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Adaptive cubic regularization methods have emerged as a credible alternative to linesearch and trust-region for smooth nonconvex optimization, with optimal complexity amongst second-order methods. Here we consider a general/new class of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-20 Coralia Cartis , Nicholas I. M. Gould , Philippe L. Toint

We study multi-parameter regularization (multiple penalties) for solving linear inverse problems to promote simultaneously distinct features of the sought-for objects. We revisit a balancing principle for choosing regularization parameters…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-06-26 Kazufumi Ito , Bangti Jin , Tomoya Takeuchi

We design a new iterative algorithm, called REINFORCE-OPT, for solving a general type of optimization problems. This algorithm parameterizes the solution search rule and iteratively updates the parameter using a reinforcement learning (RL)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-27 Chen Xu , Yun-Bin Zhao , Zhipeng Lu , Ye Zhang

We consider the inverse problem of determining the fragmentation rate from noisy measurements in the growth-fragmentation equation. We use Fourier transform theory on locally compact groups to treat this problem for general fragmentation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-20 Alvaro Almeida Gomez , Jorge Zubelli

We present a fundamentally new regularization method for the solution of the Fredholm integral equation of the first kind, in which we incorporate solutions corresponding to a range of Tikhonov regularizers into the end result. This method…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-01-24 Chuan Bi , Miao-jung Yvonne Ou , Mustapha Bouhrara , Richard G. Spencer

We consider regularization methods based on the coupling of Tikhonov regularization and projection strategies. From the resulting constraint regularization method we obtain level set methods in a straight forward way. Moreover, we show that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-17 A. Leitao , O. Scherzer

Iterative regularization exploits the implicit bias of an optimization algorithm to regularize ill-posed problems. Constructing algorithms with such built-in regularization mechanisms is a classic challenge in inverse problems but also in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-02 Cesare Molinari , Mathurin Massias , Lorenzo Rosasco , Silvia Villa

Solving inverse problems \(Ax = y\) is central to a variety of practically important fields such as medical imaging, remote sensing, and non-destructive testing. The most successful and theoretically best-understood method is convex…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Daniel Obmann , Gyeongha Hwang , Markus Haltmeier

This paper is concerned with the inverse problem to recover the scalar, complex-valued refractive index of a medium from measurements of scattered time-harmonic electromagnetic waves at a fixed frequency. The main results are two…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-09 Frederic Weidling , Thorsten Hohage

We propose several new nonsmooth Newton methods for solving convex composite optimization problems with polyhedral regularizers, while avoiding the computation of complicated second-order information on these functions. Under the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Tran T. A. Nghia , Nghia V. Vo , Khoa V. H. Vu

$\ell_1$ regularization is used to preserve edges or enforce sparsity in a solution to an inverse problem. We investigate the Split Bregman and the Majorization-Minimization iterative methods that turn this non-smooth minimization problem…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-16 Brian Sweeney , Rosemary Renaut , Malena Español

In this note we consider spectral cut-off estimators to solve a statistical linear inverse problem under arbitrary white noise. The truncation level is determined with a recently introduced adaptive method based on the classical discrepancy…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-28 Tim Jahn

In this work, our aim is to reconstruct the unknown initial value from terminal data. We develop a numerical framework on nonuniform time grids for fractional wave equations under the lower regularity assumptions. Then, we introduce a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-25 Dakang Cen , Zhiyuan Li , Wenlong Zhang

This paper considers the regularization continuation method and the trust-region updating strategy for the nonlinearly equality-constrained optimization problem. Namely, it uses the inverse of the regularization quasi-Newton matrix as the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-07 Xin-long Luo , Hang Xiao , Sen Zhang

We study multi-parameter Tikhonov regularization, i.e., with multiple penalties. Such models are useful when the sought-for solution exhibits several distinct features simultaneously. Two choice rules, i.e., discrepancy principle and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-03-29 Kazufumi Ito , Bangti Jin , Tomoya Takeuchi

In this work, we investigate the regularized solutions and their finite element solutions to the inverse source problems governed by partial differential equations, and establish the stochastic convergence and optimal finite element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-25 Zhiming Chen , Wenlong Zhang , Jun Zou

We study the inverse problem of parameter identification in non-coercive variational problems that commonly appear in applied models. We examine the differentiability of the set-valued parameter-to-solution map by using the first-order and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-08 Christian Clason , Akhtar A. Khan , Miguel Sama , Christiane Tammer

The primary focus of this paper is on designing an inexact first-order algorithm for solving constrained nonlinear optimization problems. By controlling the inexactness of the subproblem solution, we can significantly reduce the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-19 Hao Wang , Fan Zhang , Jiashan Wang , Yuyang Rong

This paper considers large-scale linear ill-posed inverse problems whose solutions can be represented as sums of smooth and piecewise constant components. To solve such problems we consider regularizers consisting of two terms that must be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-30 Ali Gholami , Silvia Gazzola

Implicit inverse problems, in which noisy observations of a physical quantity are used to infer a nonlinear functional applied to an associated function, are inherently ill posed and often exhibit non uniqueness of solutions. Such problems…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Davide Parodi , Federico Benvenuto , Sara Garbarino , Michele Piana