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Minimizing sum of two functions under a linear constraint is what we called splitting problem. This convex optimization has wide applications in machine learning problems, such as Lasso, Group Lasso and Sparse logistic regression. A recent…

Computation · Statistics 2017-11-20 Sen Na , Cho-Jui Hsieh

A dynamic sampled stochastic approximated (DS-SA) extragradient method for stochastic variational inequalities (SVI) is proposed that is \emph{robust} with respect to an unknown Lipschitz constant $L$. To the best of our knowledge, it is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-28 Alfredo Iusem , Alejandro Jofré , Roberto I. Oliveira , Philip Thompson

Subsampling is a widely used and effective approach for addressing the computational challenges posed by massive datasets. Substantial progress has been made in developing non-uniform, probability-based subsampling schemes that prioritize…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-07 Dingyi Wang , Haiying Wang , Qingpei Hu

We consider saddle point problems which objective functions are the average of $n$ strongly convex-concave individual components. Recently, researchers exploit variance reduction methods to solve such problems and achieve linear-convergence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Luo Luo , Cheng Chen , Yujun Li , Guangzeng Xie , Zhihua Zhang

In contrast with many other convex optimization classes, state-of-the-art semidefinite programming solvers are yet unable to efficiently solve large scale instances. This work aims to reduce this scalability gap by proposing a novel…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-20 Mario Souto , Joaquim D. Garcia , Alvaro Veiga

In this paper, we develop a symmetric accelerated stochastic Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (SAS-ADMM) for solving separable convex optimization problems with linear constraints. The objective function is the sum of a possibly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-21 Jianchao Bai , Deren Han , Hao Sun , Hongchao Zhang

A large class of non-smooth practical optimization problems can be written as minimization of a sum of smooth and partly smooth functions. We examine such structured problems which also depend on a parameter vector and study the problem of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-28 Sheheryar Mehmood , Peter Ochs

This paper studies the complexity of finding an $\epsilon$-stationary point for stochastic bilevel optimization when the upper-level problem is nonconvex and the lower-level problem is strongly convex. Recent work proposed the first-order…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Lesi Chen , Junru Li , El Mahdi Chayti , Jingzhao Zhang

We introduce the deep multi-FBSDE method for robust approximation of coupled forward-backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs), focusing on cases where the deep BSDE method of Han, Jentzen, and E (2018) fails to converge. To…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-03 Kristoffer Andersson , Adam Andersson , Cornelis W. Oosterlee

In this work, we concern with the high order numerical methods for coupled forward-backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs). Based on the FBSDEs theory, we derive two reference ordinary differential equations (ODEs) from the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-03-27 Weidong Zhao , Yu Fu , Tao Zhou

In this paper, we propose a stochastic method for solving equality constrained optimization problems that utilizes predictive variance reduction. Specifically, we develop a method based on the sequential quadratic programming paradigm that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-28 Albert S. Berahas , Jiahao Shi , Zihong Yi , Baoyu Zhou

In this paper, by using tools of second-order variational analysis, we study the popular forward-backward splitting method with Beck-Teboulle's line-search for solving convex optimization problem where the objective function can be split…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-19 Yunier Bello-Cruz , G. Li , T. T. A. Nghia

In this paper we propose a new fast splitting algorithm to solve the Weighted Split Bregman minimization problem in the backward step of an accelerated Forward-Backward algorithm. Beside proving the convergence of the method, numerical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-01 D. Lazzaro , E. Loli Piccolomini , F. Zama

We propose a novel algorithmic framework of Variable Metric Over-Relaxed Hybrid Proximal Extra-gradient (VMOR-HPE) method with a global convergence guarantee for the maximal monotone operator inclusion problem. Its iteration complexities…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-03 Li Shen , Peng Sun , Yitong Wang , Wei Liu , Tong Zhang

In this paper, we propose a variance-reduced primal-dual algorithm with Bregman distance for solving convex-concave saddle-point problems with finite-sum structure and nonbilinear coupling function. This type of problems typically arises in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-02 Erfan Yazdandoost Hamedani , Afrooz Jalilzadeh

A problem of great interest in optimization is to minimize a sum of two closed, proper, and convex functions where one is smooth and the other has a computationally inexpensive proximal operator. In this paper we analyze a family of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-01-24 Patrick R. Johnstone , Pierre Moulin

In this paper, we develop stochastic variance reduced algorithms for solving a class of finite-sum hemivariational inequality (HVI) problem. In this HVI problem, the associated function is assumed to be differentiable, and both the vector…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-12 Kevin Huang , Nuozhou Wang , Shuzhong Zhang

Over the past years, operator splitting methods have become ubiquitous for non-smooth optimization owing to their simplicity and efficiency. In this paper, we consider the Forward--Douglas--Rachford splitting method (FDR) [10,40], and study…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-04 Cesare Molinari , Jingwei Liang , Jalal Fadili

We propose stochastic splitting algorithms for solving large-scale composite inclusion problems involving monotone and linear operators. They activate at each iteration blocks of randomly selected resolvents of monotone operators and,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-07 Patrick L. Combettes , Javier I. Madariaga

Optimizing large-scale nonconvex problems, common in deep learning, demands balancing rapid convergence with computational efficiency. First-order (FO) optimizers, which serve as today's baselines, provide fast convergence and good…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Jiahe Chen , Ziye Ma