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A linear quadratic Dirichlet control problem posed on a possibly non-convex polygonal domain is analyzed. Detailed regularity results are provided in classical Sobolev (Slobodetskii) spaces. In particular, it is proved that in the presence…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-03 Thomas Apel , Mariano Mateos , Johannes Pfefferer , Arnd Rösch

We utilize the same technique as in [arXiv:2205.04254 (2022)] to provide some representations of polynomials non-negative on a basic semi-algebraic set, defined by polynomial inequalities, under more general conditions. Based on each…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-13 Ngoc Hoang Anh Mai

In applications throughout science and engineering one is often faced with the challenge of solving an ill-posed inverse problem, where the number of available measurements is smaller than the dimension of the model to be estimated. However…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-10-30 Venkat Chandrasekaran , Benjamin Recht , Pablo A. Parrilo , Alan S. Willsky

We present a hierarchy of semidefinite programs (SDPs) for the problem of fitting a shape-constrained (multivariate) polynomial to noisy evaluations of an unknown shape-constrained function. These shape constraints include convexity or…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-31 Mihaela Curmei , Georgina Hall

We give an algorithm to compute a one-dimensional shape-constrained function that best fits given data in weighted-$L_{\infty}$ norm. We give a single algorithm that works for a variety of commonly studied shape constraints including…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-30 David Durfee , Yu Gao , Anup B. Rao , Sebastian Wild

In this paper we address the following shape optimization problem: find the planar domain of least area, among the sets with prescribed constant width and inradius. In the literature, the problem is ascribed to Bonnesen, who proposed it in…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-02-09 Antoine Henrot , Ilaria Lucardesi

Separable convex optimization problems with linear ascending inequality and equality constraints are addressed in this paper. Under an ordering condition on the slopes of the functions at the origin, an algorithm that determines the optimum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-07-22 Arun Padakandla , Rajesh Sundaresan

The aim of this paper is to present an original approach that takes advantage from the geometric features of strictly convex functions to tackle the problem of finding the minimum from another perspective. The general idea is that near the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-21 E. Conti

In this paper we consider convex optimization problems with stochastic composite objective function subject to (possibly) infinite intersection of constraints. The objective function is expressed in terms of expectation operator over a sum…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-03 Ion Necoara , Nitesh Kumar Singh

We consider shape functionals of the form $F_q(\Omega)=P(\Omega)T^q(\Omega)$ on the class of open sets of prescribed Lebesgue measure. Here $q>0$ is fixed, $P(\Omega)$ denotes the perimeter of $\Omega$ and $T(\Omega)$ is the torsional…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-07 L. Briani , G. Buttazzo , F. Prinari

We consider an optimization problem with positively homogeneous functions in its objective and constraint functions. Examples of such positively homogeneous functions include the absolute value function and the $p$-norm function, where $p$…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-22 Shota Yamanaka , Nobuo Yamashita

In this paper, we investigate the concept of p-convexity for sets and functions in n-dimensional Euclidean space. We establish novel algebraic and topological results within this generalized convexity framework. Furthermore, we analyze…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Cristian Vera

Quadratic constrained quadratic programming problems often occur in various fields such as engineering practice, management science, and network communication. This article mainly studies a non convex quadratic programming problem with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-29 Bo Zhang , YueLin Gao , Xia Liu , XiaoLi Huang

The Pompeiu problem is considered as shape optimization problem. We show stability of the ball which is the minimum point of related domain functional. The proof is based on shape derivative method. Stability of the ball for general domain…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Arunas Grigelionis

The optimization problem concerning the determination of the minimizer for the sum of convex functions holds significant importance in the realm of distributed and decentralized optimization. In scenarios where full knowledge of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-24 Kananart Kuwaranancharoen , Shreyas Sundaram

A small polygon is a polygon of unit diameter. The maximal perimeter and the maximal width of a convex small polygon with $n=2^s$ vertices are not known when $s \ge 4$. In this paper, we construct a family of convex small $n$-gons, $n=2^s$…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-27 Christian Bingane

In this article we study convex integer maximization problems with composite objective functions of the form $f(Wx)$, where $f$ is a convex function on $\R^d$ and $W$ is a $d\times n$ matrix with small or binary entries, over finite sets…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-05-06 Shmuel Onn , Michal Rozenblit

We study nonconvex optimization landscapes for learning overcomplete representations, including learning (i) sparsely used overcomplete dictionaries and (ii) convolutional dictionaries, where these unsupervised learning problems find many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Qing Qu , Yuexiang Zhai , Xiao Li , Yuqian Zhang , Zhihui Zhu

We propose a new framework for deriving screening rules for convex optimization problems. Our approach covers a large class of constrained and penalized optimization formulations, and works in two steps. First, given any approximate point,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-26 Anant Raj , Jakob Olbrich , Bernd Gärtner , Bernhard Schölkopf , Martin Jaggi

The problem of minimizing convex functionals of probability distributions is solved under the assumption that the density of every distribution is bounded from above and below. A system of sufficient and necessary first-order optimality…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-05 Michael Fauss , Abdelhak M. Zoubir