activity
20242026
collaborators

7 papers

math.OC2026

The adjoint state method for parametric definable optimization without smoothness or uniqueness

Jérôme Bolte, Edouard Pauwels, Cheik Traoré

We establish that nonconvex definable parametric optimization problems with possibly nonsmooth objectives, inequality constraints, conic constraint systems, and non-unique primal a…

math.OC2026

Bilevel gradient methods and the Morse parametric qualification condition

Jérôme Bolte, Quoc-Tung Le, Edouard Pauwels +1

We introduce the Morse parametric qualification condition for bilevel programming. Generic semi-algebraic functions are Morse parametric in a piecewise sense. Thus, bilevel program…

cs.LG2025

Learning Theory for Kernel Bilevel Optimization

Fares El Khoury, Edouard Pauwels, Samuel Vaiter +1

Bilevel optimization has emerged as a technique for addressing a wide range of machine learning problems that involve an outer objective implicitly determined by the minimizer of a…

math.OC2025

Inexact subgradient methods for semialgebraic functions

Jérôme Bolte, Tam Le, Éric Moulines +1

Motivated by the extensive application of approximate gradients in machine learning and optimization, we investigate inexact subgradient methods subject to persistent additive erro…

cs.CC2025

Geometric and computational hardness of bilevel programming

Jérôme Bolte, Quoc-Tung Le, Edouard Pauwels +1

We first show a simple but striking result in bilevel optimization: unconstrained smooth bilevel programming is as hard as general extended-real-valued lower semicontinu…

cs.LG2024

A second-order-like optimizer with adaptive gradient scaling for deep learning

Jérôme Bolte, Ryan Boustany, Edouard Pauwels +1

In this empirical article, we introduce INNAprop, an optimization algorithm that combines the INNA method with the RMSprop adaptive gradient scaling. It leverages second-order info…