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This paper details a novel indirect method for solving constrained optimal control problems (OCPs) directly in continuous-time function space. The KKT conditions are embedded in a non-smooth complementarity function, which enables their…

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The continuous quadratic knapsack (CQK) problem involves minimizing a diagonal convex quadratic function subject to box constraints and a single linear equality constraint. It has numerous applications in resource allocation, multicommodity…

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Clustering may be the most fundamental problem in unsupervised learning which is still active in machine learning research because its importance in many applications. Popular methods like K-means, may suffer from instability as they are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-21 Yancheng Yuan , Defeng Sun , Kim-Chuan Toh

By using Moreau's decomposition theorem for projecting onto cones, the problem of projecting onto a simplicial cone is reduced to finding the unique solution of a nonsmooth system of equations. It is shown that Picard's method applied to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-11 Jorge Barrios , Orizon P. Ferreira , Sándor Z. Németh

Small-scale plasticity problems are often characterised by different patterning behaviours ranging from macroscopic down to the atomistic scale. In successful models of such complex behaviour, its origin lies within non-convexity of the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-11-01 F. Bormann , R. H. J. Peerlings , M. G. D. Geers

This paper proposes and develops new Newton-type methods to solve structured nonconvex and nonsmooth optimization problems with justifying their fast local and global convergence by means of advanced tools of variational analysis and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Pham Duy Khanh , Boris S. Mordukhovich , Vo Thanh Phat

We study the composite convex optimization problems with a Quasi-Self-Concordant smooth component. This problem class naturally interpolates between classic Self-Concordant functions and functions with Lipschitz continuous Hessian.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-29 Nikita Doikov

This paper addresses the study of a new class of nonsmooth optimization problems, where the objective is represented as a difference of two generally nonconvex functions. We propose and develop a novel Newton-type algorithm to solving such…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-10 Francisco J. Aragón-Artacho , Boris S. Mordukhovich , Pedro Pérez-Aros

Composite minimization involves a collection of smooth functions which are aggregated in a nonsmooth manner. In the convex setting, we design an algorithm by linearizing each smooth component in accordance with its main curvature. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-26 Jérôme Bolte , Zheng Chen , Edouard Pauwels

The randomized subspace Newton convex methods for the sensor selection problem are proposed. The randomized subspace Newton algorithm is straightforwardly applied to the convex formulation, and the customized method in which the part of the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-03 Taku Nonomura , Shunsuke Ono , Kumi Nakai , Yuji Saito

Optimization problems with composite functions consist of an objective function which is the sum of a smooth and a (convex) nonsmooth term. This particular structure is exploited by the class of proximal gradient methods and some of their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-17 Christian Kanzow , Theresa Lechner

We propose a higher-order method for solving non-smooth optimization problems on manifolds. In order to obtain superlinear convergence, we apply a Riemannian Semi-smooth Newton method to a non-smooth non-linear primal-dual optimality system…

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We are concerned with a class of nonconvex and nonsmooth composite optimization problems, comprising a twice differentiable function and a prox-regular function. We establish a sufficient condition for the proximal mapping of a prox-regular…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Yuqia Wu , Pengcheng Wu , Yaohua Hu , Shaohua Pan , Xiaoqi Yang

This paper presents a stochastic block-coordinate proximal Newton method for minimizing the sum of a blockwise Lipschitz-continuously differentiable function and a separable nonsmooth convex function. At each iteration, the method randomly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-25 Hong Zhu , Xun Qian

The ground state energy of a many-electron system can be approximated by an variational approach in which the total energy of the system is minimized with respect to one and two-body reduced density matrices (RDM) instead of many-electron…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-01 Yongfeng Li , Zaiwen Wen , Chao Yang , Yaxiang Yuan

In this paper, we present a generic framework to extend existing uniformly optimal convex programming algorithms to solve more general nonlinear, possibly nonconvex, optimization problems. The basic idea is to incorporate a local search…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-10-27 Saeed Ghadimi , Guanghui Lan , Hongchao Zhang

In the field of nonlinear mechanics, many challenging problems (e.g. plasticity, contact, masonry structures, nonlinear membranes) turn out to be expressible as conic programs. In general, such problems are non-smooth in nature (plasticity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-03 Jeremy Bleyer

We study a class of monotone inclusions called "self-concordant inclusion" which covers three fundamental convex optimization formulations as special cases. We develop a new generalized Newton-type framework to solve this inclusion. Our…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-07-25 Quoc Tran-Dinh , Tianxiao Sun , Shu Lu

In this paper, a globally convergent Newton-type proximal gradient method is developed for composite multi-objective optimization problems where each objective function can be represented as the sum of a smooth function and a nonsmooth…

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