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This paper presents a novel algorithm for solving distribution steering problems featuring nonlinear dynamics and chance constraints. Covariance steering (CS) is an emerging methodology in stochastic optimal control that poses constraints…

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Mixed-integer convex programming (MICP) has seen significant algorithmic and hardware improvements with several orders of magnitude solve time speedups compared to 25 years ago. Despite these advances, MICP has been rarely applied to…

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Many robotics problems, from robot motion planning to object manipulation, can be modeled as mixed-integer convex programs (MICPs). However, state-of-the-art algorithms are still unable to solve MICPs for control problems quickly enough for…

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Monotone inclusions have wide applications in solving various convex optimization problems arising in signal and image processing, machine learning, and medical image reconstruction. In this paper, we propose a new splitting algorithm for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-29 Hui Yu , Chunxiang Zong , Yuchao Tang

In the context of next generation radio telescopes, like the Square Kilometre Array, the efficient processing of large-scale datasets is extremely important. Convex optimisation tasks under the compressive sensing framework have recently…

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This paper proposes distributed algorithms to solve robust convex optimization (RCO) when the constraints are affected by nonlinear uncertainty. We adopt a scenario approach by randomly sampling the uncertainty set. To facilitate the…

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Current algorithms for large-scale industrial optimization problems typically face a trade-off: they either require exponential time to reach optimal solutions, or employ problem-specific heuristics. To overcome these limitations, we…

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We consider a class of nonsmooth fractional programming problems with fixed-point constraints, where the numerator is convex and the denominator is concave. To solve this problem, we propose splitting algorithms that compute subgradient…

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Operator splitting methods solve composite optimization problems by breaking them into smaller sub-problems that can be solved sequentially or in parallel. In this paper, we propose a unified framework for certifying both linear and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-25 Han Wang , Mahyar Fazlyab , Shaoru Chen , Victor M. Preciado

Solving Stefan problems via neural networks is inherently challenged by the nonlinear coupling between the solutions and the free boundary, which results in a non-convex optimization problem. To address this, this work proposes an Operator…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-26 Siyuan Lang , Zhiyue Zhang

Finding a zero of a sum of maximally monotone operators is a fundamental problem in modern optimization and nonsmooth analysis. Assuming that the resolvents of the operators are available, this problem can be tackled with the…

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In contrast with many other convex optimization classes, state-of-the-art semidefinite programming solvers are yet unable to efficiently solve large scale instances. This work aims to reduce this scalability gap by proposing a novel…

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We introduce a novel solver to significantly reduce the size of a geometric operator while preserving its spectral properties at the lowest frequencies. We use chordal decomposition to formulate a convex optimization problem which allows…

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In this paper, we consider solving a class of convex optimization problem which minimizes the sum of three convex functions $f(x)+g(x)+h(Bx)$, where $f(x)$ is differentiable with a Lipschitz continuous gradient, $g(x)$ and $h(x)$ have a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-30 Yu-Chao Tang , Guo-Rong Wu , Chuan-Xi Zhu

We consider the problem of solving dual monotone inclusions involving sums of composite parallel-sum type operators. A feature of this work is to exploit explicitly the cocoercivity of some of the operators appearing in the model. Several…

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We consider the primal problem of finding the zeros of the sum of a maximally monotone operator with the composition of another maximally monotone operator with a linear continuous operator and a corresponding dual problem formulated by…

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In this paper, we consider a class of nonconvex and nonsmooth fractional programming problems, that involve the sum of a convex, possibly nonsmooth function composed with a linear operator and a differentiable, possibly nonconvex function…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-18 Radu Ioan Boţ , Guoyin Li , Min Tao

The paper considers the minimization of a separable convex function subject to linear ascending constraints. The problem arises as the core optimization in several resource allocation scenarios, and is a special case of an optimization of a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-30 Akhil P T , Rajesh Sundaresan

Nonlinear elliptic problems arise in many fields, including plasma physics, astrophysics, and optimal transport. In this article, we propose a novel operator-splitting/finite element method for solving such problems. We begin by introducing…

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