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In this paper, a sequential search method for finding the global minimum of an objective function is presented, The descent gradient search is repeated until the global minimum is obtained. The global minimum is located by a process of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-06 Mohamed Tifroute , Anouar Lahmdani , Hassane Bouzahir

We present a proximal gradient method for solving convex multiobjective optimization problems, where each objective function is the sum of two convex functions, with one assumed to be continuously differentiable. The algorithm incorporates…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-18 Yunier Bello-Cruz , J. G. Melo , L. F. Prudente , R. V. G. Serra

This paper conducts a comparative study of proximal gradient methods (PGMs) and proximal DC algorithms (PDCAs) for sparse regression problems which can be cast as Difference-of-two-Convex-functions (DC) optimization problems. It has been…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-21 Shummin Nakayama , Jun-ya Gotoh

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

This paper presents a majorized alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) with indefinite proximal terms for solving linearly constrained $2$-block convex composite optimization problems with each block in the objective being the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-06-24 Min Li , Defeng Sun , Kim-Chuan Toh

This paper investigates a category of constrained fractional optimization problems that emerge in various practical applications. The objective function for this category is characterized by the ratio of a numerator and denominator, both…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Yizun Lin , Jian-Feng Cai , Zhao-Rong Lai , Cheng Li

We present a new feasible proximal gradient method for constrained optimization where both the objective and constraint functions are given by the summation of a smooth, possibly nonconvex function and a convex simple function. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-01 Digvijay Boob , Qi Deng , Guanghui Lan

This paper develops and analyzes an online distributed proximal-gradient method (DPGM) for time-varying composite convex optimization problems. Each node of the network features a local cost that includes a smooth strongly convex function…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-07 Nicola Bastianello , Emiliano Dall'Anese

We consider a class of difference-of-convex (DC) optimization problems where the objective function is the sum of a smooth function and a possible nonsmooth DC function. The application of proximal DC algorithms to address this problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-30 Shummin Nakayama , Yasushi Narushima , Hiroshi Yabe

We consider distributed convex optimization problems that involve a separable objective function and nontrivial functional constraints, such as Linear Matrix Inequalities (LMIs). We propose a decentralized and computationally inexpensive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-22 Soomin Lee , Michael M. Zavlanos

In this paper, we consider the minimization of a $C^2-$smooth and strongly convex objective depending on a given parameter, which is usually found in many practical applications. We suppose that we desire to solve the problem with some…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-14 Jean-Jacques Godeme

We describe a method for approximating a single-variable function $f$ using persistence diagrams of sublevel sets of $f$ from height functions in different directions. We provide algorithms for the piecewise linear case and for the smooth…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-02-10 Aina Ferrà , Carles Casacuberta , Oriol Pujol

This paper considers the distributed smooth optimization problem in which the objective is to minimize a global cost function formed by a sum of local smooth cost functions, by using local information exchange. The standard assumption for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-10 Xinlei Yi , Shengjun Zhang , Tao Yang , Karl H. Johansson , Tianyou Chai

In this paper, we focus on the problem of minimizing the sum of a nonconvex differentiable function and a DC (Difference of Convex functions) function, where the differentiable function is not restricted to the global Lipschitz gradient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-10 Duy Nhat Phan , Hoai An Le Thi

We introduce a novel method for solving density-based topology optimization problems: Sigmoidal Mirror descent with a Projected Latent variable (SiMPL). The SiMPL method (pronounced as ``the simple method'') optimizes a design using only…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-25 Dohyun Kim , Boyan Stefanov Lazarov , Thomas M. Surowiec , Brendan Keith

An optimization algorithm for nonsmooth nonconvex constrained optimization problems with upper-C2 objective functions is proposed and analyzed. Upper-C2 is a weakly concave property that exists in difference of convex (DC) functions and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-21 Jingyi Wang , Cosmin G. Petra

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

In this paper, we aim to accelerate a preconditioned alternating direction method of multipliers (pADMM), whose proximal terms are convex quadratic functions, for solving linearly constrained convex optimization problems. To achieve this,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-10 Defeng Sun , Yancheng Yuan , Guojun Zhang , Xinyuan Zhao

We consider a variation of the classical proximal-gradient algorithm for the iterative minimization of a cost function consisting of a sum of two terms, one smooth and the other prox-simple, and whose relative weight is determined by a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-04 Jean-Baptiste Fest , Tommi Heikkilä , Ignace Loris , Ségolène Martin , Luca Ratti , Simone Rebegoldi , Gesa Sarnighausen

The block coordinate descent (BCD) method is widely used for minimizing a continuous function f of several block variables. At each iteration of this method, a single block of variables is optimized, while the remaining variables are held…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-09-12 Meisam Razaviyayn , Mingyi Hong , Zhi-Quan Luo