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We explore novel approaches for solving nonlinear optimization problems with unrelaxable bound constraints, which must be satisfied before the objective function can be evaluated. Our method reformulates the unrelaxable bound-constrained…

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Our work focuses on stochastic gradient methods for optimizing a smooth non-convex loss function with a non-smooth non-convex regularizer. Research on this class of problem is quite limited, and until recently no non-asymptotic convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-15 Michael R. Metel , Akiko Takeda

In this paper, the existence of smooth positive solutions to a Robin boundary-value problem with non-homogeneous differential operator and reaction given by a nonlinear convection term plus a singular one is established. Proofs chiefly…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-09-24 Umberto Guarnotta , Salvatore A. Marano , Dumitru Motreanu

If a variational problem comes with no boundary conditions prescribed beforehand, and yet these arise as a consequence of the variation process itself, we speak of a free boundary values variational problem. Such is, for instance, the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-03-14 Giovanni Moreno , Monika Ewa Stypa

We investigate an overdetermined Torsion problem, with a non-constant positively homogeneous boundary constraint on the gradient. We interpret this problem as the Euler equation of a shape optimization problems, we prove existence and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-06-26 Chiara Bianchini , Antoine Henrot , Paolo Salani

Multivariate piecewise polynomial functions (or splines) on polyhedral complexes have been extensively studied over the past decades and find applications in diverse areas of applied mathematics including numerical analysis, approximation…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2021-07-15 Deepesh Toshniwal , Nelly Villamizar

In this paper we propose an augmented smoothing function for nonlinear L1 -norm minimization problem and consider a global stability of a gradient-based neural network model to minimize the smoothing function. The numerical simulations show…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-07-10 Yunchol Jong

Spline interpolation has been used in several applications due to its favorable properties regarding smoothness and accuracy of the interpolant. However, when there exists a discontinuity or a steep gradient in the data, some artifacts can…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-21 Francesc Aràndiga , Antonio Baeza , Dionisio F. Yáñez

We investigate how to solve smooth matrix optimization problems with general linear inequality constraints on the eigenvalues of a symmetric matrix. We present solution methods to obtain exact global minima for linear objective functions,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-23 Casey Garner , Gilad Lerman , Shuzhong Zhang

Flexible sparsity regularization means stably approximating sparse solutions of operator equations by using coefficient-dependent penalizations. We propose and analyse a general nonconvex approach in this respect, from both theoretical and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-12 Daria Ghilli , Dirk A. Lorenz , Elena Resmerita

This paper describes a method for solving smooth nonconvex minimization problems subject to bound constraints with good worst-case complexity guarantees and practical performance. The method contains elements of two existing methods: the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-08 Yue Xie , Stephen J. Wright

We point out the connection between mathematical knot theory and spin glass/search problem. In particular, we present a statistical mechanical formulation of the problem of computing a knot invariant; p-colorability problem, which provides…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-03 Chihiro H. Nakajima , Takahiro Sakaue

The problem of finding roots or solutions of a nonlinear partial differential equation may be formulated as the problem of minimizing a sum of squared residuals. One then defines an evolution equation so that in the asymptotic limit a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-12-15 Parimah Kazemi , Robert Renka

We consider optimization problems with polynomial inequality constraints in non-commuting variables. These non-commuting variables are viewed as bounded operators on a Hilbert space whose dimension is not fixed and the associated polynomial…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-05-18 Stefano Pironio , Miguel Navascues , Antonio Acin

We consider a constrained optimization problem arising from the study of the Helmholtz equation in unbounded domains. The optimization problem provides an approximation of the solution in a bounded computational domain. In this paper we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-01-09 Giulio Ciraolo

We show NP-completeness for several planar variants of the monotone satisfiability problem with bounded variable appearances. With one exception the presented variants have an associated bipartite graph where the vertex degree is bounded by…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-04-20 Andreas Darmann , Janosch Döcker , Britta Dorn

This paper studies the distributed optimization problem with possibly nonidentical local constraints, where its global objective function is composed of $N$ convex functions. The aim is to solve the considered optimization problem in a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-26 Hongzhe Liu , Wenwu Yu , Guanghui Wen , Wei Xing Zheng

Many nonlinear optimal control and optimization problems involve constraints that combine continuous dynamics with discrete logic conditions. Standard approaches typically rely on mixed-integer programming, which introduces scalability…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-08 Jad Wehbeh , Eric C. Kerrigan

Nonlinear programming targets nonlinear optimization with constraints, which is a generic yet complex methodology involving humans for problem modeling and algorithms for problem solving. We address the particularly hard challenge of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-29 David Hägele , Moataz Abdelaal , Ozgur S. Oguz , Marc Toussaint , Daniel Weiskopf

In the paper we develop a general theory of solvability of linear inhomogeneous boundary-value problems for systems of first-order ordinary differential equations in spaces of smooth functions on a finite interval. This problems are set…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2024-12-10 Vitalii Soldatov