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Relationship of optimal solutions between the total function and the sub function

This is an unconstrained convex optimization problem. Let $\mathcal{N}=\left\{1,\ldots,n\right\}$, $2\leq n<\infty$. Suppose there are many strongly convex functions $f_i(x)$, where $x\in\mathbb{R}^...
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Any idea of solving an optimization problem with cubic constraints?

I have the following optimization problem with cubic constraints, which is hard to solve. Are there any ideas, or related references, of solving such a problem? $$ \begin{array}{ll} \underset {y, z} {\...
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How to solve the optimization problem $\max_{\mathbf{w}}\sum_i\text{sign}(\mathbf{w}^T \mathbf{x}_i)$?

I am looking for an algorithm to solve the following optimization problem $$\max_{\mathbf{w}}\sum_i\text{sign}(\mathbf{w}^T \mathbf{x}_i)$$ where $\mathbf{w}$ and each $\mathbf{x}_i\in\mathbb{R}^d$. ...
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Continuum of Lagrange multipliers, duality gap, and minimax theorem

Suppose I have a linear optimization problem involving random variables on some (infinite) probability space $\Omega$. For example, need to maximize expectation $E[Q]$ of random variable $Q$ subject ...
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How do you call a linear programming problem when the solution should be "constrained" to a norm?

(apologies for the n00b question) Let's say we have a vector of length $n$, with to-be-determined values: $a_1, a_2, ...,a_n$. And we have information that partial sums of these elements are equal to ...
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Maximizing sum of homogeneous functions of order one over a polytope

Let $f_i: \mathbb{R}^n\rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ be concave, increasing (i.e., if $x\geq y$ where the inequality is entry wise, we have $f_i(x)\geq f_i(y)$), and a homogeneous function of order one for ...
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Reference request: dependence on linear constraints

Excuse me if my question is stupid. I'm seeking the references on the dependence of the (linear) optimization problem on (linear) constraints. Namely, consdier the following optimization problem: $$P(...
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A specific case of the $p$-center problem

Given a fixed positive integer $m$, let $\cal{S}$ be the subset from $\mathbb{R}^m$ defined as $\cal{S} = \{u \in \mathbb{R}^m \mid \forall i \in \{1, \dots, m\}, u(i) > 0$ and $\sum_{i=1}^m{u(i) = ...
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Maximizing supermodular functions

I have a real supermodular objective function which I want to maximize with constraint. The constraint is on the size, like |A|=k . I am wondering if anyone can give me more information about a ...
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