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Decomposition techniques for linear programming are difficult to extend to conic optimization problems with general non-polyhedral convex cones because the conic inequalities introduce an additional nonlinear coupling between the variables.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-06-04 Yifan Sun , Martin S. Andersen , Lieven Vandenberghe

Optimization problems with convex quadratic cost and polyhedral constraints are ubiquitous in signal processing, automatic control and decision-making. We consider here an enlarged problem class that allows to encode logical conditions and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-09 Alberto De Marchi

We present a finitely convergent cutting-plane algorithm for solving a general mixed-integer convex program given an oracle for solving a general convex program. This method is extended to solve a family of two-stage mixed-integer convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Fengqiao Luo , Shibshankar Dey , Sanjay Mehrotra

This research addresses the increasing demand for advanced navigation systems capable of operating within confined surroundings. A significant challenge in this field is developing an efficient planning framework that can generalize across…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Jiayu Fan , Nikolce Murgovski , Jun Liang

Minimax optimization has been central in addressing various applications in machine learning, game theory, and control theory. Prior literature has thus far mainly focused on studying such problems in the continuous domain, e.g.,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-03 Arman Adibi , Aryan Mokhtari , Hamed Hassani

The numerical computation of shortest paths or geodesics on surfaces, along with the associated geodesic distance, has a wide range of applications. Compared to Euclidean distance computation, these tasks are more complex due to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Hailiang Liu , Laura Zinnel

We study a class of optimization problems including matrix scaling, matrix balancing, multidimensional array scaling, operator scaling, and tensor scaling that arise frequently in theory and in practice. Some of these problems, such as…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Cole Franks , Philipp Reichenbach

We develop two adaptive discretization algorithms for convex semi-infinite optimization, which terminate after finitely many iterations at approximate solutions of arbitrary precision. In particular, they terminate at a feasible point of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-14 Jochen Schmid , Miltiadis Poursanidis

We study computational and statistical consequences of problem geometry in stochastic and online optimization. By focusing on constraint set and gradient geometry, we characterize the problem families for which stochastic- and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-17 Chen Cheng , Daniel Levy , John C. Duchi

Outer approximation methods have long been employed to tackle a variety of optimization problems, including linear programming, in the 1960s, and continue to be effective for solving variational inequalities, general convex problems, as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-24 Ewa M. Bednarczuk , Giovanni Bruccola , Jean-Christophe Pesquet , Krzysztof Rutkowski

Under study are some vector optimization problems over the space of Minkowski balls, i.e., symmetric convex compact subsets in Euclidean space. A typical problem requires to achieve the best result in the presence of conflicting goals;…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2013-05-14 S. S Kutateladze

A polyhedral convex set optimization problem is given by a set-valued objective mapping from the $n$-dimensional to the $q$-dimensional Euclidean space whose graph is a convex polyhedron. This problem can be seen as the most elementary…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-25 Niklas Hey , Andreas Löhne

The Euclidean projection onto a convex set is an important problem that arises in numerous constrained optimization tasks. Unfortunately, in many cases, computing projections is computationally demanding. In this work, we focus on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-22 Ilnura Usmanova , Maryam Kamgarpour , Andreas Krause , Kfir Yehuda Levy

Motivated by applications in robotics and computer vision, we study problems related to spatial reasoning of a 3D environment using sublevel sets of polynomials. These include: tightly containing a cloud of points (e.g., representing an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-09 Amir Ali Ahmadi , Georgina Hall , Ameesh Makadia , Vikas Sindhwani

The problem of finding suitable point embedding or geometric configurations given only Euclidean distance information of point pairs arises both as a core task and as a sub-problem in a variety of machine learning applications. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Ipsita Ghosh , Abiy Tasissa , Christian Kümmerle

Geodesic metric spaces support a variety of averaging constructions for given finite sets. Computing such averages has generated extensive interest in diverse disciplines. Here we consider the inverse problem of recognizing computationally…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-07 Ariel Goodwin , Adrian S. Lewis , Genaro Lopez-Acedo , Adriana Nicolae

We study some methods of subgradient projections for solving a convex feasibility problem with general (not necessarily hyperplanes or half-spaces) convex sets in the inconsistent case and propose a strategy that controls the relaxation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-09-21 Dan Butnariu , Yair Censor , Pini Gurfil , Ethan Hadar

This paper is motivated by the limit load, limit analysis and shear strength reduction methods, which are commonly employed in geotechnical stability analysis or similar applications. The aim is to make these methods more approachable by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-07 Stanislav Sysala , Michal Béreš , Simona Bérešová , Jaroslav Haslinger , Jakub Kružík , Tomáš Luber

Polyhedral convex set optimization problems are the simplest optimization problems with set-valued objective function. Their role in set optimization is comparable to the role of linear programs in scalar optimization. Vector linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-26 Andreas Löhne

This paper considers a conceptual version of a convex optimization algorithm whic is based on replacing a convex optimization problem with the root-finding problem for the approximate sub-differential mapping which is solved by repeated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-18 Evgeni Nurminski