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Fixed-point equations with Lipschitz operators have been studied for more than a century, and are central to problems in mathematical optimization, game theory, economics, and dynamical systems, among others. When the Lipschitz constant of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-12 Jelena Diakonikolas

In this work, we propose an efficient minimax optimal global optimization algorithm for multivariate Lipschitz continuous functions. To evaluate the performance of our approach, we utilize the average regret instead of the traditional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Kaan Gokcesu , Hakan Gokcesu

In this paper, we prove the strong convergence theorems for nearly nonexpansive mappings, using the modified Picard-Mann hybrid iteration process in the context of uniformly convex Banach space.

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-15 Adrian Ghiura

In this paper, we study $\Delta$- convergence of iterations for a sequence of strongly quasi-nonexpansive mappings as well as the strong convergence of the Halpern type regularization of them in Hadamard spaces. Then, we give some their…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-10 Hadi Khatibzadeh , Vahid Mohebbi

We consider Riemann mappings from bounded Lipschitz domains in the plane to a triangle. We show that in this case the Riemann mapping has a linear variational principle: it is the minimizer of the Dirichlet energy over an appropriate affine…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Nadav Dym , Yaron Lipman , Raz Slutsky

We develop a finite-sample optimal estimator for regression discontinuity design when the outcomes are bounded, including binary outcomes as the leading case. Our estimator achieves minimax mean squared error among linear shrinkage…

Econometrics · Economics 2025-12-29 Takuya Ishihara , Masayuki Sawada , Kohei Yata

The problem of minimizing the sum of nonsmooth, convex objective functions defined on a real Hilbert space over the intersection of fixed point sets of nonexpansive mappings, onto which the projections cannot be efficiently computed, is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-02-08 Hideaki Iiduka

Lipschitz decomposition is a useful tool in the design of efficient algorithms involving metric spaces. While many bounds are known for different families of finite metrics, the optimal parameters for $n$-point subsets of $\ell_p$, for $p >…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Robert Krauthgamer , Nir Petruschka

For nonexpansive fixed-point problems, Halpern's method with optimal parameters, its so-called H-dual algorithm, and in fact, an infinite family of algorithms containing them, all exhibit the exactly minimax optimal convergence rates. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-20 TaeHo Yoon , Ernest K. Ryu , Benjamin Grimmer

Alternative iterative methods for a nonexpansive mapping in a Banach space are proposed and proved to be convergent to a common solution to a fixed point problem and a variational inequality. We give rates of asymptotic regularity for such…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2009-06-01 Vittorio Colao , Laurentiu Leustean , Genaro Lopez , Victoria Martin-Marquez

The Halpern iteration for solving monotone inclusion problems has gained increasing interests in recent years due to its simple form and appealing convergence properties. In this paper, we investigate the inexact variants of the scheme in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-28 Ling Liang , Zusen Xu , Kim-Chuan Toh , Jia-Jie Zhu

By using the Ishikawa iterative algorithm, we approximate the fixed points and the best proximity points of a relatively non expansive mapping. Also, we use the von Neumann sequence to prove the convergence result in a Hilbert space…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-13 V. Pragadeeswarar , R. Gopi , Choonkil Park , Dong Yun Shin

We study proximal random reshuffling for minimizing the sum of locally Lipschitz functions and a proper lower semicontinuous convex function without assuming coercivity or the existence of limit points. The algorithmic guarantees pertaining…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-15 Cedric Josz , Lexiao Lai , Xiaopeng Li

The Lipschitz constant is an important quantity that arises in analysing the convergence of gradient-based optimization methods. It is generally unclear how to estimate the Lipschitz constant of a complex model. Thus, this paper studies an…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-02-10 Calypso Herrera , Florian Krach , Josef Teichmann

The purpose of this paper is to propose and analyze a multi-step iterative algorithm to solve a convex optimization problem and a fixed point problem posed on a Hadamard space. The convergence properties of the proposed algorithm are…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-28 Muhammad Aqeel Ahmad Khan , Hafiza Arham Maqbool

Finding surface mappings with least distortion arises from many applications in various fields. Extremal Teichm\"uller maps are surface mappings with least conformality distortion. The existence and uniqueness of the extremal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-07-11 Lui Lok Ming , Gu Xianfeng , Yau Shing-Tung

This paper investigates a Halpern acceleration of the inexact proximal point method for solving maximal monotone inclusion problems in Hilbert spaces. The proposed Halpern inexact proximal point method (HiPPM) is shown to be globally…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-08 Liwei Zhang , Fanli Zhuang , Ning Zhang

In this paper, we consider a finite-dimensional optimization problem minimizing a continuous objective on a compact domain subject to a multi-dimensional constraint function. For the latter, we assume the availability of a global Lipschitz…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Adrian Göß , Alexander Martin , Sebastian Pokutta , Kartikey Sharma

The goal of the paper is to design sequential strategies which lead to efficient optimization of an unknown function under the only assumption that it has a finite Lipschitz constant. We first identify sufficient conditions for the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-06-19 Cédric Malherbe , Nicolas Vayatis

This paper proposes a new algorithm for solving constrained global optimization problems where both the objective function and constraints are one-dimensional non-differentiable multiextremal Lipschitz functions. Multiextremal constraints…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-07-27 Yaroslav D. Sergeyev