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Variational problems under uniform quasiconvex constraints on the gradient are studied. In particular, existence of solutions to such problems is proved as well as existence of lagrange multipliers associated to the uniform constraint. They…
Augmented Lagrangian dual augments the classical Lagrangian dual with a non-negative non-linear penalty function of the violation of the relaxed/dualized constraints in order to reduce the duality gap. We investigate the cases in which…
In this two-part study, we develop a general theory of the so-called exact augmented Lagrangians for constrained optimization problems in Hilbert spaces. In contrast to traditional nonsmooth exact penalty functions, these augmented…
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In the seminal book M\'echanique analitique, Lagrange, 1788, the notion of a Lagrange multiplier was first introduced in order to study a smooth minimization problem subject to equality constraints. The idea is that, under some regularity…
In this paper we apply an augmented Lagrange method to a class of semilinear elliptic optimal control problems with pointwise state constraints. We show strong convergence of subsequences of the primal variables to a local solution of the…
A common formulation of constrained reinforcement learning involves multiple rewards that must individually accumulate to given thresholds. In this class of problems, we show a simple example in which the desired optimal policy cannot be…
Second-order sufficient conditions for local optimality have been playing an important role in local convergence analysis of optimization algorithms. In this paper, we demonstrate that this condition alone suffices to justify the linear…
In this paper, we propose a penalty dual-primal augmented lagrangian method for solving convex minimization problems under linear equality or inequality constraints. The proposed method combines a novel penalty technique with updates the…
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We develop a unified theory of augmented Lagrangians for nonconvex optimization problems that encompasses both duality theory and convergence analysis of primal-dual augmented Lagrangian methods in the infinite dimensional setting. Our goal…
In this paper we introduce the essential Lagrange multiplier and establish the solid mathematical foundation of constrained optimization in Hilbert spaces with sharp results on the mathematical foundation of quadratic-programming based…
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The Augmented Lagrangian Method (ALM) is an iterative method for the solution of equality-constrained non-linear programming problems. In contrast to the quadratic penalty method, the ALM can satisfy equality constraints in an exact way.…
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