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Inverse problem or parameter estimation of ordinary differential equations (ODEs), the iterative process of minimizing the mismatch between model-predicted and experimental states by tuning the parameter values within an optimization…

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In this paper, we consider the nonsmooth convex optimization problems over the fixed point constraint sets of firmly nonexpansive operators. To find an optimal solution of the problem, we present an iterative method based on the hybrid…

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This paper considers a stochastic optimization problem over the fixed point sets of quasinonexpansive mappings on Riemannian manifolds. The problem enables us to consider Riemannian hierarchical optimization problems over complicated sets,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-18 Hideaki Iiduka , Hiroyuki Sakai

Recently, multi-objective optimization (MOO) has gained attention for its broad applications in ML, operations research, and engineering. However, MOO algorithm design remains in its infancy and many existing MOO methods suffer from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Zhuqing Liu , Chaosheng Dong , Michinari Momma , Simone Shao , Shaoyuan Xu , Yan Gao , Haibo Yang , Jia Liu

Offline reinforcement learning methods typically enforce strict constraints to ensure safety; yet this rigidity often prevents the discovery of optimal behaviors outside the immediate support of the behavior policy. To address this, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Yifei Chen , Shaoqin Zhu , Xiaoqiang Ji

Distributed optimization is the standard way of speeding up machine learning training, and most of the research in the area focuses on distributed first-order, gradient-based methods. Yet, there are settings where some…

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This paper considers unconstrained convex optimization problems with time-varying objective functions. We propose algorithms with a discrete time-sampling scheme to find and track the solution trajectory based on prediction and correction…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-18 Andrea Simonetto , Aryan Mokhtari , Alec Koppel , Geert Leus , Alejandro Ribeiro

We present a novel framework for PDE-constrained $r$-adaptivity of high-order meshes. The proposed method formulates mesh movement as an optimization problem, with an objective function defined as a convex combination of a mesh quality…

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This chapter provides an introduction to Hybrid High-Order (HHO) methods. These are new generation numerical methods for PDEs with several advantageous features: the support of arbitrary approximation orders on general polyhedral meshes,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-21 Daniele A. Di Pietro , Roberta Tittarelli

Reinforcement learning algorithms typically consider discrete-time dynamics, even though the underlying systems are often continuous in time. In this paper, we introduce a model-based reinforcement learning algorithm that represents…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Lenart Treven , Jonas Hübotter , Bhavya Sukhija , Florian Dörfler , Andreas Krause

This paper presents the design and analysis of a Hybrid High-Order (HHO) approximation for a distributed optimal control problem governed by the Poisson equation. We propose three distinct schemes to address unconstrained control problems…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-14 Gouranga Mallik , Ramesh Chandra Sau

We study first-order optimization methods obtained by discretizing ordinary differential equations (ODEs) corresponding to Nesterov's accelerated gradient methods (NAGs) and Polyak's heavy-ball method. We consider three discretization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-05 Bin Shi , Simon S. Du , Weijie J. Su , Michael I. Jordan

Scientific machine learning is an emerging field that broadly describes the combination of scientific computing and machine learning to address challenges in science and engineering. Within the context of differential equations, this has…

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In a Hilbert setting, we develop a gradient-based dynamic approach for fast solving convex optimization problems. By applying time scaling, averaging, and perturbation techniques to the continuous steepest descent (SD), we obtain…

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We develop a computationally efficient learning-based forward-backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDE) controller for both continuous and hybrid dynamical (HD) systems subject to stochastic noise and state constraints. Solutions…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-12 Bolun Dai , Prashanth Krishnamurthy , Andrew Papanicolaou , Farshad Khorrami

In this work, we consider methods for solving large-scale optimization problems with a possibly nonsmooth objective function. The key idea is to first specify a class of optimization algorithms using a generic iterative scheme involving…

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Time-varying non-convex continuous-valued non-linear constrained optimization is a fundamental problem. We study conditions wherein a momentum-like regularising term allow for the tracking of local optima by considering an ordinary…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-18 Olivier Massicot , Jakub Marecek

In modern decentralized applications, ensuring communication efficiency and privacy for the users are the key challenges. In order to train machine-learning models, the algorithm has to communicate to the data center and sample data for its…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-04 Hoang Huy Nguyen , Yan Li , Tuo Zhao

In this paper, we aim to solve the high dimensional stochastic optimal control problem from the view of the stochastic maximum principle via deep learning. By introducing the extended Hamiltonian system which is essentially an FBSDE with a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-23 Shaolin Ji , Shige Peng , Ying Peng , Xichuan Zhang

For N-dimensional (ND) static quadratic map, we present a time-delay approach to gradient-based extremum seeking (ES) both, in the continuous and, for the first time, the discrete domains. As in the recently introduced (for 2D maps in the…

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