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We introduce a fusion of GPU accelerated primal heuristics for Mixed Integer Programming. Leveraging GPU acceleration enables exploration of larger search regions and faster iterations. A GPU-accelerated PDLP serves as an approximate LP…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-31 Akif Çördük , Piotr Sielski , Alice Boucher , Kumar Aatish

Convex quadratic programming (QP) is an important class of optimization problem with wide applications in practice. The classic QP solvers are based on either simplex or barrier method, both of which suffer from the scalability issue…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-16 Haihao Lu , Jinwen Yang

The primal-dual hybrid gradient (PDHG) algorithm is popular in solving min-max problems which are being widely used in a variety of areas. To improve the applicability and efficiency of PDHG for different application scenarios, we focus on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-10 Yumin Ma , Xingju Cai , Bo Jiang , Deren Han

Primal-Dual Hybrid Gradient (PDHG) and Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) are two widely-used first-order optimization methods. They reduce a difficult problem to simple subproblems, so they are easy to implement and have…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-10 Yanli Liu , Yunbei Xu , Wotao Yin

The primal-dual hybrid gradient (PDHG) algorithm for solving convex optimization problems that arise in tomographic imaging is revisited. In particular, simplification of the selection of step-size parameters is developed for optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Emil Y. Sidky , John Paul Phillips , Zheng Zhang , Dan Xia , Ingrid S. Reiser , Xiaochuan Pan

Primal-dual hybrid gradient method (PDHG, a.k.a. Chambolle and Pock method) is a well-studied algorithm for minimax optimization problems with a bilinear interaction term. Recently, PDHG is used as the base algorithm for a new LP solver…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-14 Haihao Lu , Jinwen Yang

Primal-dual algorithms for the resolution of convex-concave saddle point problems usually come with one or several step size parameters. Within the range where convergence is guaranteed, choosing well the step size can make the difference…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-29 Olivier Fercoq

The restarted primal-dual hybrid gradient method (rPDHG) is a first-order method that has recently received significant attention for its computational effectiveness in solving linear program (LP) problems. Despite its impressive practical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Zikai Xiong

Quadratic programming (QP) is a fundamental optimization model with wide-ranging applications in decision-making and machine learning, yet efficiently solving large-scale instances remains a major computational challenge. Building upon the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-02 Hongpei Li , Yicheng Huang , Huikang Liu , Dongdong Ge , Yinyu Ye

First-order primal-dual methods are appealing for their low memory overhead, fast iterations, and effective parallelization. However, they are often slow at finding high accuracy solutions, which creates a barrier to their use in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-05 David Applegate , Oliver Hinder , Haihao Lu , Miles Lubin

Large-scale competitive market equilibrium problems arise in a wide range of important applications, including economic decision-making and intelligent manufacturing. Traditional solution methods, such as interior-point algorithms and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-09 Huikang Liu , Yicheng Huang , Hongpei Li , Dongdong Ge , Yinyu Ye

We propose an easy-to-implement iterative method for resolving the implicit (or semi-implicit) schemes arising in solving reaction-diffusion (RD) type equations. We formulate the nonlinear time implicit scheme as a min-max saddle point…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-09 Shu Liu , Siting Liu , Stanley Osher , Wuchen Li

We propose a scalable preconditioned primal-dual hybrid gradient algorithm for solving partial differential equations (PDEs). We multiply the PDE with a dual test function to obtain an inf-sup problem whose loss functional involves…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Shu Liu , Stanley Osher , Wuchen Li

We present the Anderson Accelerated Primal-Dual Hybrid Gradient (AA-PDHG), a fixed-point-based framework designed to overcome the slow convergence of the standard PDHG method for the solution of linear programming (LP) problems. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Yingxin Zhou , Stefano Cipolla , Phan Tu Vuong

We propose two variants of the Primal Dual Hybrid Gradient (PDHG) algorithm for saddle point problems with block decomposable duals, hereafter called Multi-Timescale PDHG (MT-PDHG) and its accelerated variant (AMT-PDHG). Through novel…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Junhui Zhang , Patrick Jaillet

We present a batched first-order method for solving multiple linear programs in parallel on GPUs. Our approach extends the primal-dual hybrid gradient algorithm to efficiently solve batches of related linear programming problems that arise…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-30 Nicolas Blin , Stefano Gualandi , Christopher Maes , Andrea Lodi , Bartolomeo Stellato

Solving large-scale linear programming (LP) problems is an important task in various areas such as communication networks, power systems, finance and logistics. Recently, two distinct approaches have emerged to expedite LP solving: (i)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Bingheng Li , Linxin Yang , Yupeng Chen , Senmiao Wang , Qian Chen , Haitao Mao , Yao Ma , Akang Wang , Tian Ding , Jiliang Tang , Ruoyu Sun

We study a block-structured class of convex-concave saddle-point problems in which both the primal and dual variables admit natural separable decompositions. Motivated by large-scale applications where a full update on either side can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Yiheng Xiao , Huikang Liu

The generalized Lasso is a remarkably versatile and extensively utilized model across a broad spectrum of domains, including statistics, machine learning, and image science. Among the optimization techniques employed to address the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-29 Xueying Zeng , Bin Shi

We propose an unconstrained optimization method based on the well-known primal-dual hybrid gradient (PDHG) algorithm. We first formulate the optimality condition of the unconstrained optimization problem as a saddle point problem. We then…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-29 X. Zuo , S. Osher , W. Li