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This paper focuses on stochastic optimal control problems with constraints in law, which are rewritten as optimization (minimization) of probability measures problem on the canonical space. We introduce a penalized version of this type of…

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This paper focuses on a class of binary orthogonal optimization problems frequently arising in semantic hashing. Consider that this class of problems may have an empty feasible set, rendering them not well-defined. We introduce an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-09 Lianghai Xiao , Yitian Qian , Shaohua Pan

In this paper we study the worst-case complexity of an inexact Augmented Lagrangian method for nonconvex constrained problems. Assuming that the penalty parameters are bounded, we prove a complexity bound of $\mathcal{O}(|\log(\epsilon)|)$…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-25 Geovani N. Grapiglia , Ya-xiang Yuan

We develop, analyze and test adaptive penalty parameter methods. We prove unconditional stability for velocity when adapting the penalty parameter, $\epsilon,$ and stability of the velocity time derivative under a condition on the change of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-06 Kiera Kean , Xihui Xie , Shuxian Xu

We consider a rigid body freely moving in a compressible inviscid fluid within a bounded domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^3$. The fluid is thereby governed by the non necessarily isentropic compressible Euler equations, while the rigid body…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-11 Frédéric Rousset , Pei Su

In many iterative optimization methods, fixed-point theory enables the analysis of the convergence rate via the contraction factor associated with the linear approximation of the fixed-point operator. While this factor characterizes the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-22 Trung Vu , Raviv Raich

Birg{\'e} and Massart proposed in 2001 the slope heuristics as a way to choose optimally from data an unknown multiplicative constant in front of a penalty. It is built upon the notion of minimal penalty, and it has been generalized since…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-10-28 Sylvain Arlot

For shape optimization problems, governed by elliptic equations with Dirichlet boundary condition and random coefficients, we utilize a penalization technique to get the approximate problem. We consider that uncertainties exists in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Xiaowei Pang

The Wallace--Freeman estimator is a classical invariant point estimator whose large-sample properties have not been fully developed in a modern asymptotic framework. We show that the estimator can be formulated as a penalised M-estimator…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Enes Makalic , Daniel F. Schmidt

We deal with initial-boundary value problems for systems of conservation laws in one space dimension and we focus on the boundary Riemann problem. It is known that, in general, different viscous approximations provide different limits. In…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-07-23 Cleopatra Christoforou , Laura V. Spinolo

In fluid-structure interaction problems, some people use a penalty method for positioning the structure inside the fluid. This is usually performed by considering that the fluid is very stiff or/and very heavy at the place occupied by the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-19 Philippe Destuynder , Erwan Liberge

The paper concerns optimization problems with general equality and inequality constraints and with constraints expressed by a convex set. In order to solve these problems, the general constraints are treated by an exact penalty functions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Bogdan K. Jastrzębski , Radosław Pytlak

We study the problem of minimizing a $m$-weakly convex and possibly nonsmooth function. Weak convexity provides a broad framework that subsumes convex, smooth, and many composite nonconvex functions. In this work, we propose a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-04 Feng-Yi Liao , Yang Zheng

This paper presents a novel model predictive control strategy for controlling autonomous motion systems moving through an environment with obstacles of general shape. In order to solve such a generic non-convex optimization problem and find…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-28 Ben Hermans , Panagiotis Patrinos , Goele Pipeleers

We propose a deep learning algorithm for high dimensional optimal stopping problems. Our method is inspired by the penalty method for solving free boundary PDEs. Within our approach, the penalized PDE is approximated using the Deep BSDE…

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We apply the method of penalization to the Dirichlet problem for the Navier-Stokes-Fourier system governing the motion of a general viscous compressible fluid confined to a bounded Lipschitz domain. The physical domain is embedded into a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-21 Danica Basarić , Eduard Feireisl , Mária Lukáčová-Medviďová , Hana Mizerová , Yuhuan Yuan

This paper studies bandit convex optimization with constraints, where the learner aims to generate a sequence of decisions under partial information of loss functions such that the cumulative loss is reduced as well as the cumulative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Yasunari Hikima

We show the well-posed variational principle in constraint systems. In a naive procedure of the variational principle with constraints, the proper number of boundary conditions does not match with that of physical degrees of freedom…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-25 Keisuke Izumi , Keigo Shimada , Kyosuke Tomonari , Masahide Yamaguchi

We consider the problem of minimizing a sum of non-convex functions over a compact domain, subject to linear inequality and equality constraints. Approximate solutions can be found by solving a convexified version of the problem, in which…

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