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We introduce disciplined biconvex programming (DBCP), a modeling framework for specifying and solving biconvex optimization problems. Biconvex optimization problems arise in various applications, including machine learning, signal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Hao Zhu , Joschka Boedecker

In this work we study a special minimax problem where there are linear constraints that couple both the minimization and maximization decision variables. The problem is a generalization of the traditional saddle point problem (which does…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-29 Ioannis Tsaknakis , Mingyi Hong , Shuzhong Zhang

This paper studies distributed convex optimization with both affine equality and nonlinear inequality couplings through the duality analysis. We first formulate the dual of the coupling-constraint problem and reformulate it as a consensus…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-05 Chenyang Qiu , Yangyang Qian , Zongli Lin , Yacov A. Shamash

In this paper, we address a bicriteria network design problem that arises from practical applications in urban and rural public transportation planning. We establish the problem's complexity and demonstrate inapproximability results,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-08 Dominik Leib , Susanne Fritzler , Neele Leithäuser

In network design problems capacity constraints are modeled in three different ways depending on the application and the underlying technology for installing capacity: directed, bidirected, and undirected. In the literature, polyhedral…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-29 Alper Atamturk , Oktay Gunluk

Interest in bilevel optimization has grown in recent years, partially due to its applications to tackle challenging machine-learning problems. Several exciting recent works have been centered around developing efficient gradient-based…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-27 Liuyuan Jiang , Quan Xiao , Victor M. Tenorio , Fernando Real-Rojas , Antonio G. Marques , Tianyi Chen

The cardinality constrained optimization problem (CCOP) is an optimization problem where the maximum number of nonzero components of any feasible point is bounded. In this paper, we consider CCOP as a mathematical program with disjunctive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-20 Zhuoyu Xiao , Jane J. Ye

We survey optimization problems that involve the cardinality of variable vectors in constraints or the objective function. We provide a unified viewpoint on the general problem classes and models, and give concrete examples from diverse…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-09 Andreas M. Tillmann , Daniel Bienstock , Andrea Lodi , Alexandra Schwartz

In application of the Balancing Domain Decomposition by Constraints (BDDC) to a case with many substructures, solving the coarse problem exactly becomes the bottleneck which spoils scalability of the solver. However, it is straightforward…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-01-29 Jakub Šístek , Jan Mandel , Bedřich Sousedík , Pavel Burda

Performance of multicell systems is inevitably limited by interference and available resources. Although intercell interference can be mitigated by Base Station (BS) Coordination, the demand on inter-BS information exchange and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-10 Mohammad Hossein Akbari , Vahid Tabataba Vakili

A distributed nonsmooth robust resource allocation problem with cardinality constrained uncertainty is investigated in this paper. The global objective is consisted of local objectives, which are convex but nonsmooth. Each agent is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-05 Yue Wei , Shuxin Ding , Hao Fang , Xianlin Zeng , Qingkai Yang , Bin Xin

This paper tackles the Electric Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem (E-CVRP) through a bilevel optimization framework that handles routing and charging decisions separately or jointly depending on the search stage. By analyzing their…

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In recent advances in solving the problem of transmission network expansion planning, the use of robust optimization techniques has been put forward, as an alternative to stochastic mathematical programming methods, to make the problem…

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We consider a network equilibrium model (i.e. a combined model), which was proposed as an alternative to the classic four-step approach for travel forecasting in transportation networks. This model can be formulated as a convex minimization…

A novel canonical duality theory (CDT) is presented for solving general bilevel mixed integer nonlinear optimization governed by linear and quadratic knapsack problems. It shows that the challenging knapsack problems can be solved…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-27 David Yang Gao

A memory-efficient framework is described for the cardinality-constrained structured data-fitting problem. Dual-based atom-identification rules are proposed that reveal the structure of the optimal primal solution from near-optimal dual…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-21 Zhenan Fan , Huang Fang , Michael P. Friedlander

Recent several years have witnessed the surge of asynchronous (async-) parallel computing methods due to the extremely big data involved in many modern applications and also the advancement of multi-core machines and computer clusters. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-17 Yangyang Xu

The problem of minimizing a multilinear function of binary variables is a well-studied NP-hard problem. The set of solutions of the standard linearization of this problem is called the multilinear set. We study a cardinality constrained…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-31 Rui Chen , Sanjeeb Dash , Oktay Gunluk

Many discrete optimization problems are amenable to constrained shortest-path reformulations in an extended network space, a technique that has been key in convexification, bound strengthening, and search. In this paper, we propose a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-09 Leonardo Lozano , David Bergman , Andre A. Cire

Bilevel optimization has been developed for many machine learning tasks with large-scale and high-dimensional data. This paper considers a constrained bilevel optimization problem, where the lower-level optimization problem is convex with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Siyuan Xu , Minghui Zhu