most citedProjection-Free Functional Constrained Optimization for Risk Aversion and Sparsity Control

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math.OC2026

Sharp First-Order Lower Bounds under -Polyak-Lojasiewicz Conditions

Saeed Masiha, Negar Kiyavash, Patrick Thiran

We study first-order oracle complexity under the -Polyak-Lojasiewicz condition for . For , we first show that global -sm…

math.OC2026

Select-then-differentiate: Solving Bilevel Optimization with Manifold Lower-level Solution Sets

Saeed Masiha, Zebang Shen, Negar Kiyavash +1

We study optimistic bilevel optimization when the lower-level problem has a non-isolated manifold of minimizers. In this setting, the hyper-objective may be non-differentiable beca…

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Projection-Free Functional Constrained Optimization for Risk Aversion and Sparsity Control

Yi Cheng, Guanghui Lan, Saeed Masiha +1

We study projection-free methods for functional constrained optimization with convex or smooth nonconvex objectives. Such problems arise in applications such as portfolio optimizat…

math.OC2026

Superquantile-Gibbs Relaxation for Minima-selection in Bilevel Optimization

Saeed Masiha, Zebang Shen, Negar Kiyavash +1

Bilevel optimization (BLO) becomes more challenging when the lower-level objective admits multiple minimizers. Compared with the commonly studied unique-minimizer setting, this int…

cs.GT2026

Zeroth-Order Stackelberg Control in Combinatorial Congestion Games

Saeed Masiha, Sepehr Elahi, Negar Kiyavash +1

We study Stackelberg (leader--follower) tuning of network parameters (tolls, capacities, incentives) in combinatorial congestion games, where selfish users choose discrete routes (…

math.OC2026

Optimal Local Convergence Rates of Stochastic First-Order Methods under Local -PL

Saeed Masiha, Saber Salehkaleybar, Niao He +2

We study the local convergence rate of stochastic first-order methods under a local -Polyak-Lojasiewicz (-PL) condition in a neighborhood of a target connected component $\…