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The Chambolle-Pock algorithm (CPA), also known as the primal-dual hybrid gradient method, has gained popularity over the last decade due to its success in solving large-scale convex structured problems. This work extends its convergence…

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In this article, a novel barrier function is introduced to convert the box-constrained convex optimization problem to an unconstrained problem. For each double-sided bounded variable, a single monomial function is added as a barrier…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-31 Hatem Fayed

Previous studies on stochastic primal-dual algorithms for solving min-max problems with faster convergence heavily rely on the bilinear structure of the problem, which restricts their applicability to a narrowed range of problems. The main…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Yan Yan , Yi Xu , Qihang Lin , Lijun Zhang , Tianbao Yang

We present an efficient implementation of interior point methods for a family of nonsymmetric cones, including generalized power cones, power mean cones and relative entropy cones, by exploiting underlying low-rank and sparse properties of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-23 Yuwen Chen , Paul Goulart

This paper studies the worst case iteration complexity of an infeasible interior point method (IPM) for seconder order cone programming (SOCP), which is more convenient for warmstarting compared with feasible IPMs. The method studied bases…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-25 Yushu Chen , Guangwen Yang , Lu Wang , Qingzhong Gan , Haipeng Chen

This paper develops a primal-dual dynamical system where the coefficients are designed in closed-loop way for solving a convex optimization problem with linear equality constraints. We first introduce a ``second-order primal" +…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Huan Zhang , Xiangkai Sun , Shengjie Li , Kok Lay Teo

Inverse optimization is the problem of determining the values of missing input parameters for an associated forward problem that are closest to given estimates and that will make a given target vector optimal. This study is concerned with…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Aykut Bulut , Ted K. Ralphs

Non-smoothness at optimal points is a common phenomenon in many eigenvalue optimization problems. We consider two recent algorithms to minimize the largest eigenvalue of a Hermitian matrix dependent on one parameter, both proven to be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-14 Fatih Kangal , Emre Mengi

The optimistic gradient method has seen increasing popularity for solving convex-concave saddle point problems. To analyze its iteration complexity, a recent work [arXiv:1906.01115] proposed an interesting perspective that interprets this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-11 Ruichen Jiang , Aryan Mokhtari

We propose and analyze the convergence of a novel stochastic algorithm for solving monotone inclusions that are the sum of a maximal monotone operator and a monotone, Lipschitzian operator. The propose algorithm requires only unbiased…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-18 Nguyen Van Dung , Bang Cong Vu

We investigate the computational complexity of min-max optimization under coupled constraints. The work of Daskalakis, Skoulakis, and Zampetakis [DSZ21] was the first to study min-max optimization through the lens of computational…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Martino Bernasconi , Matteo Castiglioni , Andrea Celli , Gabriele Farina

In optimization the duality gap between the primal and the dual problems is a measure of the suboptimality of any primal-dual point. In classical mechanics the equations of motion of a system can be derived from the Hamiltonian function,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-19 Brendan O'Donoghue , Chris J. Maddison

We consider cooperative multi-agent consensus optimization problems over an undirected network of agents, where only those agents connected by an edge can directly communicate. The objective is to minimize the sum of agent-specific…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-07-12 Necdet Serhat Aybat , Erfan Yazdandoost Hamedani

Primal-dual methods in online optimization give several of the state-of-the art results in both of the most common models: adversarial and stochastic/random order. Here we try to provide a more unified analysis of primal-dual algorithms to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Marco Molinaro

We propose a new first-order primal-dual optimization framework for a convex optimization template with broad applications. Our optimization algorithms feature optimal convergence guarantees under a variety of common structure assumptions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-23 Quoc Tran-Dinh , Olivier Fercoq , Volkan Cevher

The primal-dual splitting algorithm (PDSA) by Chambolle and Pock is efficient for solving structured convex optimization problems. It adopts an extrapolation step and achieves convergence under certain step size condition. Chang and Yang…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-02 Xiaokai Chang , Junfeng Yang , Jianchao Bai , Jianxiong Cao

In this paper we consider a distributed optimization scenario in which a set of agents has to solve a convex optimization problem with separable cost function, local constraint sets and a coupling inequality constraint. We propose a novel…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-04-25 Ivano Notarnicola , Giuseppe Notarstefano

Motivated, in particular, by the entropy-regularized optimal transport problem, we consider convex optimization problems with linear equality constraints, where the dual objective has Lipschitz $p$-th order derivatives, and develop two…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-11 Pavel Dvurechensky , Petr Ostroukhov , Alexander Gasnikov , César A. Uribe , Anastasiya Ivanova

The authors in (Banjac et al., 2019) recently showed that the Douglas-Rachford algorithm provides certificates of infeasibility for a class of convex optimization problems. In particular, they showed that the difference between consecutive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-08 Goran Banjac , John Lygeros

We study the optimal lower and upper complexity bounds for finding approximate solutions to the composite problem $\min_x\ f(x)+h(Ax-b)$, where $f$ is smooth and $h$ is convex. Given access to the proximal operator of $h$, for strongly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-15 Zhenyuan Zhu , Fan Chen , Junyu Zhang , Zaiwen Wen