Projection free methods on product domains

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

A unifying framework for the analysis of projection-free first-order methods under a sufficient slope condition

The analysis of projection-free first order methods is often complicated by the presence of different kinds of “good” and “bad” steps. In this article, we propose a unifying framework for projection-free methods, aiming to simplify the converge analysis by getting rid of such a distinction between steps. The main tool employed in our framework is … Read more