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The goal in this paper is to develop first-order methods equipped with convergence rates for multi-agent optimization problems on semidefinite matrix spaces. These problems include cooperative optimization problems and non-cooperative Nash…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-18 Nahidsadat Majlesinasab , Farzad Yousefian , Mohammad Javad Feizollahi

The Barzilai-Borwein (BB) step sizes have a profound impact on gradient descent methods. In this work, we propose two new gradient step sizes: one longer than the original long BB step size, and the other shorter than the original short BB…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Xin Xu

The Barzilai and Borwein (BB) gradient method is one of the most widely-used line-search gradient methods. It computes the step-size for the current iterate by using the information carried in the previous iteration. Recently, William Kahan…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-11 Yifeng Meng , Chungen Shen , Linuo Xue , Lei-Hong Zhang

This paper presents VBMO, the Voting-Based Multi-Objective path planning algorithm, that generates optimal single-objective plans, evaluates each of them with respect to the other objectives, and selects one with a voting mechanism. VBMO…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Raj Korpan

Bayesian optimization works effectively optimizing parameters in black-box problems. However, this method did not work for high-dimensional parameters in limited trials. Parameters can be efficiently explored by nonlinearly embedding them…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Shoki Miyagawa , Atsuyoshi Yano , Naoko Sawada , Isamu Ogawa

any practical multiobjective optimization (MOO) problems include discrete decision variables and/or nonlinear model equations and exhibit disconnected or smooth but nonconvex Pareto surfaces. Scalarization methods, such as the weighted-sum…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-23 Ye Seol Lee , George Jackson , Amparo Galindo , Claire S. Adjiman

In this paper, we propose a non-monotone line search method for solving optimization problems on Stiefel manifold. Our method uses as a search direction a mixed gradient based on a descent direction, and a Barzilai-Borwein line search.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-15 Harry Oviedo , Hugo Lara , Oscar Dalmau

In this article we propose a descent method for equality and inequality constrained multiobjective optimization problems (MOPs) which generalizes the steepest descent method for unconstrained MOPs by Fliege and Svaiter to constrained…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-18 Bennet Gebken , Sebastian Peitz , Michael Dellnitz

This paper addresses the problem of constrained multi-objective optimization over black-box objective functions with practitioner-specified preferences over the objectives when a large fraction of the input space is infeasible (i.e.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Alaleh Ahmadianshalchi , Syrine Belakaria , Janardhan Rao Doppa

In this work, we study first-order algorithms for solving Bilevel Optimization (BO) where the objective functions are smooth but possibly nonconvex in both levels and the variables are restricted to closed convex sets. As a first step, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-13 Jeongyeol Kwon , Dohyun Kwon , Stephen Wright , Robert Nowak

Scaling Bayesian optimisation (BO) to high-dimensional search spaces is a active and open research problems particularly when no assumptions are made on function structure. The main reason is that at each iteration, BO requires to find…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-28 Hung Tran-The , Sunil Gupta , Santu Rana , Svetha Venkatesh

Leading eigenvalue problems for large scale matrices arise in many applications. Coordinate-wise descent methods are considered in this work for such problems based on a reformulation of the leading eigenvalue problem as a non-convex…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-25 Yingzhou Li , Jianfeng Lu , Zhe Wang

An emerging optimisation problem from the real-world applications, named the multi-point dynamic aggregation (MPDA) problem, has become one of the active research topics of the multi-robot system. This paper focuses on a multi-objective…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Guanqiang Gao , Bin Xin , Yi Mei , Shuxin Ding , Juan Li

This paper introduces a novel Homogeneous Second-order Descent Ascent (HSDA) algorithm for nonconvex-strongly concave minimax optimization problems. At each iteration, HSDA uniquely computes a search direction by solving a homogenized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Jia-Hao Chen , Zi Xu , Hui-Ling Zhang

We study the variable metric forward-backward splitting algorithm for convex minimization problems without the standard assumption of the Lipschitz continuity of the gradient. In this setting, we prove that, by requiring only mild…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-02 Saverio Salzo

We consider the problem of finite-horizon sequential experimental design to solve multi-objective optimization (MOO) of expensive black-box objective functions. This problem arises in many real-world applications, including materials…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Syrine Belakaria , Alaleh Ahmadianshalchi , Barbara Engelhardt , Stefano Ermon , Janardhan Rao Doppa

Mirror descent is a well established tool for solving convex optimization problems with convex constraints. This article introduces continuous-time mirror descent dynamics for approximating optimal Markov controls for stochastic control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-04 Deven Sethi , David Šiška

In this paper we propose a variant of the random coordinate descent method for solving linearly constrained convex optimization problems with composite objective functions. If the smooth part of the objective function has Lipschitz…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-02-14 Ion Necoara , Andrei Patrascu

Higher-order tensor methods were recently proposed for minimizing smooth convex and nonconvex functions. Higher-order algorithms accelerate the convergence of the classical first-order methods thanks to the higher-order derivatives used in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-11 Ion Necoara

In this paper some adaptive mirror descent algorithms for problems of minimization convex objective functional with several convex Lipschitz (generally, non-smooth) functional constraints are considered. It is shown that the methods are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-20 F. S. Stonyakin , M . S. Alkousa , A. A. Titov