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We propose an accelerated algorithm with a Frank-Wolfe method as an oracle for solving strongly monotone variational inequality problems. While standard solution approaches, such as projected gradient descent (aka value iteration), involve…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Reza Rahimi Baghbadorani , Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani , Sergio Grammatico

In the framework of online convex optimization, most iterative algorithms require the computation of projections onto convex sets, which can be computationally expensive. To tackle this problem HK12 proposed the study of projection-free…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Zhou Lu , Nataly Brukhim , Paula Gradu , Elad Hazan

The Frank-Wolfe algorithm achieves a convergence rate of $\mathcal{O}(1/T)$ for smooth convex optimization over compact convex domains, accelerating to $\mathcal{O}(1/T^2)$ when both the objective and the feasible set are strongly convex.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Jannis Halbey , Christophe Roux , Sebastian Pokutta

We introduce a class of first-order methods for smooth constrained optimization that are based on an analogy to non-smooth dynamical systems. Two distinctive features of our approach are that (i) projections or optimizations over the entire…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-15 Michael Muehlebach , Michael I. Jordan

This paper studies first-order algorithms for solving fully composite optimization problems over convex and compact sets. We leverage the structure of the objective by handling its differentiable and non-differentiable components…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-13 Maria-Luiza Vladarean , Nikita Doikov , Martin Jaggi , Nicolas Flammarion

We give a simple proof that the Frank-Wolfe algorithm obtains a stationary point at a rate of $O(1/\sqrt{t})$ on non-convex objectives with a Lipschitz continuous gradient. Our analysis is affine invariant and is the first, to the best of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-07-07 Simon Lacoste-Julien

One of the beauties of the projected gradient descent method lies in its rather simple mechanism and yet stable behavior with inexact, stochastic gradients, which has led to its wide-spread use in many machine learning applications.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-11 Mingrui Zhang , Zebang Shen , Aryan Mokhtari , Hamed Hassani , Amin Karbasi

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

For solving a broad class of nonconvex programming problems on an unbounded constraint set, we provide a self-adaptive step-size strategy that does not include line-search techniques and establishes the convergence of a generic approach…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-14 Thang Tran Ngoc , Hai Trinh Ngoc

Stochastic compositional optimization minimizes objectives of the form $\min_{\bm{x} \in \mathcal{X}} F(\bm{f}(\bm{x}), \bm{x})$, where $\bm{f}$ is accessible only through noisy stochastic queries. Existing methods for this problem assume…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-18 El Mahdi Chayti

We propose the pivoting meta algorithm (PM) to enhance optimization algorithms that generate iterates as convex combinations of vertices of a feasible region $C\subseteq \mathbb{R}^n$, including Frank-Wolfe (FW) variants. PM guarantees that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-06 Elias Wirth , Mathieu Besançon , Sebastian Pokutta

In this paper, we propose a generalized conditional gradient method for multiobjective optimization, which can be viewed as an improved extension of the classical Frank-Wolfe (conditional gradient) method for single-objective optimization.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-25 Anteneh Getachew Gebrie , Ellen Hidemi Fukuda

We present a novel class of projected gradient (PG) methods for minimizing a smooth but not necessarily convex function over a convex compact set. We first provide a novel analysis of the constant-stepsize PG method, achieving the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Guanghui Lan , Tianjiao Li , Yangyang Xu

In this paper, we consider large-scale linearly constrained composite convex optimization problem, whose objective is a sum of a smooth function and a possibly nonsmooth function. We propose a scalable \textbf{F}rank-\textbf{W}olfe based…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-10-13 Ya-Feng Liu , Xiangfeng Wang , Xin Liu , Shiqian Ma

This paper presents an auto-conditioned proximal gradient method for nonconvex optimization. The method determines the stepsize using an estimation of local curvature and does not require any prior knowledge of problem parameters and any…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-19 Shotaro Yagishita , Masaru Ito

The Frank Wolfe algorithm (FW) is a popular projection-free alternative for solving large-scale constrained optimization problems. However, the FW algorithm suffers from a sublinear convergence rate when minimizing a smooth convex function…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-20 Robin Francis , Sundeep Prabhakar Chepuri

This paper considers distributed stochastic optimization, in which a number of agents cooperate to optimize a global objective function through local computations and information exchanges with neighbors over a network. Stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-09 Jie Hou , Xianlin Zeng , Gang Wang , Jian Sun , Jie Chen

Projection-free block-coordinate methods avoid high computational cost per iteration and at the same time exploit the particular problem structure of product domains. Frank-Wolfe-like approaches rank among the most popular ones of this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-07 Immanuel Bomze , Francesco Rinaldi , Damiano Zeffiro

We propose a rank-$k$ variant of the classical Frank-Wolfe algorithm to solve convex optimization over a trace-norm ball. Our algorithm replaces the top singular-vector computation ($1$-SVD) in Frank-Wolfe with a top-$k$ singular-vector…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-10 Zeyuan Allen-Zhu , Elad Hazan , Wei Hu , Yuanzhi Li

Recently the away-step Frank-Wolfe algoritm for constrained multiobjective optimization has been shown linear convergence rate over a polytope which is generated by finite points set. In this paper we design a decomposition-invariant…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-10 Zhuoxin Fan , Liping Tang