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In this paper, we present two variants of DCA (Different of Convex functions Algorithm) to solve the constrained sum of differentiable function and composite functions minimization problem, with the aim of increasing the convergence speed…

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We study the convergence of the Augmented Decomposition Algorithm (ADA) proposed in [32] for solving multi-block separable convex minimization problems subject to linear constraints. We show that the global convergence rate of the exact ADA…

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Current deep learning adaptive optimizer methods adjust the step magnitude of parameter updates by altering the effective learning rate used by each parameter. Motivated by the known inverse relation between batch size and learning rate on…

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We provide improved parallel approximation algorithms for the important class of packing and covering linear programs. In particular, we present new parallel $\epsilon$-approximate packing and covering solvers which run in…

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In this paper, the tracking control problem of a class of uncertain Euler-Lagrange systems subjected to unknown input delay and bounded disturbances is addressed. To this front, a novel delay dependent control law, referred as Adaptive…

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We study the continuous-time structure of the difference-of-convex algorithm (DCA) for smooth DC decompositions with a strongly convex component. In dual coordinates, classical DCA is exactly the full-step explicit Euler discretization of a…

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The Gradient Descent-Ascent (GDA) algorithm, designed to solve minimax optimization problems, takes the descent and ascent steps either simultaneously (Sim-GDA) or alternately (Alt-GDA). While Alt-GDA is commonly observed to converge…

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In this paper, we study zeroth-order algorithms for minimax optimization problems that are nonconvex in one variable and strongly-concave in the other variable. Such minimax optimization problems have attracted significant attention lately…

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In this paper, we study the convergence rate of the DCA (Difference-of-Convex Algorithm), also known as the convex-concave procedure, with two different termination criteria that are suitable for smooth and nonsmooth decompositions…

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In this paper, we consider a block coordinate descent (BCD) algorithm for training deep neural networks and provide a new global convergence guarantee under strictly monotonically increasing activation functions. While existing works…

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In this work and its accompanying Part II [1], we develop an accelerated algorithmic framework, DAMA (Decentralized Accelerated Minimax Approach), for nonconvex Polyak-Lojasiewicz minimax optimization over decentralized multi-agent…

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The scalable adaptive cubic regularization method ($\mathrm{ARC_{q}K}$: Dussault et al. in Math. Program. Ser. A 207(1-2): 191-225, 2024) has been recently proposed for unconstrained optimization. It has excellent convergence properties,…

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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…

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Nonconvex-nonconcave minimax optimization has received intense attention over the last decade due to its broad applications in machine learning. Most existing algorithms rely on one-sided information, such as the convexity (resp. concavity)…

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Anomaly detection plays a critical role in fraud detection, health care, intrusion detection, military surveillance, etc. Anomaly detection algorithm based on density estimation (called ADDE algorithm) is one of widely used algorithms.…

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Variational inequalities are a universal optimization paradigm that is interesting in itself, but also incorporates classical minimization and saddle point problems. Modern realities encourage to consider stochastic formulations of…

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In this paper, we focus on the problem of minimizing the sum of a nonconvex differentiable function and a DC (Difference of Convex functions) function, where the differentiable function is not restricted to the global Lipschitz gradient…

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In this work, we first present an adaptive deterministic block coordinate descent method with momentum (mADBCD) to solve the linear least-squares problem, which is based on Polyak's heavy ball method and a new column selection criterion for…

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