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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)$$
where $\mathbf{w}$ and each $\mathbf{x}_i\in\mathbb{R}^d$.
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Continuum of Lagrange multipliers, duality gap, and minimax theorem
Suppose I have a linear optimization problem involving random variables on some (infinite) probability space $\Omega$. For example, need to maximize expectation $E[Q]$ of random variable $Q$ subject ...
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Minimizing along independent directions, nonlinear programming
Good afternoon, I am studying the book Nonlinear Programming: Theory and Algorithms (by Mokhtar S. Bazaraa, Hanif D. Sherali, C. M.) particularly the Theorem $7.3.5$. I'm not sure I understand this ...
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How can we analytically solve this max-sum-min problem?
Let $I$ be a finite set, and $A_{ij},B_{ij},x_i,y_j\ge0$. I want to find the choice of $x_i,y_j$ maximizing $$\sum_{i\in I}\sum_{j\in J}A_{ij}\min\left(x_i,B_{ij}y_j\right)\tag1$$ subject to $$\sum_{i\...
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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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Convert general optimization problem to LP problem
I am trying to convert the following problem into a linear programming problem:
There are $M\times N$ matrix $T$ of real numbers between 0 and 1 and $N\times 1$ vector $w$ of real numbers between 0 ...
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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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what method can I employ to solve this optimization problem which involves \min?
The optimization problem is:
maximize $$\min(\sum\limits_{i=1}^N \log\left(a_{1,i}+\frac{b_{1,i}}{c_{1,i}+d_{1,i}x_i}\right),\sum\limits_{i=1}^N \log\left(a_{2,i}+\frac{b_{2,i}}{c_{2,i}+d_{2,i}x_i}\...