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6 papers

math.OC2025

DAMA: A Unified Accelerated Approach for Decentralized Nonconvex Minimax Optimization-Part II: Convergence and Performance Analyses

Haoyuan Cai, Sulaiman A. Alghunaim, Ali H. Sayed

In Part I of this work [1], we developed an accelerated algorithmic framework, DAMA (Decentralized Accelerated Minimax Approach), for nonconvex Polyak-Lojasiewicz (PL) minimax opti…

math.OC2025

DAMA: A Unified Accelerated Approach for Decentralized Nonconvex Minimax Optimization-Part I: Algorithm Development and Results

Haoyuan Cai, Sulaiman A. Alghunaim, Ali H. Sayed

In this work and its accompanying Part II [1], we develop an accelerated algorithmic framework, DAMA (Decentralized Accelerated Minimax Approach), for nonconvex Polyak-Lojasiewicz…

math.OC2025

Communication-Efficient Decentralized Stochastic Minimax Optimization

Haoyuan Cai, Sulaiman A. Alghunaim, Ali H. Sayed

In this work, we study decentralized stochastic nonconvex Polyak--Łojasiewicz minimax problems and propose a communication-efficient algorithm. Motivated by the efficiency of local…

cs.MA2025

Diffusion Stochastic Learning Over Adaptive Competing Networks

Yike Zhao, Haoyuan Cai, Ali H. Sayed

This paper studies a stochastic dynamic game between two competing teams, each consisting of a network of collaborating agents. Unlike fully cooperative settings, where all agents…

cs.LG2024

Accelerated Stochastic Min-Max Optimization Based on Bias-corrected Momentum

Haoyuan Cai, Sulaiman A. Alghunaim, Ali H. Sayed

Lower-bound analyses for nonconvex strongly-concave minimax optimization problems have shown that stochastic first-order algorithms require at least …

cs.LG2024

Diffusion Stochastic Optimization for Min-Max Problems

Haoyuan Cai, Sulaiman A. Alghunaim, Ali H. Sayed

The optimistic gradient method is useful in addressing minimax optimization problems. Motivated by the observation that the conventional stochastic version suffers from the need fo…