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Based on a preconditioned version of the randomized block-coordinate forward-backward algorithm recently proposed in [Combettes,Pesquet,2014], several variants of block-coordinate primal-dual algorithms are designed in order to solve a wide…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-10-28 Jean-Christophe Pesquet , Audrey Repetti

This paper derives a discrete dual problem for a prototypical hybrid high-order method for convex minimization problems. The discrete primal and dual problem satisfy a weak convex duality that leads to a priori error estimates with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-10 Ngoc Tien Tran

We study and develop (stochastic) primal--dual block-coordinate descent methods for convex problems based on the method due to Chambolle and Pock. Our methods have known convergence rates for the iterates and the ergodic gap: $O(1/N^2)$ if…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-13 Tuomo Valkonen

Using an optimization algorithm to solve a machine learning problem is one of mainstreams in the field of science. In this work, we demonstrate a comprehensive comparison of some state-of-the-art first-order optimization algorithms for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-04-29 Yu Wei , Pock Thomas

Primal-dual algorithms are frequently used for iteratively solving large-scale convex optimization problems. The analysis of such algorithms is usually done on a case-by-case basis, and the resulting guaranteed rates of convergence can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-21 Bryan Van Scoy , John W. Simpson-Porco , Laurent Lessard

Non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) approximates a given matrix as a product of two non-negative matrices. Multiplicative algorithms deliver reliable results, but they show slow convergence for high-dimensional data and may be stuck…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-12-05 Felipe Yanez , Francis Bach

We are interested in solving convex optimization problems with large numbers of constraints. Randomized algorithms, such as random constraint sampling, have been very successful in giving nearly optimal solutions to such problems. In this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-29 William B. Haskell , Yu Pengqian

Primal-dual methods in online optimization give several of the state-of-the art results in both of the most common models: adversarial and stochastic/random order. Here we try to provide a more unified analysis of primal-dual algorithms to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Marco Molinaro

Mathematical optimization is the workhorse behind several aspects of modern robotics and control. In these applications, the focus is on constrained optimization, and the ability to work on manifolds (such as the classical matrix Lie…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Wilson Jallet , Antoine Bambade , Nicolas Mansard , Justin Carpentier

The Chambolle--Pock method is a versatile three-parameter algorithm designed to solve a broad class of composite convex optimization problems, which encompass two proper, lower semicontinuous, and convex functions, along with a linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-29 Sebastian Banert , Manu Upadhyaya , Pontus Giselsson

Convex nonsmooth optimization problems, whose solutions live in very high dimensional spaces, have become ubiquitous. To solve them, the class of first-order algorithms known as proximal splitting algorithms is particularly adequate: they…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-27 Laurent Condat , Daichi Kitahara , Andrés Contreras , Akira Hirabayashi

In this work, we investigate the application of deep learning methods for computed tomography in the context of having a low-data regime. As motivation, we review some of the existing approaches and obtain quantitative results after…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-20 Daniel Otero Baguer , Johannes Leuschner , Maximilian Schmidt

We present two modified versions of the primal-dual splitting algorithm relying on forward-backward splitting proposed in \cite{vu} for solving monotone inclusion problems. Under strong monotonicity assumptions for some of the operators…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-03-13 Radu Ioan Bot , Ernö Robert Csetnek , Andre Heinrich

The work seeks to develop an algorithm for image reconstruction by directly inverting the non-linear data model in spectral CT. Using the non-linear data model, we formulate the image-reconstruction problem as a non-convex optimization…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-02-23 Buxin Chen , Zheng Zhang , Dan Xia , Emil Y. Sidky , Xiaochuan Pan

"Classical" First Order (FO) algorithms of convex optimization, such as Mirror Descent algorithm or Nesterov's optimal algorithm of smooth convex optimization, are well known to have optimal (theoretical) complexity estimates which do not…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-08-27 Bruce Cox , Anatoli Juditsky , Arkadi Nemirovski

Non-convex functional constrained optimization problems have gained substantial attention in machine learning and data science, addressing broad requirements that typically go beyond the often performance-centric objectives. An influential…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-29 Sang Bin Moon , Jong Gwang Kim , Ashish Chandra , Christopher Brinton , Abolfazl Hashemi

In this paper, we propose an inertial accelerated primal-dual method for the linear equality constrained convex optimization problem. When the objective function has a ``nonsmooth + smooth'' composite structure, we further propose an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-30 Xin He , Rong Hu , Ya-Ping Fang

We develop a second order primal-dual method for optimization problems in which the objective function is given by the sum of a strongly convex twice differentiable term and a possibly nondifferentiable convex regularizer. After introducing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-31 Neil K. Dhingra , Sei Zhen Khong , Mihailo R. Jovanović

In this paper, we propose a primal-dual algorithm with a novel momentum term using the partial gradients of the coupling function that can be viewed as a generalization of the method proposed by Chambolle and Pock in 2016 to solve saddle…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-22 Erfan Yazdandoost Hamedani , Necdet Serhat Aybat

We consider the saddle point problem where the objective functions are abstract convex with respect to the class of quadratic functions. We propose primal-dual algorithms using the corresponding abstract proximal operator and investigate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Ewa Bednarczuk , The Hung Tran