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Stochastic variance reduced optimization methods are known to be globally convergent while they suffer from slow local convergence, especially when moderate or high accuracy is needed. To alleviate this problem, we propose an optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-15 Hamed Sadeghi , Pontus Giselsson

In this paper, we develop a new type of accelerated algorithms to solve some classes of maximally monotone equations as well as monotone inclusions. Instead of using Nesterov's accelerating approach, our methods rely on a so-called…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-08 Quoc Tran-Dinh , Yang Luo

We consider monotone inclusions defined on a Hilbert space where the operator is given by the sum of a maximal monotone operator $T$ and a single-valued monotone, Lipschitz continuous, and expectation-valued operator $V$. We draw motivation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-11 Shisheng Cui , Uday V. Shanbhag , Mathias Staudigl , Phan Tu Vuong

In the context of finite sums minimization, variance reduction techniques are widely used to improve the performance of state-of-the-art stochastic gradient methods. Their practical impact is clear, as well as their theoretical properties.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-07 Cheik Traoré , Vassilis Apidopoulos , Saverio Salzo , Silvia Villa

Motivated by applications arising from large scale optimization and machine learning, we consider stochastic quasi-Newton (SQN) methods for solving unconstrained convex optimization problems. The convergence analysis of the SQN methods,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-02 Farzad Yousefian , Angelia Nedić , Uday Shanbhag

In this paper, we introduce some adaptive methods for solving variational inequalities with relatively strongly monotone operators. Firstly, we focus on the modification of the recently proposed, in smooth case [1], adaptive numerical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-01 A. A. Titov , S. S. Ablaev , M. S. Alkousa , F. S. Stonyakin , A. V. Gasnikov

We introduce a fast and scalable method for solving quadratic programs with conditional value-at-risk (CVaR) constraints. While these problems can be formulated as standard quadratic programs, the number of variables and constraints grows…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Eric Luxenberg , David Pérez-Piñeiro , Steven Diamond , Stephen Boyd

We propose a new class of fast Krasnoselkii--Mann methods with variance reduction to solve a finite-sum co-coercive equation $Gx = 0$. Our algorithm is single-loop and leverages a new family of unbiased variance-reduced estimators…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-09 Quoc Tran-Dinh

We develop a new stochastic algorithm with variance reduction for solving pseudo-monotone stochastic variational inequalities. Our method builds on Tseng's forward-backward-forward (FBF) algorithm, which is known in the deterministic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-12 Radu Ioan Bot , Panayotis Mertikopoulos , Mathias Staudigl , Phan Tu Vuong

In this paper we study stochastic quasi-Newton methods for nonconvex stochastic optimization, where we assume that noisy information about the gradients of the objective function is available via a stochastic first-order oracle (SFO). We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-23 Xiao Wang , Shiqian Ma , Donald Goldfarb , Wei Liu

Stochastic variance reduction has proven effective at accelerating first-order algorithms for solving convex finite-sum optimization tasks such as empirical risk minimization. Incorporating second-order information has proven helpful in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-30 Michał Dereziński

This paper introduces the generalized forward-backward splitting algorithm for minimizing convex functions of the form $F + \sum_{i=1}^n G_i$, where $F$ has a Lipschitz-continuous gradient and the $G_i$'s are simple in the sense that their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-02-11 Hugo Raguet , Jalal Fadili , Gabriel Peyré

Three Operator Splitting (TOS) (Davis & Yin, 2017) can minimize the sum of multiple convex functions effectively when an efficient gradient oracle or proximal operator is available for each term. This requirement often fails in machine…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-21 Alp Yurtsever , Alex Gu , Suvrit Sra

We consider a class of nonsmooth fractional programming problems with fixed-point constraints, where the numerator is convex and the denominator is concave. To solve this problem, we propose splitting algorithms that compute subgradient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Mootta Prangprakhon , Nimit Nimana

Splitting methods constitute a widely used class of numerical integrators for ordinary and partial differential equations, particularly well suited to problems that can be decomposed into simpler subproblems. High-order splitting schemes…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Fernando Casas , Ander Murua

Sampling-based algorithms are classical approaches to perform Bayesian inference in inverse problems. They provide estimators with the associated credibility intervals to quantify the uncertainty on the estimators. Although these methods…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-11-28 Pierre-Antoine Thouvenin , Audrey Repetti , Pierre Chainais

Stochastic optimization algorithms with variance reduction have proven successful for minimizing large finite sums of functions. Unfortunately, these techniques are unable to deal with stochastic perturbations of input data, induced for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-16 Alberto Bietti , Julien Mairal

In this paper, we study a class of stochastic and finite-sum convex optimization problems with deterministic constraints. Existing methods typically aim to find an $\epsilon$-$expectedly\ feasible\ stochastic\ optimal$ solution, in which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-26 Zhaosong Lu , Yifeng Xiao

In this paper, we study the nonexpansive properties of a generalized forward-backward splitting (G-FBS) operator, particularly under the setting of degenerate metric, from which follow the convergence results in terms of degenerate metric…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-21 Feng Xue

We investigate the Randomized Stochastic Accelerated Gradient (RSAG) method, utilizing either constant or adaptive step sizes, for stochastic optimization problems with generalized smooth objective functions. Under relaxed affine variance…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-25 Chenhao Yu , Yusu Hong , Junhong Lin