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Optimization problems with convex quadratic cost and polyhedral constraints are ubiquitous in signal processing, automatic control and decision-making. We consider here an enlarged problem class that allows to encode logical conditions and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-09 Alberto De Marchi

A unified model is addressed for general optimization problems in multi-scale complex systems. Based on necessary conditions and basic principles in physics, the canonical duality-triality theory is presented in a precise way to include…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-06-30 David Yang Gao

This article develops a duality principle for a class of optimization problems in $\mathbb{R}^n$. The results are obtained based on standard tools of convex analysis and on a well known result of Toland for D.C. optimization. Global…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-02 Fabio Botelho

This paper presents an application of Canonical duality theory to the solution of contact problems with Coulomb friction. The contact problem is formulated as a quasi-variational inequality which solution is found by solving its…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-02-28 Vittorio Latorre , Simone Sagratella , David Yang Gao

The primal-dual distributed optimization methods have broad large-scale machine learning applications. Previous primal-dual distributed methods are not applicable when the dual formulation is not available, e.g. the sum-of-non-convex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-10-30 Zhouyuan Huo , Heng Huang

Primal-dual methods for solving convex optimization problems with functional constraints often exhibit a distinct two-stage behavior. Initially, they converge towards a solution at a sublinear rate. Then, after a certain point, the method…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Mateo Díaz , Pedro Izquierdo Lehmann , Haihao Lu , Jinwen Yang

The aim of this manuscript is to approach by means of first order differential equations/inclusions convex programming problems with two-block separable linear constraints and objectives, whereby (at least) one of the components of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-21 Sandy Bitterlich , Ernö Robert Csetnek , Gert Wanka

A problem of the erroneous duality gap caused by the presence of symmetries is solved in this paper utilizing point group theory. The optimization problems are first divided into two classes based on their predisposition to suffer from this…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-06-23 Miloslav Capek , Lukas Jelinek , Michal Masek

Although the Karush-Kuhn-Tucker conditions suggest a connection between a conic optimization problem and a complementarity problem, it is difficult to find an accessible explicit form of this relationship in the literature. This note will…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-07-19 S. Z. Németh , Guohan Zhang

Optimal control problems involving hybrid binary-continuous control costs are challenging due to their lack of convexity and weak lower semicontinuity. Replacing such costs with their convex relaxation leads to a primal-dual optimality…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-27 Christian Clason , Kazufumi Ito , Karl Kunisch

We study a static portfolio optimization problem with two risk measures: a principle risk measure in the objective function and a secondary risk measure whose value is controlled in the constraints. This problem is of interest when it is…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2020-12-14 Çağın Ararat

The paper studies a general norm minimization problem on a product of normed vector spaces. We establish dual necessary and sufficient optimality conditions and derive explicit formulas for the corresponding solution sets. These formulas…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Nguyen Duy Cuong

We consider the convex bilevel optimization problem, also known as simple bilevel programming. There are two challenges in solving convex bilevel optimization problems. Firstly, strong duality is not guaranteed due to the lack of Slater…

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This is a tutorial and survey paper on Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) conditions, first-order and second-order numerical optimization, and distributed optimization. After a brief review of history of optimization, we start with some preliminaries…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-06 Benyamin Ghojogh , Ali Ghodsi , Fakhri Karray , Mark Crowley

The first part of this work established the foundations of a radial duality between nonnegative optimization problems, inspired by the work of (Renegar, 2016). Here we utilize our radial duality theory to design and analyze projection-free…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-15 Benjamin Grimmer

This paper explores the potential of Lagrangian duality for learning applications that feature complex constraints. Such constraints arise in many science and engineering domains, where the task amounts to learning optimization problems…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Ferdinando Fioretto , Pascal Van Hentenryck , Terrence WK Mak , Cuong Tran , Federico Baldo , Michele Lombardi

Given a convex optimization problem and its dual, there are many possible first-order algorithms. In this paper, we show the equivalence between mirror descent algorithms and algorithms generalizing the conditional gradient method. This is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-10-21 Francis Bach

This article explores fundamental properties of convex interval-valued functions defined on Riemannian manifolds. The study employs generalized Hukuhara directional differentiability to derive KKT-type optimality conditions for an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-25 Hilal Ahmad Bhat , Akhlad Iqbal , Mahwash Aftab

In this paper, we propose an inertial accelerated primal-dual method for the linear equality constrained convex optimization problem. When the objective function has a ``nonsmooth + smooth'' composite structure, we further propose an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-30 Xin He , Rong Hu , Ya-Ping Fang