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Differentiable optimization has attracted significant research interest, particularly for quadratic programming (QP). Existing approaches for differentiating the solution of a QP with respect to its defining parameters often rely on…

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Stochastic nonconvex optimization problems with nonlinear constraints have a broad range of applications in intelligent transportation, cyber-security, and smart grids. In this paper, first, we propose an inexact-proximal accelerated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-08 Morteza Boroun , Afrooz Jalilzadeh

Recent advances in derivative-free optimization allow efficient approximation of the global-optimal solutions of sophisticated functions, such as functions with many local optima, non-differentiable and non-continuous functions. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Yu-Ren Liu , Yi-Qi Hu , Hong Qian , Chao Qian , Yang Yu

We propose a general method for optimization with semi-infinite constraints that involve a linear combination of functions, focusing on the case of the exponential function. Each function is lower and upper bounded on sub-intervals by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-01-13 Bogdan Dumitrescu , Bogdan C. Sicleru , Florin Avram

An algorithm is proposed, analyzed, and tested experimentally for solving stochastic optimization problems in which the decision variables are constrained to satisfy equations defined by deterministic, smooth, and nonlinear functions. It is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-09 Frank E. Curtis , Daniel P. Robinson , Baoyu Zhou

This paper presents a comprehensive survey of methods which can be utilized to search for solutions to systems of nonlinear equations (SNEs). Our objectives with this survey are to synthesize pertinent literature in this field by presenting…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Ilias S. Kotsireas , Panos M. Pardalos , Alexander Semenov , William T. Trevena , Michael N. Vrahatis

As datasets continue to grow, neural network (NN) applications are becoming increasingly limited by both the amount of available computational power and the ease of developing high-performance applications. Researchers often must have…

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In this paper, we propose objective-function-free (OFF) variants of the proximal Newton method for nonconvex composite optimization problems and the regularized Newton method for unconstrained optimization problems, respectively, using…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Hong Zhu

Unconstrained optimization problems become more common in scientific computing and engineering applications with the rapid development of artificial intelligence, and numerical methods for solving them more quickly and efficiently have been…

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In this paper, a practicable simulation-free model order reduction method by nonlinear moment matching is developed. Based on the steady-state interpretation of linear moment matching, we comprehensively explain the extension of this…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-20 Maria Cruz Varona , Raphael Gebhart , Julian Suk , Boris Lohmann

The problem of interest is the minimization of a nonlinear function subject to nonlinear equality constraints using a sequential quadratic programming (SQP) method. The minimization must be performed while observing only noisy evaluations…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-12 Figen Oztoprak , Richard Byrd , Jorge Nocedal

This paper presents a novel algorithm to obtain the closed-form anti-derivative of a function using Deep Neural Network architecture. In the past, mathematicians have developed several numerical techniques to approximate the values of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-20 D. Chakraborty , S. Gopalakrishnan

Two algorithms are proposed, analyzed, and tested for solving continuous optimization problems with nonlinear equality constraints. Each is an extension of a stochastic momentum-based method from the unconstrained setting to the setting of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Qi Wang , Christian Piermarini , Yunlang Zhu , Frank E. Curtis

We present a gradient-based algorithm for unconstrained minimization derived from iterated linear change of basis. The new method is equivalent to linear conjugate gradient in the case of a quadratic objective function. In the case of exact…

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This paper explores numerical methods for solving a convex differentiable semi-infinite program. We introduce a primal-dual gradient method which performs three updates iteratively: a momentum gradient ascend step to update the constraint…

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Many nonlinear PDEs have singular or oscillatory solutions or may exhibit physical instabilities or uncertainties. This requires a suitable concept of physically relevant generalized solutions. Dissipative measure-valued solutions have been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Shi Jin , Nana Liu , Maria Lukacova-Medvidova , Yuhuan Yuan

We introduce a new method for solving nonlinear continuous optimization problems with chance constraints. Our method is based on a reformulation of the probabilistic constraint as a quantile function. The quantile function is approximated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-17 Alejandra Peña-Ordieres , James R. Luedtke , Andreas Wächter

We present a general-purpose solver for convex quadratic programs based on the alternating direction method of multipliers, employing a novel operator splitting technique that requires the solution of a quasi-definite linear system with the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-13 Bartolomeo Stellato , Goran Banjac , Paul Goulart , Alberto Bemporad , Stephen Boyd

This paper introduces a scalar numerical differentiator, represented as a system of nonlinear differential equations of any high order. We derive the explicit solution for this system and demonstrate that, with a suitable choice of…

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