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The mirror descent algorithm is known to be effective in situations where it is beneficial to adapt the mirror map to the underlying geometry of the optimization model. However, the effect of mirror maps on the geometry of distributed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-13 Anastasia Borovykh , Nikolas Kantas , Panos Parpas , Grigorios A. Pavliotis

Several recent works have explored stochastic gradient methods for variational inference that exploit the geometry of the variational-parameter space. However, the theoretical properties of these methods are not well-understood and these…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-08-15 Mohammad Emtiyaz Khan , Reza Babanezhad , Wu Lin , Mark Schmidt , Masashi Sugiyama

We study a stochastic optimization problem in which the sampling distribution depends on the decision variable, and the available samples are generated through an iterate-dependent Markov chain. Such settings arise naturally in problems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-18 Anik Kumar Paul , Shalabh Bhatnagar

For solving constrained (pseudo)-monotone variational inequality, we prove that the upper bound of stepsize $\frac{1}{2L}$ established for the Popov's algorithm and the forward-reflected-backward algorithm is tight. For unconstrained case,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-09 Nhung Hong Nguyen , Thanh Quoc Trinh , Phan Tu Vuong

We study stochastic convex optimization under infinite noise variance. Specifically, when the stochastic gradient is unbiased and has uniformly bounded $(1+\kappa)$-th moment, for some $\kappa \in (0,1]$, we quantify the convergence rate of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-02-24 Nuri Mert Vural , Lu Yu , Krishnakumar Balasubramanian , Stanislav Volgushev , Murat A. Erdogdu

In this paper, we derive a randomized version of the Mirror-Prox method for solving some structured matrix saddle-point problems, such as the maximal eigenvalue minimization problem. Deterministic first-order schemes, such as Nesterov's…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-12-07 Michel Baes , Michael Bürgisser , Arkadi Nemirovski

In this paper, the optimal convergence rate $O\left(N^{-1/2}\right)$ (where $N$ is the total number of iterations performed by the algorithm), without the presence of a logarithmic factor, is proved for mirror descent algorithms with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-04 Mohammad Alkousa , Fedor Stonyakin , Asmaa Abdo , Mohammad Alcheikh

In the paper, we develop a composite version of Mirror Prox algorithm for solving convex-concave saddle point problems and monotone variational inequalities of special structure, allowing to cover saddle point/variational analogies of what…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-05-23 Niao He , Anatoli Juditsky , Arkadi Nemirovski

This paper examines a variety of classical optimization problems, including well-known minimization tasks and more general variational inequalities. We consider a stochastic formulation of these problems, and unlike most previous work, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Vladimir Solodkin , Andrew Veprikov , Aleksandr Beznosikov

In this paper, we propose a novel class of Piecewise Deterministic Markov Processes (PDMPs) that are designed to sample from probability distributions $\pi$ supported on a convex set $\mathcal{M}$. This class of PDMPs adapts the concept of…

Computation · Statistics 2026-05-01 Joël Tatang Demano , Paul Dobson , Konstantinos Zygalakis

We improve the understanding of the $\textit{golden ratio algorithm}$, which solves monotone variational inequalities (VI) and convex-concave min-max problems via the distinctive feature of adapting the step sizes to the local Lipschitz…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-29 Ahmet Alacaoglu , Axel Böhm , Yura Malitsky

In this paper, we present a novel stochastic method for solving variational inequalities (VI) in the context of Markovian noise. By leveraging Extragradient technique, we can productively solve VI optimization problems characterized by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-18 Vladimir Solodkin , Michael Ermoshin , Roman Gavrilenko , Aleksandr Beznosikov

The article is devoted to the development of numerical methods for solving variational inequalities with relatively strongly monotone operators. We consider two classes of variational inequalities related to some analogs of the Lipschitz…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-25 F. S. Stonyakin , A. A. Titov , D. V. Makarenko , M. S. Alkousa

This paper presents a comprehensive convergence analysis for the mirror descent (MD) method, a widely used algorithm in convex optimization. The key feature of this algorithm is that it provides a generalization of classical gradient-based…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-16 Mengmou Li , Khaled Laib , Takeshi Hatanaka , Ioannis Lestas

Basing on some recently proposed methods for solving variational inequalities with non-smooth operators, we propose an analogue of the Mirror Prox method for the corresponding class of problems under the assumption of relative smoothness…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-09 Alexander A. Titov

We present a unified framework based on primal-dual stochastic mirror descent for approximately solving infinite-horizon Markov decision processes (MDPs) given a generative model. When applied to an average-reward MDP with $A_{tot}$ total…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Yujia Jin , Aaron Sidford

Monotone variational inequalities (VIs) provide a unifying framework for convex minimization, equilibrium computation, and convex-concave saddle-point problems. Extragradient-type methods are among the most effective first-order algorithms…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Lingqing Shen , Fatma Kılınç-Karzan

We consider a stochastic variational inequality (SVI) problem with a continuous and monotone mapping over a closed and convex set. In strongly monotone regimes, we present a variable sample-size averaging scheme (VS-Ave) that achieves a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-01 Afrooz Jalilzadeh , Uday V. Shanbhag

In this paper, we propose universal proximal mirror methods to solve the variational inequality problem with Holder continuous operators in both deterministic and stochastic settings. The proposed methods automatically adapt not only to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-07 Anton Klimza , Alexander Gasnikov , Fedor Stonyakin , Mohammad Alkousa

This paper is devoted to a new modification of a recently proposed adaptive stochastic mirror descent algorithm for constrained convex optimization problems in the case of several convex functional constraints. Algorithms, standard and its…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-22 Mohammad S. Alkousa