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We study the performance of stochastic first-order methods for finding saddle points of convex-concave functions. A notorious challenge faced by such methods is that the gradients can grow arbitrarily large during optimization, which may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Gergely Neu , Nneka Okolo

We investigate a class of composite nonconvex functions, where the outer function is the sum of univariate extended-real-valued convex functions and the inner function is the limit of difference-of-convex functions. A notable feature of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-21 Hanyang Li , Ying Cui

This work is concerned with optimal control problems where the objective functional consists of a tracking-type functional and an additional "multibang" regularization functional that promotes optimal control taking values from a given…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-14 Christian Clason , Thi Bich Tram Do , Frank Pörner

In this paper, we study a solution approach for set optimization problems with respect to the lower set less relation. This approach can serve as a base for numerically solving set optimization problems by using established solvers from…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-27 Gabriele Eichfelder , Ernest Quintana , Stefan Rocktäschel

In this paper, we are dealing with constrained vector optimisation problems where the objective function acts between real linear-topological spaces. Our aim is to study the relationships between the sets of properly efficient solutions to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Paul Schmölling , Christian Günther , Christiane Tammer , Elisabeth Köbis

We consider the optimization of pairwise objective functions, i.e., objective functions of the form $H(\mathbf{x}) = H(x_1,\ldots,x_N) = \sum_{1\leq i<j \leq N} H_{ij}(x_i,x_j)$ for $x_i$ in some continuous state spaces $\mathcal{X}_i$.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-21 Yian Chen , Yuehaw Khoo , Michael Lindsey

This two-part paper is concerned with the problem of minimizing a linear objective function subject to a bilinear matrix inequality (BMI) constraint. In this part, we first consider a family of convex relaxations which transform BMI…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-27 Mohsen Kheirandishfard , Fariba Zohrizadeh , Ramtin Madani

Distributionally robust optimization (DRO) is a widely used framework for optimizing objective functionals in the presence of both randomness and model-form uncertainty. A key step in the practical solution of many DRO problems is a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-22 Jeremiah Birrell

Convex optimization is a well-established research area with applications in almost all fields. Over the decades, multiple approaches have been proposed to solve convex programs. The development of interior-point methods allowed solving a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Ahmed Douik , Babak Hassibi

In this paper, distributed convex optimization problem over non-directed dynamical networks is studied. Here, networked agents with single-integrator dynamics are supposed to rendezvous at a point that is the solution of a global convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-07-18 Amir Adibzadeh , Mohsen Zamani , Amir A. Suratgar , Mohammad B. Menhaj

Many problems of theoretical and practical interest involve finding an optimum over a family of convex functions. For instance, finding the projection on the convex functions in $H^k(\Omega)$, and optimizing functionals arising from some…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2008-04-11 Néstor E. Aguilera , Pedro Morin

Solving inverse problems \(Ax = y\) is central to a variety of practically important fields such as medical imaging, remote sensing, and non-destructive testing. The most successful and theoretically best-understood method is convex…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Daniel Obmann , Gyeongha Hwang , Markus Haltmeier

Regularization-based approaches for injecting constraints in Machine Learning (ML) were introduced to improve a predictive model via expert knowledge. We tackle the issue of finding the right balance between the loss (the accuracy of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Michele Lombardi , Federico Baldo , Andrea Borghesi , Michela Milano

This paper presents computationally feasible rank-one relaxation algorithms for the efficient simulation of a time-incremental damage model with nonconvex incremental stress potentials in multiple spatial dimensions. While the standard…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Daniel Balzani , Maximilian Köhler , Timo Neumeier , Malte A. Peter , Daniel Peterseim

In this work we collect and compare to each other many different numerical methods for regularized regression problem and for the problem of projection on a hyperplane. Such problems arise, for example, as a subproblem of demand matrix…

For a variety of regularized optimization problems in machine learning, algorithms computing the entire solution path have been developed recently. Most of these methods are quadratic programs that are parameterized by a single parameter,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-10-31 Bernd Gärtner , Martin Jaggi , Clément Maria

We consider minimization of functions that are compositions of convex or prox-regular functions (possibly extended-valued) with smooth vector functions. A wide variety of important optimization problems fall into this framework. We describe…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-04-24 A. S. Lewis , S. J. Wright

The problem of minimization of the least squares functional with a smooth, lower semi-continuous, convex regularizer $J(\cdot)$ is considered to be solved. Over some compact and convex subset $\Omega$ of the Hilbert space $\mathcal{H},$ the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-09-04 Erdem Altuntac

In this paper, an inexact proximal-point penalty method is studied for constrained optimization problems, where the objective function is non-convex, and the constraint functions can also be non-convex. The proposed method approximately…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-02 Qihang Lin , Runchao Ma , Yangyang Xu

Typically, the sequence of points generated by an optimization algorithm may have multiple limit points. Under convexity assumptions, however, (sub)gradient methods are known to generate a convergent sequence of points. In this paper, we…

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