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This paper studies first-order algorithms for solving fully composite optimization problems over convex and compact sets. We leverage the structure of the objective by handling its differentiable and non-differentiable components…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-13 Maria-Luiza Vladarean , Nikita Doikov , Martin Jaggi , Nicolas Flammarion

The range of robot activities is expanding from industries with fixed environments to diverse and changing environments, such as nursing care support and daily life support. In particular, autonomous construction of robots that are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Kento Kawaharazuka , Tasuku Makabe , Kei Okada , Masayuki Inaba

Inspired by regularization techniques in statistics and machine learning, we study complementary composite minimization in the stochastic setting. This problem corresponds to the minimization of the sum of a (weakly) smooth function endowed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Alexandre d'Aspremont , Cristóbal Guzmán , Clément Lezane

The paper is devoted to the geometrical calibration of industrial robots employed in precise manufacturing. To identify geometric parameters, an advanced calibration technique is proposed that is based on the non-linear experiment design…

Robotics · Computer Science 2012-11-29 Alexandr Klimchik , Anatol Pashkevich , Yier Wu , Benoît Furet , Stéphane Caro

Robust Optimization is becoming increasingly important in machine learning applications. This paper studies the problem of robust submodular minimization subject to combinatorial constraints. Constrained Submodular Minimization arises in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Rishabh Iyer

The paper is devoted to a comprehensive study of composite models in variational analysis and optimization the importance of which for numerous theoretical, algorithmic, and applied issues of operations research is difficult to overstate.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-10 Ashkan Mohammadi , Boris S. Mordukhovich , M. Ebrahim Sarabi

Efficient high-performance libraries often expose multiple tunable parameters to provide highly optimized routines. These can range from simple loop unroll factors or vector sizes all the way to algorithmic changes, given that some…

Performance · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Marco Cianfriglia , Flavio Vella , Cedric Nugteren , Anton Lokhmotov , Grigori Fursin

Modular reconfigurable robots require reliable mechanisms for automated module exchange, but conventional rigid active couplings often fail due to inevitable positioning and orientational errors. To address this, we propose a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Mahfudz Maskur , Takuya Kiyokawa , Kensuke Harada

Current autonomic computing systems are ad hoc solutions that are designed and implemented from the scratch. When designing software, in most cases two or more patterns are to be composed to solve a bigger problem. A composite design…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2012-09-11 Vishnuvardhan Mannava , T. Ramesh

Recent advances in computing hardware and modeling software have given rise to new applications for numerical optimization. These new applications occasionally uncover bottlenecks in existing optimization algorithms and necessitate further…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Anugrah Jo Joshy , John T. Hwang

Modular robots can be reconfigured to create a variety of designs from a small set of components. But constructing a robot's hardware on its own is not enough -- each robot needs a controller. One could create controllers for some designs…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Julian Whitman , Howie Choset

The paper proposes a modular-based approach to constraint handling in process optimization and control. This is partly motivated by the recent interest in learning-based methods, e.g., within bioproduction, for which constraint handling…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Yu Wang , Xiao Chen , Hubert Schwarz , Véronique Chotteau , Elling W. Jacobsen

In practice, optimization tasks have some structure that allows developing new algorithms for every problem with faster convergence rates. Using the structure of optimization tasks, we can propose algorithms with more optimistic convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-01 Alexander Tyurin

Constrained submodular function maximization has been used in subset selection problems such as selection of most informative sensor locations. While these models have been quite popular, the solutions Constrained submodular function…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Alfredo Torrico , Mohit Singh , Sebastian Pokutta , Nika Haghtalab , Joseph , Naor , Nima Anari

Modularity is appealing for solving many problems in optimization. It brings the benefits of manufacturability and reconfigurability to structural optimization, and enables a trade-off between the computational performance of a Periodic…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Marek Tyburec , Jan Zeman , Martin Doškář , Martin Kružík , Matěj Lepš

Hybrid metaheuristics are powerful techniques for solving difficult optimization problems that exploit the strengths of different approaches in a single implementation. For algorithm designers, however, creating hybrid metaheuristic…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Christian Camacho-Villalón , Marco Dorigo , Thomas Stützle

While the theory of operator approximation with any given accuracy is well elaborated, the theory of {best constrained} constructive operator approximation is still not so well developed. Despite increasing demands from applications this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-09 Anatoli Torokhti , Pablo Soto-Quiros

Traditional aerial vehicles have limitations in their capabilities due to actuator constraints, such as motor saturation. The hardware components and their arrangement are designed to satisfy specific requirements and are difficult to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Jiawei Xu , David Saldaña

Selecting an appropriate optimizer for a given problem is of major interest for researchers and practitioners. Many analytical optimizers have been proposed using a variety of theoretical and empirical approaches; however, none can offer a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Tianshu Huang , Tianlong Chen , Sijia Liu , Shiyu Chang , Lisa Amini , Zhangyang Wang

We present an end-to-end framework for generating solutions to combinatorial optimization problems with unknown components using transformer-based sequence-to-sequence neural networks. Our framework learns directly from past solutions and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-06 Macarena Navarro , Willem-Jan van Hoeve , Karan Singh