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The paper is devoted to developing subdifferential theory for set-valued mappings taking values in ordered infinite-dimensional spaces. This study is motivated by applications to problems of vector and set optimization with various…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-16 Boris S. Mordukhovich , Oanh Nguyen

Matrix inequalities that extend certain scalar ones have been at the center of numerous researchers' attention. In this article, we explore the celebrated subadditive inequality for matrices via concave functions and present a reversed…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-23 I. H. Gumus , H. R. Moradi , M. Sababheh

This paper is devoted to the study of generalized differentiation properties of the infimal convolution. This class of functions covers a large spectrum of nonsmooth functions well known in the literature. The subdifferential formulas…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-11-04 Nguyen Mau Nam , Dang Van Cuong

We generalize and improve the original characterization given by Valadier [18, Theorem 1] of the subdifferential of the pointwise supremum of convex functions, involving the subdifferentials of the data functions at nearby points. We remove…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-07-13 R. Correa , A. Hantoute , M. A. López

In this paper, we provide a number of subdifferential formulas for a class of nonconvex infimal convolutions in normed spaces. The formulas obtained unify several results on subdifferentials of the distance function and the minimal time…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-12-31 Nguyen Mau Nam

A function in a class $\mathcal{F}(X)$ is said to be subdifferentially determined in $\mathcal{F}(X)$ if it is equal up to an additive constant to any function in $\mathcal{F}(X)$ with the same subdifferential. A function is said to be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-16 Marc Lassonde

We investigate inexact proximity operators for weakly convex functions. To this aim, we derive sum rules for proximal {\epsilon}-subdifferentials, by incorporating the moduli of weak convexity of the functions into the respective formulas.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-24 Ewa Bednarczuk , Giovanni Bruccola , Gabriele Scrivanti , The Hung Tran

The first part of the paper provides new characterizations of the normal cone to the effective domain of the supremum of an arbitrary family of convex functions. These results are applied in the second part to give new formulas for the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-10 R. Correa , A. Hantoute , M. A. López

We consider nonconvex real valued functions whose truncations are either quasiconvex or even convex starting with a certain level. Among them, the $C^2$-smooth functions whose level sets are all completely contained in the positive definite…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2026-03-05 Cornel Pintea

In view of training increasingly complex learning architectures, we establish a nonsmooth implicit function theorem with an operational calculus. Our result applies to most practical problems (i.e., definable problems) provided that a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Jérôme Bolte , Tam Le , Edouard Pauwels , Antonio Silveti-Falls

The subdifferential of convex functions of the singular spectrum of real matrices has been widely studied in matrix analysis, optimization and automatic control theory. Convex optimization over spaces of tensors is now gaining much interest…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-07-01 Stéphane Chrétien , Tianwen Wei

The paper concerns the investigation of nonconvex and nondifferentiable integral functionals on general Banach spaces, which may not be reflexive and/or separable. Considering two major subdifferentials of variational analysis, we derive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-03-28 Boris S. Mordukhovich , Nobusumi Sagara

This paper presents necessary, sufficient, and equivalent conditions for the spherical convexity of non-homogeneous quadratic functions. In addition to motivating this study and identifying useful criteria for determining whether such…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-12 R. Bolton , S. Z. Németh

The aim of this work is to provide formulae for the subdifferential and the conjungate function of the supremun function over an arbitrary family of functions. The work is principally motivated by the case when data functions are lower…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-28 Pedro Pérez-Aros

In this paper, a finite family of nonsmooth locally Lipschitz continuous functions that are invex with respect to the same function {\eta} are characterized in terms of their scalarized counterparts.

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-11 Ville Rinne , Yury Nikulin , Marko Mäkelä

In this paper, we obtain subdifferential representation of a proper $w^*$-lower semicontinous convex function on $X^*$ as follows: Let $g$ be a proper convex $w^*$-lower semicontinuous function on $X^*$. Assume that int dom $g$…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2017-11-29 Duanxu Dai

Examples exist of extended-real-valued closed functions on ${\bf R}^n$ whose subdifferentials (in the standard, limiting sense) have large graphs. By contrast, if such a function is semi-algebraic, then its subdifferential graph must have…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-08-23 Dmitriy Drusvyatskiy , Alexander D. Ioffe , Adrian S. Lewis

The paper addresses the study and applications of a broad class of extended-real-valued functions, known as optimal value or marginal functions, which are frequently appeared in variational analysis, parametric optimization, and a variety…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-05 Le Phuoc Hai , Felipe Lara , Boris S. Mordukhovich

In this paper we develop general formulas for the subdifferential of the pointwise supremum of convex functions, which cover and unify both the compact continuous and the non-compact non-continuous settings. From the non-continuous to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-03 Rafael Correa , Abderrahim Hantoute , Marco Antonio López

This work concerns the study of the subdifferential of the integral functional $$ E_f(x)=\int_{T} f(t,x)d\mu(t), $$ where $f$ is a (not necessarily convex) normal integrand, $({T},\mathcal{A},\mu)$ is a $\sigma$-finite measure space, while…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-19 Rafael Correa , Abderrahim Hantoute , Pedro Pérez-Aros