English
Related papers

Related papers: A path-following inexact Newton method for PDE-con…

200 papers

In this paper, we propose objective-function-free (OFF) variants of the proximal Newton method for nonconvex composite optimization problems and the regularized Newton method for unconstrained optimization problems, respectively, using…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Hong Zhu

In this paper, we investigate an optimal control problem governed by parabolic equations with measure-valued controls over time. We establish the well-posedness of the optimal control problem and derive the first-order optimality condition…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-04 Wei Gong , Dongdong Liang

We consider optimal control problems for partial differential equations where the controls take binary values but vary over the time horizon, they can thus be seen as dynamic switches. The switching patterns may be subject to combinatorial…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-04 Christoph Buchheim , Alexandra Grütering , Christian Meyer

We propose a higher-order method for solving non-smooth optimization problems on manifolds. In order to obtain superlinear convergence, we apply a Riemannian Semi-smooth Newton method to a non-smooth non-linear primal-dual optimality system…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-17 Willem Diepeveen , Jan Lellmann

Total variation (TV) regularization has proven effective for a range of computer vision tasks through its preferential weighting of sharp image edges. Existing TV-based methods, however, often suffer from the over-smoothing issue and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-26 Dong Gong , Mingkui Tan , Qinfeng Shi , Anton van den Hengel , Yanning Zhang

This work deals with optimal control problems as a strategy to drive bifurcating solution of nonlinear parametrized partial differential equations towards a desired branch. Indeed, for these governing equations, multiple solution…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-08 Federico Pichi , Maria Strazzullo , Francesco Ballarin , Gianluigi Rozza

This paper presents a novel model predictive control strategy for controlling autonomous motion systems moving through an environment with obstacles of general shape. In order to solve such a generic non-convex optimization problem and find…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-28 Ben Hermans , Panagiotis Patrinos , Goele Pipeleers

This paper is concerned with the derivation of necessary conditions for the optimal shape of a design problem governed by a non-smooth PDE. The main particularity thereof is the lack of differentiability of the nonlinearity in the state…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-24 Livia Betz

This paper is concerned with optimal control problems for parabolic partial differential equations with pointwise in time switching constraints on the control. A standard approach to treat constraints in nonlinear optimization is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-30 Christian Clason , Armin Rund , Karl Kunisch

Total variation regularization has proven to be a valuable tool in the context of optimal control of differential equations. This is particularly attributed to the observation that TV-penalties often favor piecewise constant minimizers with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-03 Giacomo Cristinelli , José A. Iglesias , Daniel Walter

We propose an inexact variable-metric proximal point algorithm to accelerate gradient-based optimization algorithms. The proposed scheme, called QNing can be notably applied to incremental first-order methods such as the stochastic…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-01-30 Hongzhou Lin , Julien Mairal , Zaid Harchaoui

This work concerns the local convergence theory of Newton and quasi-Newton methods for convex-composite optimization: minimize f(x):=h(c(x)), where h is an infinite-valued proper convex function and c is C^2-smooth. We focus on the case…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-19 James V. Burke , Abraham Engle

In this paper, further extensions of the result of the paper "A successive approximation method in functional spaces for hierarchical optimal control problems and its application to learning, arXiv:2410.20617 [math.OC], 2024" concerning a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-26 Getachew K. Befekadu

Parabolic optimal control problems with control constraints are generally challenging, from either theoretical analysis or algorithmic design perspectives. Conceptually, the well-known alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) can…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-05 Yongcun Song , Xiaoming Yuan , Hangrui Yue

This paper details a novel indirect method for solving constrained optimal control problems (OCPs) directly in continuous-time function space. The KKT conditions are embedded in a non-smooth complementarity function, which enables their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Simon J. Jones , Dominic Liao-McPherson , Marco M. Nicotra

Neural networks have been applied to control problems, typically by combining data, differential equation residuals, and objective costs in the training loss or by incorporating auxiliary architectural components. Instead, we propose a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-10 Oliver G. S. Lundqvist , Fabricio Oliveira

Optimization problems with composite functions consist of an objective function which is the sum of a smooth and a (convex) nonsmooth term. This particular structure is exploited by the class of proximal gradient methods and some of their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-17 Christian Kanzow , Theresa Lechner

We consider a class of difference-of-convex (DC) optimization problems where the objective function is the sum of a smooth function and a possible nonsmooth DC function. The application of proximal DC algorithms to address this problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-30 Shummin Nakayama , Yasushi Narushima , Hiroshi Yabe

We consider both discrete and continuous control problems constrained by a fixed budget of some resource, which may be renewed upon entering a preferred subset of the state space. In the discrete case, we consider both deterministic and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-09-30 Ryo Takei , Weiyan Chen , Zachary Clawson , Slav Kirov , Alexander Vladimirsky

In general, standard necessary optimality conditions cannot be formulated in a straightforward manner for semi-smooth shape optimization problems. In this paper, we consider shape optimization problems constrained by variational…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-17 Daniel Luft , Volker H. Schulz , Kathrin Welker