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Tuesday, October 29, 2019
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Annenberg 314

CMI Seminar: Guannan Qu

Exponential stability of primal-dual gradient dynamics and its applications in network control
Guannan Qu, CMI Postdoc, Caltech,

Primal-dual gradient dynamics (PDGD) that find a saddle point of a Lagrangian of an optimization problem have been widely used in systems and control. In these applications, it is important for such dynamics to have strong stability guarantees, like global exponential stability. However, while the global asymptotic stability of PDGD has been well-studied, it is less studied whether PDGD is globally exponentially stable.


In this talk, we study the primal-dual gradient dynamics for constrained convex optimization and provide conditions that guarantee its global exponential stability. We also present its applications in a smart grid control problem.

For more information, please contact Linda Taddeo by phone at 626-395-6704 or by email at [email protected] or visit Mathematics of Information Seminar - Upcoming Events.