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Efficient representations of convex sets are of crucial importance for many algorithms that work with them. It is well-known that sometimes, a complicated convex set can be expressed as the projection of a much simpler set in higher…

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We look for the minimizers of the functional $\jla{\la}(\oo)=\la|\oo|-P(\oo)$ among planar convex domains constrained to lie into a given ring. We prove that, according to the values of the parameter $\la$, the solutions are either a disc…

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We introduce a convex optimization modeling framework that transforms a convex optimization problem expressed in a form natural and convenient for the user into an equivalent cone program in a way that preserves fast linear transforms in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-11-05 Steven Diamond , Stephen Boyd

It is well known that finite-dimensional polyhedral convex sets can be generated by finitely many points and finitely many directions. Representation formulas in this spirit are obtained for convex polyhedra and generalized convex polyhedra…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-22 Nguyen Ngoc Luan , Nguyen Dong Yen

Level-set methods for convex optimization are predicated on the idea that certain problems can be parameterized so that their solutions can be recovered as the limiting process of a root-finding procedure. This idea emerges time and again…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-19 Ron Estrin , Michael P. Friedlander

It is well known that bilevel optimization problems are hard to solve both in theory and practice. In this paper, we highlight a further computational difficulty when it comes to solving bilevel problems with continuous but nonconvex lower…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-04 Yasmine Beck , Daniel Bienstock , Martin Schmidt , Johannes Thürauf

Efficient algorithms for convex optimization, such as the ellipsoid method, require an a priori bound on the radius of a ball around the origin guaranteed to contain an optimal solution if one exists. For linear and convex quadratic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Lucas Slot , David Steurer , Manuel Wiedmer

Recently wide application in engineering-economic problems was received with problems of vector optimization. Development of methods of the decision of these problems it is executed in works A. Messac and others. Complexity of the offered…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-09-03 A. A. Bosov , G. N. Kodola , L. N. Savchenko

This paper is devoted to the general problem of projection onto a polyhedral convex cone generated by a finite set of generators.This problem is reformulated into projection onto the polytope obtained by simple truncation of the original…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-26 Evgeni Nurminski

Optimizing a nonlinear function over nonconvex sets is challenging since solving convex relaxations may lead to substantial relaxation gaps and infeasible solutions that must be "rounded" to feasible ones, often with uncontrollable losses…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-18 Markus Gabl

Outer approximation methods have long been employed to tackle a variety of optimization problems, including linear programming, in the 1960s, and continue to be effective for solving variational inequalities, general convex problems, as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-24 Ewa M. Bednarczuk , Giovanni Bruccola , Jean-Christophe Pesquet , Krzysztof Rutkowski

We distinguish two kinds of piecewise linear functions and provide an interesting representation for a piecewise linear function between two normed spaces. Based on such a representation, we study a fully piecewise linear vector…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-23 Xiyin Zheng , Xiaoqi Yang

In this article we intend to develop a simple and implementable algorithm for minimizing a convex function over the solution set of another convex optimization problem. Such a problem is often referred to as a simple bilevel programming…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-17 Stephan Dempe , Joydeep Duta , Tanushree Pandit , K. S. Mallikarjuna Rao

Submodular function minimization is a fundamental optimization problem that arises in several applications in machine learning and computer vision. The problem is known to be solvable in polynomial time, but general purpose algorithms have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-02-10 Alina Ene , Huy L. Nguyen

This paper is concerned with solution algorithms for general convex vector optimization problems (CVOPs). So far, solution concepts and approximation algorithms for solving CVOPs exist only for bounded problems [Ararat et al. 2022, Doerfler…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-24 Andrea Wagner , Firdevs Ulus , Birgit Rudloff , Gabriela Kováčová , Niklas Hey

In this paper, vector optimization is considered in the framework of decision making and optimization in general spaces. Interdependencies between domination structures in decision making and domination sets in vector optimization are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-06 Petra Weidner

Convex nonsmooth optimization problems, whose solutions live in very high dimensional spaces, have become ubiquitous. To solve them, the class of first-order algorithms known as proximal splitting algorithms is particularly adequate: they…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-27 Laurent Condat , Daichi Kitahara , Andrés Contreras , Akira Hirabayashi

A number of discrete and continuous optimization problems in machine learning are related to convex minimization problems under submodular constraints. In this paper, we deal with a submodular function with a directed graph structure, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-09-27 Kiyohito Nagano , Yoshinobu Kawahara

In this paper, "chance optimization" problems are introduced, where one aims at maximizing the probability of a set defined by polynomial inequalities. These problems are, in general, nonconvex and computationally hard. With the objective…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-05-12 Ashkan Jasour , Necdet Serhat Aybat , Constantino Lagoa

We consider a class of constrained optimization problems with a possibly nonconvex non-Lipschitz objective and a convex feasible set being the intersection of a polyhedron and a possibly degenerate ellipsoid. Such problems have a wide range…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-04-08 Xiaojun Chen , Zhaosong Lu , Ting Kei Pong