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DFWLayer: Differentiable Frank-Wolfe Optimization Layer

21 Aug 2023arXiv:2308.10806archive 2025-07-28

Zixuan Liu, Liu Liu, Xueqian Wang, Peilin Zhao

Differentiable optimization has received a significant amount of attention due to its foundational role in the domain of machine learning based on neural networks. This paper proposes a differentiable layer, named Differentiable Frank-Wolfe Layer (DFWLayer), by rolling out the Frank-Wolfe method, a well-known optimization algorithm which can solve constrained optimization problems without projections and Hessian matrix computations, thus leading to an efficient way of dealing with large-scale convex optimization problems with norm constraints. Experimental results demonstrate that the DFWLayer not only attains competitive accuracy in solutions and gradients but also consistently adheres to constraints.

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