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This paper deals with two kinds of the one-dimensional global optimization problems over a closed finite interval: (i) the objective function $f(x)$ satisfies the Lipschitz condition with a constant $L$; (ii) the first derivative of $f(x)$…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-07-15 Daniela Lera , Yaroslav D. Sergeyev

We propose and assess a new global (derivative-free) optimization algorithm, inspired by the LIPO algorithm, which uses variance-based sensitivity analysis (Sobol indices) to reduce the number of calls to the objective function. This method…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-13 Alexandre Janon

A new technique of global optimization and its applications in particular to neural networks are presented. The algorithm is also compared to other global optimization algorithms such as Gradient descent (GD), Monte Carlo (MC), Genetic…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Homayoun Valafar , Okan K. Ersoy , Faramarz Valafar

Consensus-based optimization (CBO) is a multi-agent metaheuristic derivative-free optimization algorithm that has proven to be capable of globally minimizing nonconvex nonsmooth functions across a diverse range of applications while being…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-12 Sabrina Bonandin , Konstantin Riedl , Sara Veneruso

The global optimization have the very extensive applications in econometrics, science and engineering. However, the global optimization for non-convex objective functions is particularly difficult since most of the existing global…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-07-17 Da-Zheng Feng , Han-Zhe Feng , Hai-Qin Zhang

We propose a novel hashing-based matching scheme, called Locally Optimized Hashing (LOH), based on a state-of-the-art quantization algorithm that can be used for efficient, large-scale search, recommendation, clustering, and deduplication.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-02 Yannis Kalantidis , Lyndon Kennedy , Huy Nguyen , Clayton Mellina , David A. Shamma

This paper proposes a new algorithm for solving constrained global optimization problems where both the objective function and constraints are one-dimensional non-differentiable multiextremal Lipschitz functions. Multiextremal constraints…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-07-27 Yaroslav D. Sergeyev

Randomized smoothing is a widely adopted technique for optimizing nonsmooth objective functions. However, its efficiency analysis typically relies on global Lipschitz continuity, a condition rarely met in practical applications. To address…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-10 Jingfan Xia , Zhenwei Lin , Qi Deng

In the field of global optimization, many existing algorithms face challenges posed by non-convex target functions and high computational complexity or unavailability of gradient information. These limitations, exacerbated by sensitivity to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-16 Xinyu Zhang , Sujit Ghosh

The higher-order guaranteed lower eigenvalue bounds of the Laplacian in the recent work by Carstensen, Ern, and Puttkammer [Numer. Math. 149, 2021] require a parameter $C_{\mathrm{st},1}$ that is found $\textit{not}$ robust as the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-03 Carsten Carstensen , Benedikt Gräßle , Ngoc Tien Tran

A global optimization problem is studied where the objective function $f(x)$ is a multidimensional black-box function and its gradient $f'(x)$ satisfies the Lipschitz condition over a hyperinterval with an unknown Lipschitz constant $K$.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-07-17 Dmitri E. Kvasov , Yaroslav D. Sergeyev

A gradient-free deterministic method is developed to solve global optimization problems for Lipschitz continuous functions defined in arbitrary path-wise connected compact sets in Euclidean spaces. The method can be regarded as granular…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-15 Tao Qian , Lei Dai , Liming Zhang , Zehua Chen

Consensus-based optimization (CBO) is a versatile multi-particle optimization method for performing nonconvex and nonsmooth global optimizations in high dimensions. Proofs of global convergence in probability have been achieved for a broad…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Jonas Beddrich , Enis Chenchene , Massimo Fornasier , Hui Huang , Barbara Wohlmuth

The Highly Adaptive Lasso (HAL) delivers unprecedented guarantees in nonparametric minimum loss estimation under minimal smoothness assumptions, such as dimension-free minimax optimal rates. However, the practical use of HAL has been…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Carlos García Meixide , Mingxun Wang , Alejandro Schuler , Mark J. van der Laan

Dynamical low-rank (DLR) approximation methods have previously been developed for time-dependent radiation transport problems. One crucial drawback of DLR is that it does not conserve important quantities of the calculation, which limits…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-10-04 Zhuogang Peng , Ryan G. McClarren

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

In many practical decision-making problems it happens that functions involved in optimization process are black-box with unknown analytical representations and hard to evaluate. In this paper, a global optimization problem is considered…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-09-16 Yaroslav D. Sergeyev , Dmitri E. Kvasov

Deep neural networks achieve state-of-the-art performance in a variety of tasks by extracting a rich set of features from unstructured data, however this performance is closely tied to model size. Modern techniques for inducing sparsity and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Skyler Seto , Martin T. Wells , Wenyu Zhang

In this study, we propose a global optimization algorithm based on quantizing the energy level of an objective function in an NP-hard problem. According to the white noise hypothesis for a quantization error with a dense and uniform…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Jinwuk Seok , Chang Sik Cho