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We analyze stochastic gradient algorithms for optimizing nonconvex, nonsmooth finite-sum problems. In particular, the objective function is given by the summation of a differentiable (possibly nonconvex) component, together with a possibly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-04 Zhize Li , Jian Li

We study adaptive methods for differentially private convex optimization, proposing and analyzing differentially private variants of a Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) algorithm with adaptive stepsizes, as well as the AdaGrad algorithm. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Hilal Asi , John Duchi , Alireza Fallah , Omid Javidbakht , Kunal Talwar

We propose a projection-free conditional gradient-type algorithm for smooth stochastic multi-level composition optimization, where the objective function is a nested composition of $T$ functions and the constraint set is a closed convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-11 Tesi Xiao , Krishnakumar Balasubramanian , Saeed Ghadimi

We consider the projected gradient algorithm for the nonconvex best subset selection problem that minimizes a given empirical loss function under an $\ell_0$-norm constraint. Through decomposing the feasible set of the given sparsity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-13 Jan Harold Alcantara , Ching-pei Lee

We develop two new variants of alternating direction methods of multipliers (ADMM) and two parallel primal-dual decomposition algorithms to solve a wide range class of constrained convex optimization problems. Our approach relies on a novel…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-15 Quoc Tran-Dinh , Yuzixuan Zhu

In this paper we analyze several inexact fast augmented Lagrangian methods for solving linearly constrained convex optimization problems. Mainly, our methods rely on the combination of excessive-gap-like smoothing technique developed in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-05-14 Andrei Patrascu , Ion Necoara , Quoc Tran-Dinh

This paper presents a novel stochastic gradient descent algorithm for constrained optimization. The proposed algorithm randomly samples constraints and components of the finite sum objective function and relies on a relaxed logarithmic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-13 Naum Dimitrieski , Jing Cao , Christian Ebenbauer

Adaptive gradient methods such as AdaGrad and its variants update the stepsize in stochastic gradient descent on the fly according to the gradients received along the way; such methods have gained widespread use in large-scale optimization…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-04-20 Rachel Ward , Xiaoxia Wu , Leon Bottou

An inexact accelerated stochastic Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (AS-ADMM) scheme is developed for solving structured separable convex optimization problems with linear constraints. The objective function is the sum of a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-27 Jianchao Bai , William W. Hager , Hongchao Zhang

Policy gradient methods are widely used in reinforcement learning algorithms to search for better policies in the parameterized policy space. They do gradient search in the policy space and are known to converge very slowly. Nesterov…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-26 K. Lakshmanan

A generalized conditional gradient method for minimizing the sum of two convex functions, one of them differentiable, is presented. This iterative method relies on two main ingredients: First, the minimization of a partially linearized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-01 Karl Kunisch , Daniel Walter

Due to its simplicity and outstanding ability to generalize, stochastic gradient descent (SGD) is still the most widely used optimization method despite its slow convergence. Meanwhile, adaptive methods have attracted rising attention of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-15 Xunpeng Huang , Runxin Xu , Hao Zhou , Zhe Wang , Zhengyang Liu , Lei Li

Alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) is a popular optimization tool for the composite and constrained problems in machine learning. However, in many machine learning problems such as black-box attacks and bandit feedback, ADMM…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-31 Feihu Huang , Shangqian Gao , Songcan Chen , Heng Huang

The nonconvex and nonsmooth finite-sum optimization problem with linear constraint has attracted much attention in the fields of artificial intelligence, computer, and mathematics, due to its wide applications in machine learning and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-11 Yuxuan Zeng , Zhiguo Wang , Jianchao Bai , Xiaojing Shen

This paper presents an efficient gradient projection-based method for structural topological optimization problems characterized by a nonlinear objective function which is minimized over a feasible region defined by bilateral bounds and a…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Zhi Zeng , Fulei Ma

This paper presents a subgradient-based algorithm for constrained nonsmooth convex optimization that does not require projections onto the feasible set. While the well-established Frank-Wolfe algorithm and its variants already avoid…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Kamiar Asgari , Michael J. Neely

Modern machine learning focuses on highly expressive models that are able to fit or interpolate the data completely, resulting in zero training loss. For such models, we show that the stochastic gradients of common loss functions satisfy a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Sharan Vaswani , Francis Bach , Mark Schmidt

Motivated by an inertial primal-dual dynamical system with vanishing damping, we propose a class of accelerated augmented Lagrangian methods with Nesterov extrapolation parameters for a linearly constrained convex optimization problem with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Xin He , Nan-Jing Huang , Yi-Bin Xiao , Ya-Ping Fang

Distributed optimization has gained a surge of interest in recent years. In this paper we propose a distributed projection free algorithm named Distributed Conditional Gradient Sliding(DCGS). Compared to the state-of-the-art distributed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-22 Yan Li , Chao Qu , Huan Xu

The recently proposed Muon optimizer updates weight matrices via orthogonalized momentum and has demonstrated strong empirical success in large language model training. However, it remains unclear how to determine the learning rates for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Minxin Zhang , Yuxuan Liu , Hayden Schaeffer