary point of a class of non-smooth non-convex optimization problems with max-structure. We analyze the primal and dual gradient complexities of the framework via two…

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