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We study the optimal control of a rate-independent system that is driven by a convex, quadratic energy. Since the associated solution mapping is non-smooth, the analysis of such control problems is challenging. In order to derive optimality…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-04 Ulisse Stefanelli , Gerd Wachsmuth , Daniel Wachsmuth

We develop a Trust Region method with Regularized Barzilai-Borwein step-size obtained in a previous paper for solving large-scale unconstrained optimization problems. Simultaneously, the non-monotone technique is combined to formulate an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-24 Xin Xu , Congpei An

We present a trust-region-based adaptive finite-element algorithm for numerically solving a class of nonsmooth PDE-constrained optimization problems that includes problems with sparsifying regularizers and convex constraints. In particular,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Harbir Antil , Robert J. Baraldi , Rohit Khandelwal , Drew P. Kouri

In this paper, we aim to explore optimal regional trajectory tracking control problems of the anomalous subdiffusion processes governed by time-fractional diffusion systems under the Neumann boundary conditions. Using eigenvalue theory of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-27 Fudong Ge , YangQuan Chen

We present a new approach to the problem of stationary viscoplastic duct flow as modelled by the Herschel-Bulkley model, with Bingham fluids included as a special case. While the mathematical formulation of this problem is conventionally…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-10-16 Timm Treskatis , Miguel A. Moyers-Gonzalez , Chris J. Price

We introduce a family of hybrid discretisations for the numerical approximation of optimal control problems governed by the equations of immiscible displacement in porous media. The proposed schemes are based on mixed and discontinuous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-02 S. Kumar , R. Ruiz Baier , R. Sandilya

We propose a derivative-free trust-region method based on finite-difference gradient approximations for smooth optimization problems with convex constraints. The proposed method does not require computing an approximate stationarity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Dânâ Davar , Geovani Nunes Grapiglia

In this article a special class of nonlinear optimal control problems involving a bilinear term in the boundary condition is studied. These kind of problems arise for instance in the identification of an unknown space-dependent Robin…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Max Winkler

In this work, we present a heretofore unseen application of Ising machines to perform trust region-based optimisation with box constraints. This is done by considering a specific form of opto-electronic oscillator-based coherent Ising…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Sayantan Pramanik , Kaumudibikash Goswami , Sourav Chatterjee , M Girish Chandra

We introduce a two-level trust-region method (TLTR) for solving unconstrained nonlinear optimization problems. Our method uses a composite iteration step, which is based on two distinct search directions. The first search direction is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-10 Andrea Angino , Alena Kopaničáková , Rolf Krause

In [R. J. Baraldi and D. P. Kouri, Math. Program., 201:1 (2023), pp. 559-598], the authors introduced a trust-region method for minimizing the sum of a smooth nonconvex and a nonsmooth convex function, the latter of which has an analytical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-15 Leandro Farias Maia , Robert Baraldi , Drew P. Kouri

In this article, we consider the residual regularization path-following method with the trust-region updating strategy for the linear complementarity problem. This time-stepping selection based on the trust-region updating strategy…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-31 Xin-long Luo , Sen Zhang , Hang Xiao

Convex and nonconvex finite-sum minimization arises in many scientific computing and machine learning applications. Recently, first-order and second-order methods where objective functions, gradients and Hessians are approximated by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-12 Stefania Bellavia , Natasa Krejic , Benedetta Morini

We consider unconstrained multi-criteria optimization problems with finite sum objective functions. The proposed algorithm belongs to a non-monotone trust region framework where additional sampling approach is used to govern the sample size…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-13 Nataša Krklec Jerinkić , Luka Rutešić , Ilaria Trombini

We investigate local optimality conditions of first and second order for integer optimal control problems with total variation regularization via a finite-dimensional switching point problem. We show the equivalence of local optimality for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-13 Jonas Marko , Gerd Wachsmuth

We consider the minimization of non-convex functions that typically arise in machine learning. Specifically, we focus our attention on a variant of trust region methods known as cubic regularization. This approach is particularly attractive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-04 Jonas Moritz Kohler , Aurelien Lucchi

We propose a nonsmooth trust-region method for solving optimization problems with locally Lipschitz continuous functions, with application to problems constrained by variational inequalities of the second kind. Under suitable assumptions on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-17 Constantin Christof , Juan Carlos De Los Reyes , Christian Meyer

In this paper, we study a few challenging theoretical and numerical issues on the well known trust region policy optimization for deep reinforcement learning. The goal is to find a policy that maximizes the total expected reward when the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-27 Mingming Zhao , Yongfeng Li , Zaiwen Wen

This paper addresses some trust-region methods equipped with nonmonotone strategies for solving nonlinear unconstrained optimization problems. More specifically, the importance of using nonmonotone techniques in nonlinear optimization is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-01-12 Masoud Ahookhosh , Susan Ghaderi

The trust-region problem, which minimizes a nonconvex quadratic function over a ball, is a key subproblem in trust-region methods for solving nonlinear optimization problems. It enjoys many attractive properties such as an exact…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-09-13 V. Jeyakumar , G. Li