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Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-16 Hao Wang , Yining Gao , Jiashan Wang , Hongying Liu

We study constrained nonconvex optimization problems in machine learning, signal processing, and stochastic control. It is well-known that these problems can be rewritten to a minimax problem in a Lagrangian form. However, due to the lack…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Zhehui Chen , Xingguo Li , Lin F. Yang , Jarvis Haupt , Tuo Zhao

This paper considers stochastic optimization problems whose objective functions involve powers of random variables. For example, consider the classic Stochastic lp Load Balancing Problem (SLBp): There are $m$ machines and $n$ jobs, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-15 Marco Molinaro

We consider several classes of highly important semidefinite optimization problems that involve both a convex objective function (smooth or nonsmooth) and additional linear or nonlinear smooth and convex constraints, which are ubiquitous in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Dan Garber , Atara Kaplan

Recently, based on the idea of randomizing space theory, random convex analysis has been being developed in order to deal with the corresponding problems in random environments such as analysis of conditional convex risk measures and the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-11 Tiexin Guo , Erxin Zhang , Mingzhi Wu , Bixuan Yang , George Yuan , Xiaolin Zeng

In this paper, we investigate the problem of stochastic multi-level compositional optimization, where the objective function is a composition of multiple smooth but possibly non-convex functions. Existing methods for solving this problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Wei Jiang , Bokun Wang , Yibo Wang , Lijun Zhang , Tianbao Yang

This work presents a novel algorithm for impulsive optimal control of linear time-varying systems with the inclusion of input magnitude constraints. Impulsive optimal control problems, where the optimal input solution is a sum of delta…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Ethan Foss , Simone D'Amico

Support vector machines with ramp loss (dubbed as $L_r$-SVM) have attracted wide attention due to the boundedness of ramp loss. However, the corresponding optimization problem is non-convex and the given Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) conditions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-19 Huajun Wang , Yuanhai Shao , Naihua Xiu

Optimization problems involving minimization of a rank-one convex function over constraints modeling restrictions on the support of the decision variables emerge in various machine learning applications. These problems are often modeled…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-29 Soroosh Shafiee , Fatma Kılınç-Karzan

Although symbol-level precoding (SLP) based on constructive interference (CI) exploitation offers performance gains, its high complexity remains a bottleneck. This paper addresses this challenge with an end-to-end deep learning (DL)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-03 Jinshuo Zhang , Yafei Wang , Xinping Yi , Wenjin Wang , Shi Jin , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten

A dynamic method to solve the Non-linear Programming (NLP) problem with Equality Constraints (ECs) and Inequality Constraints (IECs) is proposed. Inspired by the Lyapunov continuous-time dynamics stability theory in the control field, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-04 Sheng Zhang , Fei Liao , Yi-Nan Kong , Kai-Feng He

A large number of problems in optimization, machine learning, signal processing can be effectively addressed by suitable semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxations. Unfortunately, generic SDP solvers hardly scale beyond instances with a few…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-03-15 Andrea Montanari

This work presents a machine learning approach to optimize the energy efficiency (EE) in a multi-cell wireless network. This optimization problem is non-convex and its global optimum is difficult to find. In the literature, either simple…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-18 Bile Peng , Karl-Ludwig Besser , Ramprasad Raghunath , Eduard A. Jorswieck

An usual problem in statistics consists in estimating the minimizer of a convex function. When we have to deal with large samples taking values in high dimensional spaces, stochastic gradient algorithms and their averaged versions are…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-01-12 Antoine Godichon-Baggioni

We consider structured optimisation problems defined in terms of the sum of a smooth and convex function, and a proper, l.s.c., convex (typically non-smooth) one in reflexive variable exponent Lebesgue spaces $L_{p(\cdot)}(\Omega)$. Due to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-10 Marta Lazzaretti , Luca Calatroni , Claudio Estatico

We study the optimization of Steklov eigenvalues with respect to a boundary density function $\rho$ on a bounded Lipschitz domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^N$. We investigate the minimization and maximization of $\lambda_k(\rho)$, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-10 Chiu Yen Kao , Seyyed Abbas Mohammadi

We develop an analytical framework to characterize the set of optimal ReLU neural networks by reformulating the non-convex training problem as a convex program. We show that the global optima of the convex parameterization are given by a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Aaron Mishkin , Mert Pilanci

A number of discrete and continuous optimization problems in machine learning are related to convex minimization problems under submodular constraints. In this paper, we deal with a submodular function with a directed graph structure, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-09-27 Kiyohito Nagano , Yoshinobu Kawahara

We study the set of continuous functions that admit no spurious local optima (i.e. local minima that are not global minima) which we term \textit{global functions}. They satisfy various powerful properties for analyzing nonconvex and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-17 Cedric Josz , Yi Ouyang , Richard Y. Zhang , Javad Lavaei , Somayeh Sojoudi

This paper investigates a general class of problems in which a lower bounded smooth convex function incorporating $\ell_{0}$ and $\ell_{2,0}$ regularization is minimized over a box constraint. Although such problems arise frequently in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-26 Yuge Ye , Qingna Li