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GRPO-style reinforcement learning (RL)-based LLM fine-tuning algorithms have recently gained popularity. Relying on heuristic trust-region approximations, however, they can lead to brittle optimization behavior, as global importance-ratio…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Doyeon Lee , Eunyi Lyou , Hyunsoo Cho , Sookyung Kim , Joonseok Lee , Jaemoo Choi

We study the ternary quadratic problem (TQP), a quadratic optimization problem with linear constraints where the variables take values in $\{0, \pm 1\}$. While semidefinite programming (SDP) techniques are well established for $\{0,1\}$-…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Frank de Meijer , Veronica Piccialli , Renata Sotirov , Antonio M. Sudoso

Optimal Power Flow (OPF) can be modeled as a non-convex Quadratically Constrained Quadratic Program (QCQP). Our purpose is to solve OPF to global optimality. To this end, we specialize the Mixed-Integer Quadratic Convex Reformulation method…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-14 Hadrien Godard , Sourour Elloumi , Amélie Lambert , Jean Maeght , Manuel Ruiz

We study nonlinear constrained optimization problems in which only function evaluations of the objective and constraints are available. Existing zeroth-order methods rely on noisy gradient and Jacobian surrogates in high dimensions, making…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Runyu Zhang , Gioele Zardini

Hybrid optimization algorithms have gained popularity as it has become apparent there cannot be a universal optimization strategy which is globally more beneficial than any other. Despite their popularity, hybridization frameworks require…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-03-15 Hassan A. Bashir , Richard S. Neville

Nonlinear spectroscopy is a cornerstone of quantum science, providing unique access to multi-point correlations, quantum coherence, and couplings that are invisible to linear methods. However, classical simulation of these phenomena is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-20 Long Xiong , Xiaoyang Wang , Xiaoxia Cai , Xiao Yuan

The combining of a General-Purpose Particle Swarm Optimizer (GP-PSO) with Sequential Quadratic Programming (SQP) algorithm for constrained optimization problems has been shown to be highly beneficial to the refinement, and in some cases,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Carwyn Pelley , Mauro S. Innocente , Johann Sienz

We study the expressibility and learnability of convex optimization solution functions and their multi-layer architectural extension. The main results are: \emph{(1)} the class of solution functions of linear programming (LP) and quadratic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Ming Jin , Vanshaj Khattar , Harshal Kaushik , Bilgehan Sel , Ruoxi Jia

In this paper, we propose a Feasible Sequential Linear Programming (FSLP) algorithm applied to time-optimal control problems (TOCP) obtained through direct multiple shooting discretization. This method is motivated by TOCP with nonlinear…

We present a depth-aware optimization framework for quantum circuit compilation that unifies provable optimality with scalable heuristics. For exact synthesis of a target unitary, we formulate a mixed-integer linear program (MILP) that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-02 Harsha Nagarajan , Zsolt Szabó

This paper presents a numerical function optimization framework designed for constrained optimization problems in robotics. The tool is designed with real-time considerations and is suitable for online trajectory and control input…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Sait Sovukluk , Christian Ott

We study the Bipartite Unconstrained 0-1 Quadratic Programming Problem (BQP) which is a relaxation of the Unconstrained 0-1 Quadratic Programming Problem (QP). Applications of the BQP include mining discrete patterns from binary data,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-07-23 Daniel Karapetyan , Abraham P. Punnen

A new approach to solving a large class of factorable nonlinear programming (NLP) problems to global optimality is presented in this paper. Unlike the traditional strategy of partitioning the decision-variable space employed in many…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-04-28 Gene A. Bunin

In modern engineering scenarios, there is often a strict upper bound on the number of algorithm iterations that can be performed within a given time limit. This raises the question of optimal algorithmic configuration for a fixed and finite…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-31 Yushun Zhang , Dmitry Rybin , Zhi-Quan Luo

We present PANOC, a new algorithm for solving optimal control problems arising in nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC). A usual approach to this type of problems is sequential quadratic programming (SQP), which requires the solution of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-20 Lorenzo Stella , Andreas Themelis , Pantelis Sopasakis , Panagiotis Patrinos

We introduce a cutting-plane framework for nonconvex quadratic programs (QPs) that progressively tightens convex relaxations. Our approach leverages the doubly nonnegative (DNN) relaxation to compute strong lower bounds and generate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-06 Zheng Qu , Defeng Sun , Jintao Xu

We prove global convergence of a bundle trust region algorithm for non-smooth non-convex optimization, where cutting planes are generated by oracles respecting four basic rules. The benefit is that convergence theory applies to a large…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-17 Dominikus Noll

This paper presents a novel algorithm integrating global and robust optimization methods to solve continuous non-convex quadratic problems under convex uncertainty sets. The proposed Robust spatial branch-and-bound (RsBB) algorithm combines…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Asimina Marousi , Vassilis M. Charitopoulos

Tools from control and dynamical systems have proven valuable for analyzing and developing optimization methods. In this paper, we establish rigorous theoretical foundations for using feedback linearization (FL) -- a well-established…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-29 Runyu Zhang , Arvind Raghunathan , Jeff Shamma , Na Li

This paper introduces the quadratically-constrained quadratic programming (QCQP) framework recently added in HPIPM alongside the original quadratic-programming (QP) framework. The aim of the new framework is unchanged, namely providing the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-23 Gianluca Frison , Jonathan Frey , Florian Messerer , Andrea Zanelli , Moritz Diehl