Iterative algorithm for minimizing a convex function at the intersection of a spherical surface and a convex compact set

A numerical algorithm for minimizing a convex function on the set-theoretic intersection of a spherical surface and a convex compact set is proposed. The idea behind the algorithm is to reduce the original minimization problem to a sequence of convex programming problems. Necessary extremum conditions are examined, and the convergence of the algorithm is analyzed.     

Iterative algorithm for mathematical programming problems with preconvex constraints

An iterative algorithm is proposed for minimizing a convex function on a set defined as the set-theoretic difference between a convex set and the union of several convex sets. The convergence of the algorithm is proved in terms of necessary conditions for a local minimum.     

Numerical algorithm for solving mathematical programming problems with a smooth surface as a constraint

A numerical algorithm for minimizing a convex function on a smooth surface is proposed. The algorithm is based on reducing the original problem to a sequence of convex programming problems. Necessary extremum conditions are examined, and the convergence of the algorithm is analyzed.     

Convergence property of the Iri-Imai algorithm for some smooth convex programming problems

In this paper, the Iri-Imai algorithm for solving linear and convex quadratic programming is extended to solve some other smooth convex programming problems. The globally linear convergence rate of this extended algorithm is proved, under the condition that the objective and constraint functions satisfy a certain type of convexity, called the harmonic convexity in this paper. A characterization of this convexity condition is given. The same convexity condition was used by Mehrotra and Sun to prove the convergence of a path-following algorithm.The Iri-Imai algorithm is a natural generalization of the original Newton algorithm to constrained convex programming. Other known convergent interior-point algorithms for smooth convex programming are mainly based on the path-following approach.     

A parallel descent algorithm for convex programming

In this paper, we propose a parallel decomposition algorithm for solving a class of convex optimization problems, which is broad enough to contain ordinary convex programming problems with a strongly convex objective function. The algorithm is a variant of the trust region method applied to the Fenchel dual of the given problem. We prove global convergence of the algorithm and report some computational experience with the proposed algorithm on the Connection Machine Model CM-5.     

A level set algorithm for a class of reverse convex programs

A new algorithm is presented for minimizing a linear function subject to a set of linear inequalities and one additional reverse convex constraint. The algorithm utilizes a conical partition of the convex polytope in conjuction with its facets in order to remain on the level surface of the reverse convex constraint. The algorithm does not need to solve linear programs on a set of cones which converges to a line segment.     

Approximation of convex bodies by multiple objective optimization and an application in reachable sets

In this paper, we focus on approximating convex compact bodies. For a convex body described as the feasible set in objective space of a multiple objective programme, we show that finding it is equivalent to finding the non-dominated set of a multiple objective programme. This equivalence implies that convex bodies can be approximated using multiple objective optimization algorithms. Therefore, we propose a revised outer approximation algorithm for convex multiple objective programming problems to approximate convex bodies. Finally, we apply the algorithm to solve reachable sets of control systems and use numerical examples to show the effectiveness of the algorithm.     

A parametric algorithm for convex cost network flow and related problems

The convex cost network flow problem is to determine the minimum cost flow in a network when cost of flow over each arc is given by a piecewise linear convex function. In this paper, we develop a parametric algorithm for the convex cost network flow problem. We define the concept of optimum basis structure for the convex cost network flow problem. The optimum basis structure is then used to parametrize v, the flow to be transsshipped from source to sink. The resulting algorithm successively augments the flow on the shortest paths from source to sink which are implicitly enumerated by the algorithm. The algorithm is shown to be polynomially bounded. Computational results are presented to demonstrate the efficiency of the algorithm in solving large size problems. We also show how this algorithm can be used to (i) obtain the project cost curve of a CPM network with convex time-cost tradeoff functions; (ii) determine maximum flow in a network with concave gain functions; (iii) determine optimum capacity expansion of a network having convex arc capacity expansion costs.     

A parametric successive underestimation method for convex multiplicative programming problems

This paper addresses itself to the algorithm for minimizing the product of two nonnegative convex functions over a convex set. It is shown that the global minimum of this nonconvex problem can be obtained by solving a sequence of convex programming problems. The basic idea of this algorithm is to embed the original problem into a problem in a higher dimensional space and to apply a branch-and-bound algorithm using an underestimating function. Computational results indicate that our algorithm is efficient when the objective function is the product of a linear and a quadratic functions and the constraints are linear. An extension of our algorithm for minimizing the sum of a convex function and a product of two convex functions is also discussed.     

An objective space cut and bound algorithm for convex multiplicative programmes

Multiplicative programming problems are global optimisation problems known to be NP-hard. In this paper we propose an objective space cut and bound algorithm for approximately solving convex multiplicative programming problems. This method is based on an objective space approximation algorithm for convex multi-objective programming problems. We show that this multi-objective optimisation algorithm can be changed into a cut and bound algorithm to solve convex multiplicative programming problems. We use an illustrative example to demonstrate the working of the algorithm. Computational experiments illustrate the superior performance of our algorithm compared to other methods from the literature.     

Convex hull-based multi-objective evolutionary computation for maximizing receiver operating characteristics performance

The receiver operating characteristics (ROC) analysis has gained increasing popularity for analyzing the performance of classifiers. In particular, maximizing the convex hull of a set of classifiers in the ROC space, namely ROCCH maximization, is becoming an increasingly important problem. In this work, a new convex hull-based evolutionary multi-objective algorithm named ETriCM is proposed for evolving neural networks with respect to ROCCH maximization. Specially, convex hull-based sorting with convex hull of individual minima (CH-CHIM-sorting) and extreme area extraction selection (EAE-selection) are proposed as a novel selection operator. Empirical studies on 7 high-dimensional and imbalanced datasets show that ETriCM outperforms various state-of-the-art algorithms including convex hull-based evolutionary multi-objective algorithm (CH-EMOA) and non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm II (NSGA-II).     

An iterative method for minimizing a convex nonsmooth function on a convex smooth surface

An iterative algorithm is proposed for the constrained minimization of a convex nonsmooth function on a set given as a convex smooth surface. The convergence of the algorithm in the sense of necessary conditions for a local minimum is proved.     

Fixed point optimization algorithm and its application to network bandwidth allocation

A convex optimization problem for a strictly convex objective function over the fixed point set of a nonexpansive mapping includes a network bandwidth allocation problem, which is one of the central issues in modern communication networks. We devised an iterative algorithm, called a fixed point optimization algorithm, for solving the convex optimization problem and conducted a convergence analysis on the algorithm. The analysis guarantees that the algorithm, with slowly diminishing step-size sequences, weakly converges to a unique solution to the problem. Moreover, we apply the proposed algorithm to a network bandwidth allocation problem and show its effectiveness.     

一类光滑凸规划的牛顿法

给出了一个求解一类光滑凸规划的算法,利用光滑精确乘子罚函数把一个光滑凸规划的极小化问题化为一个紧集上强凸函数的极小化问题,然后在给定的紧集上用牛顿法对这个强凸函数进行极小化．     

Newton’s Method for Minimizing a Convex Twice Differentiable Function on a Preconvex Set

The problem of minimizing a convex twice differentiable function on the set-theoretic difference between a convex set and the union of several convex sets is considered. A generalization of Newton’s method for solving problems with convex constraints is proposed. The convergence of the algorithm is analyzed.     

Global optimization method for maximizing the sum of difference of convex functions ratios over nonconvex region

A global optimization algorithm is presented for maximizing the sum of difference of convex functions ratios problem over nonconvex feasible region. This algorithm is based on branch and bound framework. To obtain a difference of convex programming, the considered problem is first reformulated by introducing new variables as few as possible. By using subgradient and convex envelope, the fundamental problem of estimating lower bound in the branch and bound algorithm is transformed into a relaxed linear programming problem which can be solved efficiently. Furthermore, the size of the relaxed linear programming problem does not change during the algorithm search. Lastly, the convergence of the algorithm is analyzed and the numerical results are reported.     

Convex source support in three dimensions

This work extends the algorithm for computing the convex source support in the framework of the Poisson equation to a bounded three-dimensional domain. The convex source support is, in essence, the smallest (nonempty) convex set that supports a source that produces the measured (nontrivial) data on the boundary of the object. In particular, it belongs to the convex hull of the support of any source that is compatible with the measurements. The original algorithm for reconstructing the convex source support is inherently two-dimensional as it utilizes M?bius transformations. However, replacing the M?bius transformations by inversions with respect to suitable spheres and introducing the corresponding Kelvin transforms, the basic ideas of the algorithm carry over to three spatial dimensions. The performance of the resulting numerical algorithm is analyzed both for the inverse source problem and for electrical impedance tomography with a single pair of boundary current and potential as the measurement data.     

凸规划的新算法

对一般凸目标函数和一般凸集约束的凸规划问题新解法进行探讨,它是线性规划一种新算法的扩展和改进,此算法的基本思想是在规划问题的可行域中由所建－的一个切割面到另一个切割面的不断推进来求取最优的。文章对目标函数是二次的且约束是一般凸集和二次目标函数且约束是线性的情形,给出了更简单的算法。     

基于凸组合共轭梯度法的ARIMA模型参数估计

提出了一种凸组合共轭梯度算法,并将其算法应用到ARIMA模型参数估计中.新算法由改进的谱共轭梯度算法与共轭梯度算法作凸组合构造而成,具有下述特性:1)具备共轭性条件;2)自动满足充分下降性.证明了在标准Wolfe线搜索下新算法具备完全收敛性,最后数值实验表明通过调节凸组合参数,新算法更加快速有效,通过具体实例证实了模型的显著拟合效果.