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We present a new technique for the design of transformation-optics devices based on large-scale optimization to achieve the optimal effective isotropic dielectric materials within prescribed index bounds, which is computationally cheap…

Optics · Physics 2013-06-11 David Liu , Lucas H. Gabrielli , Michal Lipson , Steven G. Johnson

Quadratic systems with lossless quadratic terms arise in many applications, including models of atmosphere and incompressible fluid flows. Such systems have a trapping region if all trajectories eventually converge to and stay within a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-11 Shih-Chi Liao , A. Leonid Heide , Maziar S. Hemati , Peter J. Seiler

We analyze a convex stochastic optimization problem where the state is assumed to belong to the Bochner space of essentially bounded random variables with images in a reflexive and separable Banach space. For this problem, we obtain…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-21 Caroline Geiersbach , Winnifried Wollner

Second-order optimization methods exhibit fast convergence to critical points, however, in nonconvex optimization, these methods often require restrictive step-sizes to ensure a monotonically decreasing objective function. In the presence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-11 Aayushya Agarwal , Larry Pileggi , Ronald Rohrer

We study an optimal boundary control problem for the two-dimensional stationary micropolar fluids system with variable density. We control the system by considering boundary controls, for the velocity vector and angular velocity of rotation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-06-13 Exequiel Mallea-Zepeda , Elva Ortega-Torres , Élder J. Villamizar-Roa

Second-order sufficient conditions for local optimality have been playing an important role in local convergence analysis of optimization algorithms. In this paper, we demonstrate that this condition alone suffices to justify the linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-04 Nguyen T. V. Hang , M. Ebrahim Sarabi

This paper presents a novel method for reformulating non-differentiable collision avoidance constraints into smooth nonlinear constraints using strong duality of convex optimization. We focus on a controlled object whose goal is to avoid…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-12 Xiaojing Zhang , Alexander Liniger , Francesco Borrelli

This paper deals with optimal control problems described by a controlled version of Moreau's sweeping process governed by convex polyhedra, where measurable control actions enter additive perturbations. This class of problems, which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-14 Giovanni Colombo , Boris S. Mordukhovich , Dao Nguyen

Powder bed fusion is a widely used additive manufacturing (AM) process for producing complex, small-batch parts that are impractical to manufacture using conventional methods. However, its broader adoption is hindered by process-induced…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-12 Yulin Guo , Boris Kramer

This paper on the whole concerns with the duality of Mayer problem for k-th order differential inclusions, where k is an arbitrary natural number. Thus, this work for constructing the dual problems to differential inclusions of any order…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-20 Elimhan N. Mahmudov

We propose and analyze several inexact regularized Newton-type methods for finding a global saddle point of convex-concave unconstrained min-max optimization problems. Compared to first-order methods, our understanding of second-order…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Tianyi Lin , Panayotis Mertikopoulos , Michael I. Jordan

We present successive convexification, a real-time-capable solution method for nonconvex trajectory optimization, with continuous-time constraint satisfaction and guaranteed convergence, that only requires first-order information. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-26 Purnanand Elango , Dayou Luo , Abhinav G. Kamath , Samet Uzun , Taewan Kim , Behçet Açıkmeşe

We consider optimal control problems governed by systems describing the unsteady flows of an incompressible second grade fluid with Navier-slip boundary conditions. We prove the existence of an optimal solution and derive the corresponding…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-11-05 Nadir Arada , Fernanda Cipriano

Motivated by recent increased interest in optimization algorithms for non-convex optimization in application to training deep neural networks and other optimization problems in data analysis, we give an overview of recent theoretical…

We propose a high-order version of the augmented Lagrangian method for solving convex optimization problems with linear constraints, which achieves arbitrarily fast -- and even superlinear -- convergence rates. First, we analyze the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Young-Ju Lee , Jongho Park

Motivated by TRACE algorithm [Curtis et al. 2017], we propose a trust region algorithm for finding second order stationary points of a linearly constrained non-convex optimization problem. We show the convergence of the proposed algorithm…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-16 Maher Nouiehed , Meisam Razaviyayn

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-08 Lahcen El Bourkhissi , Ion Necoara

This paper continues the investigations from [7] and is concerned with the derivation of first-order conditions for a control constrained optimization problem governed by a non-smooth elliptic PDE. The control enters the state equation not…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-11 Livia Betz

Two-stage methods addressing continuous shortest path problems start local minimization from discrete shortest paths in a spatial graph. The convergence of such hybrid methods to global minimizers hinges on the discretization error induced…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-13 Ralf Borndörfer , Fabian Danecker , Martin Weiser

This paper studies a class of double-loop (inner-outer) algorithms for convex composite optimization. For unconstrained problems, we develop a restarted accelerated composite gradient method that attains the optimal first-order complexity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-23 Matthew X. Burns , Jiaming Liang