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We consider the problem of minimization of a convex function on a simple set with convex non-smooth inequality constraint and describe first-order methods to solve such problems in different situations: smooth or non-smooth objective…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-30 Anastasia Bayandina , Pavel Dvurechensky , Alexander Gasnikov , Fedor Stonyakin , Alexander Titov

To every nearly convex optimization problem, that is a minimization problem with a nearly convex objective function and a nearly convex constraint set, we associate a uniquely defined convex optimization problem with a lower semicontinuous…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Nguyen Nang Thieu , Nguyen Dong Yen

In this paper, we consider a finite-dimensional optimization problem minimizing a continuous objective on a compact domain subject to a multi-dimensional constraint function. For the latter, we assume the availability of a global Lipschitz…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Adrian Göß , Alexander Martin , Sebastian Pokutta , Kartikey Sharma

Constraint satisfaction is a critical component in a wide range of engineering applications, including but not limited to safe multi-agent control and economic dispatch in power systems. This study explores violation-free distributed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-12 Changxin Liu , Xiao Tan , Xuyang Wu , Dimos V. Dimarogonas , Karl H. Johansson

Sparsity constrained minimization captures a wide spectrum of applications in both machine learning and signal processing. This class of problems is difficult to solve since it is NP-hard and existing solutions are primarily based on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-31 Ganzhao Yuan , Bernard Ghanem

The need of fast distributed solvers for optimization problems in networked systems has motivated the recent development of the Fast-Lipschitz optimization framework. In such an optimization, problems satisfying certain qualifying…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-17 Martin Jakobsson , Carlo Fischione , Pradeep Chathuranga Weeraddana

Binary optimization is a central problem in mathematical optimization and its applications are abundant. To solve this problem, we propose a new class of continuous optimization techniques which is based on Mathematical Programming with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-07 Ganzhao Yuan , Bernard Ghanem

This paper is devoted to a new modification of a recently proposed adaptive stochastic mirror descent algorithm for constrained convex optimization problems in the case of several convex functional constraints. Algorithms, standard and its…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-22 Mohammad S. Alkousa

Despite its important applications in Machine Learning, min-max optimization of nonconvex-nonconcave objectives remains elusive. Not only are there no known first-order methods converging even to approximate local min-max points, but the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Constantinos Daskalakis , Stratis Skoulakis , Manolis Zampetakis

A regularization algorithm allowing random noise in derivatives and inexact function values is proposed for computing approximate local critical points of any order for smooth unconstrained optimization problems. For an objective function…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-07 S. Bellavia , G. Gurioli , B. Morini , Ph. L. Toint

Majorization-minimization algorithms consist of successively minimizing a sequence of upper bounds of the objective function so that along the iterations the objective function decreases. Such a simple principle allows to solve a large…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-04 Ion Necoara , Daniela Lupu

Composite minimization involves a collection of functions which are aggregated in a nonsmooth manner. It covers, as a particular case, smooth approximation of minimax games, minimization of max-type functions, and simple composite…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-04 Yassine Nabou , Ion Necoara

Multidimensional optimization problems where the objective function and the constraints are multiextremal non-differentiable Lipschitz functions (with unknown Lipschitz constants) and the feasible region is a finite collection of robust…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Yaroslav D. Sergeyev , Paolo Pugliese , Domenico Famularo

This paper considers mathematical programs, whose constraints are expressed by a parameterized vector equilibrium problem. The latter is a well recognized framework, which is able to cover multicriteria optimization, vector variational…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-18 Amos Uderzo

This work aims to solve a stochastic nonconvex nonsmooth composite optimization problem. Previous works on composite optimization problem requires the major part to satisfy Lipschitz smoothness or some relaxed smoothness conditions, which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Ziyi Chen , Peiran Yu , Heng Huang

This paper presents a novel convex optimization-based method for finding the globally optimal solutions of a class of mixed-integer non-convex optimal control problems. We consider problems with non-convex constraints that restrict the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-21 Danylo Malyuta , Behcet Acikmese

This paper presents a stochastic block-coordinate proximal Newton method for minimizing the sum of a blockwise Lipschitz-continuously differentiable function and a separable nonsmooth convex function. At each iteration, the method randomly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-25 Hong Zhu , Xun Qian

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-27 Isabella Käming , Andreas Fischer , Alain B. Zemkoho

When the objective function is not locally Lipschitz, constraint qualifications are no longer sufficient for Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) conditions to hold at a local minimizer, let alone ensuring an exact penalization. In this paper, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-01-17 Lei Guo , Jane J. Ye

In this paper, stability and sensitivity properties of a class of parametric constrained optimization problem, whose feasible region is defined by a set-valued inclusion, are investigated through the associated optimal value function.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-06 Amos Uderzo