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Model predictive control (MPC) is an optimization-based control strategy with broad industrial adoption. Unfortunately, the required computation time to solve the receding-horizon MPC optimization problem can become prohibitively large for…

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We propose an algorithm for solving bound-constrained mathematical programs with complementarity constraints on the variables. Each iteration of the algorithm involves solving a linear program with complementarity constraints in order to…

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Constraint qualifications for a Mathematical Program with Equilibrium Constraints (MPEC) are essential for analyzing stationarity properties and establishing convergence results. In this paper, we explore several classical MPEC constraint…

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We consider unconstrained multi-criteria optimization problems with finite sum objective functions. The proposed algorithm belongs to a non-monotone trust region framework where additional sampling approach is used to govern the sample size…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-13 Nataša Krklec Jerinkić , Luka Rutešić , Ilaria Trombini

In this article, we develop a trust-region technique to find critical points of unconstrained set optimization problems with the objective set-valued map defined by finitely many twice continuously differentiable functions. The technique is…

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We present a globally convergent SQP-type method with the least constraint violation for nonlinear semidefinite programming. The proposed algorithm employs a two-phase strategy coupled with a line search technique. In the first phase, a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-03 Wenhao Fu , Zhongwen Chen

We propose a novel trust region method for solving a class of nonsmooth, nonconvex composite-type optimization problems. The approach embeds inexact semismooth Newton steps for finding zeros of a normal map-based stationarity measure for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-04 Wenqing Ouyang , Andre Milzarek

Under interpolation-type assumptions such as the strong growth condition, stochastic optimization methods can attain convergence rates comparable to full-batch methods, but their performance, particularly for SGD, remains highly sensitive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Aike Yang , Hao Wang

In this paper, a robust sequential quadratic programming method for constrained optimization is generalized to problem with an {expectation} objective function {and} deterministic equality and inequality constraints. A stochastic line…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-07 Songqiang Qiu , Vyacheslav Kungurtsev

We propose a trust-region type method for a class of nonsmooth nonconvex optimization problems where the objective function is a summation of a (probably nonconvex) smooth function and a (probably nonsmooth) convex function. The model…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-26 Ziang Chen , Andre Milzarek , Zaiwen Wen

We propose model predictive funnel control, a novel model predictive control (MPC) scheme building upon recent results in funnel control. The latter is a high-gain feedback methodology that achieves evolution of the measured output within…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Jens Göbel , Dario Dennstädt , Lukas Lanza , Karl Worthmann , Thomas Berger , Tobias Damm

We propose an SQP algorithm for mathematical programs with vanishing constraints which solves at each iteration a quadratic program with linear vanishing constraints. The algorithm is based on the newly developed concept of $\mathcal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-28 Matúš Benko , Helmut Gfrerer

A novel trust region method for solving linearly constrained nonlinear programs is presented. The proposed technique is amenable to a distributed implementation, as its salient ingredient is an alternating projected gradient sweep in place…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-08-04 Jean-Hubert Hours , Colin N. Jones

\kmeans clustering is a fundamental problem in many scientific and engineering domains. The optimization problem associated with \kmeans clustering is nonconvex, for which standard algorithms are only guaranteed to find a local optimum.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Jiazhen Hong , Wei Qian , Yudong Chen , Yuqian Zhang

In this study, we focus on the numerical solution method for the optimal control problem with equilibrium constraints (OCPEC).It is extremely challenging to solve OCPEC owing to the absence of constraint regularity and strictly feasible…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-28 Kangyu Lin , Toshiyuki Ohtsuka

This paper presents a particle-based optimization method designed for addressing minimization problems with equality constraints, particularly in cases where the loss function exhibits non-differentiability or non-convexity. The proposed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-31 José A. Carrillo , Shi Jin , Haoyu Zhang , Yuhua Zhu

Many large-scale optimization problems arising in science and engineering are naturally defined at multiple levels of discretization or model fidelity. Multilevel methods exploit this hierarchy to accelerate convergence by combining coarse-…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Robert Baraldi , Michael Hintermüller , Qi Wang

Stochastic MPECs have found increasing relevance for modeling a broad range of settings in engineering and statistics. Yet, there seem to be no efficient first/zeroth-order schemes equipped with non-asymptotic rate guarantees for resolving…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-23 Shisheng Cui , Uday V. Shanbhag , Farzad Yousefian

This paper concerns models and convergence principles for dealing with stochasticity in a wide range of algorithms arising in nonlinear analysis and optimization in Hilbert spaces. It proposes a flexible geometric framework within which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Patrick L. Combettes , Javier I. Madariaga

The nonlinear optimization problem with linear constraints has many applications in engineering fields such as the visual-inertial navigation and localization of an unmanned aerial vehicle maintaining the horizontal flight. In order to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-03 Xin-long Luo , Jia-hui Lv , Geng Sun