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Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-07-10 Tianyi Lin , Shiqian Ma , Shuzhong Zhang

Yang et al. (2023) recently showed how to use first-order gradient methods to solve general variational inequalities (VIs) under a limiting assumption that analytic solutions of specific subproblems are available. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-08-06 Tatjana Chavdarova , Tong Yang , Matteo Pagliardini , Michael I. Jordan

Cyclic block coordinate methods are a fundamental class of optimization methods widely used in practice and implemented as part of standard software packages for statistical learning. Nevertheless, their convergence is generally not well…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-09 Chaobing Song , Jelena Diakonikolas

In this paper we study the bounded perturbation resilience of the extragradient and the subgradient extragradient methods for solving variational inequality (VI) problem in real Hilbert spaces. This is an important property of algorithms…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-20 Qiao-Li Dong , Aviv Gibali , Dan Jiang , Yu-Chao Tang

We consider the smooth convex-concave bilinearly-coupled saddle-point problem, $\min_{\mathbf{x}}\max_{\mathbf{y}}~F(\mathbf{x}) + H(\mathbf{x},\mathbf{y}) - G(\mathbf{y})$, where one has access to stochastic first-order oracles for $F$,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-15 Simon S. Du , Gauthier Gidel , Michael I. Jordan , Chris Junchi Li

Subgradient methods are the natural extension to the non-smooth case of the classical gradient descent for regular convex optimization problems. However, in general, they are characterized by slow convergence rates, and they require…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-20 Alessandro Scagliotti , Piero Colli Franzone

Regularization is a widely recognized technique in mathematical optimization. It can be used to smooth out objective functions, refine the feasible solution set, or prevent overfitting in machine learning models. Due to its simplicity and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-31 Filip Nikolovski , Irena Stojkovska , Katerina Hadzi-Velkova Saneva , Zoran Hadzi-Velkov

In this paper we develop accelerated first-order methods for convex optimization with locally Lipschitz continuous gradient (LLCG), which is beyond the well-studied class of convex optimization with Lipschitz continuous gradient. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-12 Zhaosong Lu , Sanyou Mei

Using gradient descent (GD) with fixed or decaying step-size is a standard practice in unconstrained optimization problems. However, when the loss function is only locally convex, such a step-size schedule artificially slows GD down as it…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-02-03 Nhat Ho , Tongzheng Ren , Sujay Sanghavi , Purnamrita Sarkar , Rachel Ward

Recently, minimax optimization received renewed focus due to modern applications in machine learning, robust optimization, and reinforcement learning. The scale of these applications naturally leads to the use of first-order methods.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-07 Saeed Hajizadeh , Haihao Lu , Benjamin Grimmer

We consider the extragradient method to minimize the sum of two functions, the first one being smooth and the second being convex. Under the Kurdyka-Lojasiewicz assumption, we prove that the sequence produced by the extragradient method…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-14 Trong Phong Nguyen , Edouard Pauwels , Emile Richard , Bruce W. Suter

A celebrated method for Variational Inequalities (VIs) is Extragradient (EG), which can be viewed as a standard discrete-time integration scheme. With this view in mind, in this paper we show that EG may suffer from discretization bias when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Zhankun Luo , M. Berk Sahin , Antesh Upadhyay , Behzad Sharif , Abolfazl Hashemi

The main purpose of this paper is to propose a variance-based Bregman extragradient algorithm with line search for solving stochastic variational inequalities, which is robust with respect an unknown Lipschitz constant. We prove the almost…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-31 Xian-Jun Long , Yue-Hong He , Nan-Jing Huang

For min-max optimization and variational inequalities problems (VIP) encountered in diverse machine learning tasks, Stochastic Extragradient (SEG) and Stochastic Gradient Descent Ascent (SGDA) have emerged as preeminent algorithms. Constant…

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We introduce a novel family of time-varying step-sizes for the classical projected subgradient method, offering optimal ergodic convergence. Importantly, this approach does not depend on the Lipschitz assumption of the objective function,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Yong Xia , Yanhao Zhang , Zhihan Zhu

We consider the problem of minimizing a Lipschitz differentiable function over a class of sparse symmetric sets that has wide applications in engineering and science. For this problem, it is known that any accumulation point of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-12-01 Zhaosong Lu

A subgradient method is presented for solving general convex optimization problems, the main requirement being that a strictly-feasible point is known. A feasible sequence of iterates is generated, which converges to within user-specified…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-05-30 James Renegar

The objective of this research is to explore a convex feasibility problem, which consists of a monotone variational inequality problem and a fixed point problem. We introduce four inertial extragradient algorithms that are motivated by the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-27 Bing Tan , Jingjing Fan , Xiaolong Qin

This paper is based on Tseng's exgradient algorithm for solving variational inequality problems in real Hilbert spaces. Under the assumptions that the cost operator is quasimonotone and Lipschitz continuous, we establish the strong…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Meiying Wang , Hongwei Liu , Jun Yang

We develop two "Nesterov's accelerated" variants of the well-known extragradient method to approximate a solution of a co-hypomonotone inclusion constituted by the sum of two operators, where one is Lipschitz continuous and the other is…

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