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PDE-constrained optimization problems with control or state constraints are challenging from an analytical as well as numerical perspective. The combination of these constraints with a sparsity-promoting $\rm L^1$ term within the objective…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-13 John W. Pearson , Margherita Porcelli , Martin Stoll

Entropy regularized Markov decision processes have been widely used in reinforcement learning. This paper is concerned with the primal-dual formulation of the entropy regularized problems. Standard first-order methods suffer from slow…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-13 Haoya Li , Hsiang-fu Yu , Lexing Ying , Inderjit Dhillon

This paper proposes a primal-dual framework to learn a stable estimator for linear constrained estimation problems leveraging the moving horizon approach. To avoid the online computational burden in most existing methods, we learn a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-07 Wenhan Cao , Jingliang Duan , Shengbo Eben Li , Chen Chen , Chang Liu , Yu Wang

In this paper, we consider the optimal coordination of automated vehicles at intersections under fixed crossing orders. We formulate the problem using direct optimal control and exploit the structure to construct a semi-distributed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-22 Robert Hult , Mario Zanon , Sebastien Gros , Paolo Falcone

In [7], a new iterative method for solving linear system of equations was presented which can be considered as a modification of the Gauss-Seidel method. Then in [4] a different approach, say 2D-DSPM, and more effective one was introduced.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-06-10 Davod Khojasteh Salkuyeh

Interior-point methods (IPMs) are a cornerstone of Euclidean convex optimization, due to their strong theoretical guarantees and practical performance. Motivated by scaling problems, recent work by Hirai and the last two authors (FOCS'23)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-09 Christopher Criscitiello , Harold Nieuwboer , Michael Walter

Optimizing Large Language Model (LLM) performance requires well-crafted prompts, but manual prompt engineering is labor-intensive and often ineffective. Automated prompt optimization techniques address this challenge but the majority of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Ximing Dong , Shaowei Wang , Dayi Lin , Ahmed E. Hassan

In a recent paper, Skajaa and Ye proposed a homogeneous primal-dual interior-point method for non-symmetric conic optimization. The authors showed that their algorithm converges to $\varepsilon$-accuracy in $O(\sqrt{\nu}\log…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-18 Dávid Papp , Sercan Yıldız

Lagrangian duality in mixed integer optimization is a useful framework for problems decomposition and for producing tight lower bounds to the optimal objective, but in contrast to the convex counterpart, it is generally unable to produce…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-11-10 Robin Vujanic , Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani , Paul Goulart , Sebastien Mariethoz , Manfred Morari

In this paper, we suggest a new framework for analyzing primal subgradient methods for nonsmooth convex optimization problems. We show that the classical step-size rules, based on normalization of subgradient, or on the knowledge of optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-27 Yurii Nesterov

Most of the real-time implementations of the stabilizing optimal control actions suffer from the necessity to provide high computational effort. This paper presents a cutting-edge approach for real-time evaluation of linear-quadratic model…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-11 Kristína Fedorová , Yuning Jiang , Juraj Oravec , Colin N. Jones , Michal Kvasnica

Inverse optimization is the problem of determining the values of missing input parameters for an associated forward problem that are closest to given estimates and that will make a given target vector optimal. This study is concerned with…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Aykut Bulut , Ted K. Ralphs

Cutting planes for mixed-integer linear programs (MILPs) are typically computed in rounds by iteratively solving optimization problems, the so-called separation. Instead, we reframe the problem of finding good cutting planes as a continuous…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-10 Didier Chételat , Andrea Lodi

This paper explores numerical methods for solving a convex differentiable semi-infinite program. We introduce a primal-dual gradient method which performs three updates iteratively: a momentum gradient ascend step to update the constraint…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-23 Yao Yao , Qihang Lin , Tianbao Yang

In this paper we propose a primal-dual homotopy method for $\ell_1$-minimization problems with infinity norm constraints in the context of sparse reconstruction. The natural homotopy parameter is the value of the bound for the constraints…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-01 Christoph Brauer , Dirk A. Lorenz , Andreas M. Tillmann

This paper introduces the algorithmic design and implementation of Tulip, an open-source interior-point solver for linear optimization. It implements a regularized homogeneous interior-point algorithm with multiple centrality corrections,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-04 Miguel F. Anjos , Andrea Lodi , Mathieu Tanneau

Interior-point algorithms constitute a very interesting class of algorithms for solving linear-programming problems. In this paper we study efficient implementations of such algorithms for solving the linear program that appears in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-02-12 Pascal O. Vontobel

The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADM or ADMM) breaks a complex optimization problem into much simpler subproblems. The ADM algorithms are typically short and easy to implement yet exhibit (nearly) state-of-the-art…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-02 Ming Yan , Wotao Yin

Best subset selection is considered the `gold standard' for many sparse learning problems. A variety of optimization techniques have been proposed to attack this non-convex and NP-hard problem. In this paper, we investigate the dual forms…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-07-06 Shaogang Ren , Guanhua Fang , Ping Li

This paper addresses the bilinearly coupled minimax optimization problem: $\min_{x \in \mathbb{R}^{d_x}}\max_{y \in \mathbb{R}^{d_y}} \ f_1(x) + f_2(x) + y^{\top} Bx - g_1(y) - g_2(y)$, where $f_1$ and $g_1$ are smooth convex functions,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Jingwang Li , Xiao Li