An implementable proximal-type method for computing critical points to minimization problems with a nonsmooth and nonconvex constraint

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Hauptverfasser: Sempere, Gregorio M., de Oliveira, Welington, Royset, Johannes O.
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author Sempere, Gregorio M.
de Oliveira, Welington
Royset, Johannes O.
author_facet Sempere, Gregorio M.
de Oliveira, Welington
Royset, Johannes O.
contents This work proposes an implementable proximal-type method for a broad class of optimization problems involving nonsmooth and nonconvex objective and constraint functions. In contrast to existing methods that rely on an ad hoc model approximating the nonconvex functions, our approach can work with a nonconvex model constructed by the pointwise minimum of finitely many convex models. The latter can be chosen with reasonable flexibility to better fit the underlying functions' structure. We provide a unifying framework and analysis covering several subclasses of composite optimization problems and show that our method computes points satisfying certain necessary optimality conditions, which we will call model criticality. Depending on the specific model being used, our general concept of criticality boils down to standard necessary optimality conditions. Numerical experiments on some stochastic reliability-based optimization problems illustrate the practical performance of the method.
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spellingShingle An implementable proximal-type method for computing critical points to minimization problems with a nonsmooth and nonconvex constraint
Sempere, Gregorio M.
de Oliveira, Welington
Royset, Johannes O.
Optimization and Control
This work proposes an implementable proximal-type method for a broad class of optimization problems involving nonsmooth and nonconvex objective and constraint functions. In contrast to existing methods that rely on an ad hoc model approximating the nonconvex functions, our approach can work with a nonconvex model constructed by the pointwise minimum of finitely many convex models. The latter can be chosen with reasonable flexibility to better fit the underlying functions' structure. We provide a unifying framework and analysis covering several subclasses of composite optimization problems and show that our method computes points satisfying certain necessary optimality conditions, which we will call model criticality. Depending on the specific model being used, our general concept of criticality boils down to standard necessary optimality conditions. Numerical experiments on some stochastic reliability-based optimization problems illustrate the practical performance of the method.
title An implementable proximal-type method for computing critical points to minimization problems with a nonsmooth and nonconvex constraint
topic Optimization and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.07471