Optimization and Control

Authors and titles for August 2021

[51] arXiv:2108.03024 [pdf, other]

Title: An iterative exact algorithm for the weighted fair sequences problem

Markus Sinnl

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC)

[52] arXiv:2108.03074 [pdf, other]

Title: Adaptive finite element method for an elliptic optimal control problem with integral state constraints

Kamana Porwal, Pratibha Shakya

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC)

[53] arXiv:2108.03143 [pdf, other]

Title: An Integrated Progressive Hedging and Benders Decomposition with Multiple Master Method to Solve the Brazilian Generation Expansion Problem

Alessandro Soares, Alexandre Street, Tiago Andrade, Joaquim Dias Garcia

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

[54] arXiv:2108.03209 [pdf, other]

Title: Robust fractionation in cancer radiotherapy

Ali Ajdari, Archis Ghate

Comments: 21 Pages, 2 Figures, 3 Tables

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC)

[55] arXiv:2108.03285 [pdf, other]

Title: Online Stochastic Gradient Methods Under Sub-Weibull Noise and the Polyak-{\L}ojasiewicz Condition

Seunghyun Kim, Liam Madden, Emiliano Dall'Anese

Journal-ref: 2022 IEEE 61st Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 3499-3506, 2022

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

[56] arXiv:2108.03339 [pdf, other]

Title: A Decomposition Method for Solving Multicommodity Network Equilibrium

Minh N. Bùi

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC)

[57] arXiv:2108.03352 [pdf, other]

Title: On the nonexpansive operators based on arbitrary metric: A degenerate analysis

Feng Xue

Comments: accepted by Results in Mathematics

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC)

[58] arXiv:2108.03365 [pdf, other]

Title: Variable metric extrapolation proximal iterative hard thresholding method for $\ell_0$ minimization problem

Xue Zhang, Xiaoqun Zhang

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

[59] arXiv:2108.03600 [pdf, other]

Title: Pontryagin Maximum Principle for Distributed-Order Fractional Systems

Faical Ndairou, Delfim F. M. Torres

Comments: This is a preprint of a paper whose final and definite form is published Open Access in 'Mathematics', available in [this https URL]. Please cite this article as: F. Ndaïrou and D. F. M. Torres, Pontryagin Maximum Principle for Distributed-Order Fractional Systems, Mathematics 9 (2021), no. 16, Art. 1883, 12 pp

Journal-ref: Mathematics 9 (2021), no. 16, Art. 1883, 12 pp

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC)

[60] arXiv:2108.03717 [pdf, other]

Title: On the characterization of equilibria of nonsmooth minimal-time mean field games with state constraints

Saeed Sadeghi Arjmand, Guilherme Mazanti

Journal-ref: 2021 60th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 5300-5305, 2021

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC)

[61] arXiv:2108.03736 [pdf, other]

Title: Prescribed-Time Regulation of Nonlinear Uncertain Systems with Unknown Input Gain and Appended Dynamics

Prashanth Krishnamurthy, Farshad Khorrami

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC)

[62] arXiv:2108.03925 [pdf, other]

Title: Maximizing Vortex for the Navier--Stokes Flow with a Convective Boundary Condition: A Shape Design Problem

John Sebastian H. Simon, Hirofumi Notsu

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

[63] arXiv:2108.03949 [pdf, other]

Title: Distributionally Robust Resource Planning Under Binomial Demand Intakes

Ben Black, Russell Ainslie, Trivikram Dokka, Christopher Kirkbride

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC)

[64] arXiv:2108.04075 [pdf, other]

Title: Solving Sensor Placement Problems In Real Water Distribution Networks Using Adiabatic Quantum Computation

Stefano Speziali, Federico Bianchi, Andrea Marini, Lorenzo Menculini, Massimiliano Proietti, Loris F. Termite, Alberto Garinei, Marcello Marconi, Andrea Delogu

Comments: 10 pages, 3 figures. v2: minor corrections

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

[65] arXiv:2108.04100 [pdf, other]

Title: Robust exploratory mean-variance problem with drift uncertainty

Chenchen Mou, Weiwei Zhang, Chao Zhou

Comments: 27 pages

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC)

[66] arXiv:2108.04137 [pdf, other]

Title: Apportionment with Parity Constraints

Claire Mathieu, Victor Verdugo

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC); Computers and Society (cs.CY)

[67] arXiv:2108.04159 [pdf, other]

Title: Boundary controllability for a degenerate and singular wave equation

Brahim Allal, Alhabib Moumni, Jawad Salhi

Comments: 19 pages

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC); Analysis of PDEs (math.AP); Dynamical Systems (math.DS)

[68] arXiv:2108.04162 [pdf, other]

Title: A Simulation-Based Optimization approach for analyzing the ambulance diversion phenomenon in an Emergency Department network

Christian Piermarini, Massimo Roma

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC)

[69] arXiv:2108.04205 [pdf, other]

Title: Defense Against Adversarial Swarms with Parameter Uncertainty

Claire Walton, Isaac Kaminer, Qi Gong, Abram. H. Clark, Theodoros Tsatsanifos

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC)

[70] arXiv:2108.04336 [pdf, other]

Title: The Multi-Objective Polynomial Optimization

Jiawang Nie, Zi Yang

Comments: 33 pages

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC)

[71] arXiv:2108.04382 [pdf, other]

Title: The projection onto the cross

Heinz H. Bauschke, Manish Krishan Lal, Xianfu Wang

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

[72] arXiv:2108.04505 [pdf, other]

Title: Optimal Revenue Guarantees for Pricing in Large Markets

José Correa (UCHILE), Dana Pizarro (TSE), Victor Verdugo (UOH)

Comments: Preparing full version

Journal-ref: SAGT, Sep 2021, Aarthus, Denmark

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC)

[73] arXiv:2108.04620 [pdf, other]

Title: A proof of convergence for the gradient descent optimization method with random initializations in the training of neural networks with ReLU activation for piecewise linear target functions

Arnulf Jentzen, Adrian Riekert

Comments: 44 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2107.04479

Journal-ref: Journal of Machine Learning Research 23, 260 (2022), pp. 1-50

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

[74] arXiv:2108.04707 [pdf, other]

Title: Asymptotic convergence rates for averaging strategies

Laurent Meunier, Iskander Legheraba, Yann Chevaleyre, Olivier Teytaud

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC); Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)

[75] arXiv:2108.04774 [pdf, other]

Title: Derivative-Free Optimization of a Rapid-Cycling Synchrotron

Jeffrey S. Eldred, Jeffrey Larson, Misha Padidar, Eric Stern, Stefan M. Wild

Comments: 24 pages, 12 figures

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC); Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)

[76] arXiv:2108.04905 [pdf, other]

Title: Reduction of lower semicontinuous solutions of Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations

Arkadiusz Misztela

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC)

[77] arXiv:2108.05027 [pdf, other]

Title: A Fully Adaptive Steepest Descent Method

Z.R. Gabidullina

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC)

[78] arXiv:2108.05078 [pdf, other]

Title: Distributed Variable Sample-size Stochastic Optimization with Fixed Step-sizes

Jinlong Lei, Peng Yi, Jie Chen, Yiguang Hong

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC)

[79] arXiv:2108.05091 [pdf, other]

Title: Active Fault Diagnosis for a Class of Nonlinear Uncertain Systems: A Distributionally Robust Approach

Ioannis Tzortzis, Marios M. Polycarpou

Comments: 15 pages

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC)

[80] arXiv:2108.05157 [pdf, other]

Title: An interior point method for nonlinear constrained derivative-free optimization

Andrea Brilli, Giampaolo Liuzzi, Stefano Lucidi

Comments: We dropped the convexity assumption to take into account that convexity is no longer required, we changed the theoretical analysis, exposition of the main algorithm has changed. We first present a simpler method and then the main algorithm. Numerical results have been a lot extended by adding some comparison

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC)

[81] arXiv:2108.05229 [pdf, other]

Title: Hopping between distant basins

Maldon Goodridge, John Moriarty, Jure Vogrinc, Alessandro Zocca

Comments: 20 pages; 8 figures

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC)

[82] arXiv:2108.05254 [pdf, other]

Title: Optimal Shapes for Tree Roots

Alberto Bressan, Sondre T. Galtung, Qing Sun

Comments: 30 pages, 4 figures

Journal-ref: SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis, 54(4), 4757-4784, 2022

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC)

[83] arXiv:2108.05396 [pdf, other]

Title: Revisit of macroscopic dynamics for some non-equilibrium chemical reactions from a Hamiltonian viewpoint

Yuan Gao, Jian-Guo Liu

Comments: 52 pages

Journal-ref: J. Stat. Phys. 189 (2022) 22

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC); Dynamical Systems (math.DS); Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)

[84] arXiv:2108.05500 [pdf, other]

Title: On an Ergodic Two-Sided Singular Control Problem

Khwanchai Kunwai, Fubao Xi, George Yin, Chao Zhu

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

[85] arXiv:2108.05531 [pdf, other]

Title: The Contextual Appointment Scheduling Problem

Nima Salehi Sadghiani, Saeid Motiian

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

[86] arXiv:2108.05619 [pdf, other]

Title: Unique Minimizers and the Representation of Convex Envelopes in Locally Convex Vector Spaces

Thomas Ruf, Bernd Schmidt

Journal-ref: Journal of Convex Analysis 29 (3), 929-937, 2022

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC)

[87] arXiv:2108.05629 [pdf, other]

Title: Optimal actuator design via Brunovsky's normal form

Borjan Geshkovski, Enrique Zuazua

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

[88] arXiv:2108.05716 [pdf, other]

Title: An SDP-Based Approach for Computing the Stability Number of a Graph

Elisabeth Gaar, Melanie Siebenhofer, Angelika Wiegele

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC)

[89] arXiv:2108.05770 [pdf, other]

Title: Minkowski-Lyapunov Functions: Alternative Characterization and Implicit Representation

Saša V. Raković

Comments: 7 pages, 1 figure, 1 table, Accepted Automatica Technical Communique, Third version, Minor rewording and update of the acknowledgements (to reflect the acceptance of the paper)

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

[90] arXiv:2108.05775 [pdf, other]

Title: Optimal control for parameter estimation in partially observed hypoelliptic stochastic differential equations

Quentin Clairon, Adeline Samson

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC); Methodology (stat.ME)

[91] arXiv:2108.05806 [pdf, other]

Title: Inverse Optimization on Hierarchical Networks: An Application to Breast Cancer Clinical Pathways

Timothy C. Y. Chan, Katharina Forster, Steven Habbous, Claire Holloway, Luciano Ieraci, Yusuf Shalaby, Nasrin Yousefi

Comments: 24 pages + Appendices

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC)

[92] arXiv:2108.05908 [pdf, other]

Title: Higher-Order Expansion and Bartlett Correctability of Distributionally Robust Optimization

Shengyi He, Henry Lam

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

[93] arXiv:2108.05915 [pdf, other]

Title: Trajectory tracing in figure skating

Meghan Rhodes, Vakhtang Putkaradze

Comments: 32 pages, 25 figures, 6 tables

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC)

[94] arXiv:2108.06000 [pdf, other]

Title: Arbitraging Variable Efficiency Energy Storage using Analytical Stochastic Dynamic Programming

Ningkun Zheng, Joshua Jaworski, Bolun Xu

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC)

[95] arXiv:2108.06022 [pdf, other]

Title: Optimal Regulators in Geometric Robotics

Anis Bousclet

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC)

[96] arXiv:2108.06026 [pdf, other]

Title: Exact Convergence Rates of Alternating Projections for Nontransversal Intersections

Hiroyuki Ochiai, Yoshiyuki Sekiguchi, Hayato Waki

Comments: 22 pages, 1 figure

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC)

[97] arXiv:2108.06050 [pdf, other]

Title: Accelerated Primal-Dual Algorithm for Distributed Non-convex Optimization

Shengjun Zhang, Colleen P. Bailey

Comments: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2006.03474, arXiv:2103.12954

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC)

[98] arXiv:2108.06251 [pdf, other]

Title: Bilevel Aggregator-Prosumers' Optimization Problem in Real-Time: A Convex Optimization Approach

Koorosh Shomalzadeh, Jacquelien M. A. Scherpen, M. Kanat Camlibel

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC)

[99] arXiv:2108.06297 [pdf, other]

Title: Sequential Subspace Optimization for Quasar-Convex Optimization Problems with Inexact Gradient

Ilya Kuruzov, Fedor Stonyakin

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC)

[100] arXiv:2108.06425 [pdf, other]

Title: Minimizing maximum lateness in two-stage projects by tropical optimization

Nikolai Krivulin, Serge\uı Sergeev

Comments: 29 pages

Journal-ref: Kybernetika 58(5), 816-841 (2022)

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