Papers on “non-convex optimization”
Research on “non-convex optimization” in the 480 tracked journals: papers per year and category, the journals, institutions and countries publishing it, the keywords studied with it and its most-cited papers. It is not among the most frequent keywords of the last 30 days, so this page has no list of its latest papers. Also as Markdown.
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Key findings#
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “non-convex optimization” appeared in 1,112 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in operations research (707), AI (356) and statistics (40).
- 161 of them were published in 2025, against 72 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (20), Chinese Academy of Sciences (13) and Georgia Institute of Technology (12).
- The journals publishing most of them were Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications (69), Mathematical Programming (53) and Journal of Global Optimization (48).
- The most-cited of them is “Clustered Federated Learning: Model-Agnostic Distributed Multitask Optimization Under Privacy Constraints” (IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 2020), with 1,343 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operations Research | 50 | 54 | 73 | 65 | 64 | 77 | 68 | 72 | 100 | 84 |
| AI | 22 | 19 | 33 | 21 | 33 | 45 | 46 | 45 | 55 | 37 |
| Statistics | 0 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 4 |
| Finance | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| Economics | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Information Systems | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 72 | 77 | 109 | 95 | 99 | 126 | 119 | 127 | 161 | 127 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications | 69 |
| 2 | Mathematical Programming | 53 |
| 3 | Journal of Global Optimization | 48 |
| 4 | Computational Optimization and Applications | 41 |
| 5 | IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems | 26 |
| 6 | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 24 |
| 7 | Expert Systems with Applications | 24 |
| 8 | Optimization Letters | 24 |
| 9 | Neural Networks | 20 |
| 10 | Machine Learning | 17 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | 20 |
| 2 | Chinese Academy of Sciences | 13 |
| 3 | Georgia Institute of Technology | 12 |
| 4 | Northeast Normal University | 12 |
| 5 | Sun Yat-sen University | 10 |
| 6 | University of Florence | 10 |
| 7 | Chongqing University | 9 |
| 8 | National University of Singapore | 9 |
| 9 | Southern University of Science and Technology | 9 |
| 10 | University of Chinese Academy of Sciences | 9 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 236 |
| 2 | United States | 114 |
| 3 | France | 38 |
| 4 | Italy | 33 |
| 5 | Germany | 32 |
| 6 | Hong Kong | 29 |
| 7 | United Kingdom | 27 |
| 8 | Singapore | 18 |
| 9 | Vietnam | 18 |
| 10 | Belgium | 17 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | convergence analysis | 94 |
| 2 | convergence rate | 51 |
| 3 | nonsmooth optimization | 46 |
| 4 | global convergence | 36 |
| 5 | global optimization | 32 |
| 6 | Kurdyka-Łojasiewicz property | 21 |
| 7 | linear convergence | 21 |
| 8 | stochastic gradient descent | 21 |
| 9 | variance reduction | 21 |
Most-cited papers#
| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,343 | 18.1 | Clustered Federated Learning: Model-Agnostic Distributed Multitask Optimization Under Privacy Constraints | IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems | 2020-08-24 | Felix Sattler, Klaus‐Robert Müller, Wojciech Samek |
| 2 | 475 | 4.9 | Rank Minimization for Snapshot Compressive Imaging | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 2018-10-04 | Yang Liu, Xin Yuan, Jinli Suo et al. |
| 3 | 473 | 4.5 | Subspace Clustering by Block Diagonal Representation | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 2018-01-16 | Canyi Lu, Jiashi Feng, Zhouchen Lin et al. |
| 4 | 351 | 3.3 | DC programming and DCA: thirty years of developments | Mathematical Programming | 2018-01-24 | Hoai An Le Thi, Tao Pham Dinh |
| 5 | 350 | 16.0 | Artificial lemming algorithm: a novel bionic meta-heuristic technique for solving real-world engineering optimization problems | Artificial Intelligence Review | 2025-01-05 | Yaning Xiao, Hao Cui, Ruba Abu Khurma et al. |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “non-convex optimization”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/non-convex-optimization
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