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We study a phase retrieval problem in the Poisson noise model. Motivated by the PhaseLift approach, we approximate the maximum-likelihood estimator by solving a convex program with a nuclear norm constraint. While the Frank-Wolfe algorithm,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-02-03 Gergely Odor , Yen-Huan Li , Alp Yurtsever , Ya-Ping Hsieh , Quoc Tran-Dinh , Marwa El Halabi , Volkan Cevher

This paper is concerned with the Frank--Wolfe algorithm for a special class of {\it non-compact} constrained optimization problems. The notion of asymptotic cone is used to introduce this class of problems as well as to establish that the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-29 O. P. Ferreira , W. S. Sosa

Error bound condition has recently gained revived interest in optimization. It has been leveraged to derive faster convergence for many popular algorithms, including subgradient methods, proximal gradient method and accelerated proximal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-12 Yi Xu , Tianbao Yang

We consider the Frank-Wolfe algorithm for solving variational inequalities over compact, convex sets under a monotone $C^1$ operator and vanishing, nonsummable step sizes. We introduce a continuous-time interpolation of the discrete…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-10 Matthew Hough

An extension of the Frank-Wolfe Algorithm (FWA), also known as Conditional Gradient algorithm, is proposed. In its standard form, the FWA allows to solve constrained optimization problems involving $\beta$-smooth cost functions, calling at…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-28 Guilherme Mazanti , Thibault Moquet , Laurent Pfeiffer

Minimization of a smooth function on a sphere or, more generally, on a smooth manifold, is the simplest non-convex optimization problem. It has a lot of applications. Our goal is to propose a version of the gradient projection algorithm for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-28 Maxim Balashov , Boris Polyak , Andrey Tremba

Dense conditional random fields (CRF) with Gaussian pairwise potentials have emerged as a popular framework for several computer vision applications such as stereo correspondence and semantic segmentation. By modeling long-range…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-23 Alban Desmaison , Rudy Bunel , Pushmeet Kohli , Philip H. S. Torr , M. Pawan Kumar

We study the linear convergence of Frank-Wolfe algorithms over product polytopes. We analyze two condition numbers for the product polytope, namely the \emph{pyramidal width} and the \emph{vertex-facet distance}, based on the condition…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-11 Gabriele Iommazzo , David Martínez-Rubio , Francisco Criado , Elias Wirth , Sebastian Pokutta

We introduce novel techniques to enhance Frank-Wolfe algorithms by leveraging function smoothness beyond traditional short steps. Our study focuses on Frank-Wolfe algorithms with step sizes that incorporate primal-dual guarantees, offering…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-03 David Martínez-Rubio , Sebastian Pokutta

This paper proposes a distributed stochastic projection-free algorithm for large-scale constrained finite-sum optimization whose constraint set is complicated such that the projection onto the constraint set can be expensive. The global…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-25 Xia Jiang , Xianlin Zeng , Lihua Xie , Jian Sun , Jie Chen

To deal with non-stationary online problems with complex constraints, we investigate the dynamic regret of online Frank-Wolfe (OFW), which is an efficient projection-free algorithm for online convex optimization. It is well-known that in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Yuanyu Wan , Lijun Zhang , Mingli Song

Recently, based on the idea of randomizing space theory, random convex analysis has been being developed in order to deal with the corresponding problems in random environments such as analysis of conditional convex risk measures and the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-11 Tiexin Guo , Erxin Zhang , Mingzhi Wu , Bixuan Yang , George Yuan , Xiaolin Zeng

Motivated principally by the low-rank matrix completion problem, we present an extension of the Frank-Wolfe method that is designed to induce near-optimal solutions on low-dimensional faces of the feasible region. This is accomplished by a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-11-09 Robert M. Freund , Paul Grigas , Rahul Mazumder

The boosted Frank-Wolfe algorithm accelerates the classical Frank-Wolfe algorithm by better aligning the update direction with the negative gradient. Its analysis, however, has been limited to deterministic convex problems, with step sizes…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Navil Nandhan , Abbas Khademi , Antonio Silveti-Falls

We consider the problem of solving LP relaxations of MAP-MRF inference problems, and in particular the method proposed recently in (Swoboda, Kolmogorov 2019; Kolmogorov, Pock 2021). As a key computational subroutine, it uses a variant of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-26 Vladimir Kolmogorov

Deep neural networks is today one of the most popular choices in classification, regression and function approximation. However, the training of such deep networks is far from trivial as there are often millions of parameters to tune.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Jakob Stigenberg

Stochastic Frank-Wolfe is a classical optimization method for solving constrained optimization problems. On the other hand, recent optimizers such as Lion and Muon have gained quite significant popularity in deep learning. In this work,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Maria-Eleni Sfyraki , Jun-Kun Wang

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

We consider the problem of minimizing a difference of (smooth) convex functions over a compact convex feasible region $P$, i.e., $\min_{x \in P} f(x) - g(x)$, with smooth $f$ and Lipschitz continuous $g$. This computational study builds…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-05 Sebastian Pokutta

The conditional gradient idea proposed by Marguerite Frank and Philip Wolfe in 1956 was so well received by the community that new algorithms (also called Frank--Wolfe type algorithms) are still being actively created. In this paper, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-26 Aleksandr Lobanov , Anton Anikin , Alexander Gasnikov , Alexander Gornov , Sergey Chukanov