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This paper considers a convex composite optimization problem with affine constraints, which includes problems that take the form of minimizing a smooth convex objective function over the intersection of (simple) convex sets, or regularized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-23 Dan Garber , Tsur Livney , Shoham Sabach

In this paper, we study zeroth-order algorithms for nonconvex-concave minimax problems, which have attracted widely attention in machine learning, signal processing and many other fields in recent years. We propose a zeroth-order…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-26 Zi Xu , Ziqi Wang , Jingjing Shen , Yuhong Dai

In this paper, we consider two types of problems that have some similarity in their structure, namely, min-min problems and min-max saddle-point problems. Our approach is based on considering the outer minimization problem as a minimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-29 Egor Gladin , Abdurakhmon Sadiev , Alexander Gasnikov , Pavel Dvurechensky , Aleksandr Beznosikov , Mohammad Alkousa

In this paper, we deal with the problem of optimizing a black-box smooth function over a full-dimensional smooth convex set. We study sets of feasible curves that allow to properly characterize stationarity of a solution and possibly carry…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Xiaoxi Jia , Matteo Lapucci , Pierluigi Mansueto

In this paper, we propose a new method based on the Sliding Algorithm from Lan(2016, 2019) for the convex composite optimization problem that includes two terms: smooth one and non-smooth one. Our method uses the stochastic noised…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-16 Aleksandr Beznosikov , Eduard Gorbunov , Alexander Gasnikov

We provide several applications of Optimistic Mirror Descent, an online learning algorithm based on the idea of predictable sequences. First, we recover the Mirror Prox algorithm for offline optimization, prove an extension to Holder-smooth…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-11-11 Alexander Rakhlin , Karthik Sridharan

We investigate a class of nonconvex optimization problems characterized by a feasible set consisting of level-bounded nonconvex regularizers, with a continuously differentiable objective. We propose a novel hybrid approach to tackle such…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-28 Xiangyu Yang , Hao Wang , Yichen Zhu , Xiao Wang

We introduce a relaxed-projection splitting algorithm for solving variational inequalities in Hilbert spaces for the sum of nonsmooth maximal monotone operators, where the feasible set is defined by a nonlinear and nonsmooth continuous…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-12-31 J. Y. Bello Cruz , R. Diaz Millan

The problem of finding a vector with the fewest nonzero elements that satisfies an underdetermined system of linear equations is an NP-complete problem that is typically solved numerically via convex heuristics or nicely-behaved nonconvex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-07 Robert Hesse , D. Russell Luke , Patrick Neumann

We extend the Frank-Wolfe (FW) optimization algorithm to solve constrained smooth convex-concave saddle point (SP) problems. Remarkably, the method only requires access to linear minimization oracles. Leveraging recent advances in FW…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-07 Gauthier Gidel , Tony Jebara , Simon Lacoste-Julien

This paper is devoted to the general problem of projection onto a polyhedral convex cone generated by a finite set of generators.This problem is reformulated into projection onto the polytope obtained by simple truncation of the original…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-26 Evgeni Nurminski

We consider feasibility and constrained optimization problems defined over smooth and/or strongly convex sets. These notions mirror their popular function counterparts but are much less explored in the first-order optimization literature.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-02 Ning Liu , Benjamin Grimmer

We study projection-free optimization for convex objectives that satisfy abs-smoothness, a structural property that captures many non-smooth yet piecewise smooth functions arising, e.g., in modern machine learning models. We develop a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Sri Harshitha Tadinada , Sebastian Pokutta , Andrea Walther

Using double-smoothing technique and stochastic mirror descent with inexact oracle we built an optimal algorithm (up to a multiplicative factor) for two-points gradient-free non-smooth stochastic convex programming. We investigate how much…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-15 Anastasia Bayandina , Alexander Gasnikov , Fariman Guliev , Anastasia Lagunovskaya

Classical extragradient schemes and their stochastic counterpart represent a cornerstone for resolving monotone variational inequality problems. Yet, such schemes have a per-iteration complexity of two projections onto a convex set and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-22 Shisheng Cui , Uday V. Shanbhag

Two optimization algorithms are proposed for solving a stochastic programming problem for which the objective function is given in the form of the expectation of convex functions and the constraint set is defined by the intersection of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-09 Hideaki Iiduka

Minimax optimization has become a central tool in machine learning with applications in robust optimization, reinforcement learning, GANs, etc. These applications are often nonconvex-nonconcave, but the existing theory is unable to identify…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-02 Benjamin Grimmer , Haihao Lu , Pratik Worah , Vahab Mirrokni

This research addresses the increasing demand for advanced navigation systems capable of operating within confined surroundings. A significant challenge in this field is developing an efficient planning framework that can generalize across…

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This paper considers an optimization problem for a dynamical system whose evolution depends on a collection of binary decision variables. We develop scalable approximation algorithms with provable suboptimality bounds to provide…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-31 Insoon Yang , Samuel A. Burden , Ram Rajagopal , S. Shankar Sastry , Claire J. Tomlin

This paper considers stochastic convex optimization problems with two sets of constraints: (a) deterministic constraints on the domain of the optimization variable, which are difficult to project onto; and (b) deterministic or stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-25 Zeeshan Akhtar , Ketan Rajawat