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In general, standard necessary optimality conditions cannot be formulated in a straightforward manner for semi-smooth shape optimization problems. In this paper, we consider shape optimization problems constrained by variational…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-17 Daniel Luft , Volker H. Schulz , Kathrin Welker

This paper describes a new approach on optimization of constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) by means of substituting sub-CSPs with locally consistent regular membership constraints. The purpose of this approach is to reduce the number of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-08-19 Sven Löffler , Ke Liu , Petra Hofstedt

For a general nonlinear control system, we study the problem of small time local attainability of a target which is the closure of an open set. When the target is smooth and locally the sublevel set of a smooth function, we develop second…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-10 Pierpaolo Soravia

Estimating the regular normal cone to constraint systems plays an important role for the derivation of sharp necessary optimality conditions. We present two novel approaches and introduce a new stationarity concept which is stronger than…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-21 Matúš Benko , Helmut Gfrerer

This paper addresses problems of second-order cone programming important in optimization theory and applications. The main attention is paid to the augmented Lagrangian method (ALM) for such problems considered in both exact and inexact…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-07 Nguyen T. V. Hang , Boris S. Mordukhovich , M. Ebrahim Sarabi

A broad class of optimization problems can be cast in composite form, that is, considering the minimization of the composition of a lower semicontinuous function with a differentiable mapping. This paper investigates the versatile template…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-07 Alberto De Marchi , Patrick Mehlitz

In the work, the property of the second-order subdifferential is studied and second-order optimality conditions are obtained for the minimization problem. We also obtained necessary and sufficient conditions for an extremum for the extremal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-23 M. A. Sadygov

In this paper, we derive explicit second-order necessary and sufficient optimality conditions of a local minimizer to an optimal control problem for a quasilinear second-order partial differential equation with a piecewise smooth but not…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-13 Christian Clason , Vu Huu Nhu , Arnd Rösch

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Tianyi Lin , Panayotis Mertikopoulos , Michael I. Jordan

The paper addresses general constrained and non-linear optimization problems. For some of these notoriously hard problems, there exists a reformulation as an unconstrained, global optimization problem. We illustrate the transformation, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-13 Vladimir Norkin , Alois Pichler

Convex optimization problems with staged structure appear in several contexts, including optimal control, verification of deep neural networks, and isotonic regression. Off-the-shelf solvers can solve these problems but may scale poorly. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-28 Rudy Bunel , Oliver Hinder , Srinadh Bhojanapalli , Krishnamurthy , Dvijotham

Simple cardinality refers to counting nonzero elements of an independent variable satisfying certain properties. Composite cardinality is a simple counting process composited with an affine mapping, and is therefore more complicated than…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Penghe Zhang , Naihua Xiu , Houduo Qi

Implicit variables of an optimization problem are used to model variationally challenging feasibility conditions in a tractable way while not entering the objective function. Hence, it is a standard approach to treat implicit variables as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-01 Patrick Mehlitz

Much is known about when a locally optimal solution depends in a single-valued Lipschitz continuous way on the problem's parameters, including tilt perturbations. Much less is known, however, about when that solution and a uniquely…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-02 Matus Benko , R. Tyrrell Rockafellar

In this paper, we investigate the multi-objective optimal control problem of ordinary differential equations on Riemannian manifolds. We first obtain the second-order necessary conditions for weak Pareto optimal solutions for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-14 Li Deng

In this chapter, we are concerned with inverse optimal control problems, i.e., optimization models which are used to identify parameters in optimal control problems from given measurements. Here, we focus on linear-quadratic optimal control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-27 Stephan Dempe , Markus Friedemann , Felix Harder , Patrick Mehlitz , Gerd Wachsmuth

In this paper, we consider a class of non-convex and non-smooth sparse optimization problems, which encompass most existing nonconvex sparsity-inducing terms. We show the second-order optimality conditions only depend on the nonzeros of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-13 Luwei Bai , Yaohua Hu , Hao Wang , Xiaoqi Yang

Optimality conditions in the form of a variational inequality are proved for a class of constrained optimal control problems of stochastic differential equations. The cost function and the inequality constraints are functions of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-13 Laurent Pfeiffer

Our recent study (Lin and Ohtsuka, 2024) proposed a new penalty method for solving mathematical programming with complementarity constraints (MPCC). This method first reformulates MPCC as a parameterized nonlinear programming called gap…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-16 Kangyu Lin , Toshiyuki Ohtsuka

We consider simple bilevel optimization problems where the goal is to compute among the optimal solutions of a composite convex optimization problem, one that minimizes a secondary objective function. Our main contribution is threefold. (i)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-14 Sepideh Samadi , Daniel Burbano , Farzad Yousefian