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CAREER: Foundations and Algorithms for Nonconvex Nonsmooth Optimization: From Local Solver — NSF Award to University of California

Optimization serves as the mathematical engine powering modern artificial intelligence and complex decision-making systems. Many real-world challenges, however, ranging from managing energy grids to training machine learning models, involve mathematical landscapes that are jagged, unpredictable, and obscured by data no

Award titleCAREER: Foundations and Algorithms for Nonconvex Nonsmooth Optimization: From Local Solver
Award ID2541022
AwardeeUniversity of California-Berkeley
CityBERKELEY
StateCA
Amount obligated$364,815
Principal investigatorYing Cui
ProgramComm & Information Foundations
Start date04/15/2026
AbstractOptimization serves as the mathematical engine powering modern artificial intelligence and complex decision-making systems. Many real-world challenges, however, ranging from managing energy grids to training machine learning models, involve mathematical landscapes that are jagged, unpredictable, and obscured by data noise. These irregularities often trap existing technologies in suboptimal or inefficient solutions. This project pursues a new generation of rigorous mathematical tools and stable a
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