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The motivation of this paper is the development of an optimisation method for solving optimisation problems appearing in Chebyshev rational and generalised rational approximation problems, where the approximations are constructed as ratios…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-06 R. Díaz Millán , Nadezda Sukhorukova , Julien Ugon

Optimization problems involving mixed variables (i.e., variables of numerical and categorical nature) can be challenging to solve, especially in the presence of mixed-variable constraints. Moreover, when the objective function is the result…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-12 Mengjia Zhu , Alberto Bemporad

We present an extension of our GPGCD method, an iterative method for calculating approximate greatest common divisor (GCD) of univariate polynomials, to polynomials with the complex coefficients. For a given pair of polynomials and a…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2010-07-13 Akira Terui

In this paper, we study the global optimality of polynomial portfolio optimization (PPO). The PPO is a kind of portfolio selection model with high-order moments and flexible risk preference parameters. We introduce a perturbation sample…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Liu Yang , Yi Yang , Suhan Zhong

In this paper we develop an optimisation based approach to multivariate Chebyshev approximation on a finite grid. We consider two models: multivariate polynomial approximation and multivariate generalised rational approximation. In the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-30 R. Díaz Millán , V. Peiris , N. Sukhorukova , J. Ugon

Given real numbers whose sum is an integer, we study the problem of finding integers which match these real numbers as closely as possible, in the sense of L^p norm, while preserving the sum. We describe the structure of solutions for this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-01-05 Rama Cont , Massoud Heidari

We determine the power of the weighted sum scalarization with respect to the computation of approximations for general multiobjective minimization and maximization problems. Additionally, we introduce a new multi-factor notion of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Cristina Bazgan , Stefan Ruzika , Clemens Thielen , Daniel Vanderpooten

This paper investigates solving convex composite optimization on an undirected network, where each node, privately endowed with a smooth component function and a nonsmooth one, is required to minimize the sum of all the component functions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-13 Xuyang Wu , Jie Lu

This paper presents a practical method for finding the globally optimal solution to the sum-of-ratios problem arising in image processing, engineering and management. Unlike traditional methods which may get trapped in local minima due to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-08-07 Yunchol Jong

Polynomial optimization problems represent a wide class of optimization problems, with a large number of real-world applications. Current approaches for polynomial optimization, such as the sum of squares (SOS) method, rely on large-scale…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-04 Dimitris Bertsimas , Dick den Hertog , Thodoris Koukouvinos

This paper proposes a robust approximation method for solving chance constrained optimization (CCO) of polynomials. Assume the CCO is defined with an individual chance constraint that is affine in the decision variables. We construct a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-27 Bo Rao , Liu Yang , Suhan Zhong , Guangming Zhou

We consider the following basic problem: given an $n$-variate degree-$d$ homogeneous polynomial $f$ with real coefficients, compute a unit vector $x \in \mathbb{R}^n$ that maximizes $|f(x)|$. Besides its fundamental nature, this problem…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Vijay Bhattiprolu , Mrinalkanti Ghosh , Venkatesan Guruswami , Euiwoong Lee , Madhur Tulsiani

The purpose of the paper is to provide a characterization of the error of the best polynomial approximation of composite functions in weighted spaces. Such a characterization is essential for the convergence analysis of numerical methods…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-14 Luisa Fermo , Concetta Laurita , Maria Grazia Russo

This paper proposes a Riemannian Multiobjective Proximal Gradient Method (RMPGM) for composite optimization problems on manifolds. Unlike scalarization-based approaches, the proposed framework directly handles vector-valued objectives and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Kangming Chen

Finding a \emph{single} best solution is the most common objective in combinatorial optimization problems. However, such a single solution may not be applicable to real-world problems as objective functions and constraints are only…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Tesshu Hanaka , Masashi Kiyomi , Yasuaki Kobayashi , Yusuke Kobayashi , Kazuhiro Kurita , Yota Otachi

In this paper, "chance optimization" problems are introduced, where one aims at maximizing the probability of a set defined by polynomial inequalities. These problems are, in general, nonconvex and computationally hard. With the objective…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-05-12 Ashkan Jasour , Necdet Serhat Aybat , Constantino Lagoa

This paper can be seen as an attempt of rethinking the {\em Extra-Gradient Philosophy} for solving Variational Inequality Problems. We show that the properly defined {\em Reduced Gradients} can be used instead for finding approximate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-05 Yurii Nesterov

The purpose of this note is to survey a methodology to solve systems of polynomial equations and inequalities. The techniques we discuss use the algebra of multivariate polynomials with coefficients over a field to create large-scale linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-12-08 Jesus A. De Loera , Peter N. Malkin , Pablo A. Parrilo

We consider the problem of finding the global optimum of a real-valued complex polynomial on a compact set defined by real-valued complex polynomial inequalities. It reduces to solving a sequence of complex semidefinite programming…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-03 Cédric Josz , Daniel K. Molzahn

We present an iterative algorithm for calculating approximate greatest common divisor (GCD) of univariate polynomials with the real or the complex coefficients. For a given pair of polynomials and a degree, our algorithm finds a pair of…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2016-05-12 Akira Terui