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Combinatorics & Optimization
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario
Canada N2L 3G1
Phone: 519-888-4567, ext 33038
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Title: Recent Advances in Frank-Wolfe Optimization
Speaker: | Simon Lacoste-Julien |
Affiliation: | University of Montreal |
Room: | MC 5501 |
Abstract:
The Frank-Wolfe (FW) optimization algorithm has lately re-gained popularity thanks in particular to its ability to nicely handle the structured constraints appearing in machine learning and signal processing applications. However, its convergence rate is known to be slow (sublinear) when the solution lies at the boundary. In this talk, I will present some less well-known variants of the FW algorithm for which we proved their global linear convergence rate recently for the first time, highlighting at the same time an interesting geometric notion of "condition number" for the constraint set appearing in the constant. This result seeded further developments that I will summarize, including the application of Frank-Wolfe to saddle point problems with polytope constraints.
Combinatorics & Optimization
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario
Canada N2L 3G1
Phone: 519-888-4567, ext 33038
PDF files require Adobe Acrobat Reader.
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