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In this paper, we derive a version of the Pontryagin maximum principle for general finite-dimensional nonlinear optimal sampled-data control problems. Our framework is actually much more general, and we treat optimal control problems for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-12-09 Loïc Bourdin , Emmanuel Trélat

In this paper, we first prove that the mean-field stochastic linear quadratic (MFSLQ for short) control problem with random coefficients has a unique optimal control and derive a preliminary stochastic maximum principle to characterize this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-28 Jie Xiong , Wen Xu

We introduce in this document a direct method allowing to solve numerically inverse type problems for linear hyperbolic equations. We first consider the reconstruction of the full solution of the wave equation posed in $\Omega\times (0,T)$…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-06-11 Nicolae Cindea , Arnaud Munch

Despite the non-convexity of most modern machine learning parameterizations, Lagrangian duality has become a popular tool for addressing constrained learning problems. We revisit Augmented Lagrangian methods, which aim to mitigate the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Ignacio Boero , Ignacio Hounie , Alejandro Ribeiro

We consider nodal-based Lagrangian interpolations for the finite element approximation of the Maxwell eigenvalue problem. The first approach introduced is a standard Galerkin method on Powell-Sabin meshes, which has recently been shown to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-04 Daniele Boffi , Ramon Codina , Önder Türk

An optimal control problem for semilinear parabolic partial differential equations is considered. The control variable appears in the leading term of the equation. Necessary conditions for optimal controls are established by the method of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-08-20 Hongwei Lou

In this paper, we introduce a higher-order multiscale method for time-dependent problems with highly oscillatory coefficients. Building on the localized orthogonal decomposition (LOD) framework, we construct enriched correction operators to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Balaje Kalyanaraman , Felix Krumbiegel , Roland Maier , Siyang Wang

Robust statistical estimators offer resilience against outliers but are often computationally challenging, particularly in high-dimensional sparse settings. Modern optimization techniques are utilized for robust sparse association…

Computation · Statistics 2025-02-03 Pia Pfeiffer , Andreas Alfons , Peter Filzmoser

This paper presents a millisecond-level look-ahead control algorithm for energy storage with constant space complexity and worst-case linear run-time complexity. The algorithm connects the optimal control with the Lagrangian multiplier…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-13 Bolun Xu , Magnus Korpas , Audun Botterud , Francis O'Sullivan

A broad class of optimization problems can be cast in composite form, that is, considering the minimization of the composition of a lower semicontinuous function with a differentiable mapping. This paper investigates the versatile template…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-07 Alberto De Marchi , Patrick Mehlitz

The Sequential Linear Quadratic (SLQ) algorithm is a continuous-time variant of the well-known Differential Dynamic Programming (DDP) technique with a Gauss-Newton Hessian approximation. This family of methods has gained popularity in the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Jean-Pierre Sleiman , Farbod Farshidian , Marco Hutter

This work considers the problem of approximating initial condition and time-dependent optimal control and trajectory surfaces using multivariable Fourier series. A modified Augmented Lagrangian algorithm for translating the optimal control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-14 Gabriel Nicolosi , Terry Friesz , Christopher Griffin

This paper proposes an optimal control problem for a parabolic equation with a nonlocal nonlinearity. The system is described by a parabolic equation involving a nonlinear term that depends on the solution and its integral over the domain.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-20 Cyrille Kenne , Landry Djomegne , Gisèle Mophou

In this paper, we investigate optimal control problems governed by semilinear elliptic variational inequalities involving constraints on the state, and more precisely the obstacle problem. Since we adopt a numerical point of view, we first…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-10 El Hassene Osmani , Mounir Haddou , Naceurdine Bensalem

Performance of optimization on quadratic problems sensitively depends on the low-lying part of the spectrum. For large (effectively infinite-dimensional) problems, this part of the spectrum can often be naturally represented or approximated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-26 Maksim Velikanov , Dmitry Yarotsky

In this study, we consider an optimal control problem driven by a stochastic differential equation with state constraints. Here, the state constraints mean the constraints about the path of state. In order to show the maximum principe for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-23 Shuzhen Yang

This work studies the linear convergence of an accelerated scheme of the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) for strongly convex and Lipschitz-smooth problems. We use the methodology of expressing the accelerated ADMM as a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-08 Meisam Tavakoli , Fabian Jakob , Guido Carnevale , Giuseppe Notarstefano , Andrea Iannelli

A discretization of an optimal control problem of a stochastic parabolic equation driven by multiplicative noise is analyzed. The state equation is discretized by the continuous piecewise linear element method in space and by the backward…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-23 Binjie Li

This paper studies a recovery task of finding a low multilinear-rank tensor that fulfills some linear constraints in the general settings, which has many applications in computer vision and graphics. This problem is named as the low…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-10-08 Lei Yang , Zheng-Hai Huang , Yufan Li

In this paper, a projected primal-dual gradient flow of augmented Lagrangian is presented to solve convex optimization problems that are not necessarily strictly convex. The optimization variables are restricted by a convex set with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-31 Han Zhang , Jieqiang Wei , Peng Yi , Xiaoming Hu