Lipschitz continuity of the gradient mapping of a continuously differentiable function plays a crucial role in designing various optimization algorithms. However, many functions arising in practical applications such as low rank matrix factorization or deep neural network problems do not have a...

This article is dedicated to the weight set decomposition of a multiobjective (mixed-)integer linear problem with three objectives. We propose an algorithm that returns a decomposition of the parameter set of the weighted sum scalarization by solving biobjective subproblems via Dichotomic Search...

This paper presents a new two-phase method for solving convex mixed-integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) problems, called Decomposition-based Outer Approximation Algorithm (DECOA). In the first phase, a sequence of linear integer relaxed sub-problems (LP phase) is solved in order to rapidly...

The problem of minimizing the difference of two convex functions is called polyhedral d.c. optimization problem if at least one of the two component functions is polyhedral. We characterize the existence of global optimal solutions of polyhedral d.c. optimization problems. This result is used to...

We consider the problem of verifying linear properties of neural networks. Despite their success in many classification and prediction tasks, neural networks may return unexpected results for certain inputs. This is highly problematic with respect to the application of neural networks for...

It is a challenging task to identify the objectives on which a certain decision was based, in particular if several, potentially conflicting criteria are equally important and a continuous set of optimal compromise decisions exists. This task can be understood as the inverse problem of...

Recently, Kronqvist et al. (J Global Optim 64(2):249–272, 2016) rediscovered the supporting hyperplane algorithm of Veinott (Oper Res 15(1):147–152, 1967) and demonstrated its computational benefits for solving convex mixed integer nonlinear programs. In this paper we derive the algorithm...

An important aspect of optimization algorithms, for instance evolutionary algorithms, are termination criteria that measure the proximity of the found solution to the optimal solution set. A frequently used approach is the numerical verification of necessary optimality conditions such as the...