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Recent advances in convex optimization have leveraged computer-assisted proofs to develop optimized first-order methods that improve over classical algorithms. However, each optimized method is specially tailored for a particular problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Jinho Bok , Jason M. Altschuler

The adjoint method allows efficient calculation of the gradient with respect to the design variables of a topology optimization problem. This method is almost exclusively used in combination with traditional Finite-Element-Analysis, whereas…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Indre Jödicke , Richard J. Leute , Till Junge , Lars Pastewka

Quantization of the parameters of machine learning models, such as deep neural networks, requires solving constrained optimization problems, where the constraint set is formed by the Cartesian product of many simple discrete sets. For such…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-02 Tianjian Huang , Prajwal Singhania , Maziar Sanjabi , Pabitra Mitra , Meisam Razaviyayn

Gradient algorithms are classical in adaptive control and parameter estimation. For instantaneous quadratic cost functions they lead to a linear time-varying dynamic system that converges exponentially under persistence of excitation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-06 Juan G. Rueda-Escobedo , Jaime A. Moreno

A recent article introduced thecontinuous stochastic gradient method (CSG) for the efficient solution of a class of stochastic optimization problems. While the applicability of known stochastic gradient type methods is typically limited to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-16 Lukas Pflug , Max Grieshammer , Andrian Uihlein , Michael Stingl

In this paper, we consider the problem of solving a constrained system of nonlinear equations. We propose an algorithm based on a combination of the Newton and conditional gradient methods, and establish its local convergence analysis. Our…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-25 Max L. N. Goncalves , Jefferson G. Melo

This paper deals with the minimization of large sum of convex functions by Inexact Newton (IN) methods employing subsampled functions, gradients and Hessian approximations. The Conjugate Gradient method is used to compute the inexact Newton…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-15 Stefania Bellavia , Natasa Krejic , Natasa Krklec Jerinkic

We address the problem of solving convex optimization problems with many convex constraints in a distributed setting. Our approach is based on an extension of the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) that recently gained a lot…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-09 Joachim Giesen , Sören Laue

A recent paper by Boughammoura (2023) describes the back-propagation algorithm in terms of an alternative formulation called the F-adjoint method. In particular, by the F-adjoint algorithm the computation of the loss gradient, with respect…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Ahmed Boughammoura

We present an algorithm to approximate the solutions to variational problems where set of admissible functions consists of convex functions. The main motivator behind this numerical method is estimating solutions to Adverse Selection…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2008-03-07 Ivar Ekeland , Santiago Moreno

A subgradient method is presented for solving general convex optimization problems, the main requirement being that a strictly-feasible point is known. A feasible sequence of iterates is generated, which converges to within user-specified…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-05-30 James Renegar

We consider a variation of the classical proximal-gradient algorithm for the iterative minimization of a cost function consisting of a sum of two terms, one smooth and the other prox-simple, and whose relative weight is determined by a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-04 Jean-Baptiste Fest , Tommi Heikkilä , Ignace Loris , Ségolène Martin , Luca Ratti , Simone Rebegoldi , Gesa Sarnighausen

Recently, there has been growing interest in developing optimization methods for solving large-scale machine learning problems. Most of these problems boil down to the problem of minimizing an average of a finite set of smooth and strongly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-09 Aryan Mokhtari , Mert Gürbüzbalaban , Alejandro Ribeiro

This paper presents a majorized alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) with indefinite proximal terms for solving linearly constrained $2$-block convex composite optimization problems with each block in the objective being the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-06-24 Min Li , Defeng Sun , Kim-Chuan Toh

The article proposes a Caputo fractional conjugate gradient (CFCG) method for unconstrained optimization problems which is applicable to smooth as well as non-smooth problmes. The proposed method uses a non-adaptive version of the Caputo…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-22 Barsha Shawa , Md Abu Talhamainuddin Ansary

In this contribution, we present a full overview of the continuous stochastic gradient (CSG) method, including convergence results, step size rules and algorithmic insights. We consider optimization problems in which the objective function…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-23 Max Grieshammer , Lukas Pflug , Michael Stingl , Andrian Uihlein

In the optimization of turbomachinery components, shape sensitivities for fluid dynamical objective functions have been used for a long time. As peak stress is not a differential func- tional of the shape, such highly efficient procedures…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-15 Hanno Gottschalk , Mohamed Saadi , Onur Tanil Doganay , Kathrin Klamroth , Sebastian Schmitz

I development a Conjugate Gradient Method for solving a partial differential system with multiply controls. Some numerical results are depicted. Also, I present an explication of why the control over a partial differential equations system…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-11-25 Carlos Barrón-Romero

Parallel-in-time methods are developed to accelerate the direct-adjoint looping procedure. Particularly, we utilize the Paraexp algorithm, previously developed to integrate equations forward in time, to accelerate the direct-adjoint looping…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-17 Calum S. Skene , Maximilian F. Eggl , Peter J. Schmid

This paper concerns the numerical procedure for solving hybrid optimal control problems with sliding modes. The proposed procedure has several features which distinguishes it from the other procedures for the problem. First of all a sliding…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-18 Radoslaw Pytlak , Damian Suski