English
Related papers

Related papers: Complexity and convergence analysis of a single-lo…

200 papers

In this paper, we study a structured class of nonconvex constrained stochastic problems with difference-of-convex (DC) regularization, where the feasible set is possibly nonconvex and the concave part of the DC regularizer is allowed to be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Luxuan Li , Chunfeng Cui , Xiao Wang

In this paper, we consider a broad class of nonsmooth and nonconvex fractional programs, where the numerator can be written as the sum of a continuously differentiable convex function whose gradient is Lipschitz continuous and a proper…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-19 Radu Ioan Boţ , Minh N. Dao , Guoyin Li

We address the minimization of a smooth objective function under an $\ell_0$-constraint and simple convex constraints. When the problem has no constraints except the $\ell_0$-constraint, some efficient algorithms are available; for example,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-01-31 Katsuya Tono , Akiko Takeda , Jun-ya Gotoh

Nonconvex constrained optimization problems can be used to model a number of machine learning problems, such as multi-class Neyman-Pearson classification and constrained Markov decision processes. However, such kinds of problems are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-04 Songtao Lu

This paper presents an algorithmic study and complexity analysis for solving distributionally robust multistage convex optimization (DR-MCO). We generalize the usual consecutive dual dynamic programming (DDP) algorithm to DR-MCO and propose…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-05 Shixuan Zhang , Xu Andy Sun

In this paper, we propose an adaptive forward-backward-forward splitting algorithm for finding a zero of a pseudo-monotone operator which is split as a sum of three operators: the first is continuous single-valued, the second is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-04 Flavia Chorobura , Ion Necoara , Jean-Christophe Pesquet

Kolmogorov famously proved that multivariate continuous functions can be represented as a superposition of a small number of univariate continuous functions, $$ f(x_1,\dots,x_n) = \sum_{q=0}^{2n+1} \chi^q \left( \sum_{p=1}^n \psi^{pq}(x_p)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-25 Jonas Actor , Matthew G. Knepley

In large-scale applications, such as machine learning, it is desirable to design non-convex optimization algorithms with a high degree of parallelization. In this work, we study the adaptive complexity of finding a stationary point, which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-15 Huanjian Zhou , Andi Han , Akiko Takeda , Masashi Sugiyama

Loop closing is a crucial component in SLAM that helps eliminate accumulated errors through two main steps: loop detection and loop pose correction. The first step determines whether loop closing should be performed, while the second…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Neng Wang , Xieyuanli Chen , Chenghao Shi , Zhiqiang Zheng , Hongshan Yu , Huimin Lu

This paper extends the algorithm schemes proposed in \cite{Nesterov2007a} and \cite{Nesterov2007b} to the minimization of the sum of a composite objective function and a convex function. Two proximal point-type schemes are provided and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-05-03 Quoc Tran Dinh , Moritz Diehl

This paper considers stochastic weakly convex optimization without the standard Lipschitz continuity assumption. Based on new adaptive regularization (stepsize) strategies, we show that a wide class of stochastic algorithms, including the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-07 Wenzhi Gao , Qi Deng

Building on existing $hp$-adaptive algorithms driven by equilibrated-flux estimators from [ESAIM Math. Model. Numer. Anal. 57 (2023), 329--366] and the references therein, we propose a novel $h$-adaptive algorithm for a fixed polynomial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Théophile Chaumont-Frelet , Zhaonan Dong , Gregor Gantner , Martin Vohralík

This paper studies simple bilevel problems, where a convex upper-level function is minimized over the optimal solutions of a convex lower-level problem. We first show the fundamental difficulty of simple bilevel problems, that the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-28 Huaqing Zhang , Lesi Chen , Jing Xu , Jingzhao Zhang

In this paper, we focus on the problem of minimizing the sum of a nonconvex differentiable function and a DC (Difference of Convex functions) function, where the differentiable function is not restricted to the global Lipschitz gradient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-10 Duy Nhat Phan , Hoai An Le Thi

We develop procedures, based on minimization of the composition $f(x) = h(c(x))$ of a convex function $h$ and smooth function $c$, for solving random collections of quadratic equalities, applying our methodology to phase retrieval problems.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-04-24 John C. Duchi , Feng Ruan

In this paper, we initiate a systematic investigation of differentially private algorithms for convex empirical risk minimization. Various instantiations of this problem have been studied before. We provide new algorithms and matching lower…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-10-21 Raef Bassily , Adam Smith , Abhradeep Thakurta

We present in this paper two different classes of general $K$-splitting algorithms for solving finite-dimensional convex optimization problems. Under the assumption that the function being minimized has a Lipschitz continuous gradient, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-13 Donald Goldfarb , Shiqian Ma

In this paper, we analyze the iteration-complexity of Generalized Forward--Backward (GFB) splitting algorithm, as proposed in \cite{gfb2011}, for minimizing a large class of composite objectives $f + \sum_{i=1}^n h_i$ on a Hilbert space,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-02-11 Jingwei Liang , Jalal M. Fadili , Gabriel Peyré

We analyze two classical algorithms for solving additively composite convex optimization problems where the objective is the sum of a smooth term and a nonsmooth regularizer: proximal stochastic gradient method for a single regularizer; and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-06 Kevin Kurian Thomas Vaidyan , Michael P. Friedlander , Ahmet Alacaoglu

We consider the problem of minimizing the sum of a smooth function $h$ with a bounded Hessian, and a nonsmooth function. We assume that the latter function is a composition of a proper closed function $P$ and a surjective linear map $\cal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-11-17 Guoyin Li , Ting Kei Pong