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In this paper we develop a higher-order method for solving composite (non)convex minimization problems with smooth (non)convex functional constraints. At each iteration our method approximates the smooth part of the objective function and…

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Built upon previous work of the authors in (Deckelnick, Herbert, and Hinze, ESAIM: COCV 28 (2022)), we present a general shape optimisation framework based on the method of mappings in the $W^{1,\infty}$ topology together with a suitable…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-02 Klaus Deckelnick , Philip J. Herbert , Michael Hinze

We shall prove a convergence result relative to sequences of Minkowski symmetrals of general compact sets. In particular, we investigate the case when this process is induced by sequences of subspaces whose elements belong to a finite…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-12-07 Jacopo Ulivelli

This paper is a continuation to the study of generalized quasi contractive operators, essentially due to Akhtar et al. [A multi-step implicit iterative process for common fixed points of generalized C^{q}-operators in convex metric spaces,…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-28 Zahid Akhtar , Muhammad Aqeel Ahmad Khan

Motivated by the extensive application of approximate gradients in machine learning and optimization, we investigate inexact subgradient methods subject to persistent additive errors. Within a nonconvex semialgebraic framework, assuming…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-14 Jérôme Bolte , Tam Le , Éric Moulines , Edouard Pauwels

The Augmented Lagrangian Method as an approach for regularizing inverse problems received much attention recently, e.g. under the name Bregman iteration in imaging. This work shows convergence (rates) for this method when Morozov's…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-04-19 Klaus Frick , Dirk A. Lorenz , Elena Resmerita

Reinforcement learning (RL) has gained attention for aligning large language models (LLMs) via reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF). The actor-only variants of Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) are widely applied for their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-19 Yin Liu , Qiming Dai , Junyu Zhang , Zaiwen Wen

In this paper we aim to minimize the sum of two nonsmooth (possibly also nonconvex) functions in separate variables connected by a smooth coupling function. To tackle this problem we chose a continuous forward-backward approach and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-29 Radu Ioan Bot , Laura Kanzler

We consider the Frank-Wolfe algorithm for solving variational inequalities over compact, convex sets under a monotone $C^1$ operator and vanishing, nonsummable step sizes. We introduce a continuous-time interpolation of the discrete…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-10 Matthew Hough

Different variants of approximate inverse iteration like the locally optimal block preconditioned conjugate gradient method became in recent years increasingly popular for the solution of the large matrix eigenvalue problems arising from…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-15 Harry Yserentant

Variational regularisation is the primary method for solving inverse problems, and recently there has been considerable work leveraging deeply learned regularisation for enhanced performance. However, few results exist addressing the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-18 Zakhar Shumaylov , Jeremy Budd , Subhadip Mukherjee , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

This book deals with functions allowing to express the dissimilarity (discrepancy) between two data fields or ''divergence functions'' with the aim of applications to linear inverse problems. Most of the divergences found in the litterature…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-04 Henri Lantéri

This paper explores a new class of constrained difference programming problems, where the objective and constraints are formulated as differences of functions, without requiring their convexity. To investigate such problems, novel variants…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Boris S. Mordukhovich , Yixia Song , Shangzhi Zeng , Jin Zhang

Nonsmooth composite optimization with orthogonality constraints has a wide range of applications in statistical learning and data science. However, this problem is challenging due to its nonsmooth objective and computationally expensive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Ganzhao Yuan

In this paper, we study a class of nonconvex and nonsmooth structured difference-of-convex (DC) programs, which contain in the convex part the sum of a nonsmooth linearly composed convex function and a differentiable function, and in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-06 Radu Ioan Bot , Rossen Nenov , Min Tao

This paper concerns a class of constrained optimization problems in which, the objective and constraint functions are both upper-$\mathcal{C}^2$. For such nonconvex and nonsmooth optimization problems, we develop an inexact moving balls…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-14 Ruyu Liu , Shaohua Pan

In this paper, we present a convergence rate analysis for the inexact Krasnosel'skii-Mann iteration built from nonexpansive operators. Our results include two main parts: we first establish global pointwise and ergodic iteration-complexity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-09-17 Jingwei Liang , Jalal Fadili , Gabriel Peyré

This paper proposes and develops new linesearch methods with inexact gradient information for finding stationary points of nonconvex continuously differentiable functions on finite-dimensional spaces. Some abstract convergence results for a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-03 Pham Duy Khanh , Boris S. Mordukhovich , Dat Ba Tran

We propose a random coordinate descent algorithm for optimizing a non-convex objective function subject to one linear constraint and simple bounds on the variables. Although it is common use to update only two random coordinates…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-27 Alireza Ghaffari-Hadigheh , Lennart Sinjorgo , Renata Sotirov

In this manuscript, we address continuous unconstrained multi-objective optimization problems and we discuss descent type methods for the reconstruction of the Pareto set. Specifically, we analyze the class of Front Descent methods, which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Matteo Lapucci , Pierluigi Mansueto , Davide Pucci