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Cardinality constraints in optimization are commonly of $L^0$-type, and they lead to sparsely supported optimizers. An efficient way of dealing with these constraints algorithmically, when the objective functional is convex, is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-26 Bastian Dittrich , Evelyn Herberg , Roland Herzog , Georg Müller

Portfolio optimization involves selecting asset weights to minimize a risk-reward objective, such as the portfolio variance in the classical minimum-variance framework. Sparse portfolio selection extends this by imposing a cardinality…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-16 Sarat Moka , Matias Quiroz , Vali Asimit , Samuel Muller

This paper studies a variation of the continuous-time mean-variance portfolio selection where a tracking-error penalization is added to the mean-variance criterion. The tracking error term penalizes the distance between the allocation…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2020-09-21 William Lefebvre , Gregoire Loeper , Huyên Pham

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

Combinatorial bilevel congestion pricing (CBCP), a variant of the mixed (continuous/discrete) network design problems, seeks to minimize the total travel time experienced by all travelers in a road network, by strategically selecting toll…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-24 Lei Guo , Jiayang Li , Yu Marco Nie , Jun Xie

We consider general nonlinear programming problems with cardinality constraints. By relaxing the binary variables which appear in the natural mixed-integer programming formulation, we obtain an almost equivalent nonlinear programming…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-04-03 Martin Branda , Max Bucher , Michal Červinka , Alexandra Schwartz

We propose a totally corrective boosting algorithm with explicit cardinality regularization. The resulting combinatorial optimization problems are not known to be efficiently solvable with existing classical methods, but emerging quantum…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-04-09 Vasil S. Denchev , Nan Ding , Shin Matsushima , S. V. N. Vishwanathan , Hartmut Neven

It is well known that the out-of-sample performance of Markowitz's mean-variance portfolio criterion can be negatively affected by estimation errors in the mean and covariance. In this paper we address the problem by regularizing the…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2015-10-16 Michael Ho , Zheng Sun , Jack Xin

Mean-reverting portfolios with volatility and sparsity constraints are of prime interest to practitioners in finance since they are both profitable and well-diversified, while also managing risk and minimizing transaction costs. Three main…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-22 Ahmad Mousavi , George Michailidis

Block-coordinate descent (BCD) is a popular framework for large-scale regularized optimization problems with block-separable structure. Existing methods have several limitations. They often assume that subproblems can be solved exactly at…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-05 Ching-pei Lee , Stephen J. Wright

In this work, we demonstrate how to apply non-linear cardinality constraints, important for real-world asset management, to quantum portfolio optimization. This enables us to tackle non-convex portfolio optimization problems using quantum…

We consider the problem of selecting a portfolio of assets that provides the investor a suitable balance of expected return and risk. With respect to the seminal mean-variance model of Markowitz, we consider additional constraints on the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Andrea Schaerf

This paper considers the mean variance portfolio management problem. We examine portfolios which contain both primary and derivative securities. The challenge in this context is due to portfolio's nonlinearities. The delta-gamma…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2011-11-08 Yang Li , Traian A Pirvu

We model the cardinality-constrained portfolio problem using semidefinite matrices and investigate a relaxation using semidefinite programming. Experimental results show that this relaxation generates tight lower bounds and even achieves…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-08 Angelika Wiegele , Shudian Zhao

In this paper we consider general rank minimization problems with rank appearing in either objective function or constraint. We first establish that a class of special rank minimization problems has closed-form solutions. Using this result,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-05-30 Zhaosong Lu , Yong Zhang

This paper proposes an improved quasi-Newton penalty decomposition algorithm for the minimization of continuously differentiable functions, possibly nonconvex, over sparse symmetric sets. The method solves a sequence of penalty subproblems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Ahmad Mousavi , Morteza Kimiaei , Saman Babaie-Kafaki , Vyacheslav Kungurtsev

The paper concerns optimization problems with general equality and inequality constraints and with constraints expressed by a convex set. In order to solve these problems, the general constraints are treated by an exact penalty functions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Bogdan K. Jastrzębski , Radosław Pytlak

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

The success of Constraint Programming relies partly on the global constraints and implementation of the associated filtering algorithms. Recently, new ideas emerged to improve these implementations in practice, especially regarding the all…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Margaux Schmied , Jean-Charles Regin

For minimizing a strongly convex objective function subject to linear inequality constraints, we consider a penalty approach that allows one to utilize stochastic methods for problems with a large number of constraints and/or objective…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-16 Meng Li , Paul Grigas , Alper Atamturk