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In this paper, we extend and investigate the properties of the semi-smooth Newton method when applied to a general projection equation in finite dimensional spaces. We first present results concerning Clarke's generalized Jacobian of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-10 Nicolas F. Armijo , Yunier Bello-Cruz , Gabriel Haeser

We present an algorithm for minimizing the sum of a strongly convex time-varying function with a time-invariant, convex, and nonsmooth function. The proposed algorithm employs the prediction-correction scheme alongside the forward-backward…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-07 Nicola Bastianello , Andrea Simonetto , Ruggero Carli

This paper addresses constrained smooth saddle-point problems in settings where projection onto the feasible sets is computationally expensive. We bridge the gap between projection-based and projection-free optimization by introducing a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Khanh-Hung Giang-Tran , Soroosh Shafiee , Nam Ho-Nguyen

The Euclidean projection onto a convex set is an important problem that arises in numerous constrained optimization tasks. Unfortunately, in many cases, computing projections is computationally demanding. In this work, we focus on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-22 Ilnura Usmanova , Maryam Kamgarpour , Andreas Krause , Kfir Yehuda Levy

It is known that adaptive optimization algorithms represent the key pillar behind the rise of the Machine Learning field. In the Optimization literature numerous studies have been devoted to accelerated gradient methods but only recently…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-02 Cristian Daniel Alecsa

Beginning with the projectively invariant method for linear programming, interior point methods have led to powerful algorithms for many difficult computing problems, in combinatorial optimization, logic, number theory and non-convex…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2014-12-11 Narendra Karmarkar

In classic robust optimization, it is assumed that a set of possible parameter realizations, the uncertainty set, is modeled in a previous step and part of the input. As recent work has shown, finding the most suitable uncertainty set is in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-18 André Chassein , Marc Goerigk

We consider the problem of approximating the solution of variational problems subject to the constraint that the admissible functions must be convex. This problem is at the interface between convex analysis, convex optimization, variational…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Adam M. Oberman

We develop two adaptive discretization algorithms for convex semi-infinite optimization, which terminate after finitely many iterations at approximate solutions of arbitrary precision. In particular, they terminate at a feasible point of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-14 Jochen Schmid , Miltiadis Poursanidis

In general, standard necessary optimality conditions cannot be formulated in a straightforward manner for semi-smooth shape optimization problems. In this paper, we consider shape optimization problems constrained by variational…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-17 Daniel Luft , Volker H. Schulz , Kathrin Welker

Algorithms that solve zero-sum games, multi-objective agent objectives, or, more generally, variational inequality (VI) problems are notoriously unstable on general problems. Owing to the increasing need for solving such problems in machine…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-07-15 Tatjana Chavdarova , Ya-Ping Hsieh , Michael I. Jordan

We address composite optimization problems, which consist in minimizing the sum of a smooth and a merely lower semicontinuous function, without any convexity assumptions. Numerical solutions of these problems can be obtained by proximal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-14 Alberto De Marchi

Optimization is an essential component for solving problems in wide-ranging fields. Ideally, the objective function should be designed such that the solution is unique and the optimization problem can be solved stably. However, the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Takayuki Osa

Time-varying optimization problems are prevalent in various engineering fields, and the ability to solve them accurately in real-time is becoming increasingly important. The prediction-correction algorithms used in smooth time-varying…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-12 Hidenori Iwakiri , Tomoya Kamijima , Shinji Ito , Akiko Takeda

This paper presents an efficient gradient projection-based method for structural topological optimization problems characterized by a nonlinear objective function which is minimized over a feasible region defined by bilateral bounds and a…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Zhi Zeng , Fulei Ma

We introduce a class of stochastic algorithms for minimizing weakly convex functions over proximally smooth sets. As their main building blocks, the algorithms use simplified models of the objective function and the constraint set, along…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Damek Davis , Dmitriy Drusvyatskiy , Zhan Shi

Optimization is a ubiquitous modeling tool and is often deployed in settings which repeatedly solve similar instances of the same problem. Amortized optimization methods use learning to predict the solutions to problems in these settings,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Brandon Amos

We study the problem of optimizing nonlinear objective functions over bipartite matchings. While the problem is generally intractable, we provide several efficient algorithms for it, including a deterministic algorithm for maximizing convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2008-07-24 Yael Berstein , Shmuel Onn

In practice, optimization tasks have some structure that allows developing new algorithms for every problem with faster convergence rates. Using the structure of optimization tasks, we can propose algorithms with more optimistic convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-01 Alexander Tyurin

An algorithm is proposed, analyzed, and tested for solving continuous nonlinear-equality-constrained optimization problems where the objective and constraint functions are defined by expectations or averages over large, finite numbers of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Frank E. Curtis , Lingjun Guo , Daniel P. Robinson