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This paper deals with a Tikhonov regularized second-order inertial dynamical system that incorporates time scaling, asymptotically vanishing damping and Hessian-driven damping for solving convex optimization problems. Under appropriate…

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Composite minimization involves a collection of functions which are aggregated in a nonsmooth manner. It covers, as a particular case, smooth approximation of minimax games, minimization of max-type functions, and simple composite…

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Stochastic differentiable approximation schemes are widely used for solving high dimensional problems. Most of existing methods satisfy some desirable properties, including conditional descent inequalities, and almost sure (a.s.)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-08 Jean-Baptiste Fest , Audrey Repetti , Emilie Chouzenoux

Second-order optimization methods exhibit fast convergence to critical points, however, in nonconvex optimization, these methods often require restrictive step-sizes to ensure a monotonically decreasing objective function. In the presence…

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In this paper, we introduce, in a Hilbert space setting, a second order dynamical system with asymptotically vanishing damping and vanishing Tikhonov regularization that approaches a multiobjective optimization problem with convex and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-30 Radu Ioan Bot , Konstantin Sonntag

Motivated by recent increased interest in optimization algorithms for non-convex optimization in application to training deep neural networks and other optimization problems in data analysis, we give an overview of recent theoretical…

In this paper, we propose a second-order continuous primal-dual dynamical system with time-dependent positive damping terms for a separable convex optimization problem with linear equality constraints. By the Lyapunov function approach, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-27 Xin He , Rong Hu , Ya-Ping Fang

This study develops a fixed-time convergent saddle point dynamical system for solving min-max problems under a relaxation of standard convexity-concavity assumption. In particular, it is shown that by leveraging the dynamical systems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-28 Kunal Garg , Mayank Baranwal

Following Demidovich's concept and definition of convergent systems, we analyze the optimal nonlinear damping control, recently proposed [1] for the second-order systems. Targeting the problem of output regulation, correspondingly tracking…

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In this paper, we study the decentralized optimization problem of minimizing a finite sum of continuously differentiable and possibly nonconvex functions over a fixed-connected undirected network. We propose a unified decentralized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Hao Wu , Liping Wang

We study the convergence rate of a family of inertial algorithms, which can be obtained by discretization of an inertial system combining asymptotic vanishing viscous and Hessian-driven damping. We establish a fast sublinear convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-18 Zepeng Wang , Juan Peypouquet

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

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

In this paper, we aim to study non-convex minimization problems via second-order (in-time) dynamics, including a non-vanishing viscous damping and a geometric Hessian-driven damping. Second-order systems that only rely on a viscous damping…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-06 Rodrigo Maulen-Soto , Jalal Fadili , Peter Ochs

Stochastic nonconvex-concave min-max saddle point problems appear in many machine learning and control problems including distributionally robust optimization, generative adversarial networks, and adversarial learning. In this paper, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-12 Morteza Boroun , Zeinab Alizadeh , Afrooz Jalilzadeh

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

Large-scale nonconvex optimization problems are ubiquitous in modern machine learning, and among practitioners interested in solving them, Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) reigns supreme. We revisit the analysis of SGD in the nonconvex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-27 Ahmed Khaled , Peter Richtárik

In this paper, we propose a general Tikhonov regularized second-order dynamical system with viscous damping, time scaling and extrapolation coefficients for the convex-concave bilinear saddle point problem. By the Lyapunov function…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-02 Bohan Zhang , Xiaojun Zhang

In this paper we analyze several new methods for solving nonconvex optimization problems with the objective function formed as a sum of two terms: one is nonconvex and smooth, and another is convex but simple and its structure is known.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-06-25 A. Patrascu , I. Necoara

We analyze the convergence rate of a family of inertial algorithms, which can be obtained by discretization of an inertial system with Hessian-driven damping. We recover a convergence rate, up to a factor of 2 speedup upon Nesterov's…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-25 Zepeng Wang , Juan Peypouquet