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The cardinality-constrained mean-variance portfolio problem has garnered significant attention within contemporary finance due to its potential for achieving low risk while effectively managing risks and transaction costs. Instead of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-15 Ahmad Mousavi , George Michailidis

We present the framework of slowly varying regression under sparsity, allowing sparse regression models to exhibit slow and sparse variations. The problem of parameter estimation is formulated as a mixed-integer optimization problem. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Dimitris Bertsimas , Vassilis Digalakis , Michael Linghzi Li , Omar Skali Lami

Constrained optimization with multiple functional inequality constraints has significant applications in machine learning. This paper examines a crucial subset of such problems where both the objective and constraint functions are weakly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Ming Yang , Gang Li , Quanqi Hu , Qihang Lin , Tianbao Yang

Mean-variance portfolio optimization problems often involve separable nonconvex terms, including penalties on capital gains, integer share constraints, and minimum position and trade sizes. We propose a heuristic algorithm for such problems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-04 Nicholas Moehle , Jack Gindi , Stephen Boyd , Mykel Kochenderfer

Portfolio selection involves optimizing simultaneously financial goals such as risk, return and Sharpe ratio. This problem holds considerable importance in economics. However, little has been studied related to the nonconvexity of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-02 Vuong D. Nguyen , Nguyen Kim Duyen , Nguyen Minh Hai , Bui Khuong Duy

The sparse portfolio selection problem is one of the most famous and frequently-studied problems in the optimization and financial economics literatures. In a universe of risky assets, the goal is to construct a portfolio with maximal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-22 Dimitris Bertsimas , Ryan Cory-Wright

We consider continuous-time mean-variance portfolio selection with bankruptcy prohibition under convex cone portfolio constraints. This is a long-standing and difficult problem not only because of its theoretical significance, but also for…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2015-07-27 Xun Li , Zuo Quan Xu

We consider convex constrained optimization problems that also include a cardinality constraint. In general, optimization problems with cardinality constraints are difficult mathematical programs which are usually solved by global…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-08 Nataša Krejić , Evelin H. M. Krulikovski , Marcos Raydan

In this paper, we consider the problem of stochastic optimization, where the objective function is in terms of the expectation of a (possibly non-convex) cost function that is parametrized by a random variable. While the convergence speed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Naeimeh Omidvar , An Liu , Vincent Lau , Danny H. K. Tsang , Mohammad Reza Pakravan

This paper introduces a novel penalty decomposition algorithm customized for addressing the non-differentiable and nonconvex problem of extended mean-variance-CVaR portfolio optimization with short-selling and cardinality constraints. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Ahmad Mousavi , Maziar Salahi , Zois Boukouvalas

This paper considers the mean-reverting portfolio design problem arising from statistical arbitrage in the financial markets. The problem is formulated by optimizing a criterion characterizing the mean-reversion strength of the portfolio…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2016-11-28 Ziping Zhao , Daniel P. Palomar

We consider an investor who seeks to maximize her expected utility derived from her terminal wealth relative to the maximum performance achieved over a fixed time horizon, and under a portfolio drawdown constraint, in a market with local…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2016-10-28 Ankush Agarwal , Ronnie Sircar

This paper considers stochastic optimization problems with weakly convex objective and constraint functions. We propose Prox-PEP, a proximal method equipped with quadratic subproblems. To handle nonlinear equality constraints, we employ an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Lixin Tang , Xingyu Wang , Liwei Zhang

In this paper, we discuss the ambiguous chance constrained based portfolio optimization problems, in which the perturbations associated with the input parameters are stochastic in nature, but their distributions are not known precisely. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-09 Pulak Swain , Akshay Kumar Ojha

One of the reasons that higher order moment portfolio optimization methods are not fully used by practitioners in investment decisions is the complexity that these higher moments create by making the optimization problem nonconvex. Many few…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-01-07 Farshad Noravesh

In this paper, we study a variant of the quadratic penalty method for linearly constrained convex problems, which has already been widely used but actually lacks theoretical justification. Namely, the penalty parameter steadily increases…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-11-30 Huan Li , Cong Fang , Zhouchen Lin

Consider convex optimization problems subject to a large number of constraints. We focus on stochastic problems in which the objective takes the form of expected values and the feasible set is the intersection of a large number of convex…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-11-13 Mengdi Wang , Yichen Chen , Jialin Liu , Yuantao Gu

Convex clustering, a convex relaxation of k-means clustering and hierarchical clustering, has drawn recent attentions since it nicely addresses the instability issue of traditional nonconvex clustering methods. Although its computational…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-01-01 Binhuan Wang , Yilong Zhang , Will Wei Sun , Yixin Fang

This paper considers the finite horizon portfolio rebalancing problem in terms of mean-variance optimization, where decisions are made based on current information on asset returns and transaction costs. The study's novelty is that the…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-08-21 Qingliang Fan , Marcelo C. Medeiros , Hanming Yang , Songshan Yang

This paper focuses on a dynamic multi-asset mean-variance portfolio selection problem under model uncertainty. We develop a continuous time framework for taking into account ambiguity aversion about both expected return rates and…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2021-12-02 Huyen Pham , Xiaoli Wei , Chao Zhou