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Forward-backward methods are a very useful tool for the minimization of a functional given by the sum of a differentiable term and a nondifferentiable one and their investigation has experienced several efforts from many researchers in the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-10 Silvia Bonettini , Federica Porta , Valeria Ruggiero

We introduce and investigate the asymptotic behaviour of the trajectories of a second order dynamical system with Tikhonov regularization for solving a monotone equation with single valued, monotone and continuous operator acting on a real…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-27 Ernö Robert Csetnek , Szilárd Csaba László

Given a proper convex lower semicontinuous function defined on a Hilbert space and whose solution set is supposed nonempty. For attaining a global minimizer when this convex function is continuously differentiable, we approach it by a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-02 A. C. Bagy , Z. Chbani , H. Riahi

We analyze the convergence rate of various momentum-based optimization algorithms from a dynamical systems point of view. Our analysis exploits fundamental topological properties, such as the continuous dependence of iterates on their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-13 Michael Muehlebach , Michael I. Jordan

In this work, we approach the minimization of a continuously differentiable convex function under linear equality constraints by a second-order dynamical system with an asymptotically vanishing damping term. The system under consideration…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-15 David Alexander Hulett , Dang-Khoa Nguyen

When considering the minimization of a quadratic or strongly convex function, it is well known that first-order methods involving an inertial term weighted by a constant-in-time parameter are particularly efficient (see Polyak [32],…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-17 Jean-François Aujol , Charles Dossal , Hippolyte Labarrière , Aude Rondepierre

In a Hilbert setting we aim to study a second order in time differential equation, combining viscous and Hessian-driven damping, containing a time scaling parameter function and a Tikhonov regularization term. The dynamical system is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-24 Robert Ernö Csetnek , Mikhail A. Karapetyants

We propose new continuous-time formulations for first-order stochastic optimization algorithms such as mini-batch gradient descent and variance-reduced methods. We exploit these continuous-time models, together with simple Lyapunov analysis…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-12 Antonio Orvieto , Aurelien Lucchi

Solving inverse problems with neural networks benefits from very few theoretical guarantees when it comes to the recovery guarantees. We provide in this work convergence and recovery guarantees for self-supervised neural networks applied to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Nathan Buskulic , Jalal Fadil , Yvain Quéau

We propose new restarting strategies for the accelerated coordinate descent method. Our main contribution is to show that for a well chosen sequence of restarting times, the restarted method has a nearly geometric rate of convergence. A…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-04 Olivier Fercoq , Zheng Qu

In this work, we approach the problem of finding the zeros of a continuous and monotone operator through a second-order dynamical system with a damping term of the form $1/t^{r}$, where $r\in [0, 1]$. The system features the time derivative…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-23 Radu Ioan Bot , David Alexander Hulett , Dang-Khoa Nguyen

This paper deals with a second order dynamical system with a Tikhonov regularization term in connection to the minimization problem of a convex Fr\'echet differentiable function. The fact that beside the asymptotically vanishing damping we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-08 Szilárd Csaba László

We propose a new framework to design and analyze accelerated methods that solve general monotone equation (ME) problems $F(x)=0$. Traditional approaches include generalized steepest descent methods and inexact Newton-type methods. If $F$ is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-22 Tianyi Lin , Michael. I. Jordan

Recent advances (Sherman, 2017; Sidford and Tian, 2018; Cohen et al., 2021) have overcome the fundamental barrier of dimension dependence in the iteration complexity of solving $\ell_\infty$ regression with first-order methods. Yet it…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-18 Cedar Site Bai , Brian Bullins

We propose new restarting strategies for accelerated gradient and accelerated coordinate descent methods. Our main contribution is to show that the restarted method has a geometric rate of convergence for any restarting frequency, and so it…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-26 Olivier Fercoq , Zheng Qu

In a Hilbert space $H$, in order to develop fast optimization methods, we analyze the asymptotic behavior, as time $t$ tends to infinity, of inertial continuous dynamics where the damping acts as a closed-loop control. The function $f: H…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-12 Hedy Attouch , Radu Ioan Bot , Ernö Robert Csetnek

In this paper we propose new numerical algorithms in the setting of unconstrained optimization problems and we study the rate of convergence in the iterates of the objective function. Furthermore, our algorithms are based upon splitting and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-11 Cristian Daniel Alecsa

This paper is devoted to the study of an inertial accelerated primal-dual algorithm, which is based on a second-order differential system with time scaling, for solving a non-smooth convex optimization problem with linear equality…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Huan Zhang , Xiangkai Sun , Shengjie Li , Kok Lay Teo

Momentum methods for convex optimization often rely on precise choices of algorithmic parameters, based on knowledge of problem parameters, in order to achieve fast convergence, as well as to prevent oscillations that could severely…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-24 Justin H. Le , Andrew R. Teel