EUROPT 2025
Abstract Submission

367. NON-EUCLIDEAN PROXIMAL METHODS FOR CONVEX-CONCAVE SADDLE-POINT PROBLEMS

Invited abstract in session TB-6: Advances in nonsmooth optimization, stream Nonsmooth and nonconvex optimization.

Tuesday, 10:30-12:30
Room: B100/7013

Authors (first author is the speaker)

1. Eyal Cohen
2. Shoham Sabach
Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
3. Marc Teboulle
School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel Aviv University

Abstract

Abstract. Motivated by the flexibility of the Proximal Alternating Predictor Corrector (PAPC) algorithm

which can tackle a broad class of structured constrained convex optimization problems via their convex-
concave saddle-point reformulation, in this paper, we extend the scope of the PAPC algorithm to include

non-Euclidean proximal steps. This allows for adapting to the geometry of the problem at hand to
produce simpler computational steps. We prove a sublinear convergence rate of the produced ergodic
sequence, and under additional natural assumptions on the non-Euclidean distances, we also prove that
the algorithm globally converges to a saddle-point. We demonstrate the performance and simplicity of
the proposed algorithm through its application to the multinomial logistic regression problem.

Keywords

Status: accepted


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