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Pathological subgradient dynamics

Optimization and Control 2019-10-31 v1

Abstract

We construct examples of Lipschitz continuous functions, with pathological subgradient dynamics both in continuous and discrete time. In both settings, the iterates generate bounded trajectories, and yet fail to detect any (generalized) critical points of the function.

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@article{arxiv.1910.13604,
  title  = {Pathological subgradient dynamics},
  author = {Aris Daniilidis and Dmitriy Drusvyatskiy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.13604},
  year   = {2019}
}

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14 pages, 1 figure

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