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This paper studies a two-material optimal design problem for the time-averaged duality pairing between a (possibly time-dependent) heat source and the weak solution of an initial-boundary value problem for the heat equation with a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Kei Matsushima , Tomoyuki Oka

This paper investigates general and generalized differentiation properties of the optimal value function associated with perturbed optimization problems. Fundamental results on nearly convex sets and functions in infinite-dimensional spaces…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-24 V. S. T. Long , B. S. Mordukhovich , N. M. Nam , L. White

The Stokes problem with non-homogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition is solved numerically using conforming discretizations and an approximation of the boundary datum in the corresponding trace space. Optimal discretization error estimates…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Thomas Apel , Katharina Lorenz , Johannes Pfefferer

Decentralized optimization is widely used in different fields of study such as distributed learning, signal processing, and various distributed control problems. In these types of problems, nodes of the network are connected to each other…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-10 Alexander Rogozin , Nhat Trung Nguyen , Hamed Azami Zenuzagh , Alexander Gasnikov

We present a trust-region-based adaptive finite-element algorithm for numerically solving a class of nonsmooth PDE-constrained optimization problems that includes problems with sparsifying regularizers and convex constraints. In particular,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Harbir Antil , Robert J. Baraldi , Rohit Khandelwal , Drew P. Kouri

We propose a new first-order primal-dual optimization framework for a convex optimization template with broad applications. Our optimization algorithms feature optimal convergence guarantees under a variety of common structure assumptions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-23 Quoc Tran-Dinh , Olivier Fercoq , Volkan Cevher

Many problems arising in image processing and signal recovery with multi-regularization can be formulated as minimization of a sum of three convex separable functions. Typically, the objective function involves a smooth function with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-01-01 Peijun Chen , Jianguo Huang , Xiaoqun Zhang

We study geometric duality for convex vector optimization problems. For a primal problem with a $q$-dimensional objective space, we formulate a dual problem with a $(q+1)$-dimensional objective space. Consequently, different from an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-27 Çağın Ararat , Simay Tekgül , Firdevs Ulus

Modern second order solvers for convex optimisation, such as interior point methods, rely on primal dual information and are difficult to warm start, limiting their applicability in real time control. We propose the PVM, a duality free…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Michael Cummins , Eric Kerrigan

The primal-dual distributed optimization methods have broad large-scale machine learning applications. Previous primal-dual distributed methods are not applicable when the dual formulation is not available, e.g. the sum-of-non-convex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-10-30 Zhouyuan Huo , Heng Huang

The heart of the a priori and a posteriori error control in convex minimization problems is the sharp control of the differences of discrete and exact minimal energy. Conforming finite element discretizations for p-Laplace type minimization…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-23 Carsten Carstensen , Ngoc Tien Tran

In this paper we study nonconvex and nonsmooth optimization problems with semi-algebraic data, where the variables vector is split into several blocks of variables. The problem consists of one smooth function of the entire variables vector…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-09 Thomas Pock , Shoham Sabach

We develop block structure adapted primal-dual algorithms for non-convex non-smooth optimisation problems whose objectives can be written as compositions $G(x)+F(K(x))$ of non-smooth block-separable convex functions $G$ and $F$ with a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-25 Stanislav Mazurenko , Jyrki Jauhiainen , Tuomo Valkonen

In this paper we consider a class of optimization problems with a strongly convex objective function and the feasible set given by an intersection of a simple convex set with a set given by a number of linear equality and inequality…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-05-11 Alexey Chernov , Pavel Dvurechensky , Alexander Gasnikov

We study a stochastic and distributed algorithm for nonconvex problems whose objective consists of a sum of $N$ nonconvex $L_i/N$-smooth functions, plus a nonsmooth regularizer. The proposed NonconvEx primal-dual SpliTTing (NESTT) algorithm…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-06-06 Davood Hajinezhad , Mingyi Hong , Tuo Zhao , Zhaoran Wang

Casting nonlocal problems in variational form and discretizing them with the finite element (FE) method facilitates the use of nonlocal vector calculus to prove well-posedeness, convergence, and stability of such schemes. Employing an FE…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-25 Marco Pasetto , Zhaoxiang Shen , Marta D'Elia , Xiaochuan Tian , Nathaniel Trask , David Kamensky

This paper presents an algorithm to solve non-convex optimal control problems, where non-convexity can arise from nonlinear dynamics, and non-convex state and control constraints. This paper assumes that the state and control constraints…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-05 Yuanqi Mao , Michael Szmuk , Behcet Acikmese

We develop a novel unified randomized block-coordinate primal-dual algorithm to solve a class of nonsmooth constrained convex optimization problems, which covers different existing variants and model settings from the literature. We prove…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-29 Quoc Tran-Dinh , Deyi Liu

This book is devoted to finite-dimensional problems of non-convex non-smooth optimization and numerical methods for their solution. The problem of nonconvexity is studied in the book on two main models of nonconvex dependencies: these are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-18 V. S. Mikhalevich , A. M. Gupal , V. I. Norkin

We propose a penalty-based smoothing framework for convex nonsmooth functions with a supremum structure. The regularization yields a differentiable surrogate with controlled approximation error, a single-valued dual maximizer, and explicit…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-22 Samir Adly , Juan José Maulén , Emilio Vilches