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In this paper, a novel modified proximal dynamical system is proposed to compute the solution of a mixed variational inequality problem (MVIP) within a fixed time, where the time of convergence is finite and is uniformly bounded for all…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-21 Kunal Garg , Mayank Baranwal , Rohit Gupta , Mouhacine Benosman

In this note, we provide an overarching analysis of primal-dual dynamics associated to linear equality-constrained optimization problems using contraction analysis. For the well-known standard version of the problem: we establish…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-22 Pedro Cisneros-Velarde , Saber Jafarpour , Francesco Bullo

In this paper, we propose an inertial accelerated primal-dual method for the linear equality constrained convex optimization problem. When the objective function has a ``nonsmooth + smooth'' composite structure, we further propose an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-30 Xin He , Rong Hu , Ya-Ping Fang

Physical models often contain unknown functions and relations. In order to gain more insights into the nature of physical processes, these unknown functions have to be identified or reconstructed. Mathematically, we can formulate this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Jan Bartsch , Ahmed A. Barakat , Simon Buchwald , Gabriele Ciaramella , Stefan Volkwein , Eva M. Weig

In this paper, we study a bilinear saddle point problem of the form $\min_{x}\max_{y} F(x) + \langle Ax, y \rangle - G(y)$, where $F$ and $G$ are $\mu_F$- and $\mu_G$-strongly convex functions, respectively. By incorporating Nesterov…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-11 Xin He , Ya-Ping Fang

Our work is part of the close link between continuous-time dissipative dynamical systems and optimization algorithms, and more precisely here, in the stochastic setting. We aim to study stochastic convex minimization problems through the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-21 Rodrigo Maulen-Soto , Jalal Fadili , Hedy Attouch , Peter Ochs

We consider a class of nonconvex nonsmooth multicomposite optimization problems where the objective function consists of a Tikhonov regularizer and a composition of multiple nonconvex nonsmooth component functions. Such optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-13 Lingzi Jin , Xiao Wang , Xiaojun Chen

Constraints are found on the spatial variation of finite-time Lyapunov exponents of two and three-dimensional systems of ordinary differential equations. In a chaotic system, finite-time Lyapunov exponents describe the average rate of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-10-31 Jean-Luc Thiffeault , Allen H. Boozer

The paper studies a distributed constrained optimization problem, where multiple agents connected in a network collectively minimize the sum of individual objective functions subject to a global constraint being an intersection of the local…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-03-08 Jinlong Lei , Han-Fu Chen , Hai-Tao Fang

Primal-dual methods for solving convex optimization problems with functional constraints often exhibit a distinct two-stage behavior. Initially, they converge towards a solution at a sublinear rate. Then, after a certain point, the method…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Mateo Díaz , Pedro Izquierdo Lehmann , Haihao Lu , Jinwen Yang

The generalized Lasso is a remarkably versatile and extensively utilized model across a broad spectrum of domains, including statistics, machine learning, and image science. Among the optimization techniques employed to address the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-29 Xueying Zeng , Bin Shi

A learning approach to selecting regularization parameters in multi-penalty Tikhonov regularization is investigated. It leads to a bilevel optimization problem, where the lower level problem is a Tikhonov regularized problem parameterized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-05 Gernot Holler , Karl Kunisch , Richard C. Barnard

Convergence analysis of accelerated first-order methods for convex optimization problems are presented from the point of view of ordinary differential equation solvers. A new dynamical system, called Nesterov accelerated gradient flow, has…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-01 Hao Luo , Long Chen

In this paper, we propose a unified two-phase scheme to accelerate any high-order regularized tensor approximation approach on the smooth part of a composite convex optimization model. The proposed scheme has the advantage of not needing to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-06 Bo Jiang , Tianyi Lin , Shuzhong Zhang

We consider (stochastic) subgradient methods for strongly convex but potentially nonsmooth non-Lipschitz optimization. We provide new equivalent dual descriptions (in the style of dual averaging) for the classic subgradient method, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-31 Benjamin Grimmer , Danlin Li

We consider algorithms for solving structured convex optimization problems over a network of agents with communication delays. It is assumed that each agent performs its local updates by using possibly outdated information from its…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-14 Puya Latafat , Panagiotis Patrinos

In this paper we present a globally convergent algorithm for the computation of a minimizer of the Tikhonov functional with sparsity promoting penalty term for nonlinear forward operators in Banach space. The dual TIGRA method uses a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-08-05 Wei Wang , Stephan W. Anzengruber , Ronny Ramlau , Bo Han

We propose a continuous-time second-order optimization algorithm for solving unconstrained convex optimization problems with bounded Hessian. We show that this alternative algorithm has a comparable convergence rate to that of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-21 Hossein Moradian , Solmaz S. Kia

Primal-dual methods in online optimization give several of the state-of-the art results in both of the most common models: adversarial and stochastic/random order. Here we try to provide a more unified analysis of primal-dual algorithms to…

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