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Constrained non-convex optimization problems frequently arise in control applications. Solving such problems is inherently challenging, as existing methods often converge to suboptimal local minima or incur prohibitive computational costs.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Anran Li , John P. Swensen , Mehdi Hosseinzadeh

In this paper we investigate the convergence of a recently popular class of first-order primal-dual algorithms for saddle point problems under the presence of errors occurring in the proximal maps and gradients. We study several types of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-26 Julian Rasch , Antonin Chambolle

In this paper, we study zeroth-order algorithms for minimax optimization problems that are nonconvex in one variable and strongly-concave in the other variable. Such minimax optimization problems have attracted significant attention lately…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-04-06 Zhongruo Wang , Krishnakumar Balasubramanian , Shiqian Ma , Meisam Razaviyayn

This paper investigates online algorithms for smooth time-varying optimization problems, focusing first on methods with constant step-size, momentum, and extrapolation-length. Assuming strong convexity, precise results for the tracking…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-16 Liam Madden , Stephen Becker , Emiliano Dall'Anese

Convex optimization with equality and inequality constraints is a ubiquitous problem in several optimization and control problems in large-scale systems. Recently there has been a lot of interest in establishing accelerated convergence of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-06 Anjali Parashar , Priyank Srivastava , Anuradha M. Annaswamy

Algorithmic reproducibility measures the deviation in outputs of machine learning algorithms upon minor changes in the training process. Previous work suggests that first-order methods would need to trade-off convergence rate (gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Liang Zhang , Junchi Yang , Amin Karbasi , Niao He

In this paper we consider the variable inequality problem, that is, to find a solution of the inclusion given by the sum of a function and a point-to-cone application. This problem can be seen as a generalization of the classical system…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-09-10 J. Y. Bello Cruz , L. R. Lucambio Perez , G. Bouza Allende

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

Optimization problems under affine constraints appear in various areas of machine learning. We consider the task of minimizing a smooth strongly convex function F(x) under the affine constraint Kx=b, with an oracle providing evaluations of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-12 Adil Salim , Laurent Condat , Dmitry Kovalev , Peter Richtárik

We present a simple scheme for restarting first-order methods for convex optimization problems. Restarts are made based only on achieving specified decreases in objective values, the specified amounts being the same for all optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-22 James Renegar , Benjamin Grimmer

We investigate how to solve smooth matrix optimization problems with general linear inequality constraints on the eigenvalues of a symmetric matrix. We present solution methods to obtain exact global minima for linear objective functions,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-23 Casey Garner , Gilad Lerman , Shuzhong Zhang

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

The aim of the paper is to show that the solutions to variational problems with non-standard growth conditions satisfy a corresponding variational inequality without any smallness assumptions on the gap between growth and coercitivity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-09 Michela Eleuteri , Antonia Passarelli di Napoli

Vector operators based on robust order statistics have proved successful in digital multichannel imaging applications, particularly color image filtering and enhancement, in dealing with impulsive noise while preserving edges and fine image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-09-07 M. Emre Celebi , Hassan A. Kingravi , Rastislav Lukac , Fatih Celiker

We consider variational inequalities coming from monotone operators, a setting that includes convex minimization and convex-concave saddle-point problems. We assume an access to potentially noisy unbiased values of the monotone operators…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-06 Francis Bach , Kfir Y. Levy

Large-scale constrained optimization problems are at the core of many tasks in control, signal processing, and machine learning. Notably, problems with functional constraints arise when, beyond a performance{\nobreakdash-}centric goal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-15 Antesh Upadhyay , Sang Bin Moon , Abolfazl Hashemi

This article investigates the approximation quality achievable for biobjective minimization problems with respect to the Pareto cone by solutions that are (approximately) optimal with respect to larger ordering cones. When simultaneously…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-22 Arne Herzel , Stephan Helfrich , Stefan Ruzika , Clemens Thielen

We design and analyze a novel accelerated gradient-based algorithm for a class of bilevel optimization problems. These problems have various applications arising from machine learning and image processing, where optimal solutions of the two…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-20 Sepideh Samadi , Daniel Burbano , Farzad Yousefian

We introduce a numerical framework to verify the finite step convergence of first-order methods for parametric convex quadratic optimization. We formulate the verification problem as a mathematical optimization problem where we maximize a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-18 Vinit Ranjan , Bartolomeo Stellato

This paper considers an optimization problem for a dynamical system whose evolution depends on a collection of binary decision variables. We develop scalable approximation algorithms with provable suboptimality bounds to provide…

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