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In this article we intend to develop a simple and implementable algorithm for minimizing a convex function over the solution set of another convex optimization problem. Such a problem is often referred to as a simple bilevel programming…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-17 Stephan Dempe , Joydeep Duta , Tanushree Pandit , K. S. Mallikarjuna Rao

We consider the problem of minimizing a convex function over the intersection of finitely many simple sets which are easy to project onto. This is an important problem arising in various domains such as machine learning. The main difficulty…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-19 Achintya Kundu , Francis Bach , Chiranjib Bhattacharyya

In this paper we consider a problem, called convex projection, of projecting a convex set onto a subspace. We will show that to a convex projection one can assign a particular multi-objective convex optimization problem, such that the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-18 Gabriela Kováčová , Birgit Rudloff

In this paper, we present a new approach to linearizing zero-one quadratic minimization problem which has many applications in computer science and communications. Our algorithm is based on the observation that the quadratic term of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-04-23 Wajeb gharibi , Yong Xia

The simplex projection expands the capabilities of simplex plots (also known as ternary plots) to achieve a lossless visualization of 4D compositional data on a 2D canvas. Previously, this was only possible for 3D compositional data. We…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Marvin Schmitt , Yuga Hikida , Stefan T Radev , Filip Sadlo , Paul-Christian Bürkner

This paper presents an iterative scheme that converges to the solution of a pseudo-monotone variational inequality problem in the setting of $\mathbb{R}^{n}$. Traditional methods often require projections onto the feasible set…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Watanjeet Singh , Sumit Chandok

A high-level description of an algorithm which computes the minimum perimeter triangle enclosing a convex polygon in linear time exists in the literature. Besides that an implementation of the algorithm is given in the subsequent work.…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2016-06-08 V. Ermolaev

We consider minimization of functions that are compositions of convex or prox-regular functions (possibly extended-valued) with smooth vector functions. A wide variety of important optimization problems fall into this framework. We describe…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-04-24 A. S. Lewis , S. J. Wright

This paper considers a conceptual version of a convex optimization algorithm whic is based on replacing a convex optimization problem with the root-finding problem for the approximate sub-differential mapping which is solved by repeated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-18 Evgeni Nurminski

The method of periodic projections consists in iterating projections onto $m$ closed convex subsets of a Hilbert space according to a periodic sweeping strategy. In the presence of $m\geq 3$ sets, a long-standing question going back to the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-17 J. -B. Baillon , P. L. Combettes , R. Cominetti

This paper introduces a new way to calculate distance-based statistics, particularly when the data are multivariate. The main idea is to pre-calculate the optimal projection directions given the variable dimension, and to project…

Computation · Statistics 2019-11-11 Chuanping Yu , Xiaoming Huo

This paper is concerned with the adaptation to hardware of methods for Euclidean norm projections onto the parity polytope and probability simplex. We first refine recent efforts to develop efficient methods of projection onto the parity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-19 Mitchell Wasson , Stark C. Draper

A multiobjective optimization problem is simplicial if the Pareto set and front are homeomorphic to a simplex and, under the homeomorphisms, each face of the simplex corresponds to the Pareto set and front of a subproblem. In this paper, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-28 Naoki Hamada , Kenta Hayano , Shunsuke Ichiki , Yutaro Kabata , Hiroshi Teramoto

The problem of minimizing a continuously differentiable convex function over an intersection of closed convex sets is ubiquitous in applied mathematics. It is particularly interesting when it is easy to project onto each separate set, but…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-08-06 Eric C. Chi , Hua Zhou , Kenneth Lange

We present a numerical iterative optimization algorithm for the minimization of a cost function consisting of a linear combination of three convex terms, one of which is differentiable, a second one is prox-simple and the third one is the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-04 Ignace Loris , Simone Rebegoldi

Solving the distributional worst-case in the distributionally robust optimization problem is equivalent to finding the projection onto the intersection of simplex and singly linear inequality constraint. This projection is a key component…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-18 Weimi Zhou , Yong-Jin Liu

The long-standing problem of minimal projections is addressed from a computational point of view. Techniques to determine bounds on the projection constants of univariate polynomial spaces are presented. The upper bound, produced by a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-15 Simon Foucart , Jean-Bernard Lasserre

The standard simplex in R^n, also known as the probability simplex, is the set of nonnegative vectors whose entries sum up to 1. They frequently appear as constraints in optimization problems that arise in machine learning, statistics, data…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-31 Qiuwei Li , Daniel McKenzie , Wotao Yin

In this paper we present a new algorithmic realization of a projection-based scheme for general convex constrained optimization problem. The general idea is to transform the original optimization problem to a sequence of feasibility…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-12 Aviv Gibali , Karl-Heinz Küfer , Daniel Reem , Philipp Süss

Projection algorithms are well known for their simplicity and flexibility in solving feasibility problems. They are particularly important in practice due to minimal requirements for software implementation and maintenance. In this work, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-14 Minh N. Dao , Hung M. Phan