Alireza Kabgani
Antwerpen, Belgium.
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2026- I will present a talk titled "Boosted inexact high-order forward-backward methods for nonconvex optimization" at the 23nd EUROPT Conference on Advances in Continuous Optimization (EUROPT 2026) in Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria, July 8-10, 2026.
2026- I will present a talk titled "Difference of high-order Moreau envelopes for DC optimization" at the VOCAL Optimization Conference: Advanced Algorithms, the Albert Kazmer Faculty of Széchenyi István University in Mosonmagyaróvár (Hungary), June 10-12, 2026.
2026- I will be organizing the session "Smoothing Techniques for Nonsmooth Optimization" in the stream "Nonsmooth and Nonconvex Optimization" at the 23nd EUROPT Conference on Advances in Continuous Optimization (EUROPT 2026) in Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria, July 8-10, 2026.
2026- My co-author, Masoud Ahookhosh, will present our joint work "ItsOPT: Inexact Two-Level Smoothing Optimization Framework" at the 23nd EUROPT Conference on Advances in Continuous Optimization (EUROPT 2026) in Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria, July 8-10, 2026.
2026- My co-author, Susan Ghaderi, will present our joint work "Smoothing Nonsmooth Posteriors via Higher-Order Moreau Envelopes: Applications to Matrix Completion" at the 23nd EUROPT Conference on Advances in Continuous Optimization (EUROPT 2026) in Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria, July 8-10, 2026.
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2025- Our paper (Moreau envelope and proximal-point methods under the lens of high-order) will appear in "Set-Valued and Variational Analysis".
2025- I will present a talk titled "High-Order Proximal Methods: Unlocking Superlinear Convergence", 16 May 2025, at the University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.
2025- I will be organizing the session "Smoothing Techniques for Nonsmooth Optimization" in the stream "Nonsmooth and Nonconvex Optimization" at the 22nd EUROPT Conference on Advances in Continuous Optimization (EUROPT 2025) in Southampton, United Kingdom, from June 29 to July 2, 2025.
2024- I will present a talk titled "High-order Moreau Envelope in the Nonconvex Setting: Fundamental and Differential Properties" at the SOCN Study Day in LLN on Tuesday, 29 October 2024, at UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
2024- I will organizing the session "Nonsmooth Optimization Algorithms" at the 33rd European Conference on Operational Research (EURO 2024) in Copenhagen, Denmark.
2024- Together with Masoud Ahookhosh and Sorin-Mihai Grad, I will organize the stream "Nonsmooth and Nonconvex Optimization Algorithms" at the 21st Conference on Advances in Continuous Optimization (EUROPT 2024) in Lund, Sweden.
2024- My colleagues and I at the University of Antwerp are organizing the "Workshop on Nonsmooth Optimization and Applications" (NOPTA 2024) in honor of the 75th birthday of Professor Boris Mordukhovich. We are looking forward to welcoming you in Antwerp. Visit our WEBSITE.
2024- In May 2024, I will be giving a talk at the 'Chilean-Peruvian Conference on Optimization and Variational Analysis' at the Universidad de Tarapacá in Arica, Chile. You can find more information about the conference on their website.
2024- In May 2024, I will be giving a talk at the 'International Conference On Optimization ICOP 24' at Fez, Morocco. You can find more information about the conference on their website.
2023- I joined the editorial board of Control and Optimization in Applied Mathematics - COAM.
2023- I will organize the session "Applications of nonsmooth optimization" in EUROPT 2023.
Publications
Publications
2026- E. Lotfain & A. Kabgani: HiMARS: Hybrid multi-objective algorithms for recommender systems. arXiv:2604.07572. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.07572
2025- A. Kabgani & M. Ahookhosh: First-order majorization-minimization meets high-order majorant: Boosted inexact high-order forward-backward method. arXiv:2510.22231. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2510.22231
2025- A. Kabgani & M. Ahookhosh: On fundamental properties of high-order forward-backward envelope. arXiv:2511.10421. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2511.10421
2025- M. Ahookhosh & S. Ghaderi, A. Kabgani, & M. Rahimi: Minimizing smooth Kurdyka-Łojasiewicz functions via generalized descent methods: Convergence rate and complexity. arXiv:2511.10414. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2511.10414
2025- M. Ahookhosh, A. Iusem, A. Kabgani, & F. Lara: Asymptotic Convergence Analysis of High-Order Proximal-Point Methods Beyond Sublinear Rates. arXiv:2505.20484. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2505.20484
2025- A. Kabgani & M. Ahookhosh: Moreau envelope and proximal-point methods under the lens of high-order regularization. Set-Valued and Variational Analysis, 33, 47. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11228-025-00785-z
2025- A. Kabgani & M. Ahookhosh: ItsDEAL: Inexact two-level smoothing descent algorithms for weakly convex optimization. arXiv:2501.02155. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2501.02155
2024- A. Kabgani & M. Ahookhosh: ItsOPT: An inexact two-level smoothing framework for nonconvex optimization via high-order Moreau envelope. arXiv:2410.19928. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2410.19928
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