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In convex optimization, first-order optimization methods efficiently minimizing function values have been a central subject study since Nesterov's seminal work of 1983. Recently, however, Kim and Fessler's OGM-G and Lee et al.'s FISTA-G…

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Predictive models can be used on high-dimensional brain images for diagnosis of a clinical condition. Spatial regularization through structured sparsity offers new perspectives in this context and reduces the risk of overfitting the model…

This paper is devoted to the study of an inertial accelerated primal-dual algorithm, which is based on a second-order differential system with time scaling, for solving a non-smooth convex optimization problem with linear equality…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Huan Zhang , Xiangkai Sun , Shengjie Li , Kok Lay Teo

This paper addresses the gradient flow -- the continuous-time representation of the gradient method -- with the smooth approximation of a non-differentiable objective function and presents convergence analysis framework. Similar to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-08 Mitsuru Toyoda , Akatsuki Nishioka , Mirai Tanaka

By time discretization of a second-order primal-dual dynamical system with damping $\alpha/t$ where an inertial construction in the sense of Nesterov is needed only for the primal variable, we propose a fast primal-dual algorithm for a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-06 Xin He , Rong Hu , Ya-Ping Fang

For a linear equality constrained convex optimization problem involving two objective functions with a ``nonsmooth" + ``nonsmooth" composite structure, we study two algorithms derived from a mixed-order dynamical system which incorporates…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-25 Geng-Hua Li , Hai-Yi Zhao , Xiangkai Sun

We propose an accelerated forward-backward method with fast convergence rate for finding a minimizer of a decomposable nonsmooth convex function over a closed convex set, and name it smoothing accelerated proximal gradient (SAPG) algorithm.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-05 Wei Bian , Fan Wu

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

We study first-order methods for convex optimization problems with functions $f$ satisfying the recently proposed $\ell$-smoothness condition $||\nabla^{2}f(x)|| \le \ell\left(||\nabla f(x)||\right),$ which generalizes the $L$-smoothness…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Alexander Tyurin

In this paper, we introduce, in a Hilbert space setting, a second order dynamical system with asymptotically vanishing damping and vanishing Tikhonov regularization that approaches a multiobjective optimization problem with convex and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-30 Radu Ioan Bot , Konstantin Sonntag

Gradient-based minimax optimal algorithms have greatly promoted the development of continuous optimization and machine learning. One seminal work due to Yurii Nesterov [Nes83a] established $\tilde{\mathcal{O}}(\sqrt{L/\mu})$ gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Yuanshi Liu , Hanzhen Zhao , Yang Xu , Pengyun Yue , Cong Fang

In this technical note, we are concerned with the problem of solving variational inequalities with improved convergence rates. Motivated by Nesterov's accelerated gradient method for convex optimization, we propose a Nesterov's accelerated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-21 Shaolin Tan , Jinhu Lu

This work investigates a dynamical system functioning as a nonsmooth adaptation of the continuous Newton method, aimed at minimizing the sum of a primal lower-regular and a locally Lipschitz function, both potentially nonsmooth. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-10 Juan Guillermo Garrido , Pedro Pérez-Aros , Emilio Vilches

In this paper, we propose a unified view of gradient-based algorithms for stochastic convex composite optimization by extending the concept of estimate sequence introduced by Nesterov. More precisely, we interpret a large class of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-09-07 Andrei Kulunchakov , Julien Mairal

This paper studies distributed nonconvex optimization problems with stochastic gradients for a multi-agent system, in which each agent aims to minimize the sum of all agents' cost functions by using local compressed information exchange. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-05 Antai Xie , Xinlei Yi , Xiaofan Wang , Ming Cao , Xiaoqiang Ren

Composite convex optimization models arise in several applications, and are especially prevalent in inverse problems with a sparsity inducing norm and in general convex optimization with simple constraints. The most widely used algorithms…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-07-15 Vahan Hovhannisyan , Panos Parpas , Stefanos Zafeiriou

We study the convergence of accelerated stochastic gradient descent for strongly convex objectives under the growth condition, which states that the variance of stochastic gradient is bounded by a multiplicative part that grows with the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-01 You-Lin Chen , Sen Na , Mladen Kolar

Nonconvex optimization underlies many modern machine learning and control tasks, where saddle points pose the dominant obstacle to reliable convergence in high-dimensional settings. Escaping these saddle points deterministically using…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Liraz Mudrik , Isaac Kaminer , Sean Kragelund , Abram H. Clark

In this paper, we propose in a Hilbertian setting a second-order time-continuous dynamic system with fast convergence guarantees to solve structured convex minimization problems with an affine constraint. The system is associated with the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-24 Hedy Attouch , Zaki Chbani , Jalal Fadili , Hassan Riahi