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In this paper, a globally convergent Newton-type proximal gradient method is developed for composite multi-objective optimization problems where each objective function can be represented as the sum of a smooth function and a nonsmooth…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-25 Md Abu Talhamainuddin Ansary

Newton's Method is widely used to find the solution of complex non-linear simulation problems in Computer Graphics. To guarantee a descent direction, it is common practice to clamp the negative eigenvalues of each element Hessian prior to…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-26 José Antonio Fernández-Fernández , Fabian Löschner , Jan Bender

Indirect trajectory optimization methods such as Differential Dynamic Programming (DDP) have found considerable success when only planning under dynamic feasibility constraints. Meanwhile, nonlinear programming (NLP) has been the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-06 Sumeet Singh , Jean-Jacques Slotine , Vikas Sindhwani

In this paper, we propose and analyze some practical Newton methods for electronic structure calculations. We show the convergence and the local quadratic convergence rate for the Newton method when the Newton search directions are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-28 Xiaoying Dai , Liwei Zhang , Aihui Zhou

A new variant of Newton's method for empirical risk minimization is studied, where at each iteration of the optimization algorithm, the gradient and Hessian of the objective function are replaced by robust estimators taken from existing…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-07-18 Eirini Ioannou , Muni Sreenivas Pydi , Po-Ling Loh

In this paper, we propose a globally convergent Newton type method to solve $\ell_0$ regularized sparse optimization problem. In fact, a line search strategy is applied to the Newton method to obtain global convergence. The Jacobian matrix…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-26 Yuge Ye , Qingna Li

We establish a collection of closed-loop guarantees and propose a scalable optimization algorithm for distributionally robust model predictive control (DRMPC) applied to linear systems, convex constraints, and quadratic costs. Via standard…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-13 Robert D. McAllister , Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani

This paper proposes and develops new Newton-type methods to solve structured nonconvex and nonsmooth optimization problems with justifying their fast local and global convergence by means of advanced tools of variational analysis and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Pham Duy Khanh , Boris S. Mordukhovich , Vo Thanh Phat

We propose a distributed cubic regularization of the Newton method for solving (constrained) empirical risk minimization problems over a network of agents, modeled as undirected graph. The algorithm employs an inexact, preconditioned Newton…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-21 Amir Daneshmand , Gesualdo Scutari , Pavel Dvurechensky , Alexander Gasnikov

Newton-type solvers have been extensively employed for solving a variety of nonlinear system of algebraic equations. However, for some complex nonlinear system of algebraic equations, efficiently solving these systems remains a challenging…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-08 Renjie Ding , Dongling Wang

A Newton-type active set algorithm for large-scale minimization subject to polyhedral constraints is proposed. The algorithm consists of a gradient projection step, a second-order Newton-type step in the null space of the constraint matrix,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-12 William W. Hager , Davoud Ataee Tarzanagh

In Model Predictive Control (MPC) the control input is computed by solving a constrained finite-time optimal control (CFTOC) problem at each sample in the control loop. The main computational effort is often spent on computing the search…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-23 Isak Nielsen , Daniel Axehill

The fast growing scale and heterogeneity of current communication networks necessitate the design of distributed cross-layer optimization algorithms. So far, the standard approach of distributed cross-layer design is based on dual…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-08-11 Jia Liu , Hanif D. Sherali

We present a tree structure algorithm for optimal control problems with state constraints. We prove a convergence result for a discrete time approximation of the value function based on a novel formulation of the constrained problem. Then…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-29 Alessandro Alla , Maurizio Falcone , Luca Saluzzi

Finding an $\epsilon$-stationary point of a nonconvex function with a Lipschitz continuous Hessian is a central problem in optimization. Regularized Newton methods are a classical tool and have been studied extensively, yet they still face…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-03 Yuhao Zhou , Jintao Xu , Bingrui Li , Chenglong Bao , Chao Ding , Jun Zhu

In path-following methods for conic programming knowledge of the performance of the (damped) Newton method at finite distances from the minimizer of a self-concordant function is crucial for the tuning of the parameters of the method. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-28 Roland Hildebrand

A control optimization approach is presented for a chaser spacecraft tasked with maintaining proximity to a target space object while avoiding collisions. The target object trajectory is provided numerically to account for both passive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Saif R. Kazi , Harsha Nagarajan , Hassan Hijazi , Przemek Wozniak

In this article, we derive an iterative scheme through a quasi-Newton technique to capture robust weakly efficient points of uncertain multiobjective optimization problems under the upper set less relation. It is assumed that the set of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-21 K. Gupta , D. Ghosh , C. Tammer , X. Zhao , J. C. Yao

This paper proposes a nonmonotone proximal quasi-Newton algorithm for unconstrained convex multiobjective composite optimization problems. To design the search direction, we minimize the max-scalarization of the variations of the Hessian…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-04 Xiaoxue Jiang

In this work we present and discuss a possible globalization concept for Newton-type methods. We consider nonlinear problems $f(x)=0$ in $\mathbb{R}^{n}$ using the concepts from ordinary differential equations as a basis for the proposed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-24 Mario Amrein