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The present paper considers the constrained optimal control problem with total undiscounted criteria for a continuous-time Markov decision process (CTMDP) in Borel state and action spaces. Under the standard compactness and continuity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-10-31 Xianping Guo , Yi Zhang

Multi-objective optimization problems with constraints (CMOPs) are generally considered more challenging than those without constraints. This in part can be attributed to the creation of infeasible regions generated by the constraint…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Hanan Alsouly , Michael Kirley , Mario Andrés Muñoz

A lot of problems, from fields like sparse signal processing, statistics, portfolio selection, and machine learning, can be formulated as a cardinality constraint optimization problem. The cardinality constraint gives the problem a discrete…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Vikram Singh , Min Sun

This paper proposes novel algorithm for non-convex multimodal constrained optimisation problems. It is based on sequential solving restrictions of problem to sections of feasible set by random subspaces (in general, manifolds) of low…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-28 Dmitry A. Pasechnyuk , Alexander Gornov

We consider optimization problems with manifold-valued constraints. These generalize classical equality and inequality constraints to a setting in which both the domain and the codomain of the constraint mapping are smooth manifolds. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-23 Ronny Bergmann , Roland Herzog , Julián Ortiz López , Anton Schiela

Conformal Prediction (CP) is a principled framework for quantifying uncertainty in blackbox learning models, by constructing prediction sets with finite-sample coverage guarantees. Traditional approaches rely on scalar nonconformity scores,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-07 Gauthier Thurin , Kimia Nadjahi , Claire Boyer

Mathematical Program with Complementarity Constraints (MPCC) plays a very important role in many fields such as engineering design, economic equilibrium, multilevel game, and mathematical programming theory itself. In theory its constraints…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-10-21 M. Teresa T. Monteiro , Helena Sofia Rodrigues

We propose two novel conditional gradient-based methods for solving structured stochastic convex optimization problems with a large number of linear constraints. Instances of this template naturally arise from SDP-relaxations of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Maria-Luiza Vladarean , Ahmet Alacaoglu , Ya-Ping Hsieh , Volkan Cevher

This work studies constrained stochastic optimization problems where the objective and constraint functions are convex and expressed as compositions of stochastic functions. The problem arises in the context of fair classification, fair…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Srujan Teja Thomdapu , Harshvardhan , Ketan Rajawat

Despite the increasing interest in constrained multiobjective optimization in recent years, constrained multiobjective optimization problems (CMOPs) are still unsatisfactory understood and characterized. For this reason, the selection of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Aljoša Vodopija , Tea Tušar , Bogdan Filipič

Many problems of theoretical and practical interest involve finding an optimum over a family of convex functions. For instance, finding the projection on the convex functions in $H^k(\Omega)$, and optimizing functionals arising from some…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2008-04-11 Néstor E. Aguilera , Pedro Morin

In this paper, we focus on a class of convexly constrained nonsmooth convex-concave saddle point problems with cardinality penalties. Although such nonsmooth nonconvex-nonconcave and discontinuous min-max problems may not have a saddle…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-27 Wei Bian , Xiaojun Chen

Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSPs) typically have many solutions that satisfy all constraints. Often though, some solutions are preferred over others, that is, some solutions dominate other solutions. We present solution dominance as a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-12-24 Tias Guns , Peter J. Stuckey , Guido Tack

We consider the Chance Constrained Model Predictive Control problem for polynomial systems subject to disturbances. In this problem, we aim at finding optimal control input for given disturbed dynamical system to minimize a given cost…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-05-04 Ashkan Jasour , Constantino Lagoa

This paper presents a novel convex optimization-based method for finding the globally optimal solutions of a class of mixed-integer non-convex optimal control problems. We consider problems with non-convex constraints that restrict the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-21 Danylo Malyuta , Behcet Acikmese

This paper presents a convex optimization-based method for finding the globally optimal solutions of a class of mixed-integer non-convex optimal control problems. We consider problems that are non-convex in the input norm, which is a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-20 Danylo Malyuta , Michael Szmuk , Behcet Acikmese

In distributed model predictive control (DMPC), where a centralized optimization problem is solved in distributed fashion using dual decomposition, it is important to keep the number of iterations in the solution algorithm, i.e. the amount…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-07-11 Pontus Giselsson , Anders Rantzer

At each iteration of a Block Coordinate Descent method one minimizes an approximation of the objective function with respect to a generally small set of variables subject to constraints in which these variables are involved. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-28 E. G. Birgin , J. M. Martínez

Submodular optimization has received significant attention in both practice and theory, as a wide array of problems in machine learning, auction theory, and combinatorial optimization have submodular structure. In practice, these problems…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-10-04 Paul Liu , Jan Vondrak

In this paper, we consider a class of generalized orthogonal optimization constraint problems (GOOCP) over $\mathbb{R}^{n \times p}$, where the variable $X$ is restricted within the intersection of a certain subspace $\mathcal{F}$ and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Yongshen Zhang , Xin Liu , Nachuan Xiao , Chunming Tang