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This paper is concerned with the derivation of necessary conditions for the optimal shape of a design problem governed by a non-smooth PDE. The main particularity thereof is the lack of differentiability of the nonlinearity in the state…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-24 Livia Betz

We study no-gap second-order optimality conditions for a non-uniformly convex and non-smooth integral functional. The integral functional is extended to the space of measures. The obtained second-order derivatives contain integrals on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Daniel Wachsmuth , Gerd Wachsmuth

In view of training increasingly complex learning architectures, we establish a nonsmooth implicit function theorem with an operational calculus. Our result applies to most practical problems (i.e., definable problems) provided that a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Jérôme Bolte , Tam Le , Edouard Pauwels , Antonio Silveti-Falls

The paper explores the differential inclusion of a special form. It is supposed that the support function of the set in the right-hand side of an inclusion may contain the maximum of the finite number of continuously differentiable (in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-04 Alexander Fominyh

In this paper we derive new second-order optimality conditions for a very general set-constrained optimization problem where the underlying set may be nononvex. We consider local optimality in specific directions (i.e., optimal in a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-04 Wei Ouyang , Jane Ye , Binbin Zhang

We employ a fuzzy optimality condition for the Frechet subdifferential and some advanced techniques of variational analysis such as formulae for the subdifferentials of an infinite family of nonsmooth functions and the coderivative…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-16 Maryam Saadati , Morteza Oveisiha

We provide a first-order necessary and sufficient condition for optimality of lower semicontinuous functions on Banach spaces using the concept of subdifferential. From the sufficient condition we derive that any subdifferential operator is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-01-23 Florence Jules , Marc Lassonde

This paper is concerned with an optimal control problem governed by nonsmooth semilinear elliptic partial differential equations with both distributed and boundary unilateral pointwise control constraints, in which the nonlinear coefficient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-28 Vu Huu Nhu , Nguyen Hai Son

The main goal of this paper is developing the method of discrete approximations to derive necessary optimality conditions for a class of constrained sweeping processes with nonsmooth perturbations. Optimal control problems for sweeping…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-13 Boris S. Mordukhovich , Dao Nguyen

In this paper, we obtain a new proof of Fritz John necessary optimality conditions for vector problems applying Kakutani fixed point theorem and Hadamard directional derivative. We also derive a similar proof of second-order Fritz John…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-21 Vsevolod I. Ivanov

We provide the first non-asymptotic analysis for finding stationary points of nonsmooth, nonconvex functions. In particular, we study the class of Hadamard semi-differentiable functions, perhaps the largest class of nonsmooth functions for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-30 Jingzhao Zhang , Hongzhou Lin , Stefanie Jegelka , Ali Jadbabaie , Suvrit Sra

In this paper, we propose second-order sufficient optimality conditions for a very general nonconvex constrained optimization problem, which covers many prominent mathematical programs.Unlike the existing results in the literature, our…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-24 Matus Benko , Helmut Gfrerer , Jane Ye , Jin Zhang , Jinchuan Zhou

We show that various functionals related to the supremum of a real function defined on an arbitrary set or a measure space are Hadamard directionally differentiable. We specifically consider the supremum norm, the supremum, the infimum, and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-12-18 Javier Cárcamo , Luis-Alberto Rodríguez , Antonio Cuevas

This paper studies the convexity properties of nonsmooth extended-real-valued weakly convex functions, a class of functions that is central to modern optimization and its applications. We establish new characterizations of convexity using…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-27 Vo Thanh Phat

The subdifferential of a function is a generalization for nonsmooth functions of the concept of gradient. It is frequently used in variational analysis, particularly in the context of nonsmooth optimization. The present work proposes…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-13 Charles Audet , Warren Hare

In this paper, we derive explicit second-order necessary and sufficient optimality conditions of a local minimizer to an optimal control problem for a quasilinear second-order partial differential equation with a piecewise smooth but not…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-13 Christian Clason , Vu Huu Nhu , Arnd Rösch

This paper is concerned with the sensitivity analysis of a class of parameterized fixed-point problems that arise in the context of obstacle-type quasi-variational inequalities. We prove that, if the operators in the considered fixed-point…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-14 Constantin Christof , Gerd Wachsmuth

We propose a family of optimization methods that achieve linear convergence using first-order gradient information and constant step sizes on a class of convex functions much larger than the smooth and strongly convex ones. This larger…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-14 Chris J. Maddison , Daniel Paulin , Yee Whye Teh , Brendan O'Donoghue , Arnaud Doucet

This paper is concerned with necessary and sufficient second-order conditions for finite-dimensional and infinite-dimensional constrained optimization problems. Using a suitably defined directional curvature functional for the admissible…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-26 Constantin Christof , Gerd Wachsmuth

Randomized smoothing is a widely adopted technique for optimizing nonsmooth objective functions. However, its efficiency analysis typically relies on global Lipschitz continuity, a condition rarely met in practical applications. To address…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-10 Jingfan Xia , Zhenwei Lin , Qi Deng