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We study Frank-Wolfe methods for nonconvex stochastic and finite-sum optimization problems. Frank-Wolfe methods (in the convex case) have gained tremendous recent interest in machine learning and optimization communities due to their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-01 Sashank J. Reddi , Suvrit Sra , Barnabas Poczos , Alex Smola

The selective frequency damping (SFD) method is an alternative to classical Newton's method to obtain unstable steady-state solutions of dynamical systems. However this method has two main limitations: it does not converge for arbitrary…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-10-28 Bastien E. Jordi , Colin J. Cotter , Spencer J. Sherwin

We compare the convergence of several flat-histogram methods applied to the 2D Ising model, including the recently introduced stochastic approximation with a dynamic update factor (SAD) method. We compare this method with the Wang-Landau…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-09-23 Jordan K. Pommerenck , David Roundy

Ewald summation is an important technique used to deal with long-range Coulomb interaction. While it is widely used in simulations of molecules and solid state materials, many important results are dispersed in literature and their…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-05-26 D. Wang , J. Liu , J. Zhang , S. Raza , X. Chen , C. -L. Jia

Dynamics simulation with frictional contacts is important for a wide range of applications, from cloth simulation to object manipulation. Recent methods using smoothed lagged friction forces have enabled robust and differentiable simulation…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Egor Larionov , Andreas Longva , Uri M. Ascher , Jan Bender , Dinesh K. Pai

In this paper, we show that the Away-step Stochastic Frank-Wolfe Algorithm (ASFW) and Pairwise Stochastic Frank-Wolfe algorithm (PSFW) converge linearly in expectation. We also show that if an algorithm convergences linearly in expectation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-22 Donald Goldfarb , Garud Iyengar , Chaoxu Zhou

Previously, we have proposed a direct simulation scheme for colloidal dispersions in a Newtonian solvent [Phys.Rev.E 71,036707 (2005)]. An improved formulation called the ``Smoothed Profile (SP) method'' is presented here in which…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-04-15 Yasuya Nakayama , Kang Kim , Ryoichi Yamamoto

The smooth particle mesh Ewald (SPME) method is an FFT based method for the fast evaluation of electrostatic interactions under periodic boundary conditions. A highly optimized implementation of this method is available in GROMACS, a widely…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-14 Davood Saffar Shamshirgar , Berk Hess , Anna-Karin Tornberg

We present a hybrid computational method for simulating the dynamics of macromolecules in solution which couples a mesoscale solver for the fluctuating hydrodynamics (FH) equations with molecular dynamics to describe the macromolecule. The…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Giupponi , G. De Fabritiis , P. V. Coveney

Recently, Gimbutas et al derived an elegant representation for the Green's functions of Stokes flow in a half-space. We present a fast summation method for sums involving these half-space Green's functions (stokeslets, stresslets and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-19 Shriram Srinivasan , Anna-Karin Tornberg

We develop a random batch Ewald (RBE) method for molecular dynamics simulations of particle systems with long-range Coulomb interactions, which achieves an $O(N)$ complexity in each step of simulating the $N$-body systems. The RBE method is…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-03-18 Shi Jin , Lei Li , Zhenli Xu , Yue Zhao

We present an efficient algorithm for the all-electron periodic Coulomb matrix based on the Ewald summation combined with the Fourier-transformed Coulomb method. The short-range contributions involving compact densities are evaluated in…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 Hieu Q. Dinh , Adam Rettig , Xintian Feng , Joonho Lee

This work presents the mathematical and computational aspects of a smooth dissipative particle dynamics with dynamic virtual particle allocation method (SDPD-DV) for modeling and simulation of mesoscopic fluids in wall-bounded domains. The…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-08-24 Jun Yang

We propose Frank--Wolfe (FW) algorithms with an adaptive Bregman step-size strategy for smooth adaptable (also called: relatively smooth) (weakly-) convex functions. This means that the gradient of the objective function is not necessarily…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-19 Shota Takahashi , Sebastian Pokutta , Akiko Takeda

Classical Ewald methods for Coulomb and Stokes interactions rely on ``kernel-splitting," using decompositions based on Gaussians to divide the resulting potential into a near field and a far field component. Here, we show that a more…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Ludvig af Klinteberg , Leslie Greengard , Shidong Jiang , Anna-Karin Tornberg

Dielectrically confined Coulomb systems are widely employed in molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. Despite extensive efforts in developing efficient and accurate algorithms for these systems, rigorous and accurate error estimates, which…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-25 Xuanzhao Gao , Qi Zhou , Zecheng Gan , Jiuyang Liang

We reexamine results obtained with the recently proposed density functional theory framework based on forces (force-DFT) [Tschopp et al., Phys. Rev. E 106, 014115 (2022)]. We compare inhomogeneous density profiles for hard sphere fluids to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-02-28 Florian Sammüller , Sophie Hermann , Matthias Schmidt

The Frank-Wolfe (FW) optimization algorithm has lately re-gained popularity thanks in particular to its ability to nicely handle the structured constraints appearing in machine learning applications. However, its convergence rate is known…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-11-19 Simon Lacoste-Julien , Martin Jaggi

Ewald summation is widely used to calculate electrostatic interactions in computer simulations of condensed-matter systems. We present an analysis of the errors arising from truncating the infinite real- and Fourier-space lattice sums in…

chem-ph · Physics 2016-08-31 Gerhard Hummer

To realize efficient computational fluid dynamics (CFD) prediction of two-phase flow, a multi-scale framework was proposed in this paper by applying a physics-guided data-driven approach. Instrumental to this framework, Feature Similarity…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-10-18 Han Bao , Jinyong Feng , Nam Dinh , Hongbin Zhang