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Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Feihu Huang , Shangqian Gao

Min-max saddle point games appear in a wide range of applications in machine leaning and signal processing. Despite their wide applicability, theoretical studies are mostly limited to the special convex-concave structure. While some recent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-19 Babak Barazandeh , Meisam Razaviyayn

In this paper, we consider a class of nonconvex-linear minimax problems on Riemannian manifolds, which find wide applications in machine learning and signal processing. For solving this class of problems, we develop a flexible Riemannian…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Meng Xu , Bo Jiang , Ya-Feng Liu , Anthony Man-Cho So

Nonconvex-concave min-max problem arises in many machine learning applications including minimizing a pointwise maximum of a set of nonconvex functions and robust adversarial training of neural networks. A popular approach to solve this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-21 Jiawei Zhang , Peijun Xiao , Ruoyu Sun , Zhi-Quan Luo

We study the minimax problem $\min_{x\in M} \max_y f_r(x,y):=f(x,y)-h(y)$, where $M$ is a compact submanifold, $f$ is continuously differentiable in $(x, y)$, $h$ is a closed, weakly-convex (possibly non-smooth) function and we assume that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Necdet Serhat Aybat , Jiang Hu , Zhanwang Deng

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

In this paper, we consider a class of structured nonsmooth optimization problems over an embedded submanifold of a Euclidean space, where the first part of the objective is the sum of a difference-of-convex (DC) function and a smooth…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-07 Qia Li , Na Zhang , Junyu Feng , Hanwei Yan

Minimax problems, such as generative adversarial network, adversarial training, and fair training, are widely solved by a multi-step gradient descent ascent (MGDA) method in practice. However, its convergence guarantee is limited. In this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-10 Sucheol Lee , Donghwan Kim

We consider nonconvex-concave minimax optimization problems of the form $\min_{\bf x}\max_{\bf y\in{\mathcal Y}} f({\bf x},{\bf y})$, where $f$ is strongly-concave in $\bf y$ but possibly nonconvex in $\bf x$ and ${\mathcal Y}$ is a convex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Luo Luo , Haishan Ye , Zhichao Huang , Tong Zhang

It is well known that there have been many numerical algorithms for solving nonsmooth minimax problems, numerical algorithms for nonsmooth minimax problems with joint linear constraints are very rare. This paper aims to discuss optimality…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-21 Yu-Hong Dai , Jiani Wang , Liwei Zhang

This paper considers constrained stochastic nonsmooth minimax optimization problem of the form…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-24 Jinyang Shi , Luo Luo

In recent years, nonconvex minimax problems have attracted significant attention due to their broad applications in machine learning, including generative adversarial networks, robust optimization and adversarial training. Most existing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-06 Yan Gao , Yongchao Liu

Minimax optimization recently is widely applied in many machine learning tasks such as generative adversarial networks, robust learning and reinforcement learning. In the paper, we study a class of nonconvex-nonconcave minimax optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-23 Feihu Huang , Chunyu Xuan , Xinrui Wang , Siqi Zhang , Songcan Chen

Nonconvex-nonconcave minimax optimization has gained widespread interest over the last decade. However, most existing works focus on variants of gradient descent-ascent (GDA) algorithms, which are only applicable to smooth nonconvex-concave…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-17 Jiajin Li , Linglingzhi Zhu , Anthony Man-Cho So

Alternating gradient-descent-ascent (AltGDA) is an optimization algorithm that has been widely used for model training in various machine learning applications, which aims to solve a nonconvex minimax optimization problem. However, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Ziyi Chen , Shaocong Ma , Yi Zhou

This paper addresses a class of nonsmooth and nonconvex optimization problems defined on complete Riemannian manifolds. The objective function has a composite structure, combining convex, differentiable, and lower semicontinuous terms,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-19 Vitaliano S. Amaral , Marcio Antônio de A. Bortoloti , Jurandir O. Lopes , Gilson N. Silva

We consider double-regularized nonconvex-strongly concave (NCSC) minimax problems of the form $(P):\min_{x\in\mathcal{X}} \max_{y\in\mathcal{Y}}g(x)+f(x,y)-h(y)$, where $g$, $h$ are closed convex, $f$ is $L$-smooth in $(x,y)$ and strongly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-30 Xuan Zhang , Qiushui Xu , Necdet Serhat Aybat

In this paper, we study the minimax optimization problem in the smooth and strongly convex-strongly concave setting when we have access to noisy estimates of gradients. In particular, we first analyze the stochastic Gradient Descent Ascent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-14 Alireza Fallah , Asuman Ozdaglar , Sarath Pattathil

We consider nonconvex-concave minimax problems, $\min_{\mathbf{x}} \max_{\mathbf{y} \in \mathcal{Y}} f(\mathbf{x}, \mathbf{y})$, where $f$ is nonconvex in $\mathbf{x}$ but concave in $\mathbf{y}$ and $\mathcal{Y}$ is a convex and bounded…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Tianyi Lin , Chi Jin , Michael I. Jordan

Minimax problems of the form $\min_x \max_y \Psi(x,y)$ have attracted increased interest largely due to advances in machine learning, in particular generative adversarial networks. These are typically trained using variants of stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-14 Radu Ioan Boţ , Axel Böhm
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