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This paper studies distributed convex optimization with both affine equality and nonlinear inequality couplings through the duality analysis. We first formulate the dual of the coupling-constraint problem and reformulate it as a consensus…

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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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-28 M. Lapucci , T. Levato , F. Rinaldi , M. Sciandrone

We present two parallel optimization algorithms for a convex function $f$. The first algorithm optimizes over linear inequality constraints in a Hilbert space, $\mathbb H$, and the second over a non convex polyhedron in $\mathbb R^n$. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-22 E. Dov Neimand , Serban Sabau

This article explores distributed convex optimization with globally-coupled constraints, where the objective function is a general nonsmooth convex function, the constraints include nonlinear inequalities and affine equalities, and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-14 Zixuan Liu , Xuyang Wu , Dandan Wang , Jie Lu

We develop a new method for equality constrained optimization problems based on a sequential cubic programming framework. Each iteration utilizes a step decomposition based on the Jacobian of the constraints into a normal and a tangential…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-06 Nikos Dimou , Michael J. O'Neill

A new method of deriving comparative statics information using generalized compensated derivatives is presented which yields constraint-free semidefiniteness results for any differentiable, constrained optimization problem. More generally,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-10-29 M. Hossein Partovi , Michael R. Caputo

Introducing inequality constraints in Gaussian process (GP) models can lead to more realistic uncertainties in learning a great variety of real-world problems. We consider the finite-dimensional Gaussian approach from Maatouk and Bay (2017)…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-04 Andrés F. López-Lopera , François Bachoc , Nicolas Durrande , Olivier Roustant

Necessary conditions for high-order optimality in smooth nonlinear constrained optimization are explored and their inherent intricacy discussed. A two-phase minimization algorithm is proposed which can achieve approximate first-, second-…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-31 C. Cartis , N. I. M. Gould , Ph. L. Toint

This paper shows how a class of non-convex optimization problems constrained by discretized nonlinear partial differential equations may be solved to global optimality using an interior point continuation method. The solution procedure…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-13 Jorn Baayen , Teresa Piovesan , Jesse VanderWees

In this paper, we propose a successive pseudo-convex approximation algorithm to efficiently compute stationary points for a large class of possibly nonconvex optimization problems. The stationary points are obtained by solving a sequence of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-17 Yang Yang , Marius Pesavento

Traditional maximum entropy and sparsity-based algorithms for analytic continuation often suffer from the ill-posed kernel matrix or demand tremendous computation time for parameter tuning. Here we propose a neural network method by convex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Dongchen Huang , Yi-feng Yang

The paper is devoted to obtain first and second order necessary optimality conditions for continuous-time optimization problems with equality and inequality constraints. A full rank type regularity condition along with an uniform implicit…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-10 Moisés Rodrigues Cirilo do Monte , Valeriano Antunes de Oliveira

Sequential quadratic optimization algorithms are proposed for solving smooth nonlinear optimization problems with equality constraints. The main focus is an algorithm proposed for the case when the constraint functions are deterministic,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-22 Albert Berahas , Frank E. Curtis , Daniel P. Robinson , Baoyu Zhou

In this submission, we explore the use of equality saturation to optimize concurrent computations. A concurrent environment gives rise to new optimization opportunities, like extracting a common concurrent subcomputation. To our knowledge,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Henrich Lauko , Lukáš Korenčik , Peter Goodman

Cardinality-constrained optimization (CCO) is a popular topic in sparse learning and signal recovery, yet remains challenging due to the inherent nonconvexity and discontinuity of cardinality constraints. This paper investigates the exact…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Lili Pan , Huilin Xie , Xianchao Xiu , Jiyuan Tao

Convex optimization with equality and inequality constraints is a ubiquitous problem in several optimization and control problems in large-scale systems. Recently there has been a lot of interest in establishing accelerated convergence of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-06 Anjali Parashar , Priyank Srivastava , Anuradha M. Annaswamy

We introduce a manifold-based framework for addressing optimization problems with equality and inequality constraints found in robotics. Our approach transforms the original problem into an unconstrained optimization problem directly on the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Yetong Zhang , Frank Dellaert

In communication networks, optimization is essential in enhancing performance metrics, e.g., network utility. These optimization problems often involve sum-of-products (or ratios) terms, which are typically non-convex and NP-hard, posing…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Liangxin Qian , Wenhan Yu , Peiyuan Si , Jun Zhao

Motivated by robotic trajectory optimization problems we consider the Augmented Lagrangian approach to constrained optimization. We first propose an alternative augmentation of the Lagrangian to handle the inequality case (not based on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-12-16 Marc Toussaint

We introduce a stochastic coordinate extension of the first-order primal-dual method studied by Cohen and Zhu (1984) and Zhao and Zhu (2018) to solve Composite Optimization with Composite Cone-constraints (COCC). In this method, we randomly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-06 Daoli Zhu , Lei Zhao