Damiano Zeffiro

Inexact Direct-Search Methods for Bilevel Optimization Problems

  • Youssef Diouane
  • Vyacheslav Kungurtsev
  • Francesco Rinaldi
  • Damiano Zeffiro
    • Categories Nonlinear Optimization, Nonsmooth Optimization, Optimization in Data Science

    In this work, we introduce new direct search schemes for the solution of bilevel optimization (BO) problems. Our methods rely on a fixed accuracy black box oracle for the lower-level problem, and deal both with smooth and potentially nonsmooth true objectives. We thus analyze for the first time in the literature direct search schemes in … Read more

    Projection free methods on product domains

  • Immanuel M. Bomze
  • Francesco Rinaldi
  • Damiano Zeffiro
    • Categories Convex Optimization, Nonlinear Optimization Tags , ,

    Projection-free block-coordinate methods avoid high computational cost per iteration and at the same time exploit the particular problem structure of product domains. Frank-Wolfe-like approaches rank among the most popular ones of this type. However, as observed in the literature, there was a gap between the classical Frank-Wolfe theory and the block-coordinate case. Moreover, most of … Read more