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We observe that embeddings into random metrics can be fruitfully used to study the $L_1$-embeddability of lamplighter graphs or groups, and more generally lamplighter metric spaces. Once this connection has been established, several new…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2020-05-26 Florent P. Baudier , Pavlos Motakis , Thomas Schlumprecht , András Zsák

We consider (stochastic) subgradient methods for strongly convex but potentially nonsmooth non-Lipschitz optimization. We provide new equivalent dual descriptions (in the style of dual averaging) for the classic subgradient method, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-31 Benjamin Grimmer , Danlin Li

This paper studies the asymptotic behavior of the constant step Stochastic Gradient Descent for the minimization of an unknown function F , defined as the expectation of a non convex, non smooth, locally Lipschitz random function. As the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-13 Pascal Bianchi , Walid Hachem , Sholom Schechtman

We consider a class of integral functionals with convex integrand with respect to the gradient variable, assuming that the function that measures the oscillation of the integrand with respect to the x variable belongs to a suitable Sobolev…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-10 Andrea Gentile

We study the gradient flow of the length functional on the space of planar immersed closed curves, where the gradient is taken with respect to a family of homogeneous Sobolev $H^1$-type Riemannian metrics depending on parameters $\lambda>0$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Philip Schrader , Glen Wheeler , Valentina Wheeler

This paper presents a unified analysis for the proximal subgradient method (Prox-SubGrad) type approach to minimize an overall objective of $f(x)+r(x)$, subject to convex constraints, where both $f$ and $r$ are weakly convex, nonsmooth, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-23 Daoli Zhu , Lei Zhao , Shuzhong Zhang

Training a neural network with the gradient descent algorithm gives rise to a discrete-time nonlinear dynamical system. Consequently, behaviors that are typically observed in these systems emerge during training, such as convergence to an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-10 Kamil Nar , S. Shankar Sastry

The Katz-Sarnak density conjecture states that, in the limit as the conductors tend to infinity, the behavior of normalized zeros near the central point of families of L-functions agree with the N -> oo scaling limits of eigenvalues near 1…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Steven J. Miller

We consider the composite minimization problem with the objective function being the sum of a continuously differentiable and a merely lower semicontinuous and extended-valued function. The proximal gradient method is probably the most…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-20 Christian Kanzow , Leo Lehmann

Lipschitz constants for the width and diameter functions of a convex body in $\mathbb R^n$ are found in terms of its diameter and thickness (maximum and minimum of both functions). Also, a dual approach to thickness is proposed.

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Oleg Mushkarov , Nikolai Nikolov , Pascal J. Thomas

The paper concerns the investigation of nonconvex and nondifferentiable integral functionals on general Banach spaces, which may not be reflexive and/or separable. Considering two major subdifferentials of variational analysis, we derive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-03-28 Boris S. Mordukhovich , Nobusumi Sagara

We consider in this work small random perturbations (of multiplicative noise type) of the gradient flow. We prove that under mild conditions, when the potential function is a Morse function with additional strong saddle condition, the…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-04-29 Jiaojiao Yang , Wenqing Hu , Chris Junchi Li

We consider the problem of recovering a real-valued $n$-dimensional signal from $m$ phaseless, linear measurements and analyze the amplitude-based non-smooth least squares objective. We establish local convergence of subgradient descent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Paul Hand , Oscar Leong , Vladislav Voroninski

We obtain the boundedness in $L^p$ spaces for all $1<p<\infty$ of the so-called vertical Littlewood--Paley functions for non-local Dirichlet forms in the metric measure space under some mild assumptions. For $1<p\le 2$, the pseudo-gradient…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-02-13 Huaiqian Li , Jian Wang

We study regression of $1$-Lipschitz functions under a log-concave measure $\mu$ on $\mathbb{R}^d$. We focus on the high-dimensional regime where the sample size $n$ is subexponential in $d$, in which distribution-free estimators are…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-09-15 Pierre Bizeul , Boaz Klartag

We characterize Young measures generated by gradients of bi-Lipschitz orientation-preserving maps in the plane. This question is motivated by variational problems in nonlinear elasticity where the orientation preservation and injectivity of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-01-27 Barbora Benešová , Martin Kružík

In this paper, we provide a generalization of the forward-backward splitting algorithm for minimizing the sum of a proper convex lower semicontinuous function and a differentiable convex function whose gradient satisfies a locally…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-29 Luis M. Briceno-Arias , Francisco José Silva , Xianjin Yang

In this paper we discuss the convergence of distances associated to converging structures of Lipschitz vector fields and continuously varying norms on a smooth manifold. We prove that, under a mild controllability assumption on the limit…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-11-15 Gioacchino Antonelli , Enrico Le Donne , Sebastiano Nicolussi Golo

In this paper, we study the convergence rate of the gradient (or steepest descent) method with fixed step lengths for finding a stationary point of an $L$-smooth function. We establish a new convergence rate, and show that the bound may be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-08 Hadi Abbaszadehpeivasti , Etienne de Klerk , Moslem Zamani