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Stereo matching is a key technique for metric depth estimation in computer vision and robotics. Real-world challenges like occlusion and non-texture hinder accurate disparity estimation from binocular matching cues. Recently, monocular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Hualie Jiang , Zhiqiang Lou , Laiyan Ding , Rui Xu , Minglang Tan , Wenjie Jiang , Rui Huang

The usual approach to developing and analyzing first-order methods for non-smooth (stochastic or deterministic) convex optimization assumes that the objective function is uniformly Lipschitz continuous with parameter $M_f$. However, in many…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-15 Haihao Lu

Stochastic optimization powers the scalability of modern artificial intelligence, spanning machine learning, deep learning, reinforcement learning, and large language model training. Yet, existing theory remains largely confined to Hilbert…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Johnny R. Zhang , Xiaomei Mi , Gaoyuan Du , Qianyi Sun , Shiqi Wang , Jiaxuan Li , Wenhua Zhou

We discuss a special form of gradient descent that in the literature has become known as the so-called linearised Bregman iteration. The idea is to replace the classical (squared) two norm metric in the gradient descent setting with a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-12-28 Martin Benning , Marta M. Betcke , Matthias J. Ehrhardt , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

In this paper we consider online mirror descent (OMD) algorithms, a class of scalable online learning algorithms exploiting data geometric structures through mirror maps. Necessary and sufficient conditions are presented in terms of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-16 Yunwen Lei , Ding-Xuan Zhou

We study discrete-time mirror descent applied to the unregularized empirical risk in matrix sensing. In both the general case of rectangular matrices and the particular case of positive semidefinite matrices, a simple potential-based…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-28 Fan Wu , Patrick Rebeschini

In this paper we introduce a novel certified shape optimization strategy - named Certified Descent Algorithm (CDA) - to account for the numerical error introduced by the Finite Element approximation of the shape gradient. We present a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-28 Matteo Giacomini , Olivier Pantz , Karim Trabelsi

Stochastic mirror descent (SMD) is a fairly new family of algorithms that has recently found a wide range of applications in optimization, machine learning, and control. It can be considered a generalization of the classical stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-04 Navid Azizan , Babak Hassibi

The mirror descent algorithm is known to be effective in situations where it is beneficial to adapt the mirror map to the underlying geometry of the optimization model. However, the effect of mirror maps on the geometry of distributed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-13 Anastasia Borovykh , Nikolas Kantas , Panos Parpas , Grigorios A. Pavliotis

In this paper, we analyze the mirror descent algorithm for non-smooth optimization problems in which the objective function is relatively strongly convex, without relying on the standard Lipschitz continuity assumption commonly used in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Mohammad S. Alkousa , Fedor S. Stonyakin

Mirror descent (MD) is a powerful first-order optimization technique that subsumes several optimization algorithms including gradient descent (GD). In this work, we develop a semi-definite programming (SDP) framework to analyze the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-19 Youbang Sun , Mahyar Fazlyab , Shahin Shahrampour

The zeroth-order optimization has been widely used in machine learning applications. However, the theoretical study of the zeroth-order optimization focus on the algorithms which approximate (first-order) gradients using (zeroth-order)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Haishan Ye

We study two variants of the mirror descent-ascent (MDA) algorithm for solving min-max problems on the space of measures: simultaneous and alternating. We work under assumptions of convexity-concavity and relative smoothness of the payoff…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Razvan-Andrei Lascu , Mateusz B. Majka , Łukasz Szpruch

This paper systematically investigates the interaction mechanism between metric structures and mirror transformations in Spencer complexes of compatible pairs. Our core contribution is the establishment of mirror symmetry for Spencer-Hodge…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Dongzhe Zheng

Many problems in machine learning can be formulated as optimizing a convex functional over a vector space of measures. This paper studies the convergence of the mirror descent algorithm in this infinite-dimensional setting. Defining Bregman…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-12 Pierre-Cyril Aubin-Frankowski , Anna Korba , Flavien Léger

Most zeroth-order optimization algorithms mimic a first-order algorithm but replace the gradient of the objective function with some gradient estimator that can be computed from a small number of function evaluations. This estimator is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-12 Wouter Jongeneel , Man-Chung Yue , Daniel Kuhn

Mirror descent, introduced by Nemirovski and Yudin in the 1970s, is a primal-dual convex optimization method that can be tailored to the geometry of the optimization problem at hand through the choice of a strongly convex potential…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-17 Belinda Tzen , Anant Raj , Maxim Raginsky , Francis Bach

We study discrete dynamics governed by a difference inclusion whose increment is the sum of a selection from a set-valued map and a noise term. For any bounded realization, convergence follows once the inter-iterate diameter is controlled…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Lexiao Lai , Mingzhi Song

This paper develops a mirror symmetry theory of Spencer cohomology within the geometric framework of constrained systems on principal bundles, revealing deep symmetric structures in constraint geometry. Based on compatible pairs…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Dongzhe Zheng

The architecture of a deep neural network is defined explicitly in terms of the number of layers, the width of each layer and the general network topology. Existing optimisation frameworks neglect this information in favour of implicit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Jeremy Bernstein , Chris Mingard , Kevin Huang , Navid Azizan , Yisong Yue