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The present paper deals with the perturbation analysis of set-valued inclusion problems, a problem format whose relevance has recently emerged in such contexts as robust and vector optimization as well as in vector equilibrium theory. The…

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In this paper, we introduce a new concept of generalized convexity for E-differentiable vector optimization problems. Namely, the notion of exponentially E-invexity is defined. Further, some properties and results of exponentially E-invex…

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A compact version of the variation evolving method (VEM) is developed in the primal variable space for optimal control computation. Following the idea that originates from the Lyapunov continuous-time dynamics stability theory in the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-24 Sheng Zhang , Jiang-Tao Huang , Kai-Feng He , Fei Liao

We propose and compare goal-oriented projection based model order reduction methods for the estimation of vector-valued functionals of the solution of parameter-dependent equations. The first projection method is a generalization of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-22 Olivier Zahm , Marie Billaud-Friess , Anthony Nouy

Many key quantities in statistics and probability theory such as the expectation, quantiles, expectiles and many risk measures are law-determined maps from a space of random variables to the reals. We call such a law-determined map, which…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Tobias Fissler , Ilya Molchanov

This paper considers the problem of minimizing the ordered weighted average (or ordered median) function of finitely many rational functions over compact semi-algebraic sets. Ordered weighted averages of rational functions are not, in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-06-30 V. Blanco , S. El-Haj Ben-Ali , J. Puerto

Variational inference is an umbrella term for algorithms which cast Bayesian inference as optimization. Classically, variational inference uses the Kullback-Leibler divergence to define the optimization. Though this divergence has been…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-16 Rajesh Ranganath , Jaan Altosaar , Dustin Tran , David M. Blei

This paper proposes a variational framework for multi-objective level set topology optimization. The approach interprets the level set function as a generalized coordinate of a fictitious material and derives its equation of motion from…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-25 Jan Oellerich , Takayuki Yamada

We introduce estimatable variation neural networks (EVNNs), a class of neural networks that allow a computationally cheap estimate on the $BV$ norm motivated by the space $BMV$ of functions with bounded M-variation. We prove a universal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-14 Mária Lukáčová-Medviďová , Simon Schneider

If $u : \Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^d \to {\rm X}$ is a harmonic map valued in a metric space ${\rm X}$ and ${\sf E} : {\rm X} \to \mathbb{R}$ is a convex function, in the sense that it generates an ${\rm EVI}_0$-gradient flow, we prove that…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-07-21 Hugo Lavenant , Léonard Monsaingeon , Luca Tamanini , Dmitry Vorotnikov

An application area of vertex enumeration problem (VEP) is the usage within objective space based linear/convex {vector} optimization algorithms whose aim is to generate (an approximation of) the Pareto frontier. In such algorithms, VEP,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-30 Irfan Caner Kaya , Firdevs Ulus

Ordinal embedding aims at finding a low dimensional representation of objects from a set of constraints of the form "item $j$ is closer to item $i$ than item $k$". Typically, each object is mapped onto a point vector in a low dimensional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Aïssatou Diallo , Johannes Fürnkranz

We consider Borwein-Preiss and Ekeland variational principles using distance functions that neither is symmetric nor enjoy the triangular inequality. All the given results rely exclusively on the convergence and continuity behaviors induced…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-30 Natthaya Boonyam , Parin Chaipunya , Poom Kumam

The compact Variation Evolving Method (VEM) that originates from the continuous-time dynamics stability theory seeks the optimal solutions with variation evolution principle. It is further developed to be more flexible in solving the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-12-29 Sheng Zhang , En-Mi Yong , Wei-Qi Qian

In this paper, we propose a general algorithmic framework for first-order methods in optimization in a broad sense, including minimization problems, saddle-point problems, and variational inequalities. This framework allows obtaining many…

Recently defined expectile regions capture the idea of centrality with respect to a multivariate distribution, but fail to describe the tail behavior while it is not at all clear what should be understood by a tail of a multivariate…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-12-18 Ha Thi Khanh Linh , Andreas H Hamel

In this paper, we mainly focus on the set-valued (stochastic) analysis on the space of convex, closed, but possibly unbounded sets, and try to establish a useful theoretical framework for studying the set-valued stochastic differential…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-03-26 Atiqah Almuzaini , Jin Ma

An effective form of the Variation Evolving Method (VEM), which originates from the continuous-time dynamics stability theory, is developed for the classic time-optimal control problem with control constraint. Within the mathematic…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-11-09 Sheng Zhang , Wei-Qi Qian

We consider the task of fitting low-dimensional embeddings to high-dimensional data. In particular, we study the $k$-Euclidean Metric Violation problem ($\textsf{$k$-EMV}$), where the input is $D \in \mathbb{R}^{\binom{n}{2}}_{\geq 0}$ and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Prashanti Anderson , Ainesh Bakshi , Samuel B. Hopkins

In this work we deal with set-valued functions with values in the power set of a separated locally convex space where a nontrivial pointed convex cone induces a partial order relation. A set-valued function is evenly convex if its epigraph…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-13 M. D. Fajardo