arXiv:2607. 09097v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study stochastic fixed-point equations $\mathbf{T}(\mathbf{x}) = \mathbf{x}$ over normed spaces $(\mathcal{E}, \|\cdot\|)$, where the operator $\mathbf{T}$ is nonexpansive or contractive and is accessed only through unbiased stochastic evaluations with bounded second central moment.
By Jelena Diakonikolas
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:2607. 13414v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Non-expansive two-time-scale stochastic approximation is governed by a slow stochastic Krasnoselskii--Mann fixed-point iteration rather than by contraction to a unique equilibrium.
By Dhruv Sarkar, Vaneet Aggarwal
arXiv:2602. 20376v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study the problem of maximizing a complex-valued quadratic form over the $K^{\text{th}}$ roots of unity.
By Ria Stevens, Fangshuo Liao, Barbara Su, Thanasis Hadjidimoulas, Jianqiang Li, Anastasios Kyrillidis
arXiv:2310. 15976v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: signSGD is attractive in nonconvex optimization because it communicates sign-valued rather than full-precision gradients.
By Zhen Qin, Zhishuai Liu, Pan Xu
arXiv:2608. 10418v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent work has shown that, for smooth convex optimization, plain gradient descent can be accelerated from its textbook convergence rate of $O(T^{-1})$ (where $T$ denotes the number of iterations) to $O\big(T^{-\log_2(1+\sqrt{2})}\big)$ using carefully designed stepsize schedules alone, without resorting to momentum or other algorithmic modifications.
By Jianhao Ma, Yuxin Chen