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In this short note, we discuss a goal-oriented multiobjective optimization problem for system performance assessment. The objective function for such optimization problem, which is usually a composite of different performance indices…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-12 Getachew K Befekadu

A Lagrange multiplier theorem is derived for the case of an imprecise objective function and a precise constraint. The proof uses methods of analysis which deal in a direct, algebraic way with imprecisions. They include imprecise…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-29 Nam Van Tran , Imme van den Berg

The problem of finding global minima of nonlinear discrete functions arises in many fields of practical matters. In recent years, methods based on discrete filled functions become popular as ways of solving these sort of problems. However,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-26 Juan Di Mauro , Hugo D. Scolnik

Large language models (LLMs) have exhibited their problem-solving abilities in mathematical reasoning. Solving realistic optimization (OPT) problems in application scenarios requires advanced and applied mathematics ability. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Zhicheng Yang , Yiwei Wang , Yinya Huang , Zhijiang Guo , Wei Shi , Xiongwei Han , Liang Feng , Linqi Song , Xiaodan Liang , Jing Tang

Methods for forecasting time series adhering to linear constraints have seen notable development in recent years, especially with the advent of forecast reconciliation. This paper extends forecast reconciliation to the open question of…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-27 Daniele Girolimetto , Anastasios Panagiotelis , Tommaso Di Fonzo , Han Li

We examine a new optimization problem formulated in the tropical mathematics setting as a further extension of certain known problems. The problem is to minimize a nonlinear objective function, which is defined on vectors over an idempotent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-01-24 N. Krivulin

We present two parallel optimization algorithms for a convex function $f$. The first algorithm optimizes over linear inequality constraints in a Hilbert space, $\mathbb H$, and the second over a non convex polyhedron in $\mathbb R^n$. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-22 E. Dov Neimand , Serban Sabau

Numerical nonlinear algebra is applied to maximum likelihood estimation for Gaussian models defined by linear constraints on the covariance matrix. We examine the generic case as well as special models (e.g. Toeplitz, sparse, trees) that…

Computation · Statistics 2020-10-07 Bernd Sturmfels , Sascha Timme , Piotr Zwiernik

We propose a novel quantum algorithm for solving linear optimization problems by quantum-mechanical simulation of the central path. While interior point methods follow the central path with an iterative algorithm that works with successive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-17 Brandon Augustino , Jiaqi Leng , Giacomo Nannicini , Tamás Terlaky , Xiaodi Wu

This work develops an LLM-based optimization framework ensuring strict constraint satisfaction in network optimization. While LLMs possess contextual reasoning capabilities, existing approaches often fail to enforce constraints, causing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Youngjin Song , Wookjin Lee , Hong Ki Kim , Sang Hyun Lee

Most inverse optimization models impute unspecified parameters of an objective function to make an observed solution optimal for a given optimization problem with a fixed feasible set. We propose two approaches to impute unspecified…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-19 Timothy C. Y. Chan , Neal Kaw

In this manuscript, we solve a nonlinear optimization problem in the study of maximizing cooling temperature using inhomogeneous thermoelectric materials.

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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

A new approach to solving a large class of factorable nonlinear programming (NLP) problems to global optimality is presented in this paper. Unlike the traditional strategy of partitioning the decision-variable space employed in many…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-04-28 Gene A. Bunin

We develop a theory for solving continuous time optimal stopping problems for non-linear expectations. Our motivation is to consider problems in which the stopper uses risk measures to evaluate future rewards.

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-01-11 Erhan Bayraktar , Song Yao

We propose an algorithm for solving bound-constrained mathematical programs with complementarity constraints on the variables. Each iteration of the algorithm involves solving a linear program with complementarity constraints in order to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-14 Christian Kirches , Jeffrey Larson , Sven Leyffer , Paul Manns

Nonlinear constrained optimization has a wide range of practical applications. In this paper, we consider nonlinear optimization with inequality constraints. The interior point method is considered to be one of the most powerful algorithms…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Yonggang Pei , Jingyi Guo , Detong Zhu

Many separable nonlinear optimization problems can be approximated by their nonlinear objective functions with piecewise linear functions. A natural question arising from applying this approach is how to break the interval of interest into…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-10 Carlos Ugaz , Lanshan Han , Alvin Lim

Polynomial optimization encompasses a broad class of problems in which both the objective function and constraints are polynomial functions of the decision variables. In recent years, a substantial body of research has focused on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-05 Haibin Chen , Hong Yan , Guanglu Zhou

In this paper, we focus on a class of constrained nonlinear optimization problems (NLP), where some of its equality constraints define a closed embedded submanifold $\mathcal{M}$ in $\mathbb{R}^n$. Although NLP can be solved directly by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-05 Nachuan Xiao , Xin Liu , Kim-Chuan Toh