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Consider the minimization of a nonconvex differentiable function over a polyhedron. A popular primal-dual first-order method for this problem is to perform a gradient projection iteration for the augmented Lagrangian function and then…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-05 Jiawei Zhang , Zhi-Quan Luo

Necessary optimality conditions in Lagrangian form and the sequential minimization framework are extended to mixed-integer nonlinear optimization, without any convexity assumptions. Building upon a recently developed notion of local…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-10 Alberto De Marchi

We introduce a framework for designing primal methods under the decentralized optimization setting where local functions are smooth and strongly convex. Our approach consists of approximately solving a sequence of sub-problems induced by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-15 Yossi Arjevani , Joan Bruna , Bugra Can , Mert Gürbüzbalaban , Stefanie Jegelka , Hongzhou Lin

We consider the acoustic source imaging problems using multiple frequency data. Using the data of one observation direction/point, we prove that some information (size and location) of the source support can be recovered. A non-iterative…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-08 Ala Alzaalig , Guanghui Hu , Xiaodong Liu , Jiguang Sun

Non-convex functional constrained optimization problems have gained substantial attention in machine learning and data science, addressing broad requirements that typically go beyond the often performance-centric objectives. An influential…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-29 Sang Bin Moon , Jong Gwang Kim , Ashish Chandra , Christopher Brinton , Abolfazl Hashemi

Recently, lower-level constrained bilevel optimization has attracted increasing attention. However, existing methods mostly focus on either deterministic cases or problems with linear constraints. The main challenge in stochastic cases with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-13 Hantao Nie , Jiaxiang Li , Zaiwen Wen

This paper presents an adaptive and intelligent sparse model for digital image sampling and recovery. In the proposed sampler, we adaptively determine the number of required samples for retrieving image based on space-frequency-gradient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Ali Taimori , Farokh Marvasti

A fruitful approach for solving signal deconvolution problems consists of resorting to a frame-based convex variational formulation. In this context, parallel proximal algorithms and related alternating direction methods of multipliers have…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-05-28 Nelly Pustelnik , Jean-Christophe Pesquet , Caroline Chaux

In this paper, we consider two time-harmonic inverse scattering problems of reconstructing penetrable inhomogeneous obstacles from near field measurements. First we appeal to the Born approximation for reconstructing small isotropic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-01-18 Isaac Harris , Scott Rome

We investigate finite-dimensional constrained structured optimization problems, featuring composite objective functions and set-membership constraints. Offering an expressive yet simple language, this problem class provides a modeling…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-09 Alberto De Marchi , Xiaoxi Jia , Christian Kanzow , Patrick Mehlitz

Indicator functions of taking values of zero or one are essential to numerous applications in machine learning and statistics. The corresponding primal optimization model has been researched in several recent works. However, its dual…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-11 Penghe Zhang , Naihua Xiu , Houduo Qi

Inverse scattering problems have many important applications. In this paper, given limited aperture data, we propose a Bayesian method for the inverse acoustic scattering to reconstruct the shape of an obstacle. The inverse problem is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-05-30 Zhaoxiang Li , Zhiliang Deng , Jiguang Sun

We study stochastic Cubic Newton methods for solving general possibly non-convex minimization problems. We propose a new framework, which we call the helper framework, that provides a unified view of the stochastic and variance-reduced…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-19 El Mahdi Chayti , Nikita Doikov , Martin Jaggi

This paper considers decentralized consensus optimization problems where different summands of a global objective function are available at nodes of a network that can communicate with neighbors only. The proximal method of multipliers is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-02-02 Aryan Mokhtari , Wei Shi , Qing Ling , Alejandro Ribeiro

In this paper, we propose a method to address the problem of source estimation for Sparse Component Analysis (SCA) in the presence of additive noise. Our method is a generalization of a recently proposed method (SL0), which has the…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2008-11-19 Hamed Firouzi , Masoud Farivar , Massoud Babaie-Zadeh , Christian Jutten

We present an Augmented Lagrangian formulation and its real-space implementation for non-periodic orbital-free Density Functional Theory (OF-DFT) calculations. In particular, we rewrite the constrained minimization problem of OF-DFT as a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Phanish Suryanarayana , Deepa Phanish

A distributed adaptive algorithm for estimation of sparse unknown parameters in the presence of nonGaussian noise is proposed in this paper based on normalized least mean fourth (NLMF) criterion. At the first step, local adaptive NLMF…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-09 Mojtaba Hajiabadi

In this paper, we propose a novel overlapping domain decomposition method that can be applied to various problems in variational imaging such as total variation minimization. Most of recent domain decomposition methods for total variation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-23 Jongho Park

The purpose of this paper is to propose a non-iterative method for the inverse conductivity problem of recovering multiple small anomalies from the boundary measurements. When small anomalies are buried in a conducting object, the electric…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-11 Ok Kyun Lee , Hyeonbae Kang , Jong Chul Ye , Mikyoung Lim

Compressed sensing (CS) is a promising approach to reduce the number of measurements in photoacoustic tomography (PAT) while preserving high spatial resolution. This allows to increase the measurement speed and to reduce system costs.…