arXiv:2511. 19656v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Although upper bound guarantees for bilevel optimization have been widely studied, progress on lower bounds has been limited due to the complexity of the bilevel structure.
By Kaiyi Ji
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.
By Linglingzhi Zhu, Jiajin Li
arXiv:2608. 08463v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study second- and higher-order methods for solving smooth monotone variational inequalities (MVI).
By Lesi Chen, Xinliang Zhang, Hengyu Wang, Chengchang Liu, Yongchao Chen, Jingzhao Zhang
arXiv:2512. 02494v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Differentiable optimization layers enable learning systems to make decisions by solving embedded optimization problems.
By Zihao Zhao, Kai-Chia Mo, Shing-Hei Ho, Brandon Amos, Kai Wang
arXiv:2511. 22331v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Bilevel optimization minimizes an objective function, defined by an upper-level problem whose feasible region is the solution of a lower-level problem.
By Lesi Chen, Jingzhao Zhang
arXiv:2601. 21243v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We consider max-min and min-max problems with objective functions that are possibly non-smooth, submodular with respect to the minimiser and concave with respect to the maximiser.
By Amir Ali Farzin, Yuen-Man Pun, Philipp Braun, Tyler Summers, Iman Shames
arXiv:2606. 01764v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We revisit the convergence guarantees of the Extragradient (EG) method for unconstrained biaffine min-max optimization.
By Yue Wu, Weiqiang Zheng, Yang Cai, Haipeng Luo
arXiv:2608. 12665v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: For solving nonconvex equality-constrained optimization problems, a recent Gradient-Eigenstep Algorithm by Goyens et al.
By Frank E. Curtis, Lingjun Guo, Daniel P. Robinson
arXiv:2511. 13592v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The existing method of GS-PowerOpt solves the non-convex optimization problem of the form $\max_{\boldsymbol{x} \in \mathbb{R}^d} f(\boldsymbol{x})$ through maximizing a Gaussian-smoothed surrogate $F_{N,\sigma}(\boldsymbol{\mu}) = \mathbb{E}_{\boldsymbol{x}\sim\mathcal{N}(\boldsymbol{\mu},\sigma^2 I_d)}[e^{N f(\boldsymbol{x})}]$.
By Chen Xu
arXiv:2608. 12704v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-objective bilevel optimization has wide applications in the AI area such as automated learning and multi-task meta-learning.
By Yicong Jiang, Feihu Huang
arXiv:2605. 18694v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Many tasks in modern machine learning are observed to involve heavy-tailed gradient noise during the optimization process.
By Zijian Liu
arXiv:2605. 08488v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We develop a unified Lyapunov-integral quadratic constraint (IQC) framework for establishing uniform stability of first-order accelerated optimization algorithms in the $\beta$-smooth and $\gamma$-strongly convex regime.
By Don Li, Dacian Daescu