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Aligning partially overlapping point sets where there is no prior information about the value of the transformation is a challenging problem in computer vision. To achieve this goal, we first reduce the objective of the robust point…

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We propose a decomposition framework for the parallel optimization of the sum of a differentiable (possibly nonconvex) function and a (block) separable nonsmooth, convex one. The latter term is usually employed to enforce structure in the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-06-18 Francisco Facchinei , Gesualdo Scutari , Simone Sagratella

Invex programs are a special kind of non-convex problems which attain global minima at every stationary point. While classical first-order gradient descent methods can solve them, they converge very slowly. In this paper, we propose new…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-11 Adarsh Barik , Suvrit Sra , Jean Honorio

In this paper we study the problem of maximizing the distance to a given point over an intersection of balls. It was already known that this problem can be solved in polynomial time and space if the given point is not in the convex hull of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-09 Marius Costandin , Beniamin Costandin

In this paper, we consider a broad class of nonsmooth and nonconvex fractional programs, where the numerator can be written as the sum of a continuously differentiable convex function whose gradient is Lipschitz continuous and a proper…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-19 Radu Ioan Boţ , Minh N. Dao , Guoyin Li

This paper addresses constrained smooth saddle-point problems in settings where projection onto the feasible sets is computationally expensive. We bridge the gap between projection-based and projection-free optimization by introducing a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Khanh-Hung Giang-Tran , Soroosh Shafiee , Nam Ho-Nguyen

We introduce and analyze an abstract algorithm that aims to find the projection onto a closed convex subset of a Hilbert space. When specialized to the fixed point set of a quasi nonexpansive mapping, the required sufficient condition…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2012-11-08 Heinz H. Bauschke , Jiawei Chen , Xianfu Wang

Bilevel optimization is an important class of optimization problems where one optimization problem is nested within another. While various methods have emerged to address unconstrained general bilevel optimization problems, there has been a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-15 Nazanin Abolfazli , Ruichen Jiang , Aryan Mokhtari , Erfan Yazdandoost Hamedani

Simultaneous optimization of multiple objective functions results in a set of trade-off, or Pareto, solutions. Choosing a, in some sense, best solution in this set is in general a challenging task: In the case of three or more objectives…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-01 C. Yalçın Kaya , Helmut Maurer

We study the problem of optimizing nonlinear objective functions over bipartite matchings. While the problem is generally intractable, we provide several efficient algorithms for it, including a deterministic algorithm for maximizing convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2008-07-24 Yael Berstein , Shmuel Onn

In this paper, we explore a broad class of constrained saddle point problems with a bilevel structure, wherein the upper-level objective function is nonconvex-concave and smooth over compact and convex constraint sets, subject to a strongly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-31 Mohammad Mahdi Ahmadi , Erfan Yazdandoost Hamedani

We propose a linear time and constant space algorithm for computing Euclidean projections onto sets on which a normalized sparseness measure attains a constant value. These non-convex target sets can be characterized as intersections of a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2013-03-22 Markus Thom , Günther Palm

We study variational inequalities which are governed by a strongly monotone and Lipschitz continuous operator $F$ over a closed and convex set $S$. We assume that $S=C\cap A^{-1}(Q)$ is the nonempty solution set of a (multiple-set) split…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-21 Andrzej Cegielski , Aviv Gibali , Simeon Reich , Rafał Zalas

In this paper, we investigate a new extragradient algorithm for solving pseudomonotone equilibrium problems on Hadamard manifolds. The algorithm uses a variable stepsize which is updated at each iteration and based on some previous…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-27 Jingjing Fan , Bing Tan , Songxiao Li

The sum of ratios problem has a variety of important applications in economics and management science, but it is difficult to globally solve this problem. In this paper, we consider the minimization problem of a sum of a number of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-25 Yaohua Hu , Carisa Kwok Wai Yu , Xiaoqi Yang

This paper studies the distributed optimization problem when the objective functions might be nondifferentiable and subject to heterogeneous set constraints. Unlike existing subgradient methods, we focus on the case when the exact…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-23 Kui Zhu , Yutao Tang

We propose a random coordinate descent algorithm for optimizing a non-convex objective function subject to one linear constraint and simple bounds on the variables. Although it is common use to update only two random coordinates…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-27 Alireza Ghaffari-Hadigheh , Lennart Sinjorgo , Renata Sotirov

We present an algorithm to approximate the solutions to variational problems where set of admissible functions consists of convex functions. The main motivator behind this numerical method is estimating solutions to Adverse Selection…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2008-03-07 Ivar Ekeland , Santiago Moreno

This paper considers convex programs with a general (possibly non-differentiable) convex objective function and Lipschitz continuous convex inequality constraint functions. A simple algorithm is developed and achieves an $O(1/t)$…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-01 Hao Yu , Michael J. Neely

We consider joint optimization and learning problems arising in real-time decision systems. While most existing work focuses primarily on convex, revenue-based objectives, we extend this line of research to multi-objective formulations. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Zijun Li , Aswin Kannan