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Quadratic constrained quadratic programming problems often occur in various fields such as engineering practice, management science, and network communication. This article mainly studies a non convex quadratic programming problem with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-29 Bo Zhang , YueLin Gao , Xia Liu , XiaoLi Huang

Optimization models with non-convex constraints arise in many tasks in machine learning, e.g., learning with fairness constraints or Neyman-Pearson classification with non-convex loss. Although many efficient methods have been developed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-24 Runchao Ma , Qihang Lin , Tianbao Yang

This paper presents a novel outer approximation algorithm for nonsmooth mixed-integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) problems. The method proceeds by fixing the integer variables and solving the resulting nonlinear convex subproblem. When…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Zhou Wei , He-Yi Liu , Bo Zeng

When computing bounds, spatial branch-and-bound algorithms often linearly outer approximate convex relaxations for non-convex expressions in order to capitalize on the efficiency and robustness of linear programming solvers. Considering…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-22 William R. Strahl , Arvind U. Raghunathan , Nikolaos V. Sahinidis , Chrysanthos E. Gounaris

Convex approximation sets for multiobjective optimization problems are a well-studied relaxation of the common notion of approximation sets. Instead of approximating each image of a feasible solution by the image of some solution in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-13 Stephan Helfrich , Stefan Ruzika , Clemens Thielen

This paper discusses an outer-approximation guided optimization method for constrained neural network inverse problems with rectified linear units. The constrained neural network inverse problems refer to an optimization problem to find the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-25 Myun-Seok Cheon

In this study, we present a general framework of outer approximation algorithms to solve convex vector optimization problems, in which the Pascoletti-Serafini (PS) scalarization is solved iteratively. This scalarization finds the minimum…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-27 Irem Nur Keskin , Firdevs Ulus

Mixed-integer convex quadratic programs with indicator variables (MIQP) encompass a wide range of applications, from statistical learning to energy, finance, and logistics. The outer approximation (OA) algorithm has been proven efficient in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-11 Linchuan Wei , Simge Küçükyavuz

A computationally efficient method to solve non-convex programming problems with linear equality constraints is presented. The proposed method is based on a recursively feasible and descending sequential convex programming procedure proven…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-25 Josep Virgili-Llop , Marcello Romano

In this paper we present a new algorithmic realization of a projection-based scheme for general convex constrained optimization problem. The general idea is to transform the original optimization problem to a sequence of feasibility…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-12 Aviv Gibali , Karl-Heinz Küfer , Daniel Reem , Philipp Süss

This paper proposes QPALM, a proximal augmented Lagrangian method based on quadratic approximations, for solving nonlinear programming problems with weakly convex objective and constraint functions. The algorithm is constructed by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Yule Zhang , Benqi Liu , Xiantao Xiao , Liwei Zhang

In this paper, we mainly study one class of convex mixed-integer nonlinear programming problems (MINLPs) with non-differentiable data. By dropping the differentiability assumption, we substitute gradients with subgradients obtained from KKT…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-09-22 Zhou Wei , M. Montaz Ali

The advancement of domain reduction techniques has significantly enhanced the performance of solvers in mathematical programming. This paper delves into the impact of integrating convexification and domain reduction techniques within the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-31 Zedong Peng , Kaiyu Cao , Kevin C. Furman , Can Li , Ignacio E. Grossmann , David E. Bernal Neira

In this paper, we present a generic framework to extend existing uniformly optimal convex programming algorithms to solve more general nonlinear, possibly nonconvex, optimization problems. The basic idea is to incorporate a local search…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-10-27 Saeed Ghadimi , Guanghui Lan , Hongchao Zhang

In this paper, we present the first outer approximation algorithm for multi-objective mixed-integer linear programming problems with any number of objectives. The algorithm also works for certain classes of non-linear programming problems.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-04 Fritz Bökler , Sophie N. Parragh , Markus Sinnl , Fabien Tricoire

We outline a new approach for solving optimization problems which enforce triangle inequalities on output variables. We refer to this as metric-constrained optimization, and give several examples where problems of this form arise in machine…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2018-06-06 Nate Veldt , David Gleich , Anthony Wirth , James Saunderson

We consider the problem of projecting a convex set onto a subspace, or equivalently formulated, the problem of computing a set obtained by applying a linear mapping to a convex feasible set. This includes the problem of approximating convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-11 Gabriela Kováčová , Birgit Rudloff

An optimization algorithm for nonsmooth nonconvex constrained optimization problems with upper-C2 objective functions is proposed and analyzed. Upper-C2 is a weakly concave property that exists in difference of convex (DC) functions and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-21 Jingyi Wang , Cosmin G. Petra

Min-max problems have broad applications in machine learning, including learning with non-decomposable loss and learning with robustness to data distribution. Convex-concave min-max problem is an active topic of research with efficient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-12 Hassan Rafique , Mingrui Liu , Qihang Lin , Tianbao Yang

We present an algorithm for approximately solving bounded convex vector optimization problems. The algorithm provides both an outer and an inner polyhedral approximation of the upper image. It is a modification of the primal algorithm…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-26 Daniel Dörfler , Andreas Löhne , Christopher Schneider , Benjamin Weißing
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