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Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-21 Sajad Zandi , Mehdi Korki

The restarted primal-dual hybrid gradient method (rPDHG) is a first-order method that has recently received significant attention for its computational effectiveness in solving linear program (LP) problems. Despite its impressive practical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Zikai Xiong

We develop a first-order accelerated algorithm for a class of constrained bilinear saddle-point problems with applications to network systems. The algorithm is a modified time-varying primal-dual version of an accelerated mirror-descent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-04 Weijian Li , Xianlin Zeng , Lacra Pavel

We propose and analyse primal-dual interior-point algorithms for convex optimization problems in conic form. The families of algorithms we analyse are so-called short-step algorithms and they match the current best iteration complexity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Tor Myklebust , Levent Tunçel

We study convex-concave saddle point problems with bilinear coupling, covering linearly constrained convex optimization and more general nonsmooth or constrained models via a proximable term in the dual objective. In linearly convergent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-02 Meng Li , Paul Grigas

This work presents a universal accelerated first-order primal-dual method for affinely constrained convex optimization problems. It can handle both Lipschitz and H\"{o}lder gradients but does not need to know the smoothness level of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-09 Hao Luo

In this paper, we propose the primal-dual method of multipliers (PDMM) for distributed optimization over a graph. In particular, we optimize a sum of convex functions defined over a graph, where every edge in the graph carries a linear…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-02-06 G. Zhang , R. Heusdens

Primal-dual methods for solving convex optimization problems with functional constraints often exhibit a distinct two-stage behavior. Initially, they converge towards a solution at a sublinear rate. Then, after a certain point, the method…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Mateo Díaz , Pedro Izquierdo Lehmann , Haihao Lu , Jinwen Yang

This paper deals with a second-order primal-dual dynamical system with Hessian-driven damping and Tikhonov regularization terms in connection with a convex-concave bilinear saddle point problem. We first obtain a fast convergence rate of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Xiangkai Sun , Liang He , Xianjun Long

We consider (stochastic) subgradient methods for strongly convex but potentially nonsmooth non-Lipschitz optimization. We provide new equivalent dual descriptions (in the style of dual averaging) for the classic subgradient method, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-31 Benjamin Grimmer , Danlin Li

This paper focuses on stochastic saddle point problems with decision-dependent distributions. These are problems whose objective is the expected value of a stochastic payoff function and whose data distribution drifts in response to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-15 Killian Wood , Emiliano Dall'Anese

We study the iteration complexity of the optimistic gradient descent-ascent (OGDA) method and the extra-gradient (EG) method for finding a saddle point of a convex-concave unconstrained min-max problem. To do so, we first show that both…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-30 Aryan Mokhtari , Asuman Ozdaglar , Sarath Pattathil

Concerning huge-scale aggregative convex programming of a linear objective subject to the affine constraints of equality and inequality and the quadratic constraints of inequality, convex and aggregatively computable, an algorithm is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Luoyi Tao

We present distributed subgradient methods for min-max problems with agreement constraints on a subset of the arguments of both the convex and concave parts. Applications include constrained minimization problems where each constraint is a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-05-25 David Mateos-Núñez , Jorge Cortés

Adaptive gradient methods like AdaGrad are widely used in optimizing neural networks. Yet, existing convergence guarantees for adaptive gradient methods require either convexity or smoothness, and, in the smooth setting, only guarantee…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Xiaoxia Wu , Simon S. Du , Rachel Ward

The saddle-point problems (SPPs) with nonlinear coupling operators frequently arise in various control systems, such as dynamic programming optimization, H-infinity control, and Lyapunov stability analysis. However, traditional primal-dual…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-21 Sai Wang , Yi Gong

We consider discriminative dictionary learning in a distributed online setting, where a network of agents aims to learn a common set of dictionary elements of a feature space and model parameters while sequentially receiving observations.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-05-05 Alec Koppel , Garrett Warnell , Ethan Stump , Alejandro Ribeiro

We consider strongly-convex-strongly-concave saddle-point problems with general non-bilinear objective and different condition numbers with respect to the primal and the dual variables. First, we consider such problems with smooth composite…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-15 Vladislav Tominin , Yaroslav Tominin , Ekaterina Borodich , Dmitry Kovalev , Alexander Gasnikov , Pavel Dvurechensky

This paper proposes a novel family of primal-dual-based distributed algorithms for smooth, convex, multi-agent optimization over networks that uses only gradient information and gossip communications. The algorithms can also employ…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-04 Jinming Xu , Ye Tian , Ying Sun , Gesualdo Scutari

In this paper, we propose a class of general second-order primal-dual dynamical systems with Tikhonov regularization and Hessian-driven damping for solving convex-concave bilinear saddle point problems. The proposed dynamical system…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Bohan Zhang , Xiaojun Zhang