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Nonlinear programming is explicitly analyzed via a novel perspective/method and from a bottom-up manner. The philosophy is based on the recent findings on convex quadratic equation (CQE), which help clarify a geometric interpretation that…
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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…
Mathematical programs with complementarity constraints are notoriously difficult to solve due to their nonconvexity and lack of constraint qualifications in every feasible point. This work focuses on the subclass of quadratic programs with…
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Efficient methods to provide sub-optimal solutions to non-convex optimization problems with knowledge of the solution's sub-optimality would facilitate the widespread application of nonlinear optimal control algorithms. To that end,…
A common computational approach for polynomial optimization problems (POPs) is to use (hierarchies of) semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxations. When the variables in the POP are required to be nonnegative, these SDP problems typically…
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Our study is motivated by the solution of Mixed-Integer Non-Linear Programming (MINLP) problems with separable non-convex functions via the Sequential Convex MINLP technique, an iterative method whose main characteristic is that of solving,…
We present an efficient framework for solving algebraically-constrained global non-convex polynomial optimization problems over subsets of the hypercube. We prove the existence of an equivalent nonlinear reformulation of such problems that…
Given an infeasible, unbounded, or pathological convex optimization problem, a natural question to ask is: what is the smallest change we can make to the problem's parameters such that the problem becomes solvable? In this paper, we address…
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