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A dynamic method to solve the Non-linear Programming (NLP) problem with Equality Constraints (ECs) and Inequality Constraints (IECs) is proposed. Inspired by the Lyapunov continuous-time dynamics stability theory in the control field, the…
In this chapter, we introduce the relaxed inertial proximal splitting algorithm (RIPSA) for hierarchical equilibrium problems. Using Opial-Passty's lemma, we first establish weak ergodic and weak convergence of the sequence generated by the…
This paper proposes a novel CTA (Combine-Then-Adapt)-based decentralized algorithm for solving convex composite optimization problems over undirected and connected networks. The local loss function in these problems contains both smooth and…
We consider the problem of computing a positive definite $p \times p$ inverse covariance matrix aka precision matrix $\theta=(\theta_{ij})$ which optimizes a regularized Gaussian maximum likelihood problem, with the elastic-net regularizer…
Maximum entropy models provide the least constrained probability distributions that reproduce statistical properties of experimental datasets. In this work we characterize the learning dynamics that maximizes the log-likelihood in the case…
In this paper, we consider a class of difference-of-convex (DC) optimization problems, which require only a weaker restricted $L$-smooth adaptable property on the smooth part of the objective function, instead of the standard global…
We study the problem of optimal multi-robot path planning on graphs MPP over four distinct minimization objectives: the makespan (last arrival time), the maximum (single-robot traveled) distance, the total arrival time, and the total…
Fluid models provide a tractable approach to approximate multiclass processing networks. This tractability is a due to the fact that optimal control for such models is a solution of a Separated Continuous Linear Programming (SCLP) problem.…
Quantum linear system algorithms (QLSAs) have the potential to speed up algorithms that rely on solving linear systems. Interior Point Methods (IPMs) yield a fundamental family of polynomial-time algorithms for solving optimization…
Mixed integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) problems are encountered in modeling a physical/industrial process consisting both nonlinearity and discrete selective parameters. There are variety of algorithms for solving MINLP problems most…
A Halpern-type relaxed inertial inexact progressive hedging algorithm (PHA) is proposed for solving multi-stage stochastic variational inequalities in general probability spaces. The subproblems in this algorithm are allowed to be…
Point pattern matching problems are of fundamental importance in various areas including computer vision and structural bioinformatics. In this paper, we study one of the more general problems, known as LCP (largest common point set…
We consider approximations to the solutions of differential Riccati equations in the context of linear quadratic regulator problems, where the state equation is governed by a multiscale operator. Similarly to elliptic and parabolic…
In the last fifteen years a significant progress was achieved by considering an entropic relaxation of the classical multi-partite optimal transport problem (MPOTP). The entropic relaxation gives rise to the rescaling problem of a given…
Joint object matching, also known as multi-image matching, namely, the problem of finding consistent partial maps among all pairs of objects within a collection, is a crucial task in many areas of computer vision. This problem subsumes…
This paper provides a theoretical and numerical investigation of a penalty decomposition scheme for the solution of optimization problems with geometric constraints. In particular, we consider some situations where parts of the constraints…
Approximate linear programming (ALP) is an efficient approach to solving large factored Markov decision processes (MDPs). The main idea of the method is to approximate the optimal value function by a set of basis functions and optimize…
We propose and analyze a numerical method to solve an elliptic transmission problem in full space. The method consists of a variational formulation involving standard boundary integral operators on the coupling interface and an ultra-weak…
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…