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Optimization problems with discrete decisions are nonconvex and thus lack strong duality, which limits the usefulness of tools such as shadow prices and the KKT conditions. It was shown in Burer(2009) that mixed-binary quadratic programs…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-27 Cheng Guo , Merve Bodur , Joshua A. Taylor

We consider the best approximation problem (BAP) of projecting a point onto the intersection of a number of convex sets. It is known that Dykstra's algorithm is alternating minimization on the dual problem. We extend Dykstra's algorithm so…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-01-07 C. H. Jeffrey Pang

In this paper we introduce a new dual program, which is representable as a semi-definite linear programming problem, for a primal convex minimax programming model problem and show that there is no duality gap between the primal and the dual…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-12-11 V. Jeyakumar , J. Vicente-Perez

Attention to data-driven optimization approaches, including the well-known stochastic gradient descent method, has grown significantly over recent decades, but data-driven constraints have rarely been studied, because of the computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Shuoguang Yang , Xudong Li , Guanghui Lan

In this paper we propose a fast optimization algorithm for approximately minimizing convex quadratic functions over the intersection of affine and separable constraints (i.e., the Cartesian product of possibly nonconvex real sets). This…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-09-29 Reza Takapoui , Nicholas Moehle , Stephen Boyd , Alberto Bemporad

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

In this paper, we propose a new primal-dual algorithm for minimizing $f(x) + g(x) + h(Ax)$, where $f$, $g$, and $h$ are proper lower semi-continuous convex functions, $f$ is differentiable with a Lipschitz continuous gradient, and $A$ is a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-30 Ming Yan

The graph partitioning problem is a well-known NP-hard problem. In this paper, we formulate a 0-1 quadratic integer programming model for the graph partitioning problem with vertex weight constraints and fixed vertex constraints, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-17 Wumwi Sun , Hongwei Liu , Xiaoyu Wang

The success of compressed sensing relies essentially on the ability to efficiently find an approximately sparse solution to an under-determined linear system. In this paper, we developed an efficient algorithm for the sparsity promoting…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-18 Qibin Fan , Yuling Jiao , Xiliang Lu

We consider the primal problem of finding the zeros of the sum of a maximally monotone operator with the composition of another maximally monotone operator with a linear continuous operator and a corresponding dual problem formulated by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-06-27 Radu Ioan Bot , Ernö Robert Csetnek , Andre Heinrich

In this paper, we propose two algorithms for solving convex optimization problems with linear ascending constraints. When the objective function is separable, we propose a dual method which terminates in a finite number of iterations. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-09-26 Zizhuo Wang

We study the non-smooth optimization problems in machine learning, where both the loss function and the regularizer are non-smooth functions. Previous studies on efficient empirical loss minimization assume either a smooth loss function or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-07-29 Tianbao Yang , Mehrdad Mahdavi , Rong Jin , Shenghuo Zhu

This paper proposes an improved quasi-Newton penalty decomposition algorithm for the minimization of continuously differentiable functions, possibly nonconvex, over sparse symmetric sets. The method solves a sequence of penalty subproblems…

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Constrained optimization with multiple functional inequality constraints has significant applications in machine learning. This paper examines a crucial subset of such problems where both the objective and constraint functions are weakly…

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Convex separable quadratic optimization problems occur in many practical applications. In this paper, based on an iterative resolution scheme of the KKT system, we develop an efficient method for solving a quadratic programming problem with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Shaoze Li , Junhao Wu , Cheng Lu , Zhibin Deng , Shu-Cherng Fang

Minimax optimization problems are an important class of optimization problems arising from modern machine learning and traditional research areas. While there have been many numerical algorithms for solving smooth convex-concave minimax…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-22 Yu-Hong Dai , Jiani Wang , Liwei Zhang

Quantum adiabatic evolution is perceived as useful for binary quadratic programming problems that are a priori unconstrained. For constrained problems, it is a common practice to relax linear equality constraints as penalty terms in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-13 Pooya Ronagh , Brad Woods , Ehsan Iranmanesh

This paper presents a novel approach to solving large-scale minimax problems with nonsmooth regularizers. We propose a stochastic implicit proximal point algorithm with variance reduction techniques where stochastic oracles are selected in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-25 Kehan Zhu , Jiani Wang , Yu-Hong Dai

We propose stochastic variance reduced algorithms for solving convex-concave saddle point problems, monotone variational inequalities, and monotone inclusions. Our framework applies to extragradient, forward-backward-forward, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-14 Ahmet Alacaoglu , Yura Malitsky

In contrast with many other convex optimization classes, state-of-the-art semidefinite programming solvers are yet unable to efficiently solve large scale instances. This work aims to reduce this scalability gap by proposing a novel…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-20 Mario Souto , Joaquim D. Garcia , Alvaro Veiga