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We propose an unconstrained optimization method based on the well-known primal-dual hybrid gradient (PDHG) algorithm. We first formulate the optimality condition of the unconstrained optimization problem as a saddle point problem. We then…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-29 X. Zuo , S. Osher , W. Li

We study a block-structured class of convex-concave saddle-point problems in which both the primal and dual variables admit natural separable decompositions. Motivated by large-scale applications where a full update on either side can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Yiheng Xiao , Huikang Liu

The Stochastic Primal-Dual Hybrid Gradient (SPDHG) was proposed by Chambolle et al. (2018) and is an efficient algorithm to solve some nonsmooth large-scale optimization problems. In this paper we prove its almost sure convergence for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-02 Eric B. Gutierrez , Claire Delplancke , Matthias J. Ehrhardt

Primal-dual interior-point methods solve constrained convex optimization problems to tight tolerances with speed and robustness. Their solutions are also efficiently differentiable with respect to the problem data through the implicit…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Jon Arrizabalaga , Kevin Tracy , Zachary Manchester

We study the convergence behaviors of primal-dual hybrid gradient (PDHG) for solving linear programming (LP). PDHG is the base algorithm of a new general-purpose first-order method LP solver, PDLP, which aims to scale up LP by taking…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-27 Haihao Lu , Jinwen Yang

The primal-dual hybrid gradient (PDHG) algorithm for solving convex optimization problems that arise in tomographic imaging is revisited. In particular, simplification of the selection of step-size parameters is developed for optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Emil Y. Sidky , John Paul Phillips , Zheng Zhang , Dan Xia , Ingrid S. Reiser , Xiaochuan Pan

Primal-dual algorithms for the resolution of convex-concave saddle point problems usually come with one or several step size parameters. Within the range where convergence is guaranteed, choosing well the step size can make the difference…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-29 Olivier Fercoq

Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) partial differential equations (PDEs) have diverse applications spanning physics, optimal control, game theory, and imaging sciences. This research introduces a first-order optimization-based technique for HJ PDEs,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-04 Tingwei Meng , Wenbo Hao , Siting Liu , Stanley J. Osher , Wuchen Li

In this paper, we propose a stochastic Primal-Dual Hybrid Gradient (PDHG) approach for solving a wide spectrum of regularized stochastic minimization problems, where the regularization term is composite with a linear function. It has been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-02 Linbo Qiao , Tianyi Lin , Qi Qin , Xicheng Lu

Linear Programming (LP) is a foundational optimization technique with widespread applications in finance, energy trading, and supply chain logistics. However, traditional Central Processing Unit (CPU)-based LP solvers often struggle to meet…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Xiyan Hu , Titus Parker , Connor Phillips , Yifa Yu

We present the Anderson Accelerated Primal-Dual Hybrid Gradient (AA-PDHG), a fixed-point-based framework designed to overcome the slow convergence of the standard PDHG method for the solution of linear programming (LP) problems. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Yingxin Zhou , Stefano Cipolla , Phan Tu Vuong

The primal dual hybrid gradient algorithm (PDHG), which is also known as the Arrow-Hurwicz method, is a fundamental algorithm for saddle point problems especially in imaging. It also inspires a great number of influential algorithms such as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Shengjie Xu , Bingsheng He

We present a batched first-order method for solving multiple linear programs in parallel on GPUs. Our approach extends the primal-dual hybrid gradient algorithm to efficiently solve batches of related linear programming problems that arise…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-30 Nicolas Blin , Stefano Gualandi , Christopher Maes , Andrea Lodi , Bartolomeo Stellato

Stochastic Primal-Dual Hybrid Gradient (SPDHG) is an algorithm proposed by Chambolle et al. (2018) to efficiently solve a wide class of nonsmooth large-scale optimization problems. In this paper we contribute to its theoretical foundations…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-27 Eric B Gutierrez , Claire Delplancke , Matthias J Ehrhardt

In this work we propose a new primal-dual algorithm with adaptive step-sizes. The stochastic primal-dual hybrid gradient (SPDHG) algorithm with constant step-sizes has become widely applied in large-scale convex optimization across many…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-05 Antonin Chambolle , Claire Delplancke , Matthias J. Ehrhardt , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Junqi Tang

The primal-dual interior point method (IPM) is widely regarded as the most efficient IPM variant for linear optimization. In this paper, we demonstrate that the improved stability of the pure primal IPM can allow speedups relative to a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-26 Wenzhi Gao , Huikang Liu , Yinyu Ye , Madeleine Udell

In this paper, we analyze the recently proposed stochastic primal-dual hybrid gradient (SPDHG) algorithm and provide new theoretical results. In particular, we prove almost sure convergence of the iterates to a solution with convexity and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-23 Ahmet Alacaoglu , Olivier Fercoq , Volkan Cevher

This paper proposes and analyzes a tuning-free variant of Primal-Dual Hybrid Gradient (PDHG), and investigates its effectiveness for solving large-scale semidefinite programming (SDP). The core idea is based on the combination of two…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-02 Yinjun Wang , Haixiang Lan , Yinyu Ye

We present PDLP, a practical first-order method for linear programming (LP) designed to solve large-scale LP problems. PDLP is based on the primal-dual hybrid gradient (PDHG) method applied to the minimax formulation of LP. PDLP…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-19 David Applegate , Mateo Díaz , Oliver Hinder , Haihao Lu , Miles Lubin , Brendan O'Donoghue , Warren Schudy

In this paper, we propose and analyze a new matrix-free primal-dual algorithm, called restarted Halpern primal-dual hybrid gradient (rHPDHG), for solving linear programming (LP). We show that rHPDHG can achieve optimal accelerated linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-11 Haihao Lu , Jinwen Yang