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We present a novel class of minimax optimal control problems with positive dynamics, linear objective function and homogeneous constraints. The proposed problem class can be analyzed with dynamic programming and an explicit solution to the…

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When applying machine learning to problems in NLP, there are many choices to make about how to represent input texts. These choices can have a big effect on performance, but they are often uninteresting to researchers or practitioners who…

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We present a novel efficient theoretical and numerical framework for solving global non-convex polynomial optimization problems. We analytically demonstrate that such problems can be efficiently reformulated using a non-linear objective…

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In the past few decades there has been a good deal of papers which are concerned with optimization problems in different areas of mathematics (along 0-1 words, finite or infinite) and which yield - sometimes quite unexpectedly - balanced…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2011-08-19 Nikita Sidorov

We present an efficient framework for solving algebraically-constrained global non-convex polynomial optimization problems over subsets of the hypercube. We prove the existence of an equivalent nonlinear reformulation of such problems that…

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A variety of optimization problems takes the form of a minimum norm optimization. In this paper, we study the change of optimal values between two incrementally constructed least norm optimization problems, with new measurements included in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-24 Fang Bai

The design of minimum-compliance bending-resistant structures with continuous cross-section parameters is a challenging task because of its inherent non-convexity. Our contribution develops a strategy that facilitates computing all…

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The computation of a maximal order of an order in a semisimple algebra over a global field is a classical well-studied problem in algorithmic number theory. In this paper we consider the related problems of computing all minimal overorders…

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Science about optimization methods is rapidly developing today. In machine learning, computer vision, biology, medicine, construction and in many other different areas optimization methods have vast popularity and they appear as important…

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A multidimensional optimization problem is formulated in the tropical mathematics setting as to maximize a nonlinear objective function, which is defined through a multiplicative conjugate transposition operator on vectors in a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-12-12 Nikolai Krivulin

In practice, most of the optimization problems are non-linear requiring certain interactive solutions and approaches to model. In 5G Advanced and Beyond network slicing, mathematically modeling the users, type of service distributions and…

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The paper proposes a new algorithm for solving global univariate optimization problems. The algorithm does not require convexity of the target function. For a broad variety of target functions after performing (if necessary) several…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-01-26 Sergey Nikitin

Finite element model updating of a structure made of linear elastic materials is based on the solution of a minimization problem. The goal is to find some unknown parameters of the finite element model (elastic moduli, mass densities,…

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To facilitate widespread adoption of automated engineering design techniques, existing methods must become more efficient and generalizable. In the field of topology optimization, this requires the coupling of modern optimization methods…

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This paper studies first-order algorithms for solving fully composite optimization problems over convex and compact sets. We leverage the structure of the objective by handling its differentiable and non-differentiable components…

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This work presents a novel version of recently developed Gauss-Newton method for solving systems of nonlinear equations, based on upper bound of solution residual and quadratic regularization ideas. We obtained for such method global…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-04 Nikita Yudin , Alexander Gasnikov

In this paper, we develop a new concept of Global Curvature Bound for an arbitrary nonlinear operator between abstract metric spaces. We use this notion to characterize the global complexity of high-order algorithms solving composite…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Nikita Doikov , Yurii Nesterov

An algorithm which computes a solution of a set optimization problem is provided. The graph of the objective map is assumed to be given by finitely many linear inequalities. A solution is understood to be a set of points in the domain…

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This paper presents a canonical dual approach for solving a nonconvex global optimization problem governed by a sum of fourth-order polynomial and a log-sum-exp function. Such a problem arises extensively in engineering and sciences. Based…

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