EUROPT 2025
Abstract Submission

188. A Simple Algorithm for Simple Bilevel Programming

Invited abstract in session MD-7: Methods for simple and nonsmooth bilevel optimization, stream Bilevel and multilevel optimization.

Monday, 16:30-18:30
Room: B100/5015

Authors (first author is the speaker)

1. Joydeep Dutta
Math and Stat, Indian Institute of Technology

Abstract

In this talk we are going to discuss a simple yet effective algorithm for a simple bilevel programming problem. We seek to minimize a convex function over the solution set of a convex optimization problem with smooth objective. This is a problem where the Slater condition fails and we provide a simple yet novel way to develop an algorithm and prove it's convergence without the Lipschitz gradient assumption on the lower-level objective. We also provide some numerical experiments to show the effectiveness of our algorithm. This is joint work with S. Dempe, T. Pandit and K. M. Rao.

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Status: accepted


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