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We introduce a penalty term-based splitting algorithm with inertial effects designed for solving monotone inclusion problems involving the sum of maximally monotone operators and the convex normal cone to the (nonempty) set of zeros of a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-12-15 Radu Ioan Bot , Ernö Robert Csetnek

We consider solving equality-constrained nonlinear, nonconvex optimization problems. This class of problems appears widely in a variety of applications in machine learning and engineering, ranging from constrained deep neural networks, to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-31 Ilgee Hong , Sen Na , Michael W. Mahoney , Mladen Kolar

In this paper, we focus on a class of constrained nonlinear optimization problems (NLP), where some of its equality constraints define a closed embedded submanifold $\mathcal{M}$ in $\mathbb{R}^n$. Although NLP can be solved directly by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-05 Nachuan Xiao , Xin Liu , Kim-Chuan Toh

We propose a new subgradient method for the minimization of nonsmooth convex functions over a convex set. To speed up computations we use adaptive approximate projections only requiring to move within a certain distance of the exact…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Dirk A. Lorenz , Marc E. Pfetsch , Andreas M. Tillmann

In this paper, we consider nonsmooth composite optimization over compact embedded submanifolds defined by nonlinear equality constraints. We propose a feasibility-safeguarded inexact proximal linearized method (FSIPL), which allows…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Xiyua Xie , Qia Li

This paper proposes novel algorithm for non-convex multimodal constrained optimisation problems. It is based on sequential solving restrictions of problem to sections of feasible set by random subspaces (in general, manifolds) of low…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-28 Dmitry A. Pasechnyuk , Alexander Gornov

Variable projection solves structured optimization problems by completely minimizing over a subset of the variables while iterating over the remaining variables. Over the last 30 years, the technique has been widely used, with empirical and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-23 Tristan van Leeuwen , Aleksandr Aravkin

This paper is devoted to studying the stationary solutions of a general constrained optimization problem through its associated unconstrained penalized problems. We aim to answer the question, "what do the stationary solutions of a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-28 Ashkan Mohammadi

This paper proposes an improved quasi-Newton penalty decomposition algorithm for the minimization of continuously differentiable functions, possibly nonconvex, over sparse symmetric sets. The method solves a sequence of penalty subproblems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Ahmad Mousavi , Morteza Kimiaei , Saman Babaie-Kafaki , Vyacheslav Kungurtsev

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

Bilevel optimization enjoys a wide range of applications in emerging machine learning and signal processing problems such as hyper-parameter optimization, image reconstruction, meta-learning, adversarial training, and reinforcement…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Han Shen , Quan Xiao , Tianyi Chen

In this paper we present an inexact zeroth-order method suitable for the solution nonsmooth and nonconvex stochastic composite optimization problems, in which the objective is split into a real-valued Lipschitz continuous stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-11 Spyridon Pougkakiotis , Dionysis Kalogerias

We introduce a class of first-order methods for smooth constrained optimization that are based on an analogy to non-smooth dynamical systems. Two distinctive features of our approach are that (i) projections or optimizations over the entire…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-15 Michael Muehlebach , Michael I. Jordan

In this article we present a new perspective on the smooth exact penalty function proposed by Huyer and Neumaier that is becoming more and more popular tool for solving constrained optimization problems. Our approach to Huyer and Neumaier's…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-30 M. V. Dolgopolik

In this paper, we focus on finding the global minimizer of a general unconstrained nonsmooth nonconvex optimization problem. Taking advantage of the smoothing method and the consensus-based optimization (CBO) method, we propose a novel…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-14 Jiazhen Wei , Wei Bian

For the composite multi-objective optimization problem composed of two nonsmooth terms, a smoothing method is used to overcome the nonsmoothness of the objective function, making the objective function contain at most one nonsmooth term.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-18 Huang Chengzhi

In this paper, we propose a new Fully Composite Formulation of convex optimization problems. It includes, as a particular case, the problems with functional constraints, max-type minimization problems, and problems of Composite…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-24 Nikita Doikov , Yurii Nesterov

We build upon Estrin et al. (2019) to develop a general constrained nonlinear optimization algorithm based on a smooth penalty function proposed by Fletcher (1970, 1973b). Although Fletcher's approach has historically been considered…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-03 Ron Estrin , Michael Friedlander , Dominique Orban , Michael Saunders

In this paper, we consider the problem of identifying a linear map from measurements which are subject to intermittent and arbitarily large errors. This is a fundamental problem in many estimation-related applications such as fault…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-08-09 Laurent Bako , Henrik Ohlsson

We consider the nonlinear optimization problem with least $\ell_1$-norm measure of constraint violations and introduce the concepts of the D-stationary point, the DL-stationary point and the DZ-stationary point with the help of exact…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-26 Xin-Wei Liu , Yu-Hong Dai