A Projected Variable Smoothing for Weakly Convex Optimization and Supremum Functions

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Hauptverfasser: López-Rivera, Sergio, Pérez-Aros, Pedro, Vilches, Emilio
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author López-Rivera, Sergio
Pérez-Aros, Pedro
Vilches, Emilio
author_facet López-Rivera, Sergio
Pérez-Aros, Pedro
Vilches, Emilio
contents In this paper, we address two main topics. First, we study the problem of minimizing the sum of a smooth function and the composition of a weakly convex function with a linear operator on a closed vector subspace. For this problem, we propose a projected variable smoothing algorithm and establish a complexity bound of $\mathcal{O}(ε^{-3})$ to achieve an $ε$-approximate solution. Second, we investigate the Moreau envelope and the proximity operator of functions defined as the supremum of weakly convex functions, and we compute the proximity operator in two important cases. In addition, we apply the proposed algorithm for solving a distributionally robust optimization problem, the LASSO with linear constraints, and the max dispersion problem. We illustrate numerical results for the max dispersion problem.
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spellingShingle A Projected Variable Smoothing for Weakly Convex Optimization and Supremum Functions
López-Rivera, Sergio
Pérez-Aros, Pedro
Vilches, Emilio
Optimization and Control
90C2, 49J52, 65K05
In this paper, we address two main topics. First, we study the problem of minimizing the sum of a smooth function and the composition of a weakly convex function with a linear operator on a closed vector subspace. For this problem, we propose a projected variable smoothing algorithm and establish a complexity bound of $\mathcal{O}(ε^{-3})$ to achieve an $ε$-approximate solution. Second, we investigate the Moreau envelope and the proximity operator of functions defined as the supremum of weakly convex functions, and we compute the proximity operator in two important cases. In addition, we apply the proposed algorithm for solving a distributionally robust optimization problem, the LASSO with linear constraints, and the max dispersion problem. We illustrate numerical results for the max dispersion problem.
title A Projected Variable Smoothing for Weakly Convex Optimization and Supremum Functions
topic Optimization and Control
90C2, 49J52, 65K05
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.00525