Renato D.C. Monteiro

Iteration-complexity of an inexact proximal accelerated augmented Lagrangian method for solving linearly constrained smooth nonconvex composite optimization problems

  • Jefferson Gonçalves Melo
  • Renato D.C. Monteiro
  • Hairong Wang
    • Categories Constrained Nonlinear Optimization Tags , , ,

    This paper proposes and establishes the iteration-complexity of an inexact proximal accelerated augmented Lagrangian (IPAAL) method for solving linearly constrained smooth nonconvex composite optimization problems. Each IPAAL iteration consists of inexactly solving a proximal augmented Lagrangian subproblem by an accelerated composite gradient (ACG) method followed by a suitable Lagrange multiplier update. It is shown that … Read more

    Inexact cuts in SDDP applied to multistage stochastic nondifferentiable problems

  • Vincent Guigues
  • Renato D.C. Monteiro
  • Benar Fux Svaiter
    • Categories Stochastic Programming

    In [13], an Inexact variant of Stochastic Dual Dynamic Programming (SDDP) called ISDDP was introduced which uses approximate (instead of exact with SDDP) primal dual solutions of the problems solved in the forward and backward passes of the method. That variant of SDDP was studied in [13] for linear and for differentiable nonlinear Multistage Stochastic … Read more

    A proximal bundle variant with optimal iteration-complexity for a large range of prox stepsizes

  • Jiaming Liang
  • Renato D.C. Monteiro
    • Categories Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization, Nonlinear Optimization Tags , , ,

    This paper presents a proximal bundle variant, namely, the relaxed proximal bundle (RPB) method, for solving convex nonsmooth composite optimization problems. Like other proximal bundle variants, RPB solves a sequence of prox bundle subproblems whose objective functions are regularized composite cutting-plane models. Moreover, RPB uses a novel condition to decide whether to perform a serious … Read more

    Stochastic Dynamic Cutting Plane for multistage stochastic convex programs

  • Vincent Guigues
  • Renato D.C. Monteiro
    • Categories Stochastic Programming

    We introduce StoDCuP (Stochastic Dynamic Cutting Plane), an extension of the Stochastic Dual Dynamic Programming (SDDP) algorithm to solve multistage stochastic convex optimization problems. At each iteration, the algorithm builds lower affine functions not only for the cost-to-go functions, as SDDP does, but also for some or all nonlinear cost and constraint functions. We show … Read more

    An Average Curvature Accelerated Composite Gradient Method for Nonconvex Smooth Composite Optimization Problems

  • Jiaming Liang
  • Renato D.C. Monteiro
    • Categories Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization, Nonlinear Optimization Tags , ,

    This paper presents an accelerated composite gradient (ACG) variant, referred to as the AC-ACG method, for solving nonconvex smooth composite minimization problems. As opposed to well-known ACG variants that are either based on a known Lipschitz gradient constant or a sequence of maximum observed curvatures, the current one is based on a sequence of average … Read more

    An accelerated inexact proximal point method for solving nonconvex-concave min-max problems

  • Renato D.C. Monteiro
  • Weiwei Kong
    • Categories Constrained Nonlinear Optimization, Nonlinear Optimization Tags , , , , ,

    Abstract This paper presents a quadratic-penalty type method for solving linearly-constrained composite nonconvex-concave min-max problems. The method consists of solving a sequence of penalty subproblems which, due to the min-max structure of the problem, are potentially nonsmooth but can be approximated by smooth composite nonconvex minimization problems. Each of these penalty subproblems is then solved … Read more

    A FISTA-type accelerated gradient algorithm for solving smooth nonconvex composite optimization problems

  • Jiaming Liang
  • Renato D.C. Monteiro
  • Chee-Khian Sim
    • Categories Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization, Nonlinear Optimization Tags , , ,

    In this paper, we describe and establish iteration-complexity of two accelerated composite gradient (ACG) variants to solve a smooth nonconvex composite optimization problem whose objective function is the sum of a nonconvex differentiable function f with a Lipschitz continuous gradient and a simple nonsmooth closed convex function h. When f is convex, the first ACG … Read more

    An efficient adaptive accelerated inexact proximal point method for solving linearly constrained nonconvex composite problems

  • Jefferson Gonçalves Melo
  • Renato D.C. Monteiro
  • Weiwei Kong
    • Categories Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization, Nonlinear Optimization Tags , , , ,

    This paper proposes an efficient adaptive variant of a quadratic penalty accelerated inexact proximal point (QP-AIPP) method proposed earlier by the authors. Both the QP-AIPP method and its variant solve linearly constrained nonconvex composite optimization problems using a quadratic penalty approach where the generated penalized subproblems are solved by a variant of the underlying AIPP … Read more

    A Doubly Accelerated Inexact Proximal Point Method for Nonconvex Composite Optimization Problems

  • Jiaming Liang
  • Renato D.C. Monteiro
    • Categories Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization, Nonlinear Optimization Tags , , ,

    This paper describes and establishes the iteration-complexity of a doubly accelerated inexact proximal point (D-AIPP) method for solving the nonconvex composite minimization problem whose objective function is of the form f+h where f is a (possibly nonconvex) differentiable function whose gradient is Lipschitz continuous and h is a closed convex function with bounded domain. D-AIPP … Read more

    Complexity of a quadratic penalty accelerated inexact proximal point method for solving linearly constrained nonconvex composite programs

  • Jefferson Gonçalves Melo
  • Renato D.C. Monteiro
  • Weiwei Kong
    • Categories Nonlinear Optimization, Nonsmooth Optimization Tags , , , ,

    This paper analyzes the iteration-complexity of a quadratic penalty accelerated inexact proximal point method for solving linearly constrained nonconvex composite programs. More specifically, the objective function is of the form f + h where f is a differentiable function whose gradient is Lipschitz continuous and h is a closed convex function with a bounded domain. … Read more