Optimization and Control

Authors and titles for December 2018

[101] arXiv:1812.05922 [pdf, other]

Title: Remark on the pointwise stabilization of an elastic string equation

Fathi Hassine

Comments: 13 pages

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC)

[102] arXiv:1812.05924 [pdf, other]

Title: Energy decay estimates of elastic transmission wave/beam systems with a local Kelvin-Voigt damping

Fathi Hassine

Comments: 28 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1812.05923

Journal-ref: Volume 89, 2016 - Issue 10, Pages 1933-1950

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC)

[103] arXiv:1812.06045 [pdf, other]

Title: $k$-point semidefinite programming bounds for equiangular lines

David de Laat, Fabrício Caluza Machado, Fernando Mário de Oliveira Filho, Frank Vallentin

Comments: 26 pages, 4 figures. New introduction and references updated

Journal-ref: Mathematical Programming 194 (2022), 533-567

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC); Metric Geometry (math.MG)

[104] arXiv:1812.06070 [pdf, other]

Title: The Boosted DC Algorithm for nonsmooth functions

Francisco J. Aragón Artacho, Phan T. Vuong

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC); Machine Learning (cs.LG)

[105] arXiv:1812.06086 [pdf, other]

Title: A universal gap for non-spin quantum control systems

Jean-Paul Gauthier, Francesco Rossi

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC); Mathematical Physics (math-ph)

[106] arXiv:1812.06132 [pdf, other]

Title: Bernstein approximation of optimal control problems

Venanzio Cichella, Isaac Kaminer, Claire Walton, Naira Hovakimyan, Antonio Pascoal

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC); Robotics (cs.RO); Systems and Control (eess.SY)

[107] arXiv:1812.06196 [pdf, other]

Title: Mean-field games of optimal stopping: a relaxed solution approach

Géraldine Bouveret, Roxana Dumitrescu, Peter Tankov

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC); Probability (math.PR)

[108] arXiv:1812.06352 [pdf, other]

Title: An efficient adaptive accelerated inexact proximal point method for solving linearly constrained nonconvex composite problems

Weiwei Kong, Jefferson G. Melo, Renato D.C. Monteiro

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC)

[109] arXiv:1812.06362 [pdf, other]

Title: Low-rank semidefinite programming for the MAX2SAT problem

Po-Wei Wang, J. Zico Kolter

Comments: Accepted at AAAI'19. The code can be found at this https URL

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)

[110] arXiv:1812.06557 [pdf, other]

Title: An Optimal High-Order Tensor Method for Convex Optimization

Bo Jiang, Haoyue Wang, Shuzhong Zhang

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC)

[111] arXiv:1812.06579 [pdf, other]

Title: A Unified Algorithmic Framework of Symmetric Gauss-Seidel Decomposition based Proximal ADMMs for Convex Composite Programming

Liang Chen, Defeng Sun, Kim-Chuan Toh, Ning Zhang

Journal-ref: Journal of Computational Mathematics, 37(2019), 739--757

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC)

[112] arXiv:1812.06647 [pdf, other]

Title: Interpretable Matrix Completion: A Discrete Optimization Approach

Dimitris Bertsimas, Michael Lingzhi Li

Comments: Submitted to Operational Research

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Machine Learning (stat.ML)

[113] arXiv:1812.06695 [pdf, other]

Title: Semi-Explicit Solutions to some Non-Linear Non-Quadratic Mean-Field-Type Games: A Direct Method

Julian Barreiro-Gomez, Tyrone E. Duncan, Bozenna Pasik-Duncan, Hamidou Tembine

Comments: 64 pages

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC); Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)

[114] arXiv:1812.06809 [pdf, other]

Title: A Survey on Output Feedback Control of Robot Manipulators with an Application to PHANToM 1.5A Haptic Device

Soulaimane Berkane

Comments: Internal Technical Report, 2014. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1307.4659 by other authors

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC)

[115] arXiv:1812.06820 [pdf, other]

Title: Existence Result for Generalized Variational Equality

Allahkaram Shafie, Farid Bozorgnia

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC)

[116] arXiv:1812.06826 [pdf, other]

Title: Minimax theorems in a fully non-convex setting

Biagio Ricceri

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC); Functional Analysis (math.FA)

[117] arXiv:1812.06896 [pdf, other]

Title: Merging Multigrid Optimization with SESOP

Tao Hong, Irad Yavneh, Michael Zibulevsky

Comments: 8 figures, 1 table

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC); Numerical Analysis (math.NA)

[118] arXiv:1812.06967 [pdf, other]

Title: Optimal Dynamic Allocation of Attention

Yeon-Koo Che, Konrad Mierendorff

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC); Theoretical Economics (econ.TH)

[119] arXiv:1812.07034 [pdf, other]

Title: A Multi-Period Market Design for Markets with Intertemporal Constraints

Jinye Zhao, Tongxin Zheng, Eugene Litvinov

Comments: Add proofs for properties

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC)

[120] arXiv:1812.07066 [pdf, other]

Title: A stochastic approximation method for approximating the efficient frontier of chance-constrained nonlinear programs

Rohit Kannan, James Luedtke

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC); Machine Learning (stat.ML)

[121] arXiv:1812.07164 [pdf, other]

Title: Passivity Analysis of Replicator Dynamics and its Variations

Mohamed Mabrok

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC)

[122] arXiv:1812.07186 [pdf, other]

Title: Representation and Stability Analysis of PDE-ODE Coupled Systems

Amritam Das, Sachin Shivakumar, Siep Weiland, Matthew Peet

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC)

[123] arXiv:1812.07211 [pdf, other]

Title: Interpretable Optimal Stopping

Dragos Florin Ciocan, Velibor V. Mišić

Comments: 84 pages, 25 figures; to appear in Management Science

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)

[124] arXiv:1812.07384 [pdf, other]

Title: Description of Stability for Linear Time-Invariant Systems Based on the First Curvature

Yuxin Wang, Huafei Sun, Shoudong Huang, Yang Song

Comments: 23 pages, 2 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1808.00290

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC); Differential Geometry (math.DG)

[125] arXiv:1812.07450 [pdf, other]

Title: Weak, Strong and Linear Convergence of the CQ-Method Via the Regularity of Landweber Operators

Andrzej Cegielski, Simeon Reich, Rafał Zalas

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC)

[126] arXiv:1812.07534 [pdf, other]

Title: Value of Information in Feedback Control: Quantification

Touraj Soleymani, John S. Baras, Sandra Hirche

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC); Information Theory (cs.IT)

[127] arXiv:1812.07545 [pdf, other]

Title: A class of robust consensus algorithms with predefined-time convergence under switching topologies

R. Aldana-López, D. Gómez-Gutiérrez, M. Defoort, J. D. Sánchez-Torres, A. J. Muñoz-Vázquez

Comments: International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, 2019

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC); Multiagent Systems (cs.MA); Systems and Control (eess.SY)

[128] arXiv:1812.07639 [pdf, other]

Title: On Some Adaptive Mirror Descent Algorithms for Convex and Strongly Convex Optimization Problems with Functional Constraints

F. S. Stonyakin, M . S. Alkousa, A. A. Titov

Comments: in Russian

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC)

[129] arXiv:1812.07643 [pdf, other]

Title: Semi-Riemannian Manifold Optimization

Tingran Gao, Lek-Heng Lim, Ke Ye

Comments: 36 pages, 3 figures, 9 pages of supplemental materials

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC); Numerical Analysis (math.NA)

[130] arXiv:1812.07725 [pdf, other]

Title: Breaking Reversibility Accelerates Langevin Dynamics for Global Non-Convex Optimization

Xuefeng Gao, Mert Gurbuzbalaban, Lingjiong Zhu

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Numerical Analysis (math.NA); Probability (math.PR); Machine Learning (stat.ML)

[131] arXiv:1812.07745 [pdf, other]

Title: Observability Robustness under Sensor Failures: a Computational Perspective

Yuan Zhang, Yuanqing Xia, Kun Liu

Comments: Extended version of a submission to a journal. 10 pages, 2 figures. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2023

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC)

[132] arXiv:1812.07748 [pdf, other]

Title: Realizability and Internal Model Control on Networks

Anders Rantzer

Comments: 3 pages

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC)

[133] arXiv:1812.07812 [pdf, other]

Title: A Statistical Study on Parameter Selection of Operators in Continuous State Transition Algorithm

Xiaojun Zhou

Comments: 10 pages

Journal-ref: IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 2018

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC)

[134] arXiv:1812.07846 [pdf, other]

Title: Exponential Convergence and stability of Howards's Policy Improvement Algorithm for Controlled Diffusions

B. Kerimkulov, D. Šiška, Ł. Szpruch

Comments: Identical to the published version except minor typographical details

Journal-ref: SIAM J. Control Optim., 58(3), 1314-1340, 2020

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC); Probability (math.PR)

[135] arXiv:1812.07956 [pdf, other]

Title: On Lazy Training in Differentiable Programming

Lenaic Chizat (CNRS, UP11), Edouard Oyallon, Francis Bach (LIENS, SIERRA)

Journal-ref: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Dec 2019, Vancouver, Canada

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC); Machine Learning (cs.LG)

[136] arXiv:1812.07982 [pdf, other]

Title: Enabling Active/Passive Electricity Trading in Dual-Price Balancing Markets

Nicolò Mazzi, Alessio Trivella, Juan M. Morales

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC)

[137] arXiv:1812.08026 [pdf, other]

Title: Near-optimal method for highly smooth convex optimization

Sébastien Bubeck, Qijia Jiang, Yin Tat Lee, Yuanzhi Li, Aaron Sidford

Comments: 15 pages

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC)

[138] arXiv:1812.08109 [pdf, other]

Title: Strong Convexity for Risk-Averse Two-Stage Models with Fixed Complete Linear Recourse

Matthias Claus, Kai Spürkel

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC)

[139] arXiv:1812.08154 [pdf, other]

Title: PDE-Based Feedback Control of Freeway Traffic Flow via Time-Gap Manipulation of ACC-Equipped Vehicles

Nikolaos Bekiaris-Liberis, Argiris I. Delis

Comments: Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology on November 20, 2018. 8 pages

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC)

[140] arXiv:1812.08307 [pdf, other]

Title: Robust $H_\infty$ Filtering for Nonlinear Discrete-time Stochastic Systems

Tianliang Zhang, Feiqi Deng, Weihai Zhang

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC)

[141] arXiv:1812.08316 [pdf, other]

Title: Mixed $H_-/H_{\infty}$ Fault Detection Filtering for It\^o-Type Affine Nonlinear Stochastic Systems

Tianliang Zhang, Feiqi Deng, Weihai Zhang, Bor-Sen Chen

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC)

[142] arXiv:1812.08399 [pdf, other]

Title: On the gap between deterministic and probabilistic joint spectral radii for discrete-time linear systems

Yacine Chitour, Guilherme Mazanti, Mario Sigalotti

Journal-ref: Linear Algebra Appl., 613:24-45, 2021

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC); Dynamical Systems (math.DS); Probability (math.PR)

[143] arXiv:1812.08411 [pdf, other]

Title: Optimal Energy Management for Commercial Buildings Considering Comprehensive Comfort Levels in a Retail Electricity Market

Zheming Liang, Desong Bian, Xiaohu Zhang, Di Shi, Ruisheng Diao, Zhiwei Wang

Comments: This paper is accepted by Applied Energy, the current version is the preprint. DOI will be provided when it is available

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC)

[144] arXiv:1812.08414 [pdf, other]

Title: Zero-sum Stochastic Games: Limit Optimal Trajectories

Sylvain Sorin (IMJ-PRG), Guillaume Vigeral (CEREMADE)

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC)

[145] arXiv:1812.08438 [pdf, other]

Title: A Pontryaghin Maximum Principle Approach For The Optimization Of Dividends/consumption Of Spectrally Negative Markov Processes, Until A Generalized Draw-down Time

Florin Avram, Dan Goreac

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC)

[146] arXiv:1812.08485 [pdf, other]

Title: First-order algorithms converge faster than $O(1/k)$ on convex problems

Ching-pei Lee, Stephen J. Wright

Comments: In the proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Machine Learning

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC)

[147] arXiv:1812.08714 [pdf, other]

Title: Sharp semi-concavity in a non-autonomous control problem and $L^p$ estimates in an optimal-exit MFG

Samer Dweik, Guilherme Mazanti

Journal-ref: NoDEA Nonlinear Differential Equations Appl., 27(2):paper number 11, 2020

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC)

[148] arXiv:1812.08759 [pdf, other]

Title: Optimal Trajectories of a UAV Base Station Using Lagrangian Mechanics

Marceau Coupechoux, Jérôme Darbon, Jean-Marc Kélif, Marc Sigelle

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC); Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)

[149] arXiv:1812.08843 [pdf, other]

Title: Decentralized Decision-Making Over Multi-Task Networks

Sahar Khawatmi, Abdelhak M. Zoubir, Ali H. Sayed

Comments: 26 pages, 13 figures, Journal paper

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC); Multiagent Systems (cs.MA); Machine Learning (stat.ML)

[150] arXiv:1812.08902 [pdf, other]

Title: Resilient Distributed Parameter Estimation with Heterogeneous Data

Yuan Chen, Soummya Kar, José M. F. Moura

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC)