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We expose in a tutorial fashion the mechanisms which underlie the synthesis of optimization algorithms based on dynamic integral quadratic constraints. We reveal how these tools from robust control allow to design accelerated gradient…

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We introduce a novel approach addressing global analysis of a difficult class of nonconvex-nonsmooth optimization problems within the important framework of Lagrangian-based methods. This genuine nonlinear class captures many problems in…

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In this paper, we develop a unified framework able to certify both exponential and subexponential convergence rates for a wide range of iterative first-order optimization algorithms. To this end, we construct a family of parameter-dependent…

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We analyze the convergence properties of a modified barrier method for solving bound-constrained optimization problems where evaluations of the objective function and its derivatives are affected by bounded and non-diminishing noise. The…

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Optimization with orthogonality constraints frequently arises in various fields such as machine learning. Riemannian optimization offers a powerful framework for solving these problems by equipping the constraint set with a Riemannian…

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The superior performance of ensemble methods with infinite models are well known. Most of these methods are based on optimization problems in infinite-dimensional spaces with some regularization, for instance, boosting methods and convex…

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Direct collocation methods are powerful tools to solve trajectory optimization problems in robotics. While their resulting trajectories tend to be dynamically accurate, they may also present large kinematic errors in the case of constrained…

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The symplectic eigenvalue problem for symmetric positive-definite (spd) matrices plays a crucial role in various scientific fields, including quantum mechanics and control theory. This paper introduces a trace-penalty minimization method,…

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Optimal control problems including partial differential equation (PDE) as well as integer constraints merge the combinatorial difficulties of integer programming and the challenges related to large-scale systems resulting from discretized…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-09 Dominik Garmatter , Margherita Porcelli , Francesco Rinaldi , Martin Stoll

In this paper, we consider the optimization problem of minimizing a continuously differentiable function subject to both convex constraints and sparsity constraints. By exploiting a mixed-integer reformulation from the literature, we define…

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In this paper, we propose an interior-point method for linearly constrained optimization problems (possibly nonconvex). The method - which we call the Hessian barrier algorithm (HBA) - combines a forward Euler discretization of Hessian…

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We introduce a novel monotone discretization method for addressing obstacle problems involving the integral fractional Laplacian with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions over bounded Lipschitz domains. This problem is prevalent in…

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In exact sparse optimization problems on Rd (also known as sparsity constrained problems), one looks for solution that have few nonzero components. In this paper, we consider problems where sparsity is exactly measured either by the…

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This paper focuses on optimization problems constrained by Parametric Variational Inequalities (PVI) defined on a moving set. Unlike most existing works on mathematical programs with equilibrium constraints, the equilibrium constraints have…

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A variety of optimal control, estimation, system identification and design problems can be formulated as functional optimization problems with differential equality and inequality constraints. Since these problems are infinite-dimensional…

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An important problem that arises in many engineering applications is the boundary value problem for ordinary differential equations. There have been many computational methods proposed for dealing with this problem. The convergence of the…

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This paper develops an adaptive proximal alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) for solving linearly constrained, composite optimization problems under the assumption that the smooth component of the objective is weakly convex,…

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