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In this paper, we focus on solving a class of constrained non-convex non-concave saddle point problems in a decentralized manner by a group of nodes in a network. Specifically, we assume that each node has access to a summand of a global…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-01 Weijie Liu , Aryan Mokhtari , Asuman Ozdaglar , Sarath Pattathil , Zebang Shen , Nenggan Zheng

We provide sufficient conditions for quantitative convergence of the iterates of proximal splitting algorithms for minimizing a sum of functions on a metric space. The theory does not assume that the functions have common minima, nor does…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-06 D. Russell Luke , Mahshid Mirhashemi

We study a nonlinear semigroup associated to a nonexpansive mapping on a Hadamard space and establish its weak convergence to a fixed point. A discrete-time counterpart of such a semigroup, the proximal point algorithm, turns out to have…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2014-07-25 Miroslav Bacak , Simeon Reich

Hadamard spaces have traditionally played important roles in geometry and geometric group theory. More recently, they have additionally turned out to be a suitable framework for convex analysis, optimization and nonlinear probability…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-30 Miroslav Bacak

We establish some new common fixed point theorems of single-valued and multivalued mappings operating between complete ordered locally convex spaces under weaker assumptions. As an application, we prove a new minimax theorem of existence of…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-21 Driss Mentagui , Azennar Radouane

Locating proximal points is a component of numerous minimization algorithms. This work focuses on developing a method to find the proximal point of a convex function at a point, given an inexact oracle. Our method assumes that exact…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-03 Warren Hare , Chayne Planiden

We consider the problem of finding local minimizers in non-convex and non-smooth optimization. Under the assumption of strict saddle points, positive results have been derived for first-order methods. We present the first known results for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Zhishen Huang , Stephen Becker

This paper studies the saddle point problem of polynomials. We give an algorithm for computing saddle points. It is based on solving Lasserre's hierarchy of semidefinite relaxations. Under some genericity assumptions on defining…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-10 Jiawang Nie , Zi Yang , Guangming Zhou

The backward-backward algorithm is a tool for finding minima of a regularization of the sum of two convex functions in Hilbert spaces. We generalize this setting to Hadamard spaces and prove the convergence of an error-tolerant version of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-10-01 Sebastian Banert

A major approach to saddle point optimization $\min_x\max_y f(x, y)$ is a gradient based approach as is popularized by generative adversarial networks (GANs). In contrast, we analyze an alternative approach relying only on an oracle that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-02 Youhei Akimoto

Proximal point algorithm has found many applications, and it has been playing fundamental roles in the understanding, design, and analysis of many first-order methods. In this paper, we derive the tight convergence rate in subgradient norm…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-10 Guoyong Gu , Junfeng Yang

Min-max optimization problems, also known as saddle point problems, have attracted significant attention due to their applications in various fields, such as fair beamforming, generative adversarial networks (GANs), and adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Yuma Ichikawa , Koji Hukushima

We consider saddle point problems which objective functions are the average of $n$ strongly convex-concave individual components. Recently, researchers exploit variance reduction methods to solve such problems and achieve linear-convergence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Luo Luo , Cheng Chen , Yujun Li , Guangzeng Xie , Zhihua Zhang

We prove the almost sure weak convergence of a stochastic proximal point method for minimizing a convex integral function in the general nonlinear context of complete geodesic metric spaces of nonpositive curvature (so-called Hadamard…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Nicholas Pischke

In this paper, we propose an improved numerical algorithm for solving minimax problems based on nonsmooth optimization, quadratic programming and iterative process. We also provide a rigorous proof of convergence for our algorithm under…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Qing Xu , Xiaohua Xuan

To explore convex optimization on Hadamard spaces, we consider an iteration in the style of a subgradient algorithm. Traditionally, such methods assume that the underlying spaces are manifolds and that the objectives are geodesically…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-04 Adrian S. Lewis , Genaro Lopez-Acedo , Adriana Nicolae

We revisit the smooth convex-concave bilinearly-coupled saddle-point problem of the form $\min_x\max_y f(x) + \langle y,\mathbf{B} x\rangle - g(y)$. In the highly specific case where each of the functions $f(x)$ and $g(y)$ is either affine…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-25 Dmitry Kovalev , Ekaterina Borodich

This paper works with preconvexlike set-valued vector optimization problems in topological linear spaces. A Fakas-Minkowski alternative theorem, a scalarization theorem, some vector saddle-point theorems and some scalar saddle point theorem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-15 Renying Zeng

We consider the Klein-Gordon operator on an $n$-dimensional asymptotically anti-de Sitter spacetime $(M,g)$ together with arbitrary boundary conditions encoded by a self-adjoint pseudodifferential operator on $\partial M$ of order up to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-09-01 Claudio Dappiaggi , Alessio Marta

We study the convex-concave bilinear saddle-point problem $\min_x \max_y f(x) + y^\top Ax - g(y)$, where both, only one, or none of the functions $f$ and $g$ are strongly convex, and suitable rank conditions on the matrix $A$ hold. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-22 Colin Dirren , Mattia Bianchi , Panagiotis D. Grontas , John Lygeros , Florian Dörfler