arXiv:2608. 05460v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This work introduces a proximal stochastic subgradient method for minimizing the sum of an expected cost, whose integrand is potentially nonsmooth and nonconvex, and a lower semicontinuous, prox-bounded function.
By Felipe Atenas, Alejandro Jofr\'e, Pedro P\'erez-Aros, David Torregrosa-Bel\'en
arXiv:2609.15257v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: We analyze a stochastic algorithm with Halpern anchoring for constrained convex-concave problems and monotone variational inequalities. This algorith...
By Jun-Hyun Kim, Ahmet Alacaoglu
The paper investigates Polyak-type step-size strategies for extragradient methods applied to deterministic and stochastic monotone root-finding problems. It shows that the projection-based correction in deterministic extragradient can be derived by minimizing an upper bound on the distance to a solution, mirroring classical Polyak step-size construction. The authors provide a unified deterministic analysis that does not require global Lipschitz continuity, achieving sublinear convergence under H"older or “(L0, L1)-Lipschitz” conditions and linear convergence with strong monotonicity, and extend the approach to stochastic settings with both direct and decreasing step-size variants.
By TaeHo Yoon, Sayantan Choudhury, Ezra Greenberg, Nicolas Loizou
arXiv:2504. 09951v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We revisit a classical assumption for analyzing stochastic gradient algorithms where the squared norm of the stochastic subgradient (or the variance for smooth problems) is allowed to grow as fast as the squared norm of the optimization variable.
By Ahmet Alacaoglu, Yura Malitsky, Stephen J. Wright
arXiv:2606. 24879v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study the last iterate of the stochastic subgradient method for one-dimensional convex Lipschitz objectives.
By Guglielmo Beretta, Tommaso Cesari, Roberto Colomboni, Andrea Paudice
arXiv:2607. 06883v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We consider the problem of finding stationary points for stochastic convex optimization problems.
By Felipe Areces, John Duchi, Malo Sommers
arXiv:2609.08380v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: We study the stochastic first-order oracle complexity for constrained or regularized convex-concave min-max optimization and stochastic monotone vari...
By Ahmet Alacaoglu
arXiv:2606. 21528v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study first-order methods for solving monotone variational inequalities arising in min-max optimization.
By Motahareh Sohrabi, Jianxin You, Simon Lacoste-Julien, Eduard Gorbunov, Gauthier Gidel
arXiv:2505.20817v3 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Gradient clipping is widely used in language-model training to control heavy-tailed gradient noise and can improve convergence guarantees ove...
By Taha El Bakkali El Kadi, Savelii Chezhegov, Aleksandr Beznosikov, Samuel Horv\'ath, Eduard Gorbunov
arXiv:2506.04192v4 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Stochastic Frank-Wolfe is a classical optimization method for solving constrained optimization problems. On the other hand, recent optimizers...
By Maria-Eleni Sfyraki, Jun-Kun Wang
arXiv:2608. 25551v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) is typically analyzed at a deterministic horizon chosen before the algorithm is run, even though practical stopping decisions are made adaptively by inspecting the evolving trajectory.
By Liviu Aolaritei, Lucas L\'evy, Francis Bach, Michael I. Jordan
arXiv:2606. 00520v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Many stochastic gradient methods are believed not to converge when the noise in stochastic gradients has only a finite $p$-th moment for $p\in\left(1,2\right)$, a setting known as the heavy-tailed noise assumption.
By Zijian Liu