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In this paper, we present decomposition techniques for solving large-scale instances of the security-constrained optimal power flow (SCOPF) problem with primary response. Specifically, under each contingency state, we require that the nodal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-10 Alexandre Velloso , Pascal Van Hentenryck , Emma S. Johnson

The proximal bundle method (PBM) is a powerful and widely used approach for minimizing nonsmooth convex functions. However, for smooth objectives, its best-known convergence rate remains suboptimal, and whether PBM can be accelerated…

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AC Optimal Power Flow (ACOPF) and Security-Constrained Unit Commitment (SCUC) are fundamental optimization problems in power system operations. ACOPF serves as the physical backbone of grid simulation and real-time operation, enforcing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Zeeshan Memon , Yijiang Li , Hongwei Jin , Kibaek Kim , Liang Zhao

The alternating current optimal power flow (AC-OPF) problem is critical to power system operations and planning, but it is generally hard to solve due to its nonconvex and large-scale nature. This paper proposes a scalable decomposition…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-12 Shenyinying Tu , Andreas Waechter , Ermin Wei

This paper is devoted to a new modification of a recently proposed adaptive stochastic mirror descent algorithm for constrained convex optimization problems in the case of several convex functional constraints. Algorithms, standard and its…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-22 Mohammad S. Alkousa

We introduce two new methods for deterministic convex optimization problems: QCC (Quadratic Cuts for Convex optimization) and QB (Quadratic Bundle method). We prove the complexity of these methods for composite optimization problems which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-02 Vincent Guigues , Adriana Washington

This paper focuses on the design of sequential quadratic optimization (commonly known as SQP) methods for solving large-scale nonlinear optimization problems. The most computationally demanding aspect of such an approach is the computation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-27 James V. Burke , Frank E. Curtis , Hao Wang , Jiashan Wang

Constrained non-convex optimization problems frequently arise in control applications. Solving such problems is inherently challenging, as existing methods often converge to suboptimal local minima or incur prohibitive computational costs.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Anran Li , John P. Swensen , Mehdi Hosseinzadeh

Asynchronous algorithms have attracted much attention recently due to the crucial demands on solving large-scale optimization problems. However, the accelerated versions of asynchronous algorithms are rarely studied. In this paper, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-28 Cong Fang , Yameng Huang , Zhouchen Lin

A new exact projective penalty method is proposed for the equivalent reduction of constrained optimization problems to nonsmooth unconstrained ones. In the method, the original objective function is extended to infeasible points by summing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-05 Vladimir Norkin

This paper presents the SCvx algorithm, a successive convexification algorithm designed to solve non-convex constrained optimal control problems with global convergence and superlinear convergence-rate guarantees. The proposed algorithm can…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-28 Yuanqi Mao , Michael Szmuk , Xiangru Xu , Behcet Acikmese

We propose a GPU accelerated proximal message passing algorithm for solving contingency-constrained DC optimal power flow problems (OPF). We consider a highly general formulation of OPF that uses a sparse device-node model and supports a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-23 Anthony Degleris , Abbas El Gamal , Ram Rajagopal

This paper studies a stochastic algorithm for linearly constrained nonconvex optimization, where the objective function is smooth but only unbiased stochastic gradients with bounded variance are available. We propose a momentum-based…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Chenyang Qiu , Mihitha Maithripala , Zongli Lin

Bilevel optimization is a fundamental tool in hierarchical decision-making and has been widely applied to machine learning tasks such as hyperparameter tuning, meta-learning, and continual learning. While significant progress has been made…

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In this two-part paper, we propose a general algorithmic framework for the minimization of a nonconvex smooth function subject to nonconvex smooth constraints. The algorithm solves a sequence of (separable) strongly convex problems and…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2016-01-18 Gesualdo Scutari , Francisco Facchinei , Lorenzo Lampariello , Peiran Song

In this work, based on the ideas of alternating direction method with multipliers (ADMM) and sequential quadratic programming (SQP), as well as Armijo line search technology, monotone splitting SQP algorithms for two-block nonconvex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-31 Jinbao Jian , Guodong Ma , Xiao Xu , Daolan Han

In this paper we analyze several new methods for solving nonconvex optimization problems with the objective function formed as a sum of two terms: one is nonconvex and smooth, and another is convex but simple and its structure is known.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-06-25 A. Patrascu , I. Necoara

Optimal power flow (OPF) problems are non-convex and large-scale optimization problems with important applications in power networks. This paper proposes the scheduled-asynchronous algorithm to solve a distributed semidefinite programming…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-10 Chin-Yao Chang , Jorge Cortes , Sonia Martinez

Federated learning enables training on a massive number of edge devices. To improve flexibility and scalability, we propose a new asynchronous federated optimization algorithm. We prove that the proposed approach has near-linear convergence…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Cong Xie , Sanmi Koyejo , Indranil Gupta

We consider strongly convex-concave minimax problems in the federated setting, where the communication constraint is the main bottleneck. When clients are arbitrarily heterogeneous, a simple Minibatch Mirror-prox achieves the best…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Charlie Hou , Kiran K. Thekumparampil , Giulia Fanti , Sewoong Oh