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Optimization problems emerging in most of the real-world applications are dynamic, where either the objective function or the constraints change continuously over time. This paper proposes projected primal-dual dynamical system approaches…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-19 Rejitha Raveendran , Arun D. Mahindrakar , Umesh Vaidya

This work proposes an accelerated primal-dual dynamical system for affine constrained convex optimization and presents a class of primal-dual methods with nonergodic convergence rates. In continuous level, exponential decay of a novel…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-12 Hao Luo

The paper is devoted to the optimal control of a system with two time-scales, in a regime when the limit equation is not of averaging type but, in the spirit of Wong-Zakai principle, it is a stochastic differential equation for the slow…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-26 Franco Flandoli , Giuseppina Guatteri , Umberto Pappalettera , Gianmario Tessitore

In the framework of real Hilbert spaces we study continuous in time dynamics as well as numerical algorithms for the problem of approaching the set of zeros of a single-valued monotone and continuous operator $V$. The starting poin is a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-23 Radu Ioan Bot , Ernö Robert Csetnek , Dang-Khoa Nguyen

This paper addresses the gradient flow -- the continuous-time representation of the gradient method -- with the smooth approximation of a non-differentiable objective function and presents convergence analysis framework. Similar to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-08 Mitsuru Toyoda , Akatsuki Nishioka , Mirai Tanaka

The present study investigates a linear-quadratic Dirichlet control problem governed by a non-coercive elliptic equation posed on a possibly non-convex polygonal domain. Tikhonov regularization is carried out in an energy seminorm. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Thomas Apel , Mariano Mateos , Arnd Rösch

We propose a novel continuous-time algorithm for inequality-constrained convex optimization inspired by proportional-integral control. Unlike the popular primal-dual gradient dynamics, our method includes a proportional term to control the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-12 V. Cerone , S. M. Fosson , S. Pirrera , D. Regruto

Second-order optimization methods exhibit fast convergence to critical points, however, in nonconvex optimization, these methods often require restrictive step-sizes to ensure a monotonically decreasing objective function. In the presence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-11 Aayushya Agarwal , Larry Pileggi , Ronald Rohrer

This study presents an efficient, accurate, effective and unconditionally stable time stepping scheme for the Darcy-Brinkman equations in double-diffusive convection. The stabilization within the proposed method uses the idea of stabilizing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-10 Aytekin Çıbık , Medine Demir , Songul Kaya

We derive efficient algorithms to compute weakly Pareto optimal solutions for smooth, convex and unconstrained multiobjective optimization problems in general Hilbert spaces. To this end, we define a novel inertial gradient-like dynamical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-27 Konstantin Sonntag , Sebastian Peitz

This paper introduces new parameter-free first-order methods for convex optimization problems in which the objective function exhibits H\"{o}lder smoothness. Inspired by the recently proposed distance-over-gradient (DOG) technique, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Yijin Ren , Haifeng Xu , Qi Deng

Alternating minimization (AM) procedures are practically efficient in many applications for solving convex and non-convex optimization problems. On the other hand, Nesterov's accelerated gradient is theoretically optimal first-order method…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-16 Sergey Guminov , Pavel Dvurechensky , Nazarii Tupitsa , Alexander Gasnikov

In a Hilbert setting, we introduce a new dynamical system and associated algorithms for solving monotone inclusions by rapid methods. Given a maximal monotone operator $A$, the evolution is governed by the time dependent operator $I -(I +…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-04-20 Hedy Attouch , Maicon Marques Alves , Benar F. Svaiter

We study a specific class of finite-horizon mean field optimal stopping problems by means of the dynamic programming approach. In particular, we consider problems where the state process is not affected by the stopping time. Such problems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-07 Andrea Cosso , Laura Perelli

In this work, we approach the problem of finding the zeros of a continuous and monotone operator through a second-order dynamical system with a damping term of the form $1/t^{r}$, where $r\in [0, 1]$. The system features the time derivative…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-23 Radu Ioan Bot , David Alexander Hulett , Dang-Khoa Nguyen

This paper addresses a class of nonsmooth and nonconvex optimization problems defined on complete Riemannian manifolds. The objective function has a composite structure, combining convex, differentiable, and lower semicontinuous terms,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-19 Vitaliano S. Amaral , Marcio Antônio de A. Bortoloti , Jurandir O. Lopes , Gilson N. Silva

We propose an unconstrained optimization method based on the well-known primal-dual hybrid gradient (PDHG) algorithm. We first formulate the optimality condition of the unconstrained optimization problem as a saddle point problem. We then…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-29 X. Zuo , S. Osher , W. Li

In this paper, we introduce a novel Extra-Gradient method with anchor term governed by general parameters. Our method is derived from an explicit discretization of a Tikhonov-regularized monotone flow in Hilbert space, which provides a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-21 Radu Ioan Boţ , Enis Chenchene

We study the convergence rate of a family of inertial algorithms, which can be obtained by discretization of an inertial system combining asymptotic vanishing viscous and Hessian-driven damping. We establish a fast sublinear convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-18 Zepeng Wang , Juan Peypouquet

We propose a single time-scale stochastic subgradient method for constrained optimization of a composition of several nonsmooth and nonconvex functions. The functions are assumed to be locally Lipschitz and differentiable in a generalized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-22 Andrzej Ruszczynski