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This paper presents a novel approach to solving convex optimization problems by leveraging the fact that, under certain regularity conditions, any set of primal or dual variables satisfying the Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) conditions is…

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A neural network-based approach for solving parametric convex optimization problems is presented, where the network estimates the optimal points given a batch of input parameters. The network is trained by penalizing violations of the…

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Estimating the structure of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs, also known as Bayesian networks) is a challenging problem since the search space of DAGs is combinatorial and scales superexponentially with the number of nodes. Existing approaches…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-06 Xun Zheng , Bryon Aragam , Pradeep Ravikumar , Eric P. Xing

Recently, an intriguing class of non-convex optimization problems has emerged in the context of learning directed acyclic graphs (DAGs). These problems involve minimizing a given loss or score function, subject to a non-convex continuous…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-05-30 Chang Deng , Kevin Bello , Bryon Aragam , Pradeep Ravikumar

The asymptotic Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (AKKT) optimality conditions are distinguished from other approaches in the literature by virtue of their capacity to be effectively derived through numerical methods, such as the utilization of an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Rodrigo B. Moreira , Moisés R. C. do Monte , Valeriano A. de Oliveira

The real-time solution of parametric optimization problems is critical for applications that demand high accuracy under tight real-time constraints, such as model predictive control. To this end, this work presents a learning-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Lukas Lüken , Sergio Lucia

In this paper, we introduce a kind of approximate Karush--Kuhn--Tucker condition (AKKT) for a smooth cone-constrained vector optimization problem. We show that, without any constraint qualification, the AKKT condition is a necessary for a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-21 Nguyen Van Tuyen , Yi-Bin Xiao , Ta Quang Son

In this paper, we obtain necessary optimality conditions for neural network approximation. We consider neural networks in Manhattan ($l_1$ norm) and Chebyshev ($\max$ norm). The optimality conditions are based on neural networks with at…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-24 Vinesha Peiris , Nadezda Sukhorukova , Julien Ugon

The classical method to solve a quadratic optimization problem with nonlinear equality constraints is to solve the Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) optimality conditions using Newton's method. This approach however is usually computationally…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-03-17 Tuan T. Nguyen , Mircea Lazar , Hans Butler

Most existing work focuses on the generalization of KKT for nonsmooth convex optimization problems, but this paper explores a generalized form of Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) conditions for real continuous optimization problems.

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-09 Stanley Yang

Sequential optimality conditions play an important role in constrained optimization since they provide necessary conditions without requiring constraint qualifications (CQs). This paper introduces a second-order extension of the Approximate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-30 Huimin Li , Yuya Yamakawa , Ellen H. Fukuda

This is a tutorial and survey paper on Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) conditions, first-order and second-order numerical optimization, and distributed optimization. After a brief review of history of optimization, we start with some preliminaries…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-06 Benyamin Ghojogh , Ali Ghodsi , Fakhri Karray , Mark Crowley

Optimality conditions are central to analysis of optimization problems, characterizing necessary criteria for local minima. Formalizing the optimality conditions within the type-theory-based proof assistant Lean4 provides a precise, robust,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-25 Chenyi Li , Shengyang Xu , Chumin Sun , Li Zhou , Zaiwen Wen

Learning the underlying Bayesian Networks (BNs), represented by directed acyclic graphs (DAGs), of the concerned events from purely-observational data is a crucial part of evidential reasoning. This task remains challenging due to the large…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-02-20 Danru Xu , Erdun Gao , Wei Huang , Menghan Wang , Andy Song , Mingming Gong

Minimax optimization problems are an important class of optimization problems arising from both modern machine learning and from traditional research areas. We focus on the stability of constrained minimax optimization problems based on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-11 Yu-Hong Dai , Liwei Zhang

We present an algorithm for learning parametric constraints from locally-optimal demonstrations, where the cost function being optimized is uncertain to the learner. Our method uses the Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) optimality conditions of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Glen Chou , Necmiye Ozay , Dmitry Berenson

In the recent paper of Giorgi, Jim\'enez and Novo (J Optim Theory Appl 171:70--89, 2016), the authors introduced the so-called approximate Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (AKKT) condition for smooth multiobjective optimization problems and obtained some…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-16 Nguyen Van Tuyen , Jen-Chih Yao , Ching-Feng Wen

This paper addresses the class of continuous-time nonlinear programming problems with equality and inequality constraints. The paper presents necessary optimality conditions of the sequential form. To be more precise, a sequence of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Moisés R. C. do Monte , Rodrigo B. Moreira , Valeriano A. de Oliveira

This paper considers a nonconvex optimization problem that evolves over time, and addresses the synthesis and analysis of regularized primal-dual gradient methods to track a Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) trajectory. The proposed regularized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-04 Yujie Tang , Emiliano Dall'Anese , Andrey Bernstein , Steven Low

Given a non-convex optimization problem, we study conditions under which every Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) point is a global optimizer. This property is known as KT-invexity and allows to identify the subset of problems where an interior point…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-07-07 Ksenia Bestuzheva , Hassan Hijazi
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