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The goal of this paper is to study approaches to bridge the gap between first-order and second-order type methods for composite convex programs. Our key observations are: i) Many well-known operator splitting methods, such as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-27 Xiantao Xiao , Yongfeng Li , Zaiwen Wen , Liwei Zhang

Factor Analysis is an effective way of dimensionality reduction achieved by revealing the low-rank plus sparse structure of the data covariance matrix. The corresponding model identification task is often formulated as an optimization…

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In this paper, we study the iteration complexity of cubic regularization of Newton method for solving composite minimization problems with uniformly convex objective. We introduce the notion of second-order condition number of a certain…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-21 Nikita Doikov , Yurii Nesterov

The focus in this work is on interior-point methods for inequality-constrained quadratic programs, and particularly on the system of nonlinear equations to be solved for each value of the barrier parameter. Newton iterations give high…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-24 David Ek , Anders Forsgren

This paper considers the problems of solving monotone variational inequalities with H\"older continuous Jacobians. By employing the knowledge of H\"older parameter $\nu$, we propose the $\nu$-regularized extra-Newton method within at most…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-19 Chengchang Liu , Luo Luo

In this paper we present an active-set method for the solution of $\ell_1$-regularized convex quadratic optimization problems. It is derived by combining a proximal method of multipliers (PMM) strategy with a standard semismooth Newton…

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When given a generalized matrix separation problem, which aims to recover a low rank matrix $L_0$ and a sparse matrix $S_0$ from $M_0=L_0+HS_0$, the work \cite{CW25} proposes a novel convex optimization problem whose objective function is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Xuemei Chen , Owen Deen

We consider the efficient minimization of a nonlinear, strictly convex functional with $\ell_1$-penalty term. Such minimization problems appear in a wide range of applications like Tikhonov regularization of (non)linear inverse problems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-04-12 Esther Hans , Thorsten Raasch

The problem of minimizing a sum of local convex objective functions over a networked system captures many important applications and has received much attention in the distributed optimization field. Most of existing work focuses on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-09 Fatemeh Mansoori , Ermin Wei

In this paper, we propose a proximal iteratively reweighted algorithm with extrapolation based on block coordinate update aimed at solving a class of optimization problems which is the sum of a smooth possibly nonconvex loss function and a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-13 Jie Zhang , Xinmin Yang

The paper proposes and justifies a new algorithm of the proximal Newton type to solve a broad class of nonsmooth composite convex optimization problems without strong convexity assumptions. Based on advanced notions and techniques of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-02 Boris S. Mordukhovich , Xiaoming Yuan , Shangzhi Zeng , Jin Zhang

In many linear regression problems, including ill-posed inverse problems in image restoration, the data exhibit some sparse structures that can be used to regularize the inversion. To this end, a classical path is to use $\ell_{12}$ block…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-25 Charles-Alban Deledalle , Nicolas Papadakis , Joseph Salmon , Samuel Vaiter

We present a Newton-type method that converges fast from any initialization and for arbitrary convex objectives with Lipschitz Hessians. We achieve this by merging the ideas of cubic regularization with a certain adaptive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-02 Konstantin Mishchenko

We consider the sparse optimization problem with nonlinear constraints and an objective function, which is given by the sum of a general smooth mapping and an additional term defined by the $ \ell_0 $-quasi-norm. This term is used to obtain…

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The constrained $\ell_0$ regularization plays an important role in sparse reconstruction. A widely used approach for solving this problem is the penalty method, of which the least square penalty problem is a special case. However, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-01 Na Zhang , Qia Li

We consider the problem of minimizing a sum of several convex non-smooth functions. We introduce a new algorithm called the selective linearization method, which iteratively linearizes all but one of the functions and employs simple…

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This paper is intended to solve the nonconvex $\ell_{p}$-ball constrained nonlinear optimization problems. An iteratively reweighted method is proposed, which solves a sequence of weighted $\ell_{1}$-ball projection subproblems. At each…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-28 Hao Wang , Xiangyu Yang , Wei Jiang

We analyze Newton's method with lazy Hessian updates for solving general possibly non-convex optimization problems. We propose to reuse a previously seen Hessian for several iterations while computing new gradients at each step of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-16 Nikita Doikov , El Mahdi Chayti , Martin Jaggi

One of the most important problems in the field of distributed optimization is the problem of minimizing a sum of local convex objective functions over a networked system. Most of the existing work in this area focus on developing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-08 Fatemeh Mansoori , Ermin Wei