Approximate Optimality Conditions for Composite Convex Optimization Problems

Xian-Jun Long1, Xiang-Kai Sun1, Zai-Yun Peng2
1College of Mathematics and Statistics, Chongqing Technology and Business University, Chongqing, China
2College of Mathematics and Statistics, Chongqing Jiaotong University, Chongqing, China

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The purpose of this paper is to study the approximate optimality condition for composite convex optimization problems with a cone-convex system in locally convex spaces, where all functions involved are not necessarily lower semi-continuous. By using the properties of the epigraph of conjugate functions, we introduce a new regularity condition and give its equivalent characterizations. Under this new regularity condition, we derive necessary and sufficient optimality conditions of $$\varepsilon $$ -optimal solutions for the composite convex optimization problem. As applications of our results, we derive approximate optimality conditions to cone-convex optimization problems. Our results extend or cover many known results in the literature.

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