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We consider the general nonlinear optimization problem where the objective function has an additional term defined by the $ \ell_0 $-quasi-norm in order to promote sparsity of a solution. This problem is highly difficult due to its…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-27 Christian Kanzow , Felix Weiß

We present a new feasible proximal gradient method for constrained optimization where both the objective and constraint functions are given by the summation of a smooth, possibly nonconvex function and a convex simple function. The…

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In this paper, we carry out the numerical analysis of a nonsmooth quasilinear elliptic optimal control problem, where the coefficient in the divergence term of the corresponding state equation is not differentiable with respect to the state…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-23 Christian Clason , Vu Huu Nhu , Arnd Rösch

This paper considers non-smooth optimization problems where we seek to minimize the pointwise maximum of a continuously parameterized family of functions. Since the objective function is given as the solution to a maximization problem,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-12 Dimitris Boskos , Jorge Cortés , Sonia Martínez

We present a unified theorem for the convergence analysis of stochastic gradient algorithms for minimizing a smooth and convex loss plus a convex regularizer. We do this by extending the unified analysis of Gorbunov, Hanzely \& Richt\'arik…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Ahmed Khaled , Othmane Sebbouh , Nicolas Loizou , Robert M. Gower , Peter Richtárik

In this paper we analyze the finite element approximation of the Stokes equations with non-smooth Dirichlet boundary data. To define the discrete solution, we first approximate the boundary datum by a smooth one and then apply a standard…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-12 Ricardo G. Durán , Lucia Gastaldi , Ariel L. Lombardi

The optimization of measurement for n samples of pure sates are studied. The error of the optimal measurement for n samples is asymptotically compared with the one of the maximum likelihood estimators from n data given by the optimal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Masahito Hayashi

We analyse the convergence of the proximal gradient algorithm for convex composite problems in the presence of gradient and proximal computational inaccuracies. We derive new tighter deterministic and probabilistic bounds that we use to…

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Semidefinite relaxations are a powerful tool for approximately solving combinatorial optimization problems such as MAX-CUT and the Grothendieck problem. By exploiting a bounded rank property of extreme points in the semidefinite cone, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-08-12 Roy Frostig , Sida I. Wang

We approach the task of computing a carefully synchronizing word of optimum length for a given partial deterministic automaton, encoding the problem as an instance of SAT and invoking a SAT solver. Our experiments demonstrate that this…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Hanan Shabana , Mikhail Volkov

Recently the problem of Unambiguous State Discrimination (USD) of mixed quantum states has attracted much attention. So far, bounds on the optimum success probability have been derived [1]. For two mixed states they are given in terms of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-06-04 Philippe Raynal , Norbert Lütkenhaus

Regularized optimal transport (OT) is now increasingly used as a loss or as a matching layer in neural networks. Entropy-regularized OT can be computed using the Sinkhorn algorithm but it leads to fully-dense transportation plans, meaning…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-04-17 Tianlin Liu , Joan Puigcerver , Mathieu Blondel

We propose, analyze, and test a proximal-gradient method for solving regularized optimization problems with general constraints. The method employs a decomposition strategy to compute trial steps and uses a merit function to determine step…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-16 Frank E. Curtis , Xiaoyi Qu , Daniel P. Robinson

We introduce a hybrid high-order method for approximating the ground state of the nonlinear Gross--Pitaevskii eigenvalue problem. Optimal convergence rates are proved for the ground state approximation, as well as for the associated…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-26 Moritz Hauck , Yizhou Liang

The policy gradient theorem is defined based on an objective with respect to the initial distribution over states. In the discounted case, this results in policies that are optimal for one distribution over initial states, but may not be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Riashat Islam , Raihan Seraj , Pierre-Luc Bacon , Doina Precup

Many nonlinear optimal control and optimization problems involve constraints that combine continuous dynamics with discrete logic conditions. Standard approaches typically rely on mixed-integer programming, which introduces scalability…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-08 Jad Wehbeh , Eric C. Kerrigan

The effective properties of composites and review literature on the methods of Rayleigh, Natanzon--Filshtinsky, functional equations and asymptotic approaches are outlined. In connection with the above methods and new recent publications…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-08-08 Igor Andrianov , Vladimir Mityushev

In this work, we present a generalized methodology for analyzing the convergence of quasi-optimal Taylor and Legendre approximations, applicable to a wide class of parameterized elliptic PDEs with finite-dimensional deterministic and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-08-11 Hoang Tran , Clayton G. Webster , Guannan Zhang

We investigate $C^1$ finite element methods for one dimensional elliptic distributed optimal control problems with pointwise constraints on the derivative of the state formulated as fourth order variational inequalities for the state…

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