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Strongly Convex Optimization for the Dual Formulation of Optimal Transport
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Tupitsa N., Gasnikov A., Dvurechensky P., Guminov S.
In this paper we experimentally check a hypothesis, that dual problem to discrete entropy regularized optimal transport problem possesses strong convexity on a certain compact set. We present a numerical estimation technique of parameter of strong convexity and show that such an estimate increases the performance of an accelerated alternating minimization algorithm for strongly convex functions applied to the considered problem.
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Beznosikov A., Kormakov G., Grigorievskiy A. et al., Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications 2026 Vol. 209 Article 18
The objective of Vertical Federated Learning (VFL) is to collectively train a model using features available on different devices while sharing the same users. This paper focuses on the saddle point reformulation of the VFL problem via the classical Lagrangian function. We first demonstrate how this formulation can be solved using deterministic methods.More importantly, we explore various stochastic modifications to ...
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Stanislav Morozov, Calcolo 2026 Vol. 63 No. 2 Article 23
The approximation of tensors in a low-para metric format is a crucial component in many mathematical modelling and data analysis tasks. Among the widely used low-parametric representations, the canonical polyadic (CP) decomposition is known to be very efficient. Nowadays, most algorithms for CP approximation aim to construct the approximation in the Frobenius norm; however, some ...
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Kolesnikov A., Popova S., Математические заметки 2026 Т. 119 № 3 С. 377–390
We consider the problem of optimal exchange which can be formulated as a kind of optimal transportation problem. The existence of an optimal solution and a duality theorem for the optimal exchange problem are proved in case of completely regular topological spaces. We show the connection between the problem of optimal exchange and the optimal ...
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Stanislav Morozov, Zheltkov D., Osinsky A., Russian Journal on Numerical Analysis and Mathematical Modelling 2024 Vol. 39 No. 5 P. 311–328
Nowadays, low-rank approximations are a critical component of many numerical procedures. Traditionally the problem of low-rank approximation of matrices is solved in unitary invariant norms such as Frobenius or spectral norm due to the existence of efficient methods for constructing approximations. However, recent results discover the potential of low-rank approximations in the Chebyshev norm, which ...
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Borodich E., Gasnikov A., Kovalev D., , in: Volume 267: International Conference on Machine Learning, 13-19 July 2025, Vancouver Convention Center, Vancouver, CanadaVol. 267.: [б.и.], 2025. P. 5045–5100.
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Stanislav Morozov, Smirnov M., Zamarashkin N., Linear Algebra and its Applications 2023 Vol. 679 P. 4–29
The problem of low rank approximation is ubiquitous in science. Traditionally this problem is solved in unitary invariant
norms such as Frobenius or spectral norm due to existence of efficient methods for building approximations. However, recent results reveal the potential of low rank approximations in Chebyshev norm, which naturally arises in many applications. In this paper ...
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Gazdieva M., Alexander Korotin, Daniil Selikhanovych et al., , in: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 36 (NeurIPS 2023).: Curran Associates, Inc., 2023. P. 40381–40413.
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Gladin E., Alkousa M., Gasnikov A., Automation and Remote Control 2021 Vol. 82 P. 1679–1691
The article deals with some approaches to solving convex problems of the min-min type with smoothness and strong convexity in only one of the two groups of variables. It is shown that the proposed approaches based on Vaidya’s method, the fast gradient method, and the accelerated gradient method with variance reduction have linear convergence. It ...
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Gladin E., Gasnikov A., Ermakova E., Mathematical notes 2022 Vol. 112 No. 1 P. 183–190
The paper deals with a general problem of convex stochastic optimization in a space of small dimension (for example, 100 variables). It is known that for deterministic problems of convex optimization in small dimensions, the methods of centers of gravity type (for example, Vaidya’s method) provide the best convergence. For stochastic optimization problems, the question ...
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Gladin E., Gasnikov A., Dvurechensky P., Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications 2025 Vol. 204 No. 1 Article 1
Accuracy certificates for convex minimization problems allow for online verification of the accuracy of approximate solutions and provide a theoretically valid online stopping criterion. When solving the Lagrange dual problem, accuracy certificates produce a simple way to recover an approximate primal solution and estimate its accuracy. In this paper, we generalize accuracy certificates for the ...
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Gladin E., Зайнуллина К. Э., Компьютерные исследования и моделирование 2021 Т. 13 № 6 С. 1137–1147
The article considers minimization of the expectation of convex function. Problems of this type often arise in machine learning and a variety of other applications. In practice, stochastic gradient descent (SGD) and similar procedures are usually used to solve such problems. We propose to use the ellipsoid method with mini-batching, which converges linearly and can ...
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Rudenko V., Yudin N., Васин А. А., Компьютерные исследования и моделирование 2023 Т. 15 № 2 С. 329–353
This article reviews both historical achievements and modern results in the field of Markov Decision Process (MDP) and convex optimization. This review is the first attempt to cover the field of reinforcement learning in Russian in the context of convex optimization. The fundamental Bellman equation and the criteria of optimality of policy — strategies based on it, ...
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Gladin E., Dvurechensky P., Mielke A. et al., , in: 38th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2024).: [б.и.], 2024. P. 14484–14508.
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Puchkin N., Gorbunov E., Kutuzov N. et al., , in: Proceedings of The 27th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS 2024), 2-4 May 2024, Palau de Congressos, Valencia, Spain. PMLR: Volume 238Vol. 238.: Valencia: PMLR, 2024. P. 856–864.
We consider stochastic optimization problems with heavy-tailed noise with structured density. For such problems, we show that it is possible to get faster rates of convergence than 𝑂(𝐾^{−2(𝛼−1)/𝛼}), when the stochastic gradients have finite 𝛼-th moment, 𝛼∈(1,2]. In particular, our analysis allows the noise norm to have an unbounded expectation. To achieve these results, we stabilize stochastic gradients, ...
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Dvinskikh D., Optimization Methods and Software 2022 Vol. 37 No. 5 P. 1603–1635
In the machine learning and optimization community, there are two main approaches for the convex risk minimization problem, namely the Stochastic Approximation (SA) and the Sample Average Approximation (SAA). In terms of the oracle complexity (required number of stochastic gradient evaluations), both approaches are considered equivalent on average (up to a logarithmic factor). The total complexity depends on ...
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Kornilov N., Shamir O., Lobanov A. et al., , in: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 36 (NeurIPS 2023).: Curran Associates, Inc., 2023. P. 64083–64102.
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Asadulaev A., Korotin A., Vage Egiazarian et al., , in: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2024).: ICLR, 2024.
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Beznosikov A., Richtarik P., Diskin M. et al., , in: Thirty-Sixth Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems : NeurIPS 2022.: Curran Associates, Inc., 2022. P. 14013–14029.
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