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We present an algorithm for learning parametric constraints from locally-optimal demonstrations, where the cost function being optimized is uncertain to the learner. Our method uses the Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) optimality conditions of the…

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Motivated by some applications in signal processing and machine learning, we consider two convex optimization problems where, given a cone $K$, a norm $\|\cdot\|$ and a smooth convex function $f$, we want either 1) to minimize the norm over…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-03-29 Zaid Harchaoui , Anatoli Juditsky , Arkadi Nemirovski

We study the geometry of the second-order expansion of the extended end-point map for the sub-Riemannian geodesic problem. Translating the geometric reality into equations we derive new second-order necessary optimality conditions in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-08-14 Michał Jóźwikowski

In this paper we provide sufficient conditions that ensure the existence of the solution of some vector equilibrium problems in Hausdorff topological vector spaces ordered by a cone. The conditions that we consider are imposed not on the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2015-02-03 Szilard Laszlo

We propose and analyze several inexact regularized Newton-type methods for finding a global saddle point of convex-concave unconstrained min-max optimization problems. Compared to first-order methods, our understanding of second-order…

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We consider an optimization problem subject to an abstract constraint and finitely many nonlinear constraints. Using the recently introduced concept of $n$-polyhedricity, we are able to provide second-order optimality conditions under weak…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-22 Gerd Wachsmuth

We consider variants of a recently-developed Newton-CG algorithm for nonconvex problems \citep{royer2018newton} in which inexact estimates of the gradient and the Hessian information are used for various steps. Under certain conditions on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-12 Zhewei Yao , Peng Xu , Fred Roosta , Stephen J. Wright , Michael W. Mahoney

In this article, we prove second-order necessary optimality conditions for the so-called time crisis problem that comes up within the context of viability theory. It consists in minimizing the time spent by solutions of a controlled…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-15 Laurent Pfeiffer , Terence Bayen

We establish explicit data-dependent and symmetric characterizations of the subdifferential of the supremum of convex functions, formulated directly in terms of the underlying data functions. In our approach, both active and non-active…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Stephanie Caro , Abderrahim Hantoute

In this article we establish new second order necessary and sufficient optimality conditions for a class of control-affine problems with a scalar control and a scalar state constraint. These optimality conditions extend to the constrained…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-15 M. Soledad Aronna , Frédéric Bonnans , Bean San Goh

The paper is devoted to the study of the twice epi-differentiablity of extended-real-valued functions, with an emphasis on functions satisfying a certain composite representation. This will be conducted under the parabolic regularity, a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-15 Ashkan Mohammadi , M. Ebrahim Sarabi

We study the time optimal control problem with a general target $\mathcal S$ for a class of differential inclusions that satisfy mild smoothness and controllability assumptions. In particular, we do not require Petrov's condition at the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-11-19 Piermarco Cannarsa , Antonio Marigonda , Khai T. Nguyen

In this article we study optimal control problems for systems that are affine in one part of the control variable. Finitely many equality and inequality constraints on the initial and final values of the state are considered. We investigate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-15 M. Soledad Aronna

This paper develops a sliding mode control based frame work for equality constrained optimization by reformulation the first order Karush Kuhn Tucker conditions as control affine dynamical system. The optimization variables are treated as…

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The aim of this work is to study, from an intrinsic and geometric point of view, second-order constrained variational problems on Lie algebroids, that is, optimization problems defined by a cost functional which depends on higher-order…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-01-18 Leonardo Colombo

We develop a comprehensive study on sharp potential type Riemannian Sobolev inequalities of order 2 by means of a local geometric Sobolev inequality of same kind and suitable De Giorgi-Nash-Moser estimates. In particular we discuss…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-11-29 Ezequiel R. Barbosa , Marcos Montenegro

In general, the system of $2$nd-order partial differential equations made of the Euler-Lagrange equations of classical field theories are not compatible for singular Lagrangians. This is the so-called second-order problem. The first aim of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-02-02 David Adame-Carrillo , Jordi Gaset , Narciso Román-Roy

Minimax optimization problems arises from both modern machine learning including generative adversarial networks, adversarial training and multi-agent reinforcement learning, as well as from tradition research areas such as saddle point…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Yu-HOng Dai , Liwei Zhang

Motivated, in particular, by the entropy-regularized optimal transport problem, we consider convex optimization problems with linear equality constraints, where the dual objective has Lipschitz $p$-th order derivatives, and develop two…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-11 Pavel Dvurechensky , Petr Ostroukhov , Alexander Gasnikov , César A. Uribe , Anastasiya Ivanova

In this paper, we study the perturbation analysis of a class of composite optimization problems, which is a very convenient and unified framework for developing both theoretical and algorithmic issues of constrained optimization problems.…

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