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We propose a novel approach using supervised learning to obtain near-optimal primal solutions for two-stage stochastic integer programming (2SIP) problems with constraints in the first and second stages. The goal of the algorithm is to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-18 Yoshua Bengio , Emma Frejinger , Andrea Lodi , Rahul Patel , Sriram Sankaranarayanan

Equilibrium equations in the form of complementarity conditions often appear as constraints in optimization problems. Problems of this type are commonly referred to as mathematical programs with complementarity constraints (MPCCs). A…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Sven Leyffer

In this work, the joint use of a mixed penalty-interior point method and direct search is proposed, to address {nonlinear} constrained derivative-free optimization problems. A merit function is considered, wherein the set of nonlinear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-19 Andrea Brilli , Ana L. Custódio , Giampaolo Liuzzi , Everton J. Silva

We propose an unconstrained optimization method based on the well-known primal-dual hybrid gradient (PDHG) algorithm. We first formulate the optimality condition of the unconstrained optimization problem as a saddle point problem. We then…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-29 X. Zuo , S. Osher , W. Li

This paper is devoted to the study of an inertial accelerated primal-dual algorithm, which is based on a second-order differential system with time scaling, for solving a non-smooth convex optimization problem with linear equality…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Huan Zhang , Xiangkai Sun , Shengjie Li , Kok Lay Teo

In this paper, we propose a variance-reduced primal-dual algorithm with Bregman distance for solving convex-concave saddle-point problems with finite-sum structure and nonbilinear coupling function. This type of problems typically arises in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-02 Erfan Yazdandoost Hamedani , Afrooz Jalilzadeh

The worst-case robust adaptive beamforming problem for general-rank signal model is considered. Its formulation is to maximize the worst-case signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR), incorporating a positive semidefinite constraint…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-05-15 Yongwei Huang , Sergiy A. Vorobyov

The aim of this paper is to solve linear semidefinite programs arising from higher-order Lasserre relaxations of unconstrained binary quadratic optimization problems. For this we use an interior point method with a preconditioned conjugate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-30 Soodeh Habibi , Michal Kocvara , Michael Stingl

We study a class of constrained nonconvex-nonconcave minimax optimization problems in which the inner maximization involves potentially complex constraints. Under the assumption that the inner problem of a novel lifted minimax reformulation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Zhaosong Lu , Xiangyuan Wang

We consider Riemannian optimization problems with inequality and equality constraints and analyze a class of Riemannian interior point methods for solving them. The algorithm of interest consists of outer and inner iterations. We show that,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Mitsuaki Obara , Takayuki Okuno , Akiko Takeda

We describe how the low-rank structure in an SDP can be exploited to reduce the per-iteration cost of a convex primal-dual interior-point method down to $O(n^{3})$ time and $O(n^{2})$ memory, even at very high accuracies. A traditional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-04 Hong-Ming Chiu , Richard Y. Zhang

We introduce an efficient and scalable method for density-based multi-material topology optimization, integrating classical mirror descent techniques with point-wise polytopal design constraints. Such constraints arise naturally in this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Peter Gangl , Brendan Keith , Dohyun Kim , Boyan S. Lazarov , Thomas M. Surowiec

Successive quadratic approximations, or second-order proximal methods, are useful for minimizing functions that are a sum of a smooth part and a convex, possibly nonsmooth part that promotes regularization. Most analyses of iteration…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-25 Ching-pei Lee , Stephen J. Wright

In real-world applications, it is important for machine learning algorithms to be robust against data outliers or corruptions. In this paper, we focus on improving the robustness of a large class of learning algorithms that are formulated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Quanming Yao , Hangsi Yang , En-Liang Hu , James Kwok

This work proposes an implementable proximal-type method for a broad class of optimization problems involving nonsmooth and nonconvex objective and constraint functions. In contrast to existing methods that rely on an ad hoc model…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-26 Gregorio M. Sempere , Welington de Oliveira , Johannes O. Royset

This paper addresses black-box smooth optimization problems, where the objective and constraint functions are not explicitly known but can be queried. The main goal of this work is to generate a sequence of feasible points converging…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-25 Baiwei Guo , Yuning Jiang , Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate , Maryam Kamgarpour

Incremental methods are widely utilized for solving finite-sum optimization problems in machine learning and signal processing. In this paper, we study a family of incremental methods -- including incremental subgradient, incremental…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-26 Xiao Li , Zhihui Zhu , Anthony Man-Cho So , Jason D Lee

This paper studies existing direct transcription methods for trajectory optimization applied to robot motion planning. There are diverse alternatives for the implementation of direct transcription. In this study we analyze the effects of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-02-29 Diego Pardo , Lukas Möller , Michael Neunert , Alexander W. Winkler , Jonas Buchli

We propose a new framework to implement interior point method (IPM) to solve very large linear programs (LP). Traditional IPMs typically use Newton's method to approximately solve a subproblem that aims to minimize a log-barrier penalty…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-03 Tianyi Lin , Shiqian Ma , Yinyu Ye , Shuzhong Zhang

Distributed algorithms for solving additive or consensus optimization problems commonly rely on first-order or proximal splitting methods. These algorithms generally come with restrictive assumptions and at best enjoy a linear convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-11 Sina Khoshfetrat Pakazad , Christian A. Naesseth , Fredrik Lindsten , Anders Hansson