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An important problem that arises in many engineering applications is the boundary value problem for ordinary differential equations. There have been many computational methods proposed for dealing with this problem. The convergence of the…
We study in this paper the continuous and discrete Euler-Lagrange equations arising from a quadratic lagrangian. Those equations may be thought as numerical schemes and may be solved through a matrix based framework. When the lagrangian is…
We present a new class of iterative schemes for solving initial value problems (IVP) based on discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods. Starting from the weak DG formulation of an IVP, we derive a new iterative method based on a preconditioned…
This work develops a framework to discover relations between the components of the solution to a given initial-value problem for a first-order system of ordinary differential equations. This is done by using sparse identification techniques…
In this article we present logarithmic methods for solving first order and second order ordinary differential equations. The essence of the method is that we apply the basic properties derivatives and logarithms to reduce the number of…
We study the application of the Augmented Lagrangian Method to the solution of linear ill-posed problems. Previously, linear convergence rates with respect to the Bregman distance have been derived under the classical assumption of a…
We define and solve classes of sparse matrix problems that arise in multilevel modeling and data analysis. The classes are indexed by the number of nested units, with two-level problems corresponding to the common situation in which data on…
Solving initial value problems and boundary value problems of Linear Ordinary Differential Equations (ODEs) plays an important role in many applications. There are various numerical methods and solvers to obtain approximate solutions…
We consider a convex relaxation of sparse principal component analysis proposed by d'Aspremont et al. in (d'Aspremont et al. SIAM Rev 49:434-448, 2007). This convex relaxation is a nonsmooth semidefinite programming problem in which the…
We focus on the initial boundary value problem for a general scalar balance law in one space dimension. Under rather general assumptions on the flux and source functions, we prove the well-posedness of this problem and the stability of its…
Using algebraic methods, and motivated by the one variable case, we study a multipoint interpolation problem in the setting of several complex variables. The duality realized by the residue generator associated with an underlying Gorenstein…
In this paper a robust second-order method is developed for the solution of strongly convex l1-regularized problems. The main aim is to make the proposed method as inexpensive as possible, while even difficult problems can be efficiently…
Iterative methods based on matrix splittings are useful in solving large sparse linear systems. In this direction, proper splittings and its several extensions are used to deal with singular and rectangular linear systems. In this article,…
Motivated by robust matrix recovery problems such as Robust Principal Component Analysis, we consider a general optimization problem of minimizing a smooth and strongly convex loss function applied to the sum of two blocks of variables,…
The scheme of divided differences is widely used in many approximation and interpolation problems. Computing the Newton coefficients of the interpolating polynomial is the first step of the Bj\"{o}rck and Pereyra algorithm for solving…
We present a new approach to compute selected eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the two-parameter eigenvalue problem. Our method requires computing generalized eigenvalue problems of the same size as the matrices of the initial two-parameter…
We discretize the Lagrange multiplier formulation of the obstacle problem by mixed and stabilized finite element methods. A priori and a posteriori error estimates are derived and numerically verified.
The relations between solutions of the three types of totally linear partial differential equations of first order are presented. The approach is based on factorization of a non-homogeneous first order differential operator to products…
We propose a geometric approach for the numerical integration of singular initial value problems for (systems of) quasi-linear differential equations. It transforms the original problem into the problem of computing the unstable manifold at…
In this paper we provide a detailed analysis of the iteration complexity of dual first order methods for solving conic convex problems. When it is difficult to project on the primal feasible set described by convex constraints, we use the…