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This paper presents a novel approach to solving convex optimization problems by leveraging the fact that, under certain regularity conditions, any set of primal or dual variables satisfying the Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) conditions is…

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A neural network-based approach for solving parametric convex optimization problems is presented, where the network estimates the optimal points given a batch of input parameters. The network is trained by penalizing violations of the…

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We propose new primal-dual decomposition algorithms for solving systems of inclusions involving sums of linearly composed maximally monotone operators. The principal innovation in these algorithms is that they are block-iterative in the…

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Given a non-convex optimization problem, we study conditions under which every Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) point is a global optimizer. This property is known as KT-invexity and allows to identify the subset of problems where an interior point…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-07-07 Ksenia Bestuzheva , Hassan Hijazi

We are faced with convex quadratic programing in many contexts related to control theory, economy and robotics. In this paper, we introduce a new active set algorithm for solving such problems and analyze its possible advantages. The…

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We propose a solution strategy for linear systems arising in interior method optimization, which is suitable for implementation on hardware accelerators such as graphical processing units (GPUs). The current gold standard for solving these…

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A novel inner approximation algorithm is proposed for dynamic optimization problems to ensure strict satisfaction of path constraints. Distinct from traditional methods relying on interval analysis, the proposed algorithm leverages the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Yuan Chang , Lizhong Jiang , Tai-Fang Li , Jun Fu

This is a tutorial and survey paper on Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) conditions, first-order and second-order numerical optimization, and distributed optimization. After a brief review of history of optimization, we start with some preliminaries…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-06 Benyamin Ghojogh , Ali Ghodsi , Fakhri Karray , Mark Crowley

The real-time solution of parametric optimization problems is critical for applications that demand high accuracy under tight real-time constraints, such as model predictive control. To this end, this work presents a learning-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Lukas Lüken , Sergio Lucia

Two inverse-free iterative methods are developed for solving Sylvester matrix equations when the spectra of the coefficient matrices are on, or near, known disjoint subintervals of the real axis. Both methods use the recently-introduced…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-16 Cade Ballew , Thomas Trogdon , Heather Wilber

In this article we introduce $K$-type block matrices which include two new classes of block matrices namely block triangular $K$-matrices and hidden block triangular $K$-matrices. We show that the solution of linear complementarity problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-21 A. Dutta , A. K. Das

We propose a new inertia-revealing factorization for sparse symmetric matrices. The factorization scheme and the method for extracting the inertia from it were proposed in the 1960s for dense, banded, or tridiagonal matrices, but they have…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Alex Druinsky , Eyal Carlebach , Sivan Toledo

The conic bundle implementation of the spectral bundle method for large scale semidefinite programming solves in each iteration a semidefinite quadratic subproblem by an interior point approach. For larger cutting model sizes the limiting…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-25 Christoph Helmberg

We consider using the preconditioned-Krylov subspace method to solve the system of linear equations with a three-by-three block structure. By making use of the three-by-three block structure, eight inexact block factorization…

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The proposed article aims at offering a comprehensive tutorial for the computational aspects of structured matrix and tensor factorization. Unlike existing tutorials that mainly focus on {\it algorithmic procedures} for a small set of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-19 Xiao Fu , Nico Vervliet , Lieven De Lathauwer , Kejun Huang , Nicolas Gillis

We present a novel algorithm for performing the Cartan-Khaneja-Glaser decomposition of unitary matrices in $SU(2^n)$, a critical task for efficient quantum circuit design. Building upon the approach introduced by S\'a Earp and Pachos…

Path-integral techniques are a powerful tool used in open quantum systems to provide an exact solution for the non-Markovian dynamics. However, the exponential scaling of the tensor size with quantum memory length of these techniques limits…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-25 L. M. J. Hall , A. Gisdakis , E. A. Muljarov

Most existing work focuses on the generalization of KKT for nonsmooth convex optimization problems, but this paper explores a generalized form of Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) conditions for real continuous optimization problems.

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-09 Stanley Yang

Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) seeks a low-rank approximation $X \approx UV^T$ with nonnegative factors and is commonly solved using interior methods that enforce feasibility throughout optimization. We show that such…

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