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We propose a new bundle-based augmented Lagrangian framework for solving constrained convex problems. Unlike the classical (inexact) augmented Lagrangian method (ALM) that has a nested double-loop structure, our framework features a…

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Finding constrained saddle points on Riemannian manifolds is significant for analyzing energy landscapes arising in physics and chemistry. Existing works have been limited to special manifolds that admit global regular level-set…

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We consider a class of structured, nonconvex, nonsmooth optimization problems under orthogonality constraints, where the objectives combine a smooth function, a nonsmooth concave function, and a nonsmooth weakly convex function. This class…

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Conjugate gradient (CG) methods are widely acknowledged as efficient for minimizing continuously differentiable functions in Euclidean spaces. In recent years, various CG methods have been extended to Riemannian manifold optimization, but…

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The proximal bundle method (PBM) is a fundamental and computationally effective algorithm for solving nonsmooth optimization problems. In this paper, we present the first variant of the PBM for smooth objectives, achieving an accelerated…

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The nonlinear conjugate gradient methods are known to be an effective approach for standard unconstrained optimization problems especially for large-scale problems. This paper proposes a proximal nonlinear conjugate gradient method, which…

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Recent advancements in data science have significantly elevated the importance of orthogonally constrained optimization problems. The Riemannian approach has become a popular technique for addressing these problems due to the advantageous…

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In this paper we study nonconvex and nonsmooth multi-block optimization over Riemannian manifolds with coupled linear constraints. Such optimization problems naturally arise from machine learning, statistical learning, compressive sensing,…

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We extend the classical primal-dual interior point method from the Euclidean setting to the Riemannian one. Our method, named the Riemannian interior point method, is for solving Riemannian constrained optimization problems. We establish…

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This paper presents a novel restarted version of Nesterov's accelerated gradient method and establishes its optimal iteration-complexity for solving convex smooth composite optimization problems. The proposed restart accelerated gradient…

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Constrained non-convex optimization is fundamentally challenging, as global solutions are generally intractable and constraint qualifications may not hold. However, in many applications, including safe policy optimization in control and…

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We consider a class of nonsmooth optimization problems over the Stiefel manifold, in which the objective function is weakly convex in the ambient Euclidean space. Such problems are ubiquitous in engineering applications but still largely…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-26 Xiao Li , Shixiang Chen , Zengde Deng , Qing Qu , Zhihui Zhu , Anthony Man Cho So

We consider convex optimization with non-smooth objective function and log-concave sampling with non-smooth potential (negative log density). In particular, we study two specific settings where the convex objective/potential function is…

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We introduce a Riemannian optimistic online learning algorithm for Hadamard manifolds based on inexact implicit updates. Unlike prior work, our method can handle in-manifold constraints, and matches the best known regret bounds in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-31 Christophe Roux , David Martínez-Rubio , Sebastian Pokutta

Superlinear convergence has been an elusive goal for black-box nonsmooth optimization. Even in the convex case, the subgradient method is very slow, and while some cutting plane algorithms, including traditional bundle methods, are popular…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-30 Adrian Lewis , Calvin Wylie

The proximal bundle method (PBM) is a powerful and widely used approach for minimizing nonsmooth convex functions. However, for smooth objectives, its best-known convergence rate remains suboptimal, and whether PBM can be accelerated…

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Optimization with orthogonality constraints frequently arises in various fields such as machine learning. Riemannian optimization offers a powerful framework for solving these problems by equipping the constraint set with a Riemannian…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Andi Han , Pierre-Louis Poirion , Akiko Takeda

We consider the problem of minimizing a proper, lower semicontinuous, geodesically convex function on a Hadamard manifold. Building on ball-proximal (broximal) ideas in the Euclidean setting, viewed as an abstract proximal-type algorithm,…

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In this work, we analyze two of the most fundamental algorithms in geodesically convex optimization: Riemannian gradient descent and (possibly inexact) Riemannian proximal point. We quantify their rates of convergence and produce different…

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