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Topology optimization of frame structures under free-vibration eigenvalue constraints constitutes a challenging nonconvex polynomial optimization problem with disconnected feasible sets. In this article, we first formulate it as a…

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A broad class of convex optimization problems can be formulated as a semidefinite program (SDP), minimization of a convex function over the positive-semidefinite cone subject to some affine constraints. The majority of classical SDP solvers…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-30 Francesco Locatello , Alp Yurtsever , Olivier Fercoq , Volkan Cevher

In this article, we derive first-order necessary optimality conditions for a constrained optimal control problem formulated in the Wasserstein space of probability measures. To this end, we introduce a new notion of localised metric…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-28 Benoît Bonnet , Hélène Frankowska

Minimax optimization problems are an important class of optimization problems arising from both modern machine learning and from traditional research areas. We focus on the stability of constrained minimax optimization problems based on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-11 Yu-Hong Dai , Liwei Zhang

One of the most ubiquitous problems in optimization is that of finding all the elements of a finite set at which a function $f$ attains its minimum (or maximum). When the codomain of $f$ is equipped with a total order, it is easy to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Patrik Jansson , Nicola Botta , Tim Richter

We show that any submodular minimization (SM) problem defined on a linear constraint set with constraints having up to two variables per inequality, are 2-approximable in polynomial time. If the constraints are monotone (the two variables…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-05-01 Dorit S. Hochbaum

We introduce an S.o.S hierarchy of lower bounds for a polynomial optimization problem whose constraint is expressed as a matrix polynomial semidefinite inequality. Our approach involves utilizing a penalty function framework to directly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Hoang Anh Tran , Kim-Chuan Toh

Optimality conditions are central to analysis of optimization problems, characterizing necessary criteria for local minima. Formalizing the optimality conditions within the type-theory-based proof assistant Lean4 provides a precise, robust,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-25 Chenyi Li , Shengyang Xu , Chumin Sun , Li Zhou , Zaiwen Wen

We investigate conditions of optimality for an infinite horizon control problem and consider their correspondence with the value function. Assuming Lipschitz continuity of the value function, we prove that sensitivity relations plus the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-07-20 Dmitry Khlopin

In the present paper, we are concerned with a class of constrained vector optimization problems, where the objective functions and active constraint functions are locally Lipschitz at the referee point. Some second-order constraint…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-14 Yi-Bin Xiao , Nguyen Van Tuyen , Ching-Feng Wen , Jen-Chih Yao

The Frank-Wolfe (FW) method is a popular approach for solving optimization problems with structured constraints that arise in machine learning applications. In recent years, stochastic versions of FW have gained popularity, motivated by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-17 Aleksandr Beznosikov , David Dobre , Gauthier Gidel

In this work, the notions of normal cones at infinity to unbounded sets and limiting and singular subdifferentials at infinity for extended real value functions are introduced. Various calculus rules for these notions objects are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-01 Do Sang Kim , Minh Tung Nguyen , Tien Son Pham

Given a finite sequence of vectors $\mathcal F_0$ in $\C^d$ we describe the spectral and geometrical structure of optimal completions of $\mathcal F_0$ obtained by adding a finite sequence of vectors with prescribed norms, where optimality…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2012-06-19 P. Massey , M. Ruiz , D. Stojanoff

Motivated by the problem of optimal portfolio liquidation under transient price impact, we study the minimization of energy functionals with completely monotone displacement kernel under an integral constraint. The corresponding minimizers…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-15 Alexander Schied , Elias Strehle

The object of investigation in this paper are vector nonlinear programming problems with cone constraints. We introduce the notion of a Fritz John pseudoinvex cone-constrained vector problem. We prove that a problem with cone constraints is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-08-26 Vsevolod I. Ivanov

We present an optimization problem emerging from optimal control theory and situated at the intersection of fractional programming and linear max-min programming on polytopes. A na\"ive solution would require solving four nested, possibly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-19 Jean-Baptiste Bouvier , Melkior Ornik

We investigate the value function of an infinite horizon variational problem in the infinite-dimensional setting. Firstly, we provide an upper estimate of its Dini--Hadamard subdifferential in terms of the Clarke subdifferential of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-11 Hélène Frankowska , Nobusumi Sagara

We establish new results of first-order necessary conditions of optimality for finite-dimensional problems with inequality constraints and for problems with equality and inequality constraints, in the form of John's theorem and in the form…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-09-09 Joël Blot

This paper provides necessary and sufficient conditions of optimality for variational problems that deal with a fractional derivative with respect to another function. Fractional Euler--Lagrange equations are established for the fundamental…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-06 Ricardo Almeida

Symmetric quantum signal processing provides a parameterized representation of a real polynomial, which can be translated into an efficient quantum circuit for performing a wide range of computational tasks on quantum computers. For a given…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-09 Jiasu Wang , Yulong Dong , Lin Lin