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We present a new algorithm for solving optimization problems with objective functions that are the sum of a smooth function and a (potentially) nonsmooth regularization function, and nonlinear equality constraints. The algorithm may be…

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This article provides quasi-optimal a priori error estimates for an optimal control problem constrained by an elliptic obstacle problem where the finite element discretization is carried out using the symmetric interior penalty…

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We propose a novel stochastic distributed method for both monotone and strongly monotone variational inequalities with Lipschitz operator and proper convex regularizers arising in various applications from game theory to adversarial…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-07 Aleksandr Beznosikov , Darina Dvinskikh , Dmitry Bylinkin , Andrei Semenov , Alexander Gasnikov

In this article, two methods for solving mean-field type optimal control problems are proposed and investigated. The two methods are iterative methods: at each iteration, a Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation is solved, for a terminal…

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We introduce a new and efficient numerical method for multicriterion optimal control and single criterion optimal control under integral constraints. The approach is based on extending the state space to include information on a "budget"…

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Navigating a collision-free and optimal trajectory for a robot is a challenging task, particularly in environments with moving obstacles such as humans. We formulate this problem as a stochastic optimal control problem. Since solving the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-17 Seyyed Reza Jafari , Anders Hansson , Bo Wahlberg

We investigate the numerical approximation of an elliptic optimal control problem which involves a nonconvex local regularization of the $L^q$-quasinorm penalization (with $q\in(0,1)$) in the cost function. Our approach is based on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-26 Pedro Merino , Alexander Nenjer

When an inverse problem is solved by a gradient-based optimization algorithm, the corresponding forward and adjoint problems, which are introduced to compute the gradient, can be also solved iteratively. The idea of iterating at the same…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-23 Marcella Bonazzoli , Houssem Haddar , Tuan Anh Vu

Sparse solution problems play an important role in both signal processing and image restoration. In this paper, we propose a stochastic column-block nonlinear Bregman method for efficiently computing sparse solutions to nonlinear systems.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Wendi Bao , Naiyu Jiang , Lili Xing , Weiguo Li

The paper presents new sufficient conditions for the property of strong bi-metric regularity of the optimality map associated with an optimal control problem which is affine with respect to the control variable ({\em affine problem}). The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-19 Alberto Domínguez Corella , Marc Quincampoix , Vladimir Veliov

We consider the nonstationary iterated Tikhonov regularization in Banach spaces which defines the iterates via minimization problems with uniformly convex penalty term. The penalty term is allowed to be non-smooth to include $L^1$ and total…

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The entropy regularization is inspired by information entropy from machine learning and the ideas of exploration and exploitation in reinforcement learning, which appears in the control problem to design an approximating algorithm for the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-21 Ziyue Chen , Qi Zhang

PDE-constrained optimal control problems require regularisation to ensure well-posedness, introducing small perturbations that make the solutions challenging to approximate accurately. We propose a finite element approach that couples both…

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The paper addresses an optimal control problem for a perturbed sweeping process of the rate-independent hysteresis type described by a controlled "play and stop" operator with separately controlled perturbations. This problem can be reduced…

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This paper investigates iterative methods for solving bi-level optimization problems where both inner and outer functions have a composite structure. We establish novel theoretical results, including the first analysis that provides…

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A class of stochastic optimal control problems involving optimal stopping is considered. Methods of Krylov are adapted to investigate the numerical solutions of the corresponding normalized Bellman equations and to estimate the rate of…

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The article poses a general model for optimal control subject to information constraints, motivated in part by recent work of Sims and others on information-constrained decision-making by economic agents. In the average-cost optimal control…

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In order to solve continuous-time optimal control problems, direct methods transcribe the infinite-dimensional problem to a nonlinear program (NLP) using numerical integration methods. In cases where the integration error can be manipulated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-18 Jakob Harzer , Jochem De Schutter , Moritz Diehl

We investigate Tikhonov regularization methods for nonlinear ill-posed problems in Banach spaces, where the penalty term is described by Bregman distances. We prove convergence and stability results. Moreover, using appropriate source…

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