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We consider a class of nonsmooth fractional programming problems with fixed-point constraints, where the numerator is convex and the denominator is concave. To solve this problem, we propose splitting algorithms that compute subgradient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Mootta Prangprakhon , Nimit Nimana

Nonlinear Convex Cone Programming (NCCP) problems are important and have many practical applications. In this paper, we introduces a flexible first-order primal-dual algorithm called the Variant Auxiliary Problem Principle (VAPP) for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-05 Lei Zhao , Daoli Zhu

We investigate the minimization of a quadratic function over Stiefel manifolds (the set of all orthogonal $r$- frames in $\mathbf{R}^n$), which has applications in high-dimensional semi-supervised classification tasks. To reduce the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-15 Pengwen Chen , Chung-Kuan Cheng , Chester Holtz

We propose a new method for linear second-order cone programs. It is based on the sequential quadratic programming framework for nonlinear programming. In contrast to interior point methods, it can capitalize on the warm-start capabilities…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-01 Xinyi Luo , Andreas Waechter

The sparse nonlinear programming (SNP) problem has wide applications in signal and image processing, machine learning, pattern recognition, finance and management, etc. However, the computational challenge posed by SNP has not yet been well…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-26 Chen Zhao , Naihua Xiu , Hou-Duo Qi , Ziyan Luo

Fixed-point iterations are at the heart of numerical computing and are often a computational bottleneck in real-time applications that typically need a fast solution of moderate accuracy. We present neural fixed-point acceleration which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-26 Shobha Venkataraman , Brandon Amos

Semidefinite programming (SDP) is a powerful framework from convex optimization that has striking potential for data science applications. This paper develops a provably correct randomized algorithm for solving large, weakly constrained SDP…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-26 Alp Yurtsever , Joel A. Tropp , Olivier Fercoq , Madeleine Udell , Volkan Cevher

This paper studies a class of so-called linear semi-infinite polynomial programming (LSIPP) problems. It is a subclass of linear semi-infinite programming problems whose constraint functions are polynomials in parameters and index sets are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-25 Feng Guo , Xiaoxia Sun

In this paper, we propose a Feasible Sequential Linear Programming (FSLP) algorithm applied to time-optimal control problems (TOCP) obtained through direct multiple shooting discretization. This method is motivated by TOCP with nonlinear…

This paper presents a systematic approach for computing local solutions to motion planning problems in non-convex environments using numerical optimal control techniques. It extends the range of use of state-of-the-art numerical optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-03 Kristoffer Bergman , Daniel Axehill

In this work, we consider the low rank decomposition (SDPR) of general convex semidefinite programming problems (SDP) that contain both a positive semidefinite matrix and a nonnegative vector as variables. We develop a rank-support-adaptive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-14 Tianyun Tang , Kim-Chuan Toh

We propose algorithms to take point sets for kernel-based interpolation of functions in reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHSs) by convex optimization. We consider the case of kernels with the Mercer expansion and propose an algorithm by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-08-19 Ken'ichiro Tanaka

One key challenge for solving a general stochastic optimization problem with expectations in the objective and constraint functions using ordinary stochastic iterative methods lies in the infeasibility issue caused by the randomness over…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-30 Chencheng Ye , Ying Cui

We present gPC-SCP: Generalized Polynomial Chaos-based Sequential Convex Programming to compute a sub-optimal solution for a continuous-time chance-constrained stochastic nonlinear optimal control (SNOC) problem. The approach enables motion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Yashwanth Kumar Nakka , Soon-Jo Chung

In this paper, we investigate a class of nonconvex and nonsmooth fractional programming problems, where the numerator composed of two parts: a convex, nonsmooth function and a differentiable, nonconvex function, and the denominator consists…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-18 Deren Han , Min Tao , Zihao Xia

In model predictive control (MPC) an optimization problem has to be solved at each time step, which in real-time applications makes it important to solve these optimization problems efficiently and to have good upper bounds on worst-case…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-13 Daniel Arnström , Daniel Axehill

We propose a sequential quadratic programming (SQP) algorithm for inequality constrained optimization that is robust to the presence of bounded noise in function and derivative evaluations. We cover the case where constraint evaluations…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-17 Figen Oztoprak , Richard Byrd

In view of the KS-tensor complementarity problem, the sparse solution of this problem is studied. Due to the nonconvexity and noncontinuity of the l_0-norm, it is a NP hard problem to find the sparse solution of the KS-tensor…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-29 Jingjing Sun , Shouqiang Du , Yuanyuan Chen , Yimin Wei

Successive convex programming (SCP) is a powerful class of direct optimization methods, known for its polynomial complexity and computational efficiency, making it particularly suitable for autonomous applications. Direct methods are also…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-13 Saeid Tafazzol , Ehsan Taheri

To solve unmodeled optimization problems with hard constraints, this paper proposes a novel zeroth-order approach called Safe Zeroth-order Optimization using Linear Programs (SZO-LP). The SZO-LP method solves a linear program in each…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-05 Baiwei Guo , Yang Wang , Yuning Jiang , Maryam Kamgarpour , Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate