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We study the problem of approximating the level set of an unknown function by sequentially querying its values. We introduce a family of algorithms called Bisect and Approximate through which we reduce the level set approximation problem to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-02-24 François Bachoc , Tommaso Cesari , Sébastien Gerchinovitz

Level proximal subdifferential was introduced by Rockafellar recently for studying proximal mappings of possibly nonconvex functions. In this paper a systematic study of level proximal subdifferential is given. We characterize variational…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-22 Honglin Luo , Xianfu Wang , Ziyuan Wang , Xinmin Yang

There are many methods developed to approximate a cloud of vectors embedded in high-dimensional space by simpler objects: starting from principal points and linear manifolds to self-organizing maps, neural gas, elastic maps, various types…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-09-01 E. M. Mirkes , A. Zinovyev , A. N. Gorban

This article presents the toolbox FormOpt for two- and three-dimensional shape optimization with parallel computing capabilities, built on the FEniCSx software framework. We introduce fundamental concepts of shape sensitivity analysis and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-12 Josué D. Díaz-Avalos , Antoine Laurain

In the paper we consider the problem of multivariate function approximation in polynomial basis. In order to solve this problem, we adjust the least squares method (LSM) by adding information about derivatives of the function. This…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-06 Gleb Ryzhakov , Ivan Oseledets

This paper is concerned with the optimal shape design of the newtonian viscous incompressible fluids driven by the stationary nonhomogeneous Navier-Stokes equations. We use three approaches to derive the structures of shape gradients for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Zhiming Gao , Yichen Ma , Hongwei Zhuang

We focus on a geometrical inverse problem that involves recovering discontinuities in electrical conductivity based on boundary measurements. This problem serves as a model to introduce a shape recovery technique that merges the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-28 Bastian Harrach , Houcine Meftahi

Many classical geometric inequalities on functionals of convex bodies depend on the dimension of the ambient space. We show that this dimension dependence may often be replaced (totally or partially) by different symmetry measures of the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2014-12-11 René Brandenberg , Stefan König

The article is devoted to approximate, global and along curves differentiability of functions over non-archimedean infinite fields with non-trivial valuations. Fields with zero and non-zero characteristics are considered. Spaces of…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2010-03-16 S. V. Ludkovsky

Utilizing recently developed abstract notions of sectional curvature, we introduce a method for constructing a curvature-based geometric profile of discrete metric spaces. The curvature concept that we use here captures the metric relations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Charlotte Beylier , Parvaneh Joharinad , Jürgen Jost , Nahid Torbati

We derive pointwise curvature estimates for graphical mean curvature flows in higher codimensions. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first such estimates without assuming smallness of first derivatives of the defining map. An…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-12-03 Knut Smoczyk , Mao-Pei Tsui , Mu-Tao Wang

We study numerical methods for the nonlinear partial differential equation that governs the motion of level sets by affine curvature. We show that standard finite difference schemes are nonlinearly unstable. We build convergent finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-01 Adam M. Oberman , Tiago Salvador

We study multilevel techniques, commonly used in PDE multigrid literature, to solve structured optimization problems. For a given hierarchy of levels, we formulate a coarse model that approximates the problem at each level and provides a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-19 Ferdinand Vanmaele , Yara Elshiaty , Stefania Petra

In this paper we study an abstract framework for computing shape derivatives of functionals subject to PDE constraints. We revisit the Lagrangian approach using the implicit function theorem in an abstract setting tailored for applications…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-03 Antoine Laurain , Pedro T. P. Lopes , Jean C. Nakasato

In this paper, we explore two fundamental first-order algorithms in convex optimization, namely, gradient descent (GD) and proximal gradient method (ProxGD). Our focus is on making these algorithms entirely adaptive by leveraging local…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-13 Yura Malitsky , Konstantin Mishchenko

Estimation of the level set of a function (i.e., regions where the function exceeds some value) is an important problem with applications in digital elevation mapping, medical imaging, astronomy, etc. In many applications, the function of…

Applications · Statistics 2018-03-06 Kalyani Krishnamurthy , Waheed U. Bajwa , Rebecca Willett

In this paper, in a multivariate setting we derive near optimal rates of convergence in the minimax sense for estimating partial derivatives of the mean function for functional data observed under a fixed synchronous design over H\"older…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-25 Max Berger , Hajo Holzmann

In this paper we present approaches that address two issues that can occur when the level-set method is used to simulate two-fluid flows in engineering practice. The first issue concerns regularizing the Heaviside function on arbitrary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-02 Ido Akkerman

We study the expressibility and learnability of convex optimization solution functions and their multi-layer architectural extension. The main results are: \emph{(1)} the class of solution functions of linear programming (LP) and quadratic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Ming Jin , Vanshaj Khattar , Harshal Kaushik , Bilgehan Sel , Ruoxi Jia

This article describes the extension of recent methods for a posteriori error estimation such as dual-weighted residual methods to node-centered finite volume discretizations of second order elliptic boundary value problems including upwind…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-04 Lutz Angermann