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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 consider the problem of maximizing an unknown function over a compact and convex set using as few observations as possible. We observe that the optimization of the function essentially relies on learning the induced bipartite ranking…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-03-08 Cédric Malherbe , Nicolas Vayatis

We present a method for selecting valuable projections in computed tomography (CT) scans to enhance image reconstruction and diagnosis. The approach integrates two important factors, projection-based detectability and data completeness,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Linda-Sophie Schneider , Mareike Thies , Christopher Syben , Richard Schielein , Mathias Unberath , Andreas Maier

This paper is concerned with the value function approach to multiobjective bilevel optimization which exploits a lower level frontier-type mapping in order to replace the hierarchical model of two interdependent multiobjective optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-30 Daniel Hoff , Patrick Mehlitz

In this paper, we propose a low-rank coordinate descent approach to structured semidefinite programming with diagonal constraints. The approach, which we call the Mixing method, is extremely simple to implement, has no free parameters, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Po-Wei Wang , Wei-Cheng Chang , J. Zico Kolter

Most of reinforcement learning algorithms optimize the discounted criterion which is beneficial to accelerate the convergence and reduce the variance of estimates. Although the discounted criterion is appropriate for certain tasks such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Xiaoteng Ma , Xiaohang Tang , Li Xia , Jun Yang , Qianchuan Zhao

We propose a derivative-free trust-region method based on finite-difference gradient approximations for smooth optimization problems with convex constraints. The proposed method does not require computing an approximate stationarity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Dânâ Davar , Geovani Nunes Grapiglia

This paper studies stability and symmetry preserving $H^2$ optimal model reduction problems of linear systems which include linear gradient systems as a special case. The problem is formulated as a nonlinear optimization problem on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-13 Kazuhiro Sato , Hiroyuki Sato

This paper presents an enhanced version of the Interactive Voting-Based Map Matching algorithm, designed to efficiently process trajectories with varying sampling rates. The main aim is to reconstruct GPS trajectories with high accuracy,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-18 William Alemanni , Arianna Burzacchi , Davide Colombi , Elena Giarratano

We propose a novel linesearch variant of the trust region normal map-based semismooth Newton method developed in [Ouyang and Milzarek, Math. Program. 212(1-2), 389--435 (2025)] for solving a class of nonsmooth, nonconvex composite-type…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-16 Hanfeng Zeng , Wenqing Ouyang , Andre Milzarek

Trust-region (TR) and adaptive regularization using cubics (ARC) have proven to have some very appealing theoretical properties for non-convex optimization by concurrently computing function value, gradient, and Hessian matrix to obtain the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Liu Liu , Xuanqing Liu , Cho-Jui Hsieh , Dacheng Tao

In this contribution, we are concerned with model order reduction in the context of iterative regularization methods for the solution of inverse problems arising from parameter identification in elliptic partial differential equations. Such…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-14 Michael Kartmann , Tim Keil , Mario Ohlberger , Stefan Volkwein , Barbara Kaltenbacher

We consider optimal control problems that have binary-valued control input functions and a perimeter regularization. We develop and analyze a trust-region algorithm that solves a sequence of subproblems in which the regularization term and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-15 Paul Manns , Vanja Nikolić

Image analysis frequently deals with shape estimation and image reconstruction. The ob jects of interest in these problems may be thought of as random sets, and one is interested in finding a representative, or expected, set. We consider a…

Methodology · Statistics 2011-06-09 Hanna K. Jankowski , Larissa I. Stanberry

Constrained quasiconvex optimization problems appear in many fields, such as economics, engineering, and management science. In particular, fractional programming, which models ratio indicators such as the profit/cost ratio as fractional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-02 Kazuhiro Hishinuma , Hideaki Iiduka

The distributed optimization problem is set up in a collection of nodes interconnected via a communication network. The goal is to find the minimizer of a global objective function formed by the addition of partial functions locally known…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-07 Damián Marelli , Yong Xu , Minyue Fu , Zenghong Huang

Inverse optimization (Inverse optimal control) is the task of imputing a cost function such that given test points (trajectories) are (nearly) optimal with respect to the discovered cost. Prior methods in inverse optimization assume that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Filip Bečanović , Jared Miller , Vincent Bonnet , Kosta Jovanović , Samer Mohammed

We consider a popular family of constrained optimization problems arising in machine learning that involve optimizing a non-decomposable evaluation metric with a certain thresholded form, while constraining another metric of interest.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Abhishek Kumar , Harikrishna Narasimhan , Andrew Cotter

In this paper, we develop new affine-invariant algorithms for solving composite convex minimization problems with bounded domain. We present a general framework of Contracting-Point methods, which solve at each iteration an auxiliary…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-21 Nikita Doikov , Yurii Nesterov

Variable order structures model situations in which the comparison between two points depends on a point-to-cone map. In this paper, an inexact projected gradient method for solving smooth constrained vector optimization problems on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-09 Jose Yunier Bello Cruz , Gemayqzel Bouza Allende