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In the present paper, several types of efficiency conditions are established for vector optimization problems with cone constraints affected by uncertainty, but with no information of stochastic nature about the uncertain data. Following a…

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We develop a novel switching dynamics that converges to the Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) point of a nonlinear optimisation problem. This new approach is particularly notable for its lower dimensionality compared to conventional primal-dual…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Joel Ferguson , Saeed Ahmed , Juan E. Machado , Michele Cucuzzella , Jacquelien M. A. Scherpen

The idea of embedding optimization problems into deep neural networks as optimization layers to encode constraints and inductive priors has taken hold in recent years. Most existing methods focus on implicitly differentiating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Haixiang Sun , Ye Shi , Jingya Wang , Hoang Duong Tuan , H. Vincent Poor , Dacheng Tao

This paper explores optimality conditions in optimization problems involving generalized invex fuzzy functions. We extend the classical KKT framework to settings in which the objective and constraint functions are nonsmooth, vector-valued,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Ville Rinne , Yury Nikulin , Marko M. Mäkelä

This work concerns the local convergence theory of Newton and quasi-Newton methods for convex-composite optimization: minimize f(x):=h(c(x)), where h is an infinite-valued proper convex function and c is C^2-smooth. We focus on the case…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-19 James V. Burke , Abraham Engle

We consider solving equality-constrained nonlinear, nonconvex optimization problems. This class of problems appears widely in a variety of applications in machine learning and engineering, ranging from constrained deep neural networks, to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-31 Ilgee Hong , Sen Na , Michael W. Mahoney , Mladen Kolar

Tools from control and dynamical systems have proven valuable for analyzing and developing optimization methods. In this paper, we establish rigorous theoretical foundations for using feedback linearization (FL) -- a well-established…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-29 Runyu Zhang , Arvind Raghunathan , Jeff Shamma , Na Li

We consider an optimal control problem constrained by a parabolic partial differential equation (PDE) with Robin boundary conditions. We use a well-posed space-time variational formulation in Lebesgue--Bochner spaces with minimal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-06 Nina Beranek , M. Alexander Reinhold , Karsten Urban

In the first part of this work [32], we introduce a convex parabolic relaxation for quadratically-constrained quadratic programs, along with a sequential penalized parabolic relaxation algorithm to recover near-optimal feasible solutions.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-09 Ramtin Madani , Mersedeh Ashraphijuo , Mohsen Kheirandishfard , Alper Atamturk

Knowledge Tracing (KT) serves as a fundamental component of Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS), enabling these systems to monitor and understand learners' progress by modeling their knowledge state. However, many existing KT models…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Jing Xiao , Chang You , Zhiyu Chen

This paper addresses a quadratic problem with assignment constraints, an NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem arisen from facility location, multiple-input multiple-output detection, and maximum mean discrepancy calculation et al. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-15 Lijun Xie , Ran Gu , Xin Liu

We propose a quantum-assisted framework for solving constrained finite-horizon nonlinear optimal control problems using a barrier Sequential Quadratic Programming (SQP) approach. Within this framework, a quantum subroutine is incorporated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-22 Nahid Binandeh Dehaghani , Rafal Wisniewski , A. Pedro Aguiar

In this study, we focus on the numerical solution method for the optimal control problem with equilibrium constraints (OCPEC).It is extremely challenging to solve OCPEC owing to the absence of constraint regularity and strictly feasible…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-28 Kangyu Lin , Toshiyuki Ohtsuka

We consider linear and semidefinite programming relaxations of nonconvex quadratic programs given by the reformulation-linearization technique (RLT relaxation), and the Shor relaxation combined with the RLT relaxation (SDP-RLT relaxation).…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-12 E. Alper Yildirim

This paper provides necessary and sufficient optimality conditions for abstract constrained mathematical programming problems in locally convex spaces under new qualification conditions. Our approach exploits the geometrical properties of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-10 Rafael Correa , Marco A. López , Pedro Pérez-Aros

This paper is concerned with the strong calmness of the KKT solution mapping for a class of canonically perturbed conic programming, which plays a central role in achieving fast convergence under situations when the Lagrange multiplier…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-06 Yulan Liu , Shaohua Pan

The primary focus of this paper is on designing an inexact first-order algorithm for solving constrained nonlinear optimization problems. By controlling the inexactness of the subproblem solution, we can significantly reduce the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-19 Hao Wang , Fan Zhang , Jiashan Wang , Yuyang Rong

In this paper, we study the Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) points of the associated maximum-margin problem in homogeneous neural networks, including fully-connected and convolutional neural networks. In particular, We investigates the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Jiahan Zhang , Yaoyu Zhang , Tao Luo

We study the equivalence of several well-known sufficient optimality conditions for a general quadratically constrained quadratic program (QCQP). The conditions are classified in two categories. The first one is for determining an optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-14 Sunyoung Kim , Masakazu Kojima

The leaky ReLU network with a group sparse regularization term has been widely used in the recent years. However, training such a network yields a nonsmooth nonconvex optimization problem and there exists a lack of approaches to compute a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-12 Wei Liu , Xin Liu , Xiaojun Chen