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In this paper, we consider nonconvex optimization problems with nonsmooth nonconvex objective function and nonlinear equality constraints. We assume that both the objective function and the functional constraints can be separated into 2…

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This paper explores a method for solving constrained optimization problems when the derivatives of the objective function are unavailable, while the derivatives of the constraints are known. We allow the objective and constraint function to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-20 Melody Qiming Xuan , Jorge Nocedal

Both unconstrained and constrained minimax single facility location problems are considered in multidimensional space with Chebyshev distance. A new solution approach is proposed within the framework of idempotent algebra to reduce the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-10-18 Nikolai Krivulin

The tropical semiring is a semiring of extended real numbers, where the operations of `max' and `+' replace the usual addition and multiplication, respectively. Difference equations obtained from the ultradiscrete limit of discrete…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-02-18 Yuki Nishida , Sennosuke Watanabe , Yoshihide Watanabe

This paper is devoted to the study of approximate solutions for a multiobjective interval-valued optimization problem based on an interval order. We establish new existence theorems of approximate solutions for such a problem under some…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-19 Chuang-liang Zhang , Yun-cheng Liu , Nan-jing Huang

In this paper, we introduce a new functional point of view on bilevel optimization problems for machine learning, where the inner objective is minimized over a function space. These types of problems are most often solved by using methods…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-12-10 Ieva Petrulionyte , Julien Mairal , Michael Arbel

Multi-objective learning under user-specified preference is common in real-world problems such as multi-lingual speech recognition under fairness. In this work, we frame such a problem as a semivectorial bilevel optimization problem, whose…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-07 Lisha Chen , Quan Xiao , Ellen Hidemi Fukuda , Xinyi Chen , Kun Yuan , Tianyi Chen

We develop both first and second order numerical optimization methods to solve non-smooth optimization problems featuring a shared sparsity penalty, constrained by differential equations with uncertainty. To alleviate the curse of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-18 Harbir Antil , Sergey Dolgov , Akwum Onwunta

Optimization of three-dimensional road alignments is a nonlinear non-convex optimization problem. The development of models that fully optimize a three-dimensional road alignment problem is challenging due to numerous factors involved and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-02-04 D. Hirpa , W. Hare , Y. Lucet , Y. Pushak , S. Tesfamariam

We study the problem of optimizing nonlinear objective functions over matroids presented by oracles or explicitly. Such functions can be interpreted as the balancing of multi-criteria optimization. We provide a combinatorial polynomial time…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-07-24 Yael Berstein , Jon Lee , Hugo Maruri-Aguilar , Shmuel Onn , Eva Riccomagno , Robert Weismantel , Henry Wynn

In this paper we present an inexact proximal point method for variational inequality problem on Hadamard manifolds and study its convergence properties. The proposed algorithm is inexact in two sense. First, each proximal subproblem is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-04 G. C. Bento , O. P. Ferreira , E. A. Papa Quiroz

We consider the problem of maximizing a monotone nondecreasing set function under multiple constraints, where the constraints are also characterized by monotone nondecreasing set functions. We propose two greedy algorithms to solve the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-09 Lintao Ye , Zhi-Wei Liu , Ming Chi , Vijay Gupta

One-sided linear systems of the form ``$Ax=b$'' are well-known and extensively studied over the tropical (max-plus) semiring and wide classes of related idempotent semirings. The usual approach is to first find the greatest solution to such…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Sulaiman Alhussaini , Sergei Sergeev

We study quadratic optimization with indicator variables and an M-matrix, i.e., a PSD matrix with non-positive off-diagonal entries, which arises directly in image segmentation and portfolio optimization with transaction costs, as well as a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-17 Alper Atamturk , Andres Gomez

This paper studies a multiobjective bilevel optimization problem where each objective is a fractional function. By reformulating the problem into a single-level one, we establish refined necessary and sufficient optimality conditions. These…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Felipe Lara , Rishabh Pandey , Vinay Singh

We are interested in finding a solution to the tensor complementarity problem with a strong M-tensor, which we call the M-tensor complementarity problem. We propose a lower dimensional linear equation approach to solve that problem. At each…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-28 Dong-Hui Li , Cui-Dan Chen , Hong-Bo Guan

The purpose of this work is to study an optimal control problem for a semilinear elliptic partial differential equation with a linear combination of Dirac measures as a forcing term; the control variable corresponds to the amplitude of such…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-04 Enrique Otarola

The article proposes an exact approach to find the global solution of a nonconvex semivectorial bilevel optimization problem, where the objective functions at each level are pseudoconvex, and the constraints are quasiconvex. Due to its…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-26 Tran Ngoc Thang , Dao Minh Hoang , Nguyen Viet Dung

Tropical mathematics redefines the rules of arithmetic by replacing addition with taking a maximum, and by replacing multiplication with addition. After briefly discussing a tropical version of linear algebra, we study polynomials build…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-08-21 Ralph Morrison

Discrete-time robust optimal control problems generally take a min-max structure over continuous variable spaces, which can be difficult to solve in practice. In this paper, we extend the class of such problems that can be solved through a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-30 Jad Wehbeh , Eric C. Kerrigan