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We propose an inexact proximal augmented Lagrangian framework with explicit inner problem termination rule for composite convex optimization problems. We consider arbitrary linearly convergent inner solver including in particular stochastic…

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Multi-task learning enhances model generalization by jointly learning from related tasks. This paper focuses on the $\ell_{1,\infty}$-norm constrained multi-task learning problem, which promotes a shared feature representation while…

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In this paper, a proximal augmented Lagrangian homotopy (PAL-Hom) method for solving convex quadratic programming problems is proposed. This method takes the proximal augmented Lagrangian method as the outer iteration. To solve the proximal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-22 Guoqiang Wang , Bo Yu

In this paper we consider a class of structured nonsmooth difference-of-convex (DC) constrained DC program in which the first convex component of the objective and constraints is the sum of a smooth and nonsmooth functions while their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-18 Zhaosong Lu , Zhe Sun , Zirui Zhou

This paper is concerned with a partially linear semiparametric regression model containing an unknown regression coefficient, an unknown nonparametric function, and an unobservable Gaussian distributed random error. We focus on the case of…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-01-06 Peili Li , Yunhai Xiao , Meixia Yang , Hanbing Zhu

We propose an algorithm for general nonlinear conic programming which does not require the knowledge of the full cone, but rather a simpler, more tractable, approximation of it. We prove that the algorithm satisfies a strong global…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-22 Mituhiro Fukuda , Walter Gómez , Gabriel Haeser , Leonardo Makoto Mito

Kernel quantile regression (KQR) extends classical quantile regression to nonlinear settings using kernel methods, offering a powerful tool for modeling conditional distributions. However, its application to large-scale datasets remains…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-24 Shengxiang Deng , Xudong Li , Yangjing Zhang

In this paper, we consider the minimization of a nonsmooth nonconvex objective function $f(x)$ over a closed convex subset $\mathcal{X}$ of $\mathbb{R}^n$, with additional nonsmooth nonconvex constraints $c(x) = 0$. We develop a unified…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-16 Nachuan Xiao , Kuangyu Ding , Xiaoyin Hu , Kim-Chuan Toh

State-of-the-art techniques for simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) employ iterative nonlinear optimization methods to compute an estimate for robot poses. While these techniques often work well in practice, they do not provide…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-07-21 Luca Carlone , David Rosen , Giuseppe Calafiore , John Leonard , Frank Dellaert

This paper introduces a smoothed proximal Lagrangian method for minimizing a nonconvex smooth function over a convex domain with additional explicit convex nonlinear constraints. Two key features are 1) the proposed method is single-looped,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-28 Wenqiang Pu , Kaizhao Sun , Jiawei Zhang

We propose an augmented Lagrangian-type algorithm for the solution of generalized Nash equilibrium problems (GNEPs). Specifically, we discuss the convergence properties with regard to both feasibility and optimality of limit points. This is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-13 Christian Kanzow , Daniel Steck

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

Interior Point Methods (IPM) rely on the Newton method for solving systems of nonlinear equations. Solving the linear systems which arise from this approach is the most computationally expensive task of an interior point iteration. If, due…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-27 J. Gondzio , F. N. C. Sobral

We propose a variant of the classical augmented Lagrangian method for constrained optimization problems in Banach spaces. Our theoretical framework does not require any convexity or second-order assumptions and allows the treatment of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-13 Christian Kanzow , Daniel Steck , Daniel Wachsmuth

Recently, structure learning of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) has been formulated as a continuous optimization problem by leveraging an algebraic characterization of acyclicity. The constrained problem is solved using the augmented…

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In this paper we analyze several inexact fast augmented Lagrangian methods for solving linearly constrained convex optimization problems. Mainly, our methods rely on the combination of excessive-gap-like smoothing technique developed in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-05-14 Andrei Patrascu , Ion Necoara , Quoc Tran-Dinh

We consider the problem of minimizing the sum of a smooth function and a composition of a zero-one loss function with a linear operator, namely zero-one composite optimization problem (0/1-COP). It is a versatile model including the support…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-02 Penghe Zhang , Naihua Xiu

Motivated by variational models in continuum mechanics, we introduce a novel algorithm to perform nonsmooth and nonconvex minimizations with linear constraints in Euclidean spaces. We show how this algorithm is actually a natural…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-20 Marco Artina , Massimo Fornasier , Francesco Solombrino

Constrained optimization is a powerful framework for enforcing requirements on neural networks. These constrained deep learning problems are typically solved using first-order methods on their min-max Lagrangian formulation, but such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Juan Ramirez , Simon Lacoste-Julien

In this paper, we provide two types of sufficient conditions for ensuring the quadratic growth conditions of a class of constrained convex symmetric and non-symmetric matrix optimization problems regularized by nonsmooth spectral functions.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-08 Ying Cui , Chao Ding , Xinyuan Zhao