We construct counterexamples to Rockafellar's sum conjecture in which two maximally monotone operators satisfy the interior-domain condition but their sum is not maximally monotone. We give one counte...
arXiv:2609.13476v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: At a 2021 AIM workshop, Guo conjectured that the positive square energy s+ = E+_2 should inherit the familiar edge-addition monotonicity of the spect...
arXiv:2608. 04014v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The subdominant (minmax) ultrametric is a canonical tree-structured summary of a dissimilarity matrix, arising equivalently as the ultrametric induced by single-linkage clustering.
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arXiv:2609. 20687v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study first-order black-box convex optimization over an $\ell_p$-ball for objectives Lipschitz in the $\ell_q$-norm, solving in the affirmative the nonsmooth version of the COLT open question (Guz15b) on whether the geometry of a smaller feasible set ($p < q$) can improve convergence rates in convex optimization, and matching prior lower bounds up to logarithmic factors.
arXiv:2608. 15558v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: For $m\geq 2$, let $c_p(m)$ be the all-dimensional best constant in $$ \left\|\sum_{k=1}^m A_k\right\|_p \leq c_p(m)\left\|\sum_{k=1}^m |A_k|\right\|_p.
arXiv:2607. 23367v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study whether strictly positive marginal values restore the compatibility of envy-freeness up to one good (EF1) and Pareto optimality (PO) for indivisible goods.
arXiv:2607. 08954v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study nonasymptotic convergence of primal-dual methods for a class of nonconvex constrained optimization problems with a convex-composite structure.
arXiv:2607. 23500v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Razborov's flag algebra method is a powerful tool for proving asymptotic inequalities in extremal graph theory, often reducing the task to finding a finite certificate by semidefinite programming.
arXiv:2609. 10981v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bakhtiari, Lattimore and Szepesv\'ari (COLT 2025) proved that Thompson sampling (TS) has Bayesian regret $\tilde O(d^{5/2}\sqrt n)$ for bandit convex optimisation with convex \emph{monotone} ridge losses $f(x)=\ell(\ip{x}{\theta})$, and asked whether monotonicity of the link is necessary.
arXiv:2605.20434v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study the contradiction graphs associated with a binary concept class. For a class $H\subseteq\{0,1\}^X$, the order-$m$ contradiction grap...
The paper introduces the Anchored Extra-Proximal (AEP) framework for solving composite monotone inclusion problems, combining anchored extrapolation with an inexact anchored proximal update. By replacing the operator in the implicit update with its Taylor approximation and using a bisection line search, the authors derive a pth-order method that achieves a tangent-residual error ε in “~O(ε^{-2/(3p-1)})” oracle calls for every p ≥ 2. This complexity matches a proven lower bound, establishing the method as optimally efficient for deterministic algorithms in the pth-order oracle model.