Constrained Optimization for Machine Learning

As AI systems are increasingly deployed in safety-critical domains—including credit scoring, medical diagnosis, and autonomous systems—there is a growing demand to ensure their fairness, safety, robustness, and interpretability, alongside stronger calls for regulation. Constrained optimization offers an accountable framework for enforcing these requirements by embedding them directly into the training process, steering models to satisfy explicit constraints. This framework facilitates compliance with regulatory, industry, or ethical standards, which can be easily verified by checking constraint satisfaction.

This workshop explores constrained optimization as a principled method for enforcing desirable properties in machine learning models. It brings together experts in optimization, machine learning, and trustworthy AI to address the algorithmic and practical challenges of scaling constrained methods to modern deep learning settings, which are often large-scale, non-convex, and stochastic.