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Current state-of-the-art methods for solving discrete optimization problems are usually restricted to convex settings. In this paper, we propose a general approach based on cutting planes for solving nonlinear, possibly nonconvex, binary…

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We identify necessary and sufficient conditions for a quantum channel to be optimal for any convex optimization problem in which the optimization is taken over the set of all quantum channels of a fixed size. Optimality conditions for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-05 Bryan Coutts , Mark Girard , John Watrous

We investigate the computational complexity of min-max optimization under coupled constraints. The work of Daskalakis, Skoulakis, and Zampetakis [DSZ21] was the first to study min-max optimization through the lens of computational…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Martino Bernasconi , Matteo Castiglioni , Andrea Celli , Gabriele Farina

Partial calmness is a celebrated but restrictive property of bilevel optimization problems whose presence opens a way to the derivation of Karush--Kuhn--Tucker-type necessary optimality conditions in order to characterize local minimizers.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-30 Patrick Mehlitz , Leonid I. Minchenko , Alain B. Zemkoho

A broad class of optimization problems can be cast in composite form, that is, considering the minimization of the composition of a lower semicontinuous function with a differentiable mapping. This paper investigates the versatile template…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-07 Alberto De Marchi , Patrick Mehlitz

The problem of minimizing a multilinear function of binary variables is a well-studied NP-hard problem. The set of solutions of the standard linearization of this problem is called the multilinear set. We study a cardinality constrained…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-31 Rui Chen , Sanjeeb Dash , Oktay Gunluk

We present a new duality theory for non-convex variational problems, under possibly mixed Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions. The dual problem reads nicely as a linear programming problem, and our main result states that there is no…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-07-12 Guy Bouchitté , Ilaria Fragalà

With the widespread adoption of machine learning systems, the need to curtail their behavior has become increasingly apparent. This is evidenced by recent advancements towards developing models that satisfy robustness, safety, and fairness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Juan Elenter , Luiz F. O. Chamon , Alejandro Ribeiro

In this paper, we study a nonsmooth/nonconvex multiobjective optimization problem with uncertain constraints in arbitrary Asplund spaces. We first provide necessary optimality condition in a fuzzy form for approximate weakly robust…

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

This paper studies bilevel polynomial optimization in which lower-level constraint functions depend linearly on lower-level variables. We show that such bilevel program can be reformulated as a disjunctive program by using…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Jiawang Nie , Jane J. Ye , Suhan Zhong

This work studies the strong duality of non-convex matrix factorization problems: we show that under certain dual conditions, these problems and its dual have the same optimum. This has been well understood for convex optimization, but…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-04-26 Maria-Florina Balcan , Yingyu Liang , David P. Woodruff , Hongyang Zhang

There are many important practical optimization problems whose feasible regions are not known to be nonempty or not, and optimizers of the objective function with the least constraint violation prefer to be found. A natural way for dealing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-12 Yu-Hong Dai , Liwei Zhang

The concept of convex compactness, weaker than the classical notion of compactness, is introduced and discussed. It is shown that a large class of convex subsets of topological vector spaces shares this property and that is can be used in…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2010-06-02 Gordan Zitkovic

We investigate Lagrangian duality for nonconvex optimization problems. To this aim we use the $\Phi$-convexity theory and minimax theorem for $\Phi$-convex functions. We provide conditions for zero duality gap and strong duality. Among the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-19 Ewa M. Bednarczuk , Monika Syga

In this paper, we study the solution uniqueness of an individual feasible vector of a class of convex optimization problems involving convex piecewise affine functions and subject to general polyhedral constraints. This class of problems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-17 Seyedahmad Mousavi , Jinglai Shen

This paper is concerned with a class of stochastic optimization problems defined on a Banach space with almost sure conic-type constraints. For this class of problems, we investigate the consistency of optimal values and solutions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Caroline Geiersbach , Johannes Milz

In information theory, some optimization problems result in convex optimization problems on strictly convex functionals of probability densities. In this note, we study these problems and show conditions of minimizers and the uniqueness of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Tomohiro Nishiyama

In this paper, we propose two algorithms for solving convex optimization problems with linear ascending constraints. When the objective function is separable, we propose a dual method which terminates in a finite number of iterations. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-09-26 Zizhuo Wang

Necessary optimality conditions in Lagrangian form and the sequential minimization framework are extended to mixed-integer nonlinear optimization, without any convexity assumptions. Building upon a recently developed notion of local…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-10 Alberto De Marchi

Additive manufacturing by laser fusion on a metal oxides powder bed has developed considerably in the last few years and allows to produce a wide range of complex parts. The mathematical models correspond to initial boundary value problems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-25 Hiba Hmede , Luc Paquet , Gerd Wachsmuth