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An algorithm is proposed, analyzed, and tested experimentally for solving stochastic optimization problems in which the decision variables are constrained to satisfy equations defined by deterministic, smooth, and nonlinear functions. It is…

We address the problem of finding a local solution to a nonconvex-nonconcave minmax optimization using Newton type methods, including interior-point ones. We modify the Hessian matrix of these methods such that, at each step, the modified…

In this work, we propose the joint use of a mixed penalty-interior point method and direct search, for addressing nonlinearly constrained derivative-free optimization problems. A merit function is considered, wherein the set of nonlinear…

An algorithm is proposed, analyzed, and tested for minimizing locally Lipschitz objective functions that may be nonconvex and/or nonsmooth. The algorithm, which is built upon the gradient-sampling methodology, is designed specifically for…

We propose a new distributed optimization algorithm for solving a class of constrained optimization problems in which (a) the objective function is separable (i.e., the sum of local objective functions of agents), (b) the optimization…

We present a head-to-head evaluation of the Improved Inexact--Newton--Smart (INS) algorithm against a primal--dual interior-point framework for large-scale nonlinear optimization. On extensive synthetic benchmarks, the interior-point method…

We present a short step interior point method for solving a class of nonlinear programming problems with quadratic objective function. Convex quadratic programming problems can be reformulated as problems in this class. The method is shown…

We propose a sequential quadratic programming (SQP) algorithm for inequality constrained optimization that is robust to the presence of bounded noise in function and derivative evaluations. We cover the case where constraint evaluations…

Large-scale optimization problems that seek sparse solutions have become ubiquitous. They are routinely solved with various specialized first-order methods. Although such methods are often fast, they usually struggle with not-so-well…

We develop an interior-point method for nonsmooth regularized bound-constrained optimization problems. Our method consists of iteratively solving a sequence of unconstrained nonsmooth barrier subproblems. We use a variant of the proximal…

Computing the Wasserstein barycenter of a set of probability measures under the optimal transport metric can quickly become prohibitive for traditional second-order algorithms, such as interior-point methods, as the support size of the…

In this paper, we present an interior point algorithm with a full-Newton step for solving a linearly constrained convex optimization problem, in which we propose a generalization of the work of Kheirfam and Nasrollahi…

We propose a primal-dual interior-point method (IPM) with convergence to second-order stationary points (SOSPs) of nonlinear semidefinite optimization problems, abbreviated as NSDPs. As far as we know, the current algorithms for NSDPs only…

For interior-point algorithms in linear programming, it is well-known that the selection of the centering parameter is crucial for proving polynomility in theory and for efficiency in practice. However, the selection of the centering…

Implicit inverse problems, in which noisy observations of a physical quantity are used to infer a nonlinear functional applied to an associated function, are inherently ill posed and often exhibit non uniqueness of solutions. Such problems…

We study infeasible-start primal-dual interior-point methods for convex optimization problems given in a typically natural form we denote as Domain-Driven formulation. Our algorithms extend many advantages of primal-dual interior-point…

Conic optimization plays a crucial role in many machine learning (ML) problems. However, practical algorithms for conic constrained ML problems with large datasets are often limited to specific use cases, as stochastic algorithms for…

We study fundamental limits of first-order stochastic optimization in a range of nonconvex settings, including L-smooth functions satisfying Quasar-Convexity (QC), Quadratic Growth (QG), and Restricted Secant Inequalities (RSI). While the…

We consider Riemannian optimization problems with inequality and equality constraints and analyze a class of Riemannian interior point methods for solving them. The algorithm of interest consists of outer and inner iterations. We show that,…

In this paper we consider the minimization of a continuous function that is potentially not differentiable or not twice differentiable on the boundary of the feasible region. By exploiting an interior point technique, we present first- and…