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This paper studies bilevel polynomial optimization in which lower-level constraint functions depend linearly on lower-level variables. We show that such bilevel program can be reformulated as a disjunctive program by using…

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Bilevel optimization has witnessed a resurgence of interest, driven by its critical role in trustworthy and efficient AI applications. While many recent works have established convergence to stationary points or local minima, obtaining the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-25 Quan Xiao , Tianyi Chen

In recent years, a variety of gradient-based first-order methods have been developed to solve bi-level optimization problems for learning applications. However, theoretical guarantees of these existing approaches heavily rely on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Risheng Liu , Pan Mu , Xiaoming Yuan , Shangzhi Zeng , Jin Zhang

Here, necessary optimal condition for Optimistic Bilevel programming problem is obtained in Asplund spaces. Also we have got necessary optimal conditions in finite dimensional spaces, by assuming differentiability on the given functions.

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-11 Suvendu Pattanaik

The mathematical modeling of numerous real-world applications results in hierarchical optimization problems with two decision makers where at least one of them has to solve an optimal control problem of ordinary or partial differential…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-20 Patrick Mehlitz , Gerd Wachsmuth

In this paper, we characterize Lipschitzian properties of different multiplier-free and multiplier-dependent perturbation mappings associated with the stationarity system of a so-called generalized nonlinear program popularized by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-03 Matúš Benko , Patrick Mehlitz

Bilevel linear programming (LP) is one of the simplest classes of bilevel optimization problems, yet it is known to be NP-hard in general. Specifically, determining whether the optimal objective value of a bilevel LP is at least as good as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-23 Nagisa Sugishita , Margarida Carvalho

Solutions of bilevel optimization problems tend to suffer from instability under changes to problem data. In the optimistic setting, we construct a lifted formulation that exhibits desirable stability properties under mild assumptions that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-25 Johannes O. Royset

We consider a smooth pessimistic bilevel optimization problem, where the lower-level problem is convex and satisfies the Slater constraint qualification. These assumptions ensure that the Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) reformulation of our…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-15 Imane Benchouk , Lateef Jolaoso , Khadra Nachi , Alain Zemkoho

The presence of Lipschitzian properties for solution mappings associated with nonlinear parametric optimization problems is desirable in the context of stability analysis or bilevel optimization. An example of such a Lipschitzian property…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-17 Patrick Mehlitz , Leonid I. Minchenko

This paper introduces a computationally efficient method that converges globally to B-stationary points of mathematical programs with equilibrium constraints (MPECs). B-stationarity is necessary for optimality and means that no feasible…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-13 Armin Nurkanović , Sven Leyffer

We introduce the Morse parametric qualification condition for bilevel programming. Generic semi-algebraic functions are Morse parametric in a piecewise sense. Thus, bilevel programs with a Morse parametric lower level constitute a relevant…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-05 Jérôme Bolte , Quoc-Tung Le , Edouard Pauwels , Samuel Vaiter

Max-min bilinear optimization models, where one agent maximizes and an adversary minimizes a common bilinear objective, serve as canonical saddle-point formulations in optimization theory. They capture, among others, two-player zero-sum…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Sarah Yini Gao , Xindong Tang , Yancheng Yuan

We study the equivalence of several well-known sufficient optimality conditions for a general quadratically constrained quadratic program (QCQP). The conditions are classified in two categories. The first one is for determining an optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-14 Sunyoung Kim , Masakazu Kojima

Bilevel optimization has recently regained interest owing to its applications in emerging machine learning fields such as hyperparameter optimization, meta-learning, and reinforcement learning. Recent results have shown that simple…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-09 Quan Xiao , Songtao Lu , Tianyi Chen

We present a regularization method to approach a solution of the pessimistic formulation of ill -posed bilevel problems . This allows to overcome the difficulty arising from the non uniqueness of the lower level problems solutions and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-16 Maïtine Bergounioux , Mounir Haddou

Our main goal is to compute or estimate the calmness modulus of the argmin mapping of linear semi-infinite optimization problems under canonical perturbations, i.e., perturbations of the objective function together with continuous…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-01-20 M. J. Canovas , A. Y. Kruger , M. A. Lopez , J. Parra , M. A. Thera

It has recently been shown (Burer, Math. Program Ser. A 120:479-495, 2009) that a large class of NP-hard nonconvex quadratic programming problems can be modeled as so called completely positive programming problems, which are convex but…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-11-26 Chuan-Hao Guo , Yan-Qin Bai , Li-Ping Tang

In computer vision, many problems such as image segmentation, pixel labelling, and scene parsing can be formulated as binary quadratic programs (BQPs). For submodular problems, cuts based methods can be employed to efficiently solve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Peng Wang , Chunhua Shen , Anton van den Hengel , Philip H. S. Torr

We propose a bilevel optimization strategy for selecting the best hyperparameter value for the nonsmooth $\ell_p$ regularizer with $0<p\le 1$. The concerned bilevel optimization problem has a nonsmooth, possibly nonconvex,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-20 Takayuki Okuno , Akiko Takeda , Akihiro Kawana , Motokazu Watanabe