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Many problems in modern robotics can be addressed by modeling them as bilevel optimization problems. In this work, we leverage augmented Lagrangian methods and recent advances in automatic differentiation to develop a general-purpose…

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We show that many machine learning goals, such as improved fairness metrics, can be expressed as constraints on the model's predictions, which we call rate constraints. We study the problem of training non-convex models subject to these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Andrew Cotter , Heinrich Jiang , Serena Wang , Taman Narayan , Maya Gupta , Seungil You , Karthik Sridharan

In this paper, we prove a spectral multiplier theorem for sub-Laplacians with drift on M\'etivier groups. We improve the result of [Martini, Ottazzi and Vallarino, Rev. Mat. Iberoam, 2019] in case of M\'etivier groups, by reducing the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Nishta Garg , Joydwip Singh

Constrained optimization offers a powerful framework to prescribe desired behaviors in neural network models. Typically, constrained problems are solved via their min-max Lagrangian formulations, which exhibit unstable oscillatory dynamics…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Motahareh Sohrabi , Juan Ramirez , Tianyue H. Zhang , Simon Lacoste-Julien , Jose Gallego-Posada

In this paper, we study the regularity assumptions commonly adopted in bilevel optimization with constrained lower-level problems, including the linear independence constraint qualification, the strict complementary slackness condition, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Xiaotian Jiang , Chang He , Mingyi Hong , Shuzhong Zhang

We seek to impose linear, equality constraints in feedforward neural networks. As top layer predictors are usually nonlinear, this is a difficult task if we seek to deploy standard convex optimization methods and strong duality. To overcome…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Anand Rangarajan , Pan He , Jaemoon Lee , Tania Banerjee , Sanjay Ranka

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-25 Veronika Karl , Ira Neitzel , Daniel Wachsmuth

We consider heterogeneous coupling problems on an abstract level, establishing fundamental principles of domain decomposition agnostic to the solvers of the local subproblems. Introducing a coupling framework reminiscent of FETI methods,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Silvia Bertoluzza , Erik Burman

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

We extend the Gibbs conditioning principle to an abstract setting combining infinitely many linear equality constraints and non-linear inequality constraints, which need not be convex. A conditional large large deviation principle (LDP) is…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-29 Louis-Pierre Chaintron , Giovanni Conforti , Julien Reygner

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-04 Nguyen T. V. Hang , M. Ebrahim Sarabi

This paper studies multiobjective optimal control problems in the continuous-time framework when the space of states and the space of controls are infinite-dimensional and with lighter smoothness assumptions than the usual ones. The paper…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-04 Naila Hayek , Hasan Yilmaz

The Lagrange problem is established in the discrete field theory subject to constraints with values in a Lie group. For the admissible sections that satisfy a certain regularity condition, we prove that the critical sections of such…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-01-04 Pablo M. Chacón , Antonio Fernández , Pedro L. García

We investigate variational problems in large-strain magnetoelasticity, both in the static and in the quasistatic setting. The model contemplates a mixed Eulerian-Lagrangian formulation: while deformations are defined on the reference…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Marco Bresciani , Elisa Davoli , Martin Kružík

In this note we design a cut finite element method for a low order divergence free element applied to a boundary value problem subject to Stokes' equations. For the imposition of Dirichlet boundary conditions we consider either Nitsche's…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-14 Erik Burman , Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson

This paper on the whole concerns with the duality of Mayer problem for k-th order differential inclusions, where k is an arbitrary natural number. Thus, this work for constructing the dual problems to differential inclusions of any order…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-20 Elimhan N. Mahmudov

In the stability analysis of an equilibrium, given by a stationary point of a functional F[n] (free energy functional, e.g.), the second derivative of F[n] plays the essential role. If the system in equilibrium is subject to the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2010-10-20 Tamas Gal

This paper is concerned with the study of the stability of dynamical systems evolving on time scales. We first {formalize the notion of matrix measures on time scales, prove some of their key properties and make use of this notion to study…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-06-10 Giovanni Russo , Fabian Wirth

For solving unsteady hyperbolic conservation laws on cut cell meshes, the so called small cell problem is a big issue: one would like to use a time step that is chosen with respect to the background mesh and use the same time step on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-30 Florian Streitbürger , Christian Engwer , Sandra May , Andreas Nüßing

We consider linear and obstacle problems driven by a nonlocal integral operator, for which nonlocal interactions are restricted to a ball of finite radius. These type of operators are used to model anomalous diffusion and, for a special…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-30 Olena Burkovska , Max Gunzburger