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The goal of this paper is to settle the study of non-commutative optimal transport problems with convex regularization, in their static and finite-dimensional formulations. We consider both the balanced and unbalanced problem and show in…

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Local certification is a topic originating from distributed computing, where a prover tries to convince the vertices of a graph $G$ that $G$ satisfies some property $\mathcal{P}$. To convince the vertices, the prover gives a small piece of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Louis Esperet , Sébastien Zeitoun

In this paper, we focus on the following general shape optimization problem: $$ \min\{J(\Om), \Om convex, \Om\in\mathcal S_{ad}\}, $$ where $\mathcal S_{ad}$ is a set of 2-dimensional admissible shapes and $J:\mathcal{S}_{ad}\to\R$ is a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-02-19 Jimmy Lamboley , Arian Novruzi

We build a class of polynomial problems with not polynomial certificates. The parameter concerning which are defined efficiency of corresponding algorithms is the number $n$ of elements of the set has used at construction of combinatory…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2013-02-22 B. S. Kochkarev

We study convex optimization problems where disjoint blocks of variables are controlled by binary indicator variables that are also subject to conditions, e.g., cardinality. Several classes of important examples can be formulated in such a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-19 Daniel Bienstock , Tongtong Chen

Geometric hitting set problems, in which we seek a smallest set of points that collectively hit a given set of ranges, are ubiquitous in computational geometry. Most often, the set is discrete and is given explicitly. We propose new…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Jean Cardinal , Xavier Goaoc , Sarah Wajsbrot

The first part of this work established the foundations of a radial duality between nonnegative optimization problems, inspired by the work of (Renegar, 2016). Here we utilize our radial duality theory to design and analyze projection-free…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-15 Benjamin Grimmer

We provide a solution method for the polyhedral convex set optimization problem, that is, the problem to minimize a set-valued mapping with polyhedral convex graph with respect to a set ordering relation which is generated by a polyhedral…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-27 Andreas Löhne

The problem of minimizing a polynomial over a set of polynomial inequalities is an NP-hard non-convex problem. Thanks to powerful results from real algebraic geometry, one can convert this problem into a nested sequence of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-26 Victor Magron , Jie Wang

We present a hierarchy of tractable relaxations to obtain lower bounds on the minimum value of a polynomial over a constraint set defined by polynomial equations. In contrast to previous convex relaxation techniques for this problem, our…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-23 Elvira Moreno , Venkat Chandrasekaran

L$^\natural$ (natural)-convex functions encompass a large class of nonlinear functions over general integer domains and arise in a wide range of real-world applications. We explore the minimization of L$^\natural$-convex functions, of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-26 Qimeng Yu , Simge Küçükyavuz

We investigate the convergence of the primal-dual algorithm for composite optimization problems when the objective functions are weakly convex. We introduce a modified duality gap function, which is a lower bound of the standard duality gap…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-29 Ewa Bednarczuk , The Hung Tran , Monika Syga

Every convex optimization problem has a dual problem. The $p$-Dirichlet problem in metric measure spaces is an optimization problem whose solutions are $p$-harmonic functions. What is its dual problem? In this paper, we give an answer to…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-02-04 Sylvester Eriksson-Bique , Saara Sarsa

Extension problems for polynomial valuations on different cones of convex functions are investigated. It is shown that for the classes of functions under consideration, the extension problem reduces to a simple geometric obstruction on the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-14 Jonas Knoerr , Jacopo Ulivelli

A new primal-dual algorithm is presented for solving a class of non-convex minimization problems. This algorithm is based on canonical duality theory such that the original non-convex minimization problem is first reformulated as a…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2013-01-01 Changzhi Wu , Chaojie Li , David Yang Gao

The paper deals with the optimal control problem described by second order evolution differential inclusions; to this end first we use an auxiliary problem with second order discrete and discrete-approximate inclusions. Then applying…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-18 Elimhan N. Mahmudov

In this paper we consider two problems in frame theory. On the one hand, given a set of vectors $\mathcal F$ we describe the spectral and geometrical structure of optimal completions of $\mathcal F$ by a finite family of vectors with…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2012-06-19 Pedro G. Massey , Mariano A. Ruiz , Demetrio Stojanoff

Hidden convexity is a powerful idea in optimization: under the right transformations, nonconvex problems that are seemingly intractable can be solved efficiently using convex optimization. We introduce the notion of a Lagrangian dual…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-07 Venkat Chandrasekaran , Timothy Duff , Jose Israel Rodriguez , Kevin Shu

Modeling parts of an optimization problem as an optimal value function that depends on a top-level decision variable is a regular occurrence in optimization and an essential ingredient for methods such as Benders Decomposition. It often…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-01 Markus Gabl , Immanuel Bomze

In decision-making problems under uncertainty, probabilistic constraints are a valuable tool to express safety of decisions. They result from taking the probability measure of a given set of random inequalities depending on the decision…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-09 Yassine Laguel , Wim van Ackooij , Jérôme Malick , Guilherme Ramalho