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This work links optimization approaches from hierarchical least-squares programming to instantaneous prioritized whole-body robot control. Concretely, we formulate the hierarchical Newton's method which solves prioritized non-linear…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Kai Pfeiffer , Adrien Escande , Pierre Gergondet , Abderrahmane Kheddar

We present PANOC, a new algorithm for solving optimal control problems arising in nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC). A usual approach to this type of problems is sequential quadratic programming (SQP), which requires the solution of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-20 Lorenzo Stella , Andreas Themelis , Pantelis Sopasakis , Panagiotis Patrinos

Newton's method may exhibit slower convergence than vanilla Gradient Descent in its initial phase on strongly convex problems. Classical Newton-type multilevel methods mitigate this but, like Gradient Descent, achieve only linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-25 Nick Tsipinakis , Panos Parpas , Matthias Voigt

Newton's method may exhibit slower convergence than vanilla Gradient Descent in its initial phase on strongly convex problems. Classical Newton-type multilevel methods mitigate this but, like Gradient Descent, achieve only linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-05 Nick Tsipinakis , Panagiotis Tigkas , Panos Parpas

In model predictive control (MPC) an optimization problem has to be solved at each time step, which in real-time applications makes it important to solve these optimization problems efficiently and to have good upper bounds on worst-case…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-13 Daniel Arnström , Daniel Axehill

In a recent study, Ansary (Optim Methods Softw 38(3):570-590,2023) proposed a Newton-type proximal gradient method for nonlinear multiobjective optimization problems (NPGMO). However, the favorable convergence properties typically…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-22 Jian Chen , Xiaoxue Jiang , Liping Tang , Xinmin Yang

In this paper, by combining the algorithm New Q-Newton's method - developed in previous joint work of the author - with Armijo's Backtracking line search, we resolve convergence issues encountered by Newton's method (e.g. convergence to a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-13 Tuyen Trung Truong

Computing the regularized solution of Bayesian linear inverse problems as well as the corresponding regularization parameter is highly desirable in many applications. This paper proposes a novel iterative method, termed the Projected Newton…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Haibo Li

We propose a gradient-based method for quadratic programming problems with a single linear constraint and bounds on the variables. Inspired by the GPCG algorithm for bound-constrained convex quadratic programming [J.J. Mor\'e and G.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-19 Daniela di Serafino , Gerardo Toraldo , Marco Viola , Jesse Barlow

This paper is devoted to studying the global and finite convergence of the semi-smooth Newton method for solving a piecewise linear system that arises in cone-constrained quadratic programming problems and absolute value equations. We first…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-24 Nicolas F. Armijo , Yunier Bello-Cruz , Gabriel Haeser

Iterative methods are widely used for solving partial differential equations (PDEs). However, the difficulty in eliminating global low-frequency errors significantly limits their convergence speed. In recent years, neural networks have…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-10-10 Daiwei Dong , Wei Suo , Jiaqing Kou , Weiwei Zhang

In this paper, we propose new proximal Newton-type methods for convex optimization problems in composite form. The applications include model predictive control (MPC) and embedded MPC. Our new methods are computationally attractive since…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-21 Ilan Adler , Zhiyue Tom Hu , Tianyi Lin

Nonlinear model predictive control~(NMPC) generally requires the solution of a non-convex optimization problem at each sampling instant under strict timing constraints, based on a set of differential equations that can often be stiff and/or…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-22 Pedro Hespanhol , Rien Quirynen

In this paper, we present an efficient semismooth Newton method, named SSNCP, for solving a class of semidefinite programming problems. Our approach is rooted in an equivalent semismooth system derived from the saddle point problem induced…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-24 Zhanwang Deng , Jiang Hu , Kangkang Deng , Zaiwen Wen

In this paper, we consider the nonconvex quadratically constrained quadratic programming (QCQP) with one quadratic constraint. By employing the conjugate gradient method, an efficient algorithm is proposed to solve QCQP that exploits the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-17 Akram Taati , Maziar Salahi

We present a globally convergent SQP-type method with the least constraint violation for nonlinear semidefinite programming. The proposed algorithm employs a two-phase strategy coupled with a line search technique. In the first phase, a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-03 Wenhao Fu , Zhongwen Chen

Computing the exact optimal experimental design has been a longstanding challenge in various scientific fields. This problem, when formulated using a specific information function, becomes a mixed-integer nonlinear programming (MINLP)…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-09-30 Ling Liang , Haizhao Yang

The NP-hard problem of optimizing a quadratic form over the unimodular vector set arises in radar code design scenarios as well as other active sensing and communication applications. To tackle this problem (which we call unimodular…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-10-22 Mojtaba Soltanalian , Petre Stoica

An iterative formula based on Newton Method alone is presented for the iterative solutions of equations that ensures convergence in cases where the traditional Newton Method may fail to converge to the desired root. In addition, the method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-10-30 Ababu Teklemariam Tiruneh

This paper introduces HPIPM, a high-performance framework for quadratic programming (QP), designed to provide building blocks to efficiently and reliably solve model predictive control problems. HPIPM currently supports three QP types, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-09 Gianluca Frison , Moritz Diehl