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A new algorithm for solving large-scale convex optimization problems with a separable objective function is proposed. The basic idea is to combine three techniques: Lagrangian dual decomposition, excessive gap and smoothing. The main…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-12-01 Tran Dinh Quoc , Carlo Savorgnan , Moritz Diehl

We consider stochastic variational inequalities with monotone operators defined as the expected value of a random operator. We assume the feasible set is the intersection of a large family of convex sets. We propose a method that combines…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-03 Alfredo Iusem , Alejandro Jofré , Philip Thompson

In the context of finite sums minimization, variance reduction techniques are widely used to improve the performance of state-of-the-art stochastic gradient methods. Their practical impact is clear, as well as their theoretical properties.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-07 Cheik Traoré , Vassilis Apidopoulos , Saverio Salzo , Silvia Villa

Monotone operator splitting is a powerful paradigm that facilitates parallel processing for optimization problems where the cost function can be split into two convex functions. We propose a generalized form of monotone operator splitting…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-13 Kenta Niwa , W. Bastiaan Kleijn

Recently, we systematically studied the basic theory of Bregman circumcenters in another paper. In this work, we aim to apply Bregman circumcenters to optimization algorithms. Here, we propose the forward Bregman monotonicity which is a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-29 Hui Ouyang

We prove results on weak convergence for the alternating split Bregman algorithm in infinite dimensional Hilbert spaces. We also show convergence of an approximate split Bregman algorithm, where errors are allowed at each step of the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2011-12-12 Amir Moradifam , Adrian Nachman

We propose a unifying algorithm for non-smooth non-convex optimization. The algorithm approximates the objective function by a convex model function and finds an approximate (Bregman) proximal point of the convex model. This approximate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-27 Peter Ochs , Jalal Fadili , Thomas Brox

In this paper we consider the numerical approximation of the two-phase membrane (obstacle) problem by finite difference method. First, we introduce the notion of viscosity solution for the problem and construct certain discrete nonlinear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-07-04 Avetik Arakelyan , Rafayel Barkhudaryan , Michael Poghosyan

Many real-world problems, such as those with fairness constraints, involve complex expectation constraints and large datasets, necessitating the design of efficient stochastic methods to solve them. Most existing research focuses on cases…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-11 Wei Liu , Yangyang Xu

LP-type problems such as the Minimum Enclosing Ball (MEB), Linear Support Vector Machine (SVM), Linear Programming (LP), and Semidefinite Programming (SDP) are fundamental combinatorial optimization problems, with many important…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-17 N. Efe Çekirge , William Gay , David P. Woodruff

We study minimization of a structured objective function, being the sum of a smooth function and a composition of a weakly convex function with a linear operator. Applications include image reconstruction problems with regularizers that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-01 Axel Böhm , Stephen J. Wright

In this paper, we introduce some adaptive methods for solving variational inequalities with relatively strongly monotone operators. Firstly, we focus on the modification of the recently proposed, in smooth case [1], adaptive numerical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-01 A. A. Titov , S. S. Ablaev , M. S. Alkousa , F. S. Stonyakin , A. V. Gasnikov

This paper provides a new way of developing the splitting method which is used to solve the problem of finding the resolvent of the sum of maximal monotone operators in Hilbert spaces. By employing accelerated techniques developed by Davis…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-13 Shin-ya Matsushita

We propose and analyze a finite element method for a semi-stationary Stokes system modeling compressible fluid flow subject to a Navier-slip boundary condition. The velocity (momentum) equation is approximated by a mixed finite element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-04-07 Kenneth H. Karlsen , Trygve K. Karper

We present a comparative study of several algorithms for an in-plane random walk with a variable step. The goal is to check the efficiency of the algorithm in the case where the random walk terminates at some boundary. We recently found…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-04-17 Olga Klimenkova , Anton Yu. Menshutin , Lev N. Shchur

In this paper we propose optimisation methods for variational regularisation problems based on discretising the inverse scale space flow with discrete gradient methods. Inverse scale space flow generalises gradient flows by incorporating a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-11 Martin Benning , Erlend S. Riis , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

To solve distributed optimization efficiently with various constraints and nonsmooth functions, we propose a distributed mirror descent algorithm with embedded Bregman damping, as a generalization of conventional distributed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-30 Guanpu Chen , Weijian Li , Gehui Xu , Yiguang Hong

Variance reduction techniques such as SPIDER/SARAH/STORM have been extensively studied to improve the convergence rates of stochastic non-convex optimization, which usually maintain and update a sequence of estimators for a single function…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Wei Jiang , Gang Li , Yibo Wang , Lijun Zhang , Tianbao Yang

We introduce a novel method for solving density-based topology optimization problems: Sigmoidal Mirror descent with a Projected Latent variable (SiMPL). The SiMPL method (pronounced as ``the simple method'') optimizes a design using only…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-25 Dohyun Kim , Boyan Stefanov Lazarov , Thomas M. Surowiec , Brendan Keith

In this paper, we consider the monotone generalized variational inequality (MGVI) where the monotone operator is Lipschitz continuous. Inspired by the extragradient method and the projection contraction algorithms for monotone variational…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-09 Yu You