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Anonymous01/19/26, 16:17No.16894814Convex Optimization thread
>Are you a Convex Optimization appreciator?
>Do you know people who work in this field or regularly use its tools?
>What's hotter?
>Have you learned the KKT conditions and used them since you learned them?
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Anon01/19/26, 16:45No.16894826
ML, signal processing, optimizer, very common
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Anon01/22/26, 00:02No.16896374
shit's hard yo
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Anon01/22/26, 00:19No.16896382
>Are you a Convex Optimization appreciator?
uhh yes?
>Do you know people who work in this field or regularly use its tools?
industrial engineering and economics lol.
>What's hotter?
unifying it with euler lagrange or field theory.
it ends up as optimal control / pontryagin maximum principle so idk.
>Have you learned the KKT conditions and used them since you learned them?
>KKT
>Lagrange + First order conditions + Complementary Slackness + Slater's conditions
Nothing fancy
Convex optimization is useful when you want global optimality, can handle inequality constraints, and also works well with nonsmooth or non-differentiable objectives + helps with proof making.
>proving necessary and sufficient conditions for optimality
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Anon01/22/26, 00:53No.16896397
I just monte carlo everything.
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Anon01/23/26, 03:08No.16897098
still blown by this algorithmhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFVnWq3RHYU
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Anon01/23/26, 05:44No.16897143
Is this a good research field?
Is there a decent mix of Industry and Academia available (USA)?
Any PhD program recommendation or research labs?
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Anon01/29/26, 04:49No.16901055
I was doing optimization while you had to learn manual construction of a bootloader.