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While automatically generated polynomial elimination templates have sparked great progress in the field of 3D computer vision, there remain many problems for which the degree of the constraints or the number of unknowns leads to…

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The optimal transport problem has many applications in machine learning, physics, biology, economics, etc. Although its goal is very clear and mathematically well-defined, finding its optimal solution can be challenging for large datasets…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-14 Roozbeh Yousefzadeh

Numerical continuation in the context of optimization can be used to mitigate convergence issues due to a poor initial guess. In this work, we extend this idea to Riemannian optimization problems, that is, the minimization of a target…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-30 Axel Séguin , Daniel Kressner

A special homotopy continuation method, as a combination of the polyhedral homotopy and the linear product homotopy, is proposed for computing all the isolated solutions to a special class of polynomial systems. The root number bound of…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2017-04-27 Yu Wang , Wenyuan Wu , Bican Xia

We introduce a Kojima-Megiddo-Mizuno type continuation method for solving tensor complementarity problems. We show that there exists a bounded continuation trajectory when the tensor is strictly semi-positive and any limit point tracing the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-06 Lixing Han

Motivated by optimal control problems and differential games for functional differential equations of retarded type, the paper deals with a Cauchy problem for a path-dependent Hamilton--Jacobi equation with a right-end boundary condition.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-25 Mikhail I. Gomoyunov , Nikolai Yu. Lukoyanov , Anton R. Plaksin

The classical method to solve a quadratic optimization problem with nonlinear equality constraints is to solve the Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) optimality conditions using Newton's method. This approach however is usually computationally…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-03-17 Tuan T. Nguyen , Mircea Lazar , Hans Butler

We consider the problem of optimal path planning in different homotopy classes in a given environment. Though important in robotics applications, path-planning with reasoning about homotopy classes of trajectories has typically focused on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-10-10 Subhrajit Bhattacharya , Robert Ghrist

In this article, we establish a class of new projected type iteration methods based on matrix spitting for solving the linear complementarity problem. Also, we provide a sufficient condition for the convergence analysis when the system…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-10 Bharat Kumar , Deepmala , A. K. Das

Homotopy methods are attractive due to their capability of solving difficult optimisation and optimal control problems. The underlying idea is to construct a homotopy, which may be considered as a continuous (zero) curve between the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-10 Willem Esterhuizen , Kathrin Flaßkamp , Matthias Hoffmann , Karl Worthmann

We propose a homotopy method for solving mathematical programs with complementarity constraints (CCs). The indicator function of the CCs is relaxed by a Lasry-Lions double envelope, an extension of the Moreau envelope that enjoys an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Jia Wang , Andreas Themelis , Ivan Markovsky , Panagiotis Patrinos

This paper addresses the class of continuous-time nonlinear programming problems with equality and inequality constraints. The paper presents necessary optimality conditions of the sequential form. To be more precise, a sequence of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Moisés R. C. do Monte , Rodrigo B. Moreira , Valeriano A. de Oliveira

We introduce the concept of homotopy iterators for performing polynomial homotopy continuation tasks in a memory efficient manner. The main idea is to push forward an iterator for the start solutions of a homotopy via the function which…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-11 Paul Breiding , Taylor Brysiewicz , Hannah Friedman

In this article, we consider the residual regularization path-following method with the trust-region updating strategy for the linear complementarity problem. This time-stepping selection based on the trust-region updating strategy…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-31 Xin-long Luo , Sen Zhang , Hang Xiao

We consider the problem of tracking one solution path defined by a polynomial homotopy on a parallel shared memory computer. Our robust path tracker applies Newton's method on power series to locate the closest singular parameter value. On…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-31 Simon Telen , Marc Van Barel , Jan Verschelde

We consider continuous linear programs over a continuous finite time horizon $T$, with a constant coefficient matrix, linear right hand side functions and linear cost coefficient functions, where we search for optimal solutions in the space…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-02 Evgeny Shindin , Gideon Weiss

$ \ell_1 $-regularized linear inverse problems are frequently used in signal processing, image analysis, and statistics. The correct choice of the regularization parameter $ t \in \mathbb{R}_{\geq 0} $ is a delicate issue. Instead of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-05-03 Björn Bringmann , Daniel Cremers , Felix Krahmer , Michael Möller

Homotopy perturbation method is used for solving the multi-point boundary value problems. The approximate solution is found in the form of a rapidly convergent series. Several numerical examples have been considered to illustrate the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-10-11 Shahid S. Siddiqiand Muzammal Iftikhar

Mathematical programs with complementarity constraints are notoriously difficult to solve due to their nonconvexity and lack of constraint qualifications in every feasible point. This work focuses on the subclass of quadratic programs with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-01 Jonas Hall , Armin Nurkanovic , Florian Messerer , Moritz Diehl

Implicit inverse problems, in which noisy observations of a physical quantity are used to infer a nonlinear functional applied to an associated function, are inherently ill posed and often exhibit non uniqueness of solutions. Such problems…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Davide Parodi , Federico Benvenuto , Sara Garbarino , Michele Piana