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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

We study non-convex subgradient flows for training two-layer ReLU neural networks from a convex geometry and duality perspective. We characterize the implicit bias of unregularized non-convex gradient flow as convex regularization of an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Yifei Wang , Mert Pilanci

In the recent paper of Giorgi, Jim\'enez and Novo (J Optim Theory Appl 171:70--89, 2016), the authors introduced the so-called approximate Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (AKKT) condition for smooth multiobjective optimization problems and obtained some…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-16 Nguyen Van Tuyen , Jen-Chih Yao , Ching-Feng Wen

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

We develop refined Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) and Fritz-John (FJ)-type optimality conditions for nonsmooth, nonconvex mathematical pro\-gra\-mming problems. We pay special attention in the case that the functional constraint belongs to a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Felipe Lara , Alberto Ramos

In this paper, we provide conditions under which one can take derivatives of the solution to convex optimization problems with respect to problem data. These conditions are (roughly) that Slater's condition holds, the functions involved are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-13 Shane Barratt

We provide conditions ensuring that the KKT-type conditions characterizes the global optimality for quadratically constrained (possibly nonconvex) quadratic programming QCQP problems in Hilbert spaces. The key property is the convexity of a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-15 Ewa M. Bednarczuk , Giovanni Bruccola

Consider a convex function that is invariant under an group of transformations. If it has a minimizer, does it also have an invariant minimizer? Variants of this problem appear in nonparametric statistics and in a number of adjacent fields.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-07-22 Peter Orbanz

We consider the convex optimization problem P: min {f(x): x in K} where "f" is convex continuously differentiable, and K is a compact convex set in Rn with representation {x: g_j(x) >=0, j=1,;;,m} for some continuously differentiable…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-01-29 Jean-Bernard Lasserre

We study global optimization of non-convex functions through optimal control theory. Our main result establishes that (quasi-)optimal trajectories of a discounted control problem converge globally and practically asymptotically to the set…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-17 Yuyang Huang , Dante Kalise , Hicham Kouhkouh

In this paper, we obtain necessary optimality conditions for neural network approximation. We consider neural networks in Manhattan ($l_1$ norm) and Chebyshev ($\max$ norm). The optimality conditions are based on neural networks with at…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-24 Vinesha Peiris , Nadezda Sukhorukova , Julien Ugon

In this paper, we propose second-order sufficient optimality conditions for a very general nonconvex constrained optimization problem, which covers many prominent mathematical programs.Unlike the existing results in the literature, our…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-24 Matus Benko , Helmut Gfrerer , Jane Ye , Jin Zhang , Jinchuan Zhou

In this paper, we present an interior point algorithm with a full-Newton step for solving a linearly constrained convex optimization problem, in which we propose a generalization of the work of Kheirfam and Nasrollahi…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-19 Aicha Kraria , Bachir Merikhi , Djamel Benterki

This paper shows how a class of non-convex optimization problems constrained by discretized nonlinear partial differential equations may be solved to global optimality using an interior point continuation method. The solution procedure…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-13 Jorn Baayen , Teresa Piovesan , Jesse VanderWees

Some necessary and sufficient optimality conditions for inequality constrained problems with continuously differentiable data were obtained in the papers [I. Ginchev and V.I. Ivanov, Second-order optimality conditions for problems with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-24 Vsevolod I. Ivanov

Solutions to nonlinear, nonconvex optimization problems can fail to satisfy the KKT optimality conditions even when they are optimal. This is due to the fact that unless constraint qualifications (CQ) are satisfied, Lagrange multipliers may…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-11 Adrian Hauswirth , Saverio Bolognani , Gabriela Hug , Florian Dörfler

This work concerns the local convergence theory of Newton and quasi-Newton methods for convex-composite optimization: minimize f(x):=h(c(x)), where h is an infinite-valued proper convex function and c is C^2-smooth. We focus on the case…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-19 James V. Burke , Abraham Engle

We study a cardinality-constrained optimization problem with nonnegative variables in this paper. This problem is often encountered in practice. Firstly we study some properties on the optimal solutions of this optimization problem under…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-04 Zhongyi Jiang , Baiyi Wu , Qiying Hu

The DC optimal power flow (DCOPF) problem is a fundamental problem in power systems operations and planning. With high penetration of uncertain renewable resources in power systems, DCOPF needs to be solved repeatedly for a large amount of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-22 Ling Zhang , Yize Chen , Baosen Zhang

In this paper we consider three minimization problems, namely quadratic, $\rho$-convex and quadratic fractional programing problems. The quadratic problem is considered with quadratic inequality constraints with bounded continuous and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-09 B. Muraleetharan , S. Selvarajan , S. Srisatkunarajah , K. Thirulogasanthar