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The irregular strip-packing problem consists of the computation of a non-overlapping placement of a set of polygons onto a rectangular strip of fixed width and the minimal length possible. Recent performance gains of the Mixed-Integer…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Juan J. Lastra-Díaz , M. Teresa Ortuño

The motivation for this paper stems from the desire to develop an adaptive sampling method for solving constrained optimization problems in which the objective function is stochastic and the constraints are deterministic. The method…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-01 Yuchen Xie , Raghu Bollapragada , Richard Byrd , Jorge Nocedal

Consider the problem of minimizing the sum of a smooth convex function and a separable nonsmooth convex function subject to linear coupling constraints. Problems of this form arise in many contemporary applications including signal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-01-29 Mingyi Hong , Tsung-Hui Chang , Xiangfeng Wang , Meisam Razaviyayn , Shiqian Ma , Zhi-Quan Luo

We extend the Approximate-Proximal Point (aProx) family of model-based methods for solving stochastic convex optimization problems, including stochastic subgradient, proximal point, and bundle methods, to the minibatch and accelerated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-08 Karan Chadha , Gary Cheng , John C. Duchi

This paper develops the proximal method of multipliers for a class of nonsmooth convex optimization. The method generates a sequence of minimization problems (subproblems). We show that the sequence of approximations to the solutions of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-14 Tomoya Takeuchi

We consider an inertial primal-dual fixed point algorithm (IPDFP) to compute the minimizations of the following Problem (1.1). This is a full splitting approach, in the sense that the nonsmooth functions are processed individually via their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-04-20 Meng Wen , Yu-Chao Tang , Jigen Peng

Roll-to-roll (R2R) manufacturing requires precise tension and velocity control under operational constraints. Model predictive control demands gradient computation, while sampling-based methods like MPPI struggle with hard constraint…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-25 Jiachen Li , Shihao Li , Christopher Martin , Wei Li , Dongmei Chen

We study the problem of minimizing a $m$-weakly convex and possibly nonsmooth function. Weak convexity provides a broad framework that subsumes convex, smooth, and many composite nonconvex functions. In this work, we propose a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-04 Feng-Yi Liao , Yang Zheng

In this paper, a multi-parameterized proximal point algorithm combining with a relaxation step is developed for solving convex minimization problem subject to linear constraints. We show its global convergence and sublinear convergence rate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-11 Jianchao Bai , Ke Guo , Xiaokai Chang

We propose inertial versions of block coordinate descent methods for solving non-convex non-smooth composite optimization problems. Our methods possess three main advantages compared to current state-of-the-art accelerated first-order…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-03 Le Thi Khanh Hien , Nicolas Gillis , Panagiotis Patrinos

We present a class of reduced basis (RB) methods for the iterative solution of parametrized symmetric positive-definite (SPD) linear systems. The essential ingredients are a Galerkin projection of the underlying parametrized system onto a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-18 Ngoc-Cuong Nguyen , Yanlai Chen

This paper presents a convex sufficient condition for solving a system of nonlinear equations under parametric changes and proposes a sequential convex optimization method for solving robust optimization problems with nonlinear equality…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-05 Dongchan Lee , Konstantin Turitsyn , Jean-Jacques Slotine

The proximal gradient method is a generic technique introduced to tackle the non-smoothness in optimization problems, wherein the objective function is expressed as the sum of a differentiable convex part and a non-differentiable…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-19 Abdeslem Hafid Bentbib , Khalide Jbilou , Ridwane Tahiri

This paper proposes a new inexact manifold proximal linear (IManPL) algorithm for solving nonsmooth, nonconvex composite optimization problems over an embedded submanifold. At each iteration, IManPL solves a convex subproblem inexactly,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Zhong Zheng , Xin Yu , Shiqian Ma , Lingzhou Xue

It has been shown in \cite{Lan13-1} that the accelerated prox-level (APL) method and its variant, the uniform smoothing level (USL) method, have optimal iteration complexity for solving black-box and structured convex programming problems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-12-08 Yunmei Chen , Guanghui Lan , Yuyuan Ouyang , Wei Zhang

Constrained non-convex optimization problems frequently arise in control applications. Solving such problems is inherently challenging, as existing methods often converge to suboptimal local minima or incur prohibitive computational costs.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Anran Li , John P. Swensen , Mehdi Hosseinzadeh

We study a family of (potentially non-convex) constrained optimization problems with convex composite structure. Through a novel analysis of non-smooth geometry, we show that proximal-type algorithms applied to exact penalty formulations of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-04 Yu Bai , John Duchi , Song Mei

We propose a new \textit{randomized Bregman (block) coordinate descent} (RBCD) method for minimizing a composite problem, where the objective function could be either convex or nonconvex, and the smooth part are freed from the global…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-16 Tianxiang Gao , Songtao Lu , Jia Liu , Chris Chu

We develop two new proximal alternating penalty algorithms to solve a wide range class of constrained convex optimization problems. Our approach mainly relies on a novel combination of the classical quadratic penalty, alternating…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-20 Quoc Tran-Dinh

In this paper, we propose a new decomposition approach named the proximal primal dual algorithm (Prox-PDA) for smooth nonconvex linearly constrained optimization problems. The proposed approach is primal-dual based, where the primal step…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-04-05 Mingyi Hong
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