Conditional gradient methods

G Braun, A Carderera, CW Combettes… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
The purpose of this survey is to serve both as a gentle introduction and a coherent overview
of state-of-the-art Frank--Wolfe algorithms, also called conditional gradient algorithms, for …

[BOOK][B] Minimum-volume ellipsoids: Theory and algorithms

MJ Todd - 2016 - SIAM
Optimization is concerned with choosing several variables to optimize (maximize or
minimize) an objective function, usually subject to several constraints. In the last twenty-five …

Linearly convergent away-step conditional gradient for non-strongly convex functions

A Beck, S Shtern - Mathematical Programming, 2017 - Springer
We consider the problem of minimizing the sum of a linear function and a composition of a
strongly convex function with a linear transformation over a compact polyhedral set. Jaggi …

Projection-free optimization on uniformly convex sets

T Kerdreux, A d'Aspremont… - … Conference on Artificial …, 2021 - proceedings.mlr.press
Abstract The Frank-Wolfe method solves smooth constrained convex optimization problems
at a generic sublinear rate of $\mathcal {O}(1/T) $, and it (or its variants) enjoys accelerated …

New characterizations of Hoffman constants for systems of linear constraints

J Pena, JC Vera, LF Zuluaga - Mathematical Programming, 2021 - Springer
We give a characterization of the Hoffman constant of a system of linear constraints in R^ n
R n relative to a reference polyhedron R ⊆ R^ n R⊆ R n. The reference polyhedron R …

New Analysis of an Away-Step Frank–Wolfe Method for Minimizing Log-Homogeneous Barriers

R Zhao - Mathematics of Operations Research, 2025 - pubsonline.informs.org
We present and analyze an away-step Frank–Wolfe method for the convex optimization
problem min x∈ X f (A x)+〈 c, x〉, where f is a θ-logarithmically homogeneous self …

Restarting frank-wolfe

T Kerdreux, A d'Aspremont… - The 22nd international …, 2019 - proceedings.mlr.press
Abstract Conditional Gradients (aka Frank-Wolfe algorithms) form a classical set of methods
for constrained smooth convex minimization due to their simplicity, the absence of projection …

Self-concordant analysis of Frank-Wolfe algorithms

P Dvurechensky, P Ostroukhov… - International …, 2020 - proceedings.mlr.press
Projection-free optimization via different variants of the Frank-Wolfe (FW), aka Conditional
Gradient method has become one of the cornerstones in optimization for machine learning …

Frank–Wolfe and friends: a journey into projection-free first-order optimization methods

IM Bomze, F Rinaldi, D Zeffiro - 4OR, 2021 - Springer
Invented some 65 years ago in a seminal paper by Marguerite Straus-Frank and Philip
Wolfe, the Frank–Wolfe method recently enjoys a remarkable revival, fuelled by the need of …

Revisiting frank-wolfe for polytopes: Strict complementarity and sparsity

D Garber - Advances in Neural Information Processing …, 2020 - proceedings.neurips.cc
In recent years it was proved that simple modifications of the classical Frank-Wolfe algorithm
(aka conditional gradient algorithm) for smooth convex minimization over convex and …