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Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-28 Nikitas Rontsis , Paul J. Goulart , Yuji Nakatsukasa

This paper analyzes the convergence rates of the {\it Frank-Wolfe } method for solving convex constrained multiobjective optimization. We establish improved convergence rates under different assumptions on the objective function, the…

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We consider the computation of the entanglement-assisted quantum rate-distortion function, which plays a central role in quantum information theory. We propose an efficient alternating minimization algorithm based on the Lagrangian…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Lingyi Chen , Deheng Yuan , Wenyi Zhang , Hao Wu , Huihui Wu

We use novel integral representations developed by the second author to prove certain rigorous results concerning elliptic boundary value problems in convex polygons. Central to this approach is the so-called global relation, which is a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-01-09 A. C. L. Ashton , A. S. Fokas

We study Frank-Wolfe (FW) methods for constrained bilevel optimization when the lower-level problem is solved only approximately, yielding biased and inexact hypergradients. We analyze inexact variants of vanilla FW as well as away-step and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Anthony Palmieri , Francesco Rinaldi , Saverio Salzo , Sara Venturini

Greedy optimization methods such as Matching Pursuit (MP) and Frank-Wolfe (FW) algorithms regained popularity in recent years due to their simplicity, effectiveness and theoretical guarantees. MP and FW address optimization over the linear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-21 Francesco Locatello , Michael Tschannen , Gunnar Rätsch , Martin Jaggi

The affine rank minimization (ARM) problem is well known for both its applications and the fact that it is NP-hard. One of the most successful approaches, yet arguably underrepresented, is iteratively reweighted least squares (IRLS), more…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-29 Sebastian Krämer

Cardinality-constrained binary optimization is a fundamental computational primitive with broad applications in machine learning, finance, and scientific computing. In this work, we introduce a Grover-based quantum algorithm that exploits…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Haomu Yuan , Hanqing Wu , Kuan-Cheng Chen , Bin Cheng , Crispin H. W. Barnes

In this paper, a piecewise quadratic nonconforming finite element method on rectangular grids for a fourth-order elliptic singular perturbation problem is presented. This proposed method is robustly convergent with respect to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-30 Huilan Zeng , Chen-Song Zhang , Shuo Zhang

We present a blended conditional gradient approach for minimizing a smooth convex function over a polytope P, combining the Frank--Wolfe algorithm (also called conditional gradient) with gradient-based steps, different from away steps and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-24 Gábor Braun , Sebastian Pokutta , Dan Tu , Stephen Wright

The design of minimum-compliance bending-resistant structures with continuous cross-section parameters is a challenging task because of its inherent non-convexity. Our contribution develops a strategy that facilitates computing all…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-06 Marek Tyburec , Jan Zeman , Martin Kružík , Didier Henrion

In this paper we propose optimisation methods for variational regularisation problems based on discretising the inverse scale space flow with discrete gradient methods. Inverse scale space flow generalises gradient flows by incorporating a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-11 Martin Benning , Erlend S. Riis , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

Quotient regularization models (QRMs) are a class of powerful regularization techniques that have gained considerable attention in recent years, due to their ability to handle complex and highly nonlinear data sets. However, the nonconvex…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-09 Chao Wang , Jean-Francois Aujol , Guy Gilboa , Yifei Lou

We revisit the Frank-Wolfe (FW) optimization under strongly convex constraint sets. We provide a faster convergence rate for FW without line search, showing that a previously overlooked variant of FW is indeed faster than the standard…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-01 Jarrid Rector-Brooks , Jun-Kun Wang , Barzan Mozafari

Multiple rotation averaging (MRA) is a fundamental optimization problem in 3D vision and robotics that aims to recover globally consistent absolute rotations from noisy relative measurements. Established classical methods, such as L1-IRLS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Shuteng Wang , Natacha Kuete Meli , Michael Möller , Vladislav Golyanik

Efficient global optimization is a widely used method for optimizing expensive black-box functions such as tuning hyperparameter, and designing new material, etc. Despite its popularity, less attention has been paid to analyzing the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-21 Wenjie Xu , Yuning Jiang , Emilio T. Maddalena , Colin N. Jones

This paper focuses on convex constrained optimization problems, where the solution is subject to a convex inequality constraint. In particular, we aim at challenging problems for which both projection into the constrained domain and a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-06-13 Tianbao Yang , Qihang Lin , Lijun Zhang

Matrix Factorization is a popular non-convex optimization problem, for which alternating minimization schemes are mostly used. They usually suffer from the major drawback that the solution is biased towards one of the optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-09 Mahesh Chandra Mukkamala , Peter Ochs

In the present paper, we formulate two versions of Frank--Wolfe algorithm or conditional gradient method to solve the DC optimization problem with an adaptive step size. The DC objective function consists of two components; the first is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-02 R. Díaz Millán , O. P. Ferreira , J. Ugon

We derive a memory-efficient first-order variable splitting algorithm for convex image reconstruction problems with non-smooth regularization terms. The algorithm is based on a primal-dual approach, where one of the dual variables is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-02 Greg Ongie , Naveen Murthy , Laura Balzano , Jeffrey A. Fessler