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In this article, we present a problem of nonlinear constraint optimization with equality and inequality constraints. Objective functions are defined to be nonlinear and optimizers may have a lower and upper bound. We solve the optimization…

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Equilibrium equations in the form of complementarity conditions often appear as constraints in optimization problems. Problems of this type are commonly referred to as mathematical programs with complementarity constraints (MPCCs). A…

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We propose a novel direct transcription and solution method for solving nonlinear, continuous-time dynamic optimization problems. Instead of forcing the dynamic constraints to be satisfied only at a selected number of points as in direct…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-25 Yuanbo Nie , Eric C. Kerrigan

Most inverse optimization models impute unspecified parameters of an objective function to make an observed solution optimal for a given optimization problem with a fixed feasible set. We propose two approaches to impute unspecified…

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A novel inner approximation algorithm is proposed for dynamic optimization problems to ensure strict satisfaction of path constraints. Distinct from traditional methods relying on interval analysis, the proposed algorithm leverages the…

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Current state-of-the-art methods for solving discrete optimization problems are usually restricted to convex settings. In this paper, we propose a general approach based on cutting planes for solving nonlinear, possibly nonconvex, binary…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-21 Hoa T. Bui , Qun Lin , Ryan Loxton

This paper introduces a new method for solving quadratic programs using primal-dual interior-point methods. Instead of handling complementarity as an explicit equation in the Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) conditions, we ensure that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Jon Arrizabalaga , Zachary Manchester

This paper studies distributed convex optimization with both affine equality and nonlinear inequality couplings through the duality analysis. We first formulate the dual of the coupling-constraint problem and reformulate it as a consensus…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-05 Chenyang Qiu , Yangyang Qian , Zongli Lin , Yacov A. Shamash

Decision trees usefully represent sparse, high dimensional and noisy data. Having learned a function from this data, we may want to thereafter integrate the function into a larger decision-making problem, e.g., for picking the best chemical…

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The real-time solution of parametric optimization problems is critical for applications that demand high accuracy under tight real-time constraints, such as model predictive control. To this end, this work presents a learning-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Lukas Lüken , Sergio Lucia

We present a focused introduction to exact penalty methods for nonlinear programs and mathematical programs with equilibrium constraints (MPECs), emphasizing their connection to modern error bound theory. The goal is twofold. First, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-04 Louis Shuo Wang

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

We present a derivative-based algorithm for nonlinearly constrained optimization problems that is tolerant of inaccuracies in the data. The algorithm solves a semi-smooth set of nonlinear equations that are equivalent to the first-order…

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We present FilterDDP, a differential dynamic programming algorithm for solving discrete-time, optimal control problems (OCPs) with nonlinear equality constraints. Unlike prior methods based on merit functions or the augmented Lagrangian…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Ming Xu , Stephen Gould , Iman Shames

Newton's method has been an important approach for solving variational inequalities, quasi-Newton method is a good alternative choice to save computational cost. In this paper, we propose a new method for solving monotone variational…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Yuge Ye , Qingna Li , Deren Han

In this paper, we consider a nonconvex optimization problem with nonlinear equality constraints. We assume that both, the objective function and the functional constraints are locally smooth. For solving this problem, we propose a…

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A neural network-based approach for solving parametric convex optimization problems is presented, where the network estimates the optimal points given a batch of input parameters. The network is trained by penalizing violations of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-17 Carmine Delle Femine

A dynamic method to solve the Non-linear Programming (NLP) problem with Equality Constraints (ECs) and Inequality Constraints (IECs) is proposed. Inspired by the Lyapunov continuous-time dynamics stability theory in the control field, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-04 Sheng Zhang , Fei Liao , Yi-Nan Kong , Kai-Feng He

We propose a solution strategy for linear systems arising in interior method optimization, which is suitable for implementation on hardware accelerators such as graphical processing units (GPUs). The current gold standard for solving these…

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This paper considers the fixed point problem for a nonexpansive mapping on a real Hilbert space and proposes novel line search fixed point algorithms to accelerate the search. The termination conditions for the line search are based on the…

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