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The disjunctive system is a system involving a disjunctive set which is the union of finitely many polyhedral convex sets. In this paper, we introduce a notion of the relaxed constant positive linear dependence constraint qualification…
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Constraint qualifications for a Mathematical Program with Equilibrium Constraints (MPEC) are essential for analyzing stationarity properties and establishing convergence results. In this paper, we explore several classical MPEC constraint…
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The partial calmness for the bilevel programming problem (BLPP) is an important condition which ensures that a local optimal solution of BLPP is a local optimal solution of a partially penalized problem where the lower level optimality…
When dealing with general Lipschitzian optimization problems, there are many problem classes where even weak constraint qualifications fail at local minimizers. In contrast to a constraint qualification, a problem qualification does not…
The constant rank constraint qualification (CRCQ) for second-order cone programs, introduced by Andreani et al. in [Math. Program. 202 (2023), 473 - 513], shares some desirable properties with its classical nonlinear programming…
We investigate a family of bilevel imaging learning problems where the lower-level instance corresponds to a convex variational model involving first- and second-order nonsmooth sparsity-based regularizers. By using geometric properties of…
We study a class of constrained reinforcement learning (RL) problems in which multiple constraint specifications are not identified before training. It is challenging to identify appropriate constraint specifications due to the undefined…
The corner polyhedron is described by minimal valid inequalities from maximal lattice-free convex sets. For the Relaxed Corner Polyhedron (RCP) with two free integer variables and any number of non-negative continuous variables, it is known…
Asymptotic stationarity and regularity conditions turned out to be quite useful to study the qualitative properties of numerical solution methods for standard nonlinear and complementarity-constrained programs. In this paper, we first…
The bilevel program is an optimization problem where the constraint involves solutions to a parametric optimization problem. It is well-known that the value function reformulation provides an equivalent single-level optimization problem but…
Constrained Reinforcement Learning (CRL) is a subset of machine learning that introduces constraints into the traditional reinforcement learning (RL) framework. Unlike conventional RL which aims solely to maximize cumulative rewards, CRL…
Mathematical Program with Complementarity Constraints (MPCC) plays a very important role in many fields such as engineering design, economic equilibrium, multilevel game, and mathematical programming theory itself. In theory its constraints…
The paper is devoted to an analysis of a new constraint qualification and a derivation of the strongest existing optimality conditions for nonsmooth mathematical programming problems with equality and inequality constraints in terms of…
The error bound property for a solution set defined by a set-valued mapping refers to an inequality that bounds the distance between vectors closed to a solution of the given set by a residual function. The error bound property is a…
In this paper, we are concerned with stationarity conditions and qualification conditions for optimization problems with disjunctive constraints. This class covers, among others, optimization problems with complementarity, vanishing, or…
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…