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In the present paper, we are concerned with a class of constrained vector optimization problems, where the objective functions and active constraint functions are locally Lipschitz at the referee point. Some second-order constraint…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-14 Yi-Bin Xiao , Nguyen Van Tuyen , Ching-Feng Wen , Jen-Chih Yao

This paper considers a general convex constrained problem setting where functions are not assumed to be differentiable nor Lipschitz continuous. Our motivation is in finding a simple first-order method for solving a wide range of convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-19 Michael R. Metel , Akiko Takeda

We present a general method, based on conjugate duality, for solving a convex minimization problem without assuming unnecessary topological restrictions on the constraint set. It leads to dual equalities and characterizations of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-16 Christian Léonard

We consider a special class of nonconvex semidefinite programming problems and show that every point satisfying the Karush--Kuhn--Tucker (KKT) conditions is globally optimal despite nonconvexity. This property is related to pseudoconvex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-23 Akatsuki Nishioka , Yoshihiro Kanno

Generalized polyhedral convex optimization problems in locally convex Hausdorff topological vector spaces are studied systematically in this paper. We establish solution existence theorems, necessary and sufficient optimality conditions,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-02 Nguyen Ngoc Luan , Jen-Chih Yao

This is a tutorial and survey paper on Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) conditions, first-order and second-order numerical optimization, and distributed optimization. After a brief review of history of optimization, we start with some preliminaries…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-06 Benyamin Ghojogh , Ali Ghodsi , Fakhri Karray , Mark Crowley

In the recent paper of Giorgi, Jim\'enez and Novo (J Optim Theory Appl 171:70--89, 2016), the authors introduced the so-called approximate Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (AKKT) condition for smooth multiobjective optimization problems and obtained some…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-16 Nguyen Van Tuyen , Jen-Chih Yao , Ching-Feng Wen

One revisits the standard saddle-point method based on conjugate duality for solving convex minimization problems. Our aim is to reduce or remove unnecessary topological restrictions on the constraint set. Dual equalities and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-10-09 Christian Léonard

This paper presents a canonical duality theory for solving a general nonconvex constrained optimization problem within a unified framework to cover Lagrange multiplier method and KKT theory. It is proved that if both target function and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-10-09 Vittorio Latorre , David Y. Gao

This paper considers a nonconvex optimization problem that evolves over time, and addresses the synthesis and analysis of regularized primal-dual gradient methods to track a Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) trajectory. The proposed regularized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-04 Yujie Tang , Emiliano Dall'Anese , Andrey Bernstein , Steven Low

We apply duality theory to discretized convex minimization problems to obtain computable guaranteed upper bounds for the distance of given discrete functions and the exact discrete minimizer. Furthermore, we show that the discrete duality…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-13 Lars Diening , Johannes Storn

This paper addresses the class of continuous-time nonlinear programming problems with equality and inequality constraints. The paper presents necessary optimality conditions of the sequential form. To be more precise, a sequence of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Moisés R. C. do Monte , Rodrigo B. Moreira , Valeriano A. de Oliveira

There are several concepts and definitions that characterize and give optimality conditions for solutions of a vector optimization problem. One of the most important is the first-order necessary optimality condition that generalizes the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-09 Washington A. Oliveira , Marko A. Rojas Medar , A. Beato Moreno , M. B. Hernández Jiménez

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

In this paper, we provide conditions under which one can take derivatives of the solution to convex optimization problems with respect to problem data. These conditions are (roughly) that Slater's condition holds, the functions involved are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-13 Shane Barratt

We develop a methodology for closing duality gap and guaranteeing strong duality in infinite convex optimization. Specifically, we examine two new Lagrangian-type dual formulations involving infinitely many dual variables and infinite sums…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Abderrahim Hantoute , Alexander Y. Kruger , Marco A. López

Inverse optimization, determining parameters of an optimization problem that render a given solution optimal, has received increasing attention in recent years. While significant inverse optimization literature exists for convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-02 Merve Bodur , Timothy C. Y. Chan , Ian Yihang Zhu

We introduce and study a new dual condition which characterizes zero duality gap in nonsmooth convex optimization. We prove that our condition is weaker than all existing constraint qualifications, including the closed epigraph condition.…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2013-04-30 Jonathan M. Borwein , Regina S. Burachik , Liangjin Yao

This paper studies duality and optimality conditions for general convex stochastic optimization problems. The main result gives sufficient conditions for the absence of a duality gap and the existence of dual solutions in a locally convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-01 Teemu Pennanen , Ari-Pekka Perkkiö

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