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Understanding the topology of sublevel sets yields crucial insights into the optimization landscape of non-convex functions. If sublevel sets are connected, local search algorithms are less likely to be trapped in isolated valleys,…

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Geometric duality theory for multiple objective linear programming problems turned out to be very useful for the development of efficient algorithms to generate or approximate the whole set of nondominated points in the outcome space. This…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-09-19 Frank Heyde

We consider the problem of convergence to a saddle point of a concave-convex function via gradient dynamics. Since first introduced by Arrow, Hurwicz and Uzawa in [1] such dynamics have been extensively used in diverse areas, there are,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-06 Thomas Holding , Ioannis Lestas

A homological selection theorem for C-spaces, as well as, a finite-dimensional homological selection theorem is established. We apply the finite-dimensional homological selection theorem to obtain fixed-point theorems for usco homologically…

General Topology · Mathematics 2017-02-14 Vesko Valov

Based on the needs of convergence proofs of preconditioned proximal point methods, we introduce notions of partial strong submonotonicity and partial (metric) subregularity of set-valued maps. We study relationships between these two…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-02 Tuomo Valkonen

The aim of this paper is to establish a theory of Galerkin approximations to the space of convex and compact subsets of $\R^d$ with favorable properties, both from a theoretical and from a computational perspective. These Galerkin spaces…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-20 Janosch Rieger

This paper provides characterizations of the weak solutions of optimization problems where a given vector function $F,$ from a decision space $X$ to an objective space $Y$, is "minimized" on the set of elements $x\in C$ (where $C\subset X$…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-02-11 Nguyen Dinh , Miguel A. Goberna , Dang H. Long , Marco A. López

For a real valued function, a point is critical if its derivatives are zero, and a critical point is a saddle point if it is not a local extrema. In this paper, we study algorithms to find saddle points of general Morse index. Our approach…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-06-22 C. H. Jeffrey Pang

This paper establishes novel fixed point theorems for Kannan-type and Chatterjea-type mappings in probabilistic cone metric spaces. By integrating probabilistic distance functions with cone-valued structures, we generalize classical fixed…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-10 Elvin Rada

This article establishes a method to answer a finite set of linear queries on a given dataset while ensuring differential privacy. To achieve this, we formulate the corresponding task as a saddle-point problem, i.e. an optimization problem…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-11-05 Giorgio Micali , Clement Lezane , Annika Betken

A central challenge to using first-order methods for optimizing nonconvex problems is the presence of saddle points. First-order methods often get stuck at saddle points, greatly deteriorating their performance. Typically, to escape from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-06 Sashank J Reddi , Manzil Zaheer , Suvrit Sra , Barnabas Poczos , Francis Bach , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , Alexander J Smola

In this paper, we derive new estimates for the remainder term of the midpoint, trapezoid, and Simpson formulae for functions whose derivatives in absolute value at certain power are ({\alpha},m)-convex.

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2012-07-11 Imdat Iscan

In this paper, we study a solution approach for set optimization problems with respect to the lower set less relation. This approach can serve as a base for numerically solving set optimization problems by using established solvers from…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-27 Gabriele Eichfelder , Ernest Quintana , Stefan Rocktäschel

In this paper, the generalized shift-splitting preconditioner is implemented for saddle point problems with symmetric positive definite (1,1)-block and symmetric positive semidefinite (2,2)-block. The proposed preconditioner is extracted…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-03 Davod Khojasteh Salkuyeh , Mohsen Masoudi , Davod Hezari

In this work, we study the asymptotic randomness of an algorithmic estimator of the saddle point of a globally convex-concave and locally strongly-convex strongly-concave objective. Specifically, we show that the averaged iterates of a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-07 Abhishek Roy , Yi-An Ma

Vectorization is a technique that replaces a set-valued optimization problem with a vector optimization problem. In this work, by using an extension of Gerstewitz function [1], a vectorizing function is defined to replace a given set-valued…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-06-09 Emrah Karaman , İlknur Atasever Güvenç , Mustafa Soyertem , Didem Tozkan , Mahide Küçük , Yalçın Küçük

In this research article, we formulate and prove multidimensional Widder--Arendt theorem and integrated form of multidimensional Widder--Arendt theorem for functions with values in sequentially complete locally convex spaces. Established…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Marko Kostic

In this paper, we focus on solving a class of constrained non-convex non-concave saddle point problems in a decentralized manner by a group of nodes in a network. Specifically, we assume that each node has access to a summand of a global…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-01 Weijie Liu , Aryan Mokhtari , Asuman Ozdaglar , Sarath Pattathil , Zebang Shen , Nenggan Zheng

Using convex combination and linesearch techniques, we introduce a novel primal-dual algorithm for solving structured convex-concave saddle point problems with a generic smooth nonbilinear coupling term. Our adaptive linesearch strategy…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-17 Xiaokai Chang , Junfeng Yang , Hongchao Zhang

We consider the saddle point problem where the objective functions are abstract convex with respect to the class of quadratic functions. We propose primal-dual algorithms using the corresponding abstract proximal operator and investigate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Ewa Bednarczuk , The Hung Tran