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In multi-objective optimization, a single decision vector must balance the trade-offs between many objectives. Solutions achieving an optimal trade-off are said to be Pareto optimal: these are decision vectors for which improving any one…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-07 Abhishek Roy , Geelon So , Yi-An Ma

This paper treats the problem of minimizing a general continuously differentiable function subject to sparsity constraints. We present and analyze several different optimality criteria which are based on the notions of stationarity and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-03-22 Amir Beck , Yonina C. Eldar

In this paper, we consider the optimization problem of minimizing a continuously differentiable function subject to both convex constraints and sparsity constraints. By exploiting a mixed-integer reformulation from the literature, we define…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-28 M. Lapucci , T. Levato , F. Rinaldi , M. Sciandrone

For statistical modeling wherein the data regime is unfavorable in terms of dimensionality relative to the sample size, finding hidden sparsity in the ground truth can be critical in formulating an accurate statistical model. The so-called…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-04 Matteo Bergamaschi , Andrea Cristofari , Vyacheslav Kungurtsev , Francesco Rinaldi

We propose a stochastic variance reduced optimization algorithm for solving sparse learning problems with cardinality constraints. Sufficient conditions are provided, under which the proposed algorithm enjoys strong linear convergence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-27 Xingguo Li , Raman Arora , Han Liu , Jarvis Haupt , Tuo Zhao

We consider the sparse optimization problem with nonlinear constraints and an objective function, which is given by the sum of a general smooth mapping and an additional term defined by the $ \ell_0 $-quasi-norm. This term is used to obtain…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-19 Christian Kanzow , Alexandra Schwarz , Felix Weiß

Cardinality-constrained optimization (CCO) is a popular topic in sparse learning and signal recovery, yet remains challenging due to the inherent nonconvexity and discontinuity of cardinality constraints. This paper investigates the exact…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Lili Pan , Huilin Xie , Xianchao Xiu , Jiyuan Tao

Multi-objective optimization (MOO) problems require balancing competing objectives, often under constraints. The Pareto optimal solution set defines all possible optimal trade-offs over such objectives. In this work, we present a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Soumyajit Gupta , Gurpreet Singh , Raghu Bollapragada , Matthew Lease

The multi-objective optimization is to optimize several objective functions over a common feasible set. Since the objectives usually do not share a common optimizer, people often consider (weakly) Pareto points. This paper studies…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-05 Jiawang Nie , Zi Yang

Sparse principal component analysis addresses the problem of finding a linear combination of the variables in a given data set with a sparse coefficients vector that maximizes the variability of the data. This model enhances the ability to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-09 Amir Beck , Yakov Vaisbourd

We consider nonlinear optimization problems with cardinality constraints. Based on a continuous reformulation we introduce second order necessary and sufficient optimality conditions. Under such a second order condition, we can guarantee…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-06 Max Bucher , Alexandra Schwartz

In this paper we propose a general framework to characterize and solve the stochastic optimization problems with multiple objectives underlying many real world learning applications. We first propose a projection based algorithm which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-07-16 Mehrdad Mahdavi , Tianbao Yang , Rong Jin

This paper considers the minimization of a continuously differentiable function over a cardinality constraint. We focus on smooth and relatively smooth functions. These smoothness criteria result in new descent lemmas. Based on the new…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-26 Fatih Selim Aktas , Mustafa Celebi Pinar

Evolutionary multi-objective algorithms have successfully been used in the context of Pareto optimization where a given constraint is relaxed into an additional objective. In this paper, we explore the use of 3-objective formulations for…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Frank Neumann , Carsten Witt

Many real world applications can be framed as multi-objective optimization problems, where we wish to simultaneously optimize for multiple criteria. Bayesian optimization techniques for the multi-objective setting are pertinent when the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Biswajit Paria , Kirthevasan Kandasamy , Barnabás Póczos

Cardinality constraints in optimization are commonly of $L^0$-type, and they lead to sparsely supported optimizers. An efficient way of dealing with these constraints algorithmically, when the objective functional is convex, is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-26 Bastian Dittrich , Evelyn Herberg , Roland Herzog , Georg Müller

In this work, we propose integral global optimality conditions for multiobjective problems not necessarily differentiable. The integral characterization, already known for single objective problems, are extended to multiobjective problems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Everton J. Silva , Elizabeth W. Karas , Lucelina B. Santos

It was recently established that for convex optimization problems with sparse optimal solutions (be it entry-wise sparsity or matrix rank-wise sparsity) it is possible to design first-order methods with linear convergence rates that depend…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Dan Garber

Approximate necessary optimality conditions in terms of Fr\'echet subgradients and normals for a rather general optimization problem with a potentially non-Lipschitzian objective function are established with the aid of Ekeland's…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-15 Alexander Y. Kruger , Patrick Mehlitz

We study the oracle complexity of finding $\varepsilon$-Pareto stationary points in smooth multiobjective optimization with $m$ objectives. Progress is measured by the Pareto stationarity gap $\mathcal{G}(x)$, the norm of the best convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Phillipe R. Sampaio
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