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Sparse estimation methods are aimed at using or obtaining parsimonious representations of data or models. They were first dedicated to linear variable selection but numerous extensions have now emerged such as structured sparsity or kernel…

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In this paper we first extend the diminishing stepsize method for nonconvex constrained problems presented in [4] to deal with equality constraints and a nonsmooth objective function of composite type. We then consider the particular case…

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We consider the optimization problem of minimizing $\int_{\Omega}|\nabla u|^p dx$ with a constrain on the volume of $\{u>0\}$. We consider a penalization problem, and we prove that for small values of the penalization parameter, the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Julian Fernandez Bonder , Sandra Martinez , Noemi Wolanski

We address a problem of covariance selection, where we seek a trade-off between a high likelihood against the number of non-zero elements in the inverse covariance matrix. We solve a maximum likelihood problem with a penalty term given by…

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This paper deals with the optimization of Bolza problem with a system of convex and nonconvex, discrete and differential state variable inequality constraints of second order by deriving necessary and sufficient conditions for optimality.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-17 Elimhan N. Mahmudov , S. Demir Saglam

In this paper, we study a variant of the quadratic penalty method for linearly constrained convex problems, which has already been widely used but actually lacks theoretical justification. Namely, the penalty parameter steadily increases…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-11-30 Huan Li , Cong Fang , Zhouchen Lin

We present a powerful and easy-to-implement algorithm for solving constrained optimization problems that involve $L_1$/total-variation regularization terms, and both equality and inequality constraints. We discuss the relationship of our…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-05-22 Musa Maharramov , Stewart A. Levin

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

We consider regression problems with binary weights. Such optimization problems are ubiquitous in quantized learning models and digital communication systems. A natural approach is to optimize the corresponding Lagrangian using variants of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Nisan Chiprut , Amir Globerson , Ami Wiesel

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 present a method to solve a special class of parameter identification problems for an elliptic optimal control problem to global optimality. The bilevel problem is reformulated via the optimal-value function of the lower-level problem.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-02 Markus Friedemann , Felix Harder , Gerd Wachsmuth

We investigate finite-dimensional constrained structured optimization problems, featuring composite objective functions and set-membership constraints. Offering an expressive yet simple language, this problem class provides a modeling…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-09 Alberto De Marchi , Xiaoxi Jia , Christian Kanzow , Patrick Mehlitz

This paper addresses the problem of Unbalanced Optimal Transport (UOT) in which the marginal conditions are relaxed (using weighted penalties in lieu of equality) and no additional regularization is enforced on the OT plan. In this context,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-09 Laetitia Chapel , Rémi Flamary , Haoran Wu , Cédric Févotte , Gilles Gasso

Studies regarding the computation of Optimal Control Problems (OCPs) with terminal inequality constraint, under the frame of the Variation Evolving Method (VEM), are carried out. The attributes of equality constraints and inequality…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-01-24 Sheng Zhang , Yan-Qing Chenq , Wei-Qi Qian

This paper presents a piecewise convexification method to approximate the whole approximate optimal solution set of non-convex optimization problems with box constraints. In the process of box division, we first classify the sub-boxes and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-30 Qiao Zhu , Liping Tang , Xinmin Yang

We propose and study a version of the DCA (Difference-of-Convex functions Algorithm) using the $\ell_1$ penalty function for solving nonsmooth DC optimization problems with nonsmooth DC equality and inequality constraints. The method…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-23 M. V. Dolgopolik

We provide a correction to the sufficient conditions under which closed-form expressions for the optimal Lagrange multiplier are provided in arXiv:2112.13138 [math.OC]. We first present a simple counterexample where the original conditions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-13 Henri Lefebvre , Anirudh Subramanyam

We consider linear and obstacle problems driven by a nonlocal integral operator, for which nonlocal interactions are restricted to a ball of finite radius. These type of operators are used to model anomalous diffusion and, for a special…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-30 Olena Burkovska , Max Gunzburger

This paper is devoted to the study of acceleration methods for an inequality constrained convex optimization problem by using Lyapunov functions. We first approximate such a problem as an unconstrained optimization problem by employing the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-25 Juan Liu , Nan-Jing Huang , Xian-Jun Long , Xue-song Li

In this paper, we propose a double iteratively reweighted algorithm to solve nonconvex and nonsmooth optimization problems, where both the objectives and constraint functions are formulated by concave compositions to promote group-sparse…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Wanqin Nie , Kai Tu , Minglu Ye , Shuqin Sun