Optimality without Constraint Qualification

2011 ◽  
pp. 261-298
Keyword(s):  
Constraint Qualification

scholarly journals R-Regularity of Set-Valued Mappings Under the Relaxed Constant Positive Linear Dependence Constraint Qualification with Applications to Parametric and Bilevel Optimization

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Mehlitz ◽  
Leonid I. Minchenko
Keyword(s):  
Linear Dependence ◽  
Constraint Qualification ◽  
Parametric Optimization ◽  
Optimization Problems ◽  
Sufficient Conditions ◽  
Bilevel Optimization ◽  
Regularity Property ◽  
Constant Rank Constraint Qualification ◽  
Existence Criterion ◽  
Set Valued Mappings

AbstractThe presence of Lipschitzian properties for solution mappings associated with nonlinear parametric optimization problems is desirable in the context of, e.g., stability analysis or bilevel optimization. An example of such a Lipschitzian property for set-valued mappings, whose graph is the solution set of a system of nonlinear inequalities and equations, is R-regularity. Based on the so-called relaxed constant positive linear dependence constraint qualification, we provide a criterion ensuring the presence of the R-regularity property. In this regard, our analysis generalizes earlier results of that type which exploited the stronger Mangasarian–Fromovitz or constant rank constraint qualification. Afterwards, we apply our findings in order to derive new sufficient conditions which guarantee the presence of R-regularity for solution mappings in parametric optimization. Finally, our results are used to derive an existence criterion for solutions in pessimistic bilevel optimization and a sufficient condition for the presence of the so-called partial calmness property in optimistic bilevel optimization.

scholarly journals CONSTRAINT QUALIFICATIONS IN PARTIAL IDENTIFICATION

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Hiroaki Kaido ◽  
Francesca Molinari ◽  
Jörg Stoye
Keyword(s):  
Stochastic Programming ◽  
Constraint Qualification ◽  
Constraint Qualifications ◽  
Partial Identification ◽  
Moment Inequalities ◽  
Pure Moment ◽  
High Level

The literature on stochastic programming typically restricts attention to problems that fulfill constraint qualifications. The literature on estimation and inference under partial identification frequently restricts the geometry of identified sets with diverse high-level assumptions. These superficially appear to be different approaches to closely related problems. We extensively analyze their relation. Among other things, we show that for partial identification through pure moment inequalities, numerous assumptions from the literature essentially coincide with the Mangasarian–Fromowitz constraint qualification. This clarifies the relation between well-known contributions, including within econometrics, and elucidates stringency, as well as ease of verification, of some high-level assumptions in seminal papers.

scholarly journals An Augmented Lagrangian Method for Cardinality-Constrained Optimization Problems

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Kanzow ◽  
Andreas B. Raharja ◽  
Alexandra Schwartz
Keyword(s):  
Constrained Optimization ◽  
Numerical Experiments ◽  
Penalty Method ◽  
Augmented Lagrangian ◽  
Constraint Qualification ◽  
Optimization Problems ◽  
Augmented Lagrangian Method ◽  
Constrained Optimization Problems ◽  
Strongly Stationary ◽  
Type Constraint

AbstractA reformulation of cardinality-constrained optimization problems into continuous nonlinear optimization problems with an orthogonality-type constraint has gained some popularity during the last few years. Due to the special structure of the constraints, the reformulation violates many standard assumptions and therefore is often solved using specialized algorithms. In contrast to this, we investigate the viability of using a standard safeguarded multiplier penalty method without any problem-tailored modifications to solve the reformulated problem. We prove global convergence towards an (essentially strongly) stationary point under a suitable problem-tailored quasinormality constraint qualification. Numerical experiments illustrating the performance of the method in comparison to regularization-based approaches are provided.

scholarly journals Exact Penalization in Stochastic Programming—Calmness and Constraint Qualification

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Martin Branda
Keyword(s):  
Stochastic Programming ◽  
Error Bound ◽  
Constraint Qualification ◽  
Sufficient Conditions ◽  
Discrete Distributions ◽  
Exact Penalty ◽  
Asymptotic Equivalence ◽  
Exact Penalization ◽  
Local Minimizers ◽  
Constrained Problems

We deal with the conditions which ensure exact penalization in stochastic programming problems under finite discrete distributions. We give several sufficient conditions for problem calmness including graph calmness, existence of an error bound, and generalized Mangasarian-Fromowitz constraint qualification. We propose a new version of the theorem on asymptotic equivalence of local minimizers of chance constrained problems and problems with exact penalty objective. We apply the theory to a problem with a stochastic vanishing constraint.

scholarly journals Asymptotic Farkas lemmas for convex systems

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 160-168
Author(s):  
Dinh Nguyen ◽  
Mo Hong Tran
Keyword(s):  
Vector Space ◽  
Topological Vector Space ◽  
Constraint Qualification ◽  
Convex Set ◽  
Lower Semicontinuous ◽  
Closed Convex Cone ◽  
Convex Mapping ◽  
Hausdorff Topological Vector Space ◽  
Reverse Convex ◽  
Locally Convex

In this paper we establish characterizations of the containment of the set {xX: xC,g(x)K}{xX: f (x)0}, where C is a closed convex subset of a locally convex Hausdorff topological vector space, X, K is a closed convex cone in another locally convex Hausdorff topological vector space and g:X Y is a K- convex mapping, in a reverse convex set, define by the proper, lower semicontinuous, convex function. Here, no constraint qualification condition or qualification condition are assumed. The characterizations are often called asymptotic Farkas-type results. The second part of the paper was devoted to variant Asymptotic Farkas-type results where the mapping is a convex mapping with respect to an extended sublinear function. It is also shown that under some closedness conditions, these asymptotic Farkas lemmas go back to non-asymptotic Farkas lemmas or stable Farkas lemmas established recently in the literature. The results can be used to study the optimization

Improved Convergence Properties of the Relaxation Schemes of Kadrani et al. and Kanzow and Schwartz for MPEC

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (01) ◽  
pp. 1850008
Author(s):  
Na Xu ◽  
Xide Zhu ◽  
Li-Ping Pang ◽  
Jian Lv
Keyword(s):  
Linear Dependence ◽  
Constraint Qualification ◽  
Constraint Qualifications ◽  
Accumulation Point ◽  
Stationary Points ◽  
Nondegeneracy Condition ◽  
Equilibrium Constraints ◽  
Convergence Properties ◽  
Constant Rank Constraint Qualification ◽  
Relaxation Schemes

This paper concentrates on improving the convergence properties of the relaxation schemes introduced by Kadrani et al. and Kanzow and Schwartz for mathematical program with equilibrium constraints (MPEC) by weakening the original constraint qualifications. It has been known that MPEC relaxed constant positive-linear dependence (MPEC-RCPLD) is a class of extremely weak constraint qualifications for MPEC, which can be strictly implied by MPEC relaxed constant rank constraint qualification (MPEC-RCRCQ) and MPEC relaxed constant positive-linear dependence (MPEC-rCPLD), of course also by the MPEC constant positive-linear dependence (MPEC-CPLD). We show that any accumulation point of stationary points of these two approximation problems is M-stationarity under the MPEC-RCPLD constraint qualification, and further show that the accumulation point can even be S-stationarity coupled with the asymptotically weak nondegeneracy condition.

On quasi approximate solutions for nonsmooth robust semi-infinite optimization problems

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 417-426 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHANOKSUDA KHANTREE ◽  
RABIAN WANGKEEREE ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Constraint Qualification ◽  
Generalized Convexity ◽  
Optimization Problems ◽  
Approximate Solutions ◽  
Data Uncertainty ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Duality Theorems ◽  
Approximate Form ◽  
Locally Lipschitz ◽  
Approximate Duality

This paper devotes to the quasi ε-solution for robust semi-infinite optimization problems (RSIP) involving a locally Lipschitz objective function and infinitely many locally Lipschitz constraint functions with data uncertainty. Under the fulfillment of robust type Guignard constraint qualification and robust type Kuhn-Tucker constraint qualification, a necessary condition for a quasi ε-solution to problem (RSIP). After introducing the generalized convexity, we give a sufficient optimality for such a quasi ε-solution to problem (RSIP). Finally, we also establish approximate duality theorems in term of Wolfe type which is formulated in approximate form.

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