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It is well known that the projection method is not convergent for monotone equilibrium problems. Recently Sosa \textit{et al.} in \cite{SS2011} proposed a projection algorithm ensuring convergence for paramonotone equilibrium problems. In…
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We consider the problem of minimizing a Lipschitz differentiable function over a class of sparse symmetric sets that has wide applications in engineering and science. For this problem, it is known that any accumulation point of the…
We present an adaptive step-size method, which does not include line-search techniques, for solving a wide class of nonconvex multiobjective programming problems on an unbounded constraint set. We also prove convergence of a general…
In this paper, we propose objective-function-free (OFF) variants of the proximal Newton method for nonconvex composite optimization problems and the regularized Newton method for unconstrained optimization problems, respectively, using…
We introduce a perturbed preconditioned gradient descent (PPGD) method for the unconstrained minimization of a strongly convex objective $G$ with a locally Lipschitz continuous gradient. We assume that $G(v)=E(v)+F(v)$ and that the gradient…
We suggest a conjugate subgradient type method without any line-search for minimization of convex non differentiable functions. Unlike the custom methods of this class, it does not require monotone decrease of the goal function and reduces…
This paper investigates projection-free algorithms for stochastic constrained multi-level optimization. In this context, the objective function is a nested composition of several smooth functions, and the decision set is closed and convex.…
We study the global linear convergence of policy gradient (PG) methods for finite-horizon continuous-time exploratory linear-quadratic control (LQC) problems. The setting includes stochastic LQC problems with indefinite costs and allows…
This paper proposes a projection-free primal-dual dynamics for the nonsmooth composite optimization problems with equality and inequality constraints. To deal with optimization constraints, this paper departs from the use of gradient…