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The asymptotic Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (AKKT) optimality conditions are distinguished from other approaches in the literature by virtue of their capacity to be effectively derived through numerical methods, such as the utilization of an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Rodrigo B. Moreira , Moisés R. C. do Monte , Valeriano A. de Oliveira

Recent advancements in data science have significantly elevated the importance of orthogonally constrained optimization problems. The Riemannian approach has become a popular technique for addressing these problems due to the advantageous…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Linglingzhi Zhu , Wentao Ding , Shangyuan Liu , Anthony Man-Cho So

Computing approximate Karush--Kuhn--Tucker (KKT) points for constrained nonconvex programs is a fundamental problem in mathematical programming. Interior-point trust-region (IPTR) methods are particularly attractive for such problems…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Yuexin Su , Chenyi Zhang , Peiyuan Huang , Tongyang Li , Yinyu Ye

Second-order optimality conditions for vector nonlinear programming problems with inequality constraints are studied in this paper. We introduce a new second-order constraint qualification, which includes Mangasarian-Fromovitz constraint…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-11 Vsevolod I. Ivanov

We develop a second order primal-dual method for optimization problems in which the objective function is given by the sum of a strongly convex twice differentiable term and a possibly nondifferentiable convex regularizer. After introducing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-31 Neil K. Dhingra , Sei Zhen Khong , Mihailo R. Jovanović

This paper considers a convex optimization problem with cost and constraints that evolve over time. The function to be minimized is strongly convex and possibly non-differentiable, and variables are coupled through linear constraints. In…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-13 Yijian Zhang , Emiliano Dall'Anese , Mingyi Hong

Devising efficient algorithms to solve continuously-varying strongly convex optimization programs is key in many applications, from control systems to signal processing and machine learning. In this context, solving means to find and track…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-09 Andrea Simonetto

We develop a homotopy-based framework for computing Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) points of multiobjective optimization problems. The proposed homotopy map continuously deforms an easily solvable system into the KKT conditions associated with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-04 Olaoluwa Ogunleye , Guangming Yao , Jianhua Zhang

The classical method to solve a quadratic optimization problem with nonlinear equality constraints is to solve the Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) optimality conditions using Newton's method. This approach however is usually computationally…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-03-17 Tuan T. Nguyen , Mircea Lazar , Hans Butler

This paper explores numerical methods for solving a convex differentiable semi-infinite program. We introduce a primal-dual gradient method which performs three updates iteratively: a momentum gradient ascend step to update the constraint…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-23 Yao Yao , Qihang Lin , Tianbao Yang

Nonconvex sparse models have received significant attention in high-dimensional machine learning. In this paper, we study a new model consisting of a general convex or nonconvex objectives and a variety of continuous nonconvex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-26 Digvijay Boob , Qi Deng , Guanghui Lan , Yilin Wang

This paper considers a general convex constrained problem setting where functions are not assumed to be differentiable nor Lipschitz continuous. Our motivation is in finding a simple first-order method for solving a wide range of convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-19 Michael R. Metel , Akiko Takeda

We study first-order methods (FOMs) for solving \emph{composite nonconvex nonsmooth} optimization with linear constraints. Recently, the lower complexity bounds of FOMs on finding an ($\varepsilon,\varepsilon$)-KKT point of the considered…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Wei Liu , Qihang Lin , Yangyang Xu

A major limitation of online algorithms that track the optimizers of time-varying nonconvex optimization problems is that they focus on a specific local minimum trajectory, which may lead to poor spurious local solutions. In this paper, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-27 Yuhao Ding , Javad Lavaei , Murat Arcak

This paper presents an efficient parallel Cholesky factorization and triangular solve algorithm for the Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) systems arising in multistage optimization problems, with a focus on model predictive control and trajectory…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Fenglong Song , Roland Schwan , Yuwen Chen , Colin N. Jones

Nonconvex optimization underlies many modern machine learning and control tasks, where saddle points pose the dominant obstacle to reliable convergence in high-dimensional settings. Escaping these saddle points deterministically using…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Liraz Mudrik , Isaac Kaminer , Sean Kragelund , Abram H. Clark

This paper develops a primal-dual dynamical system where the coefficients are designed in closed-loop way for solving a convex optimization problem with linear equality constraints. We first introduce a ``second-order primal" +…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Huan Zhang , Xiangkai Sun , Shengjie Li , Kok Lay Teo

This paper deals with a Tikhonov regularized second-order plus first-order primal-dual dynamical system with time scaling for separable convex optimization problems with linear equality constraints. This system consists of two second-order…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-29 Xiangkai Sun , Lijuan Zheng , Kok Lay Teo

We develop a novel primal-dual algorithm to solve a class of nonsmooth and nonlinear compositional convex minimization problems, which covers many existing and brand-new models as special cases. Our approach relies on a combination of a new…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-20 Yuzixuan Zhu , Deyi Liu , Quoc Tran-Dinh

By time discretization of a second-order primal-dual dynamical system with damping $\alpha/t$ where an inertial construction in the sense of Nesterov is needed only for the primal variable, we propose a fast primal-dual algorithm for a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-06 Xin He , Rong Hu , Ya-Ping Fang