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Statistical shape analysis can be done in a Riemannian framework by endowing the set of shapes with a Riemannian metric. Sobolev metrics of order two and higher on shape spaces of parametrized or unparametrized curves have several desirable…

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In this paper, an efficient modified Newton type algorithm is proposed for nonlinear unconstrianed optimization problems. The modified Hessian is a convex combination of the identity matrix (for steepest descent algorithm) and the Hessian…

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The rapidly evolving field of engineering design of functional surfaces necessitates sophisticated tools to manage the inherent complexity of high-dimensional design spaces. This survey paper offers a scoping review, i.e., a literature…

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In this article we consider shape optimization problems as optimal control problems via the method of mappings. Instead of optimizing over a set of admissible shapes a reference domain is introduced and it is optimized over a set of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-09 Johannes Haubner , Martin Siebenborn , Michael Ulbrich

This paper focuses on minimizing a smooth function combined with a nonsmooth regularization term on a compact Riemannian submanifold embedded in the Euclidean space under a decentralized setting. Typically, there are two types of approaches…

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We consider the fundamental task of optimising a real-valued function defined in a potentially high-dimensional Euclidean space, such as the loss function in many machine-learning tasks or the logarithm of the probability distribution in…

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In this work, a nonlinear momentum method is introduced to enhance the convergence performance of momentum-based gradient optimization algorithms. Classical momentum methods, such as the Heavy Ball method, can be viewed as a dynamical…

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This paper examines a variety of classical optimization problems, including well-known minimization tasks and more general variational inequalities. We consider a stochastic formulation of these problems, and unlike most previous work, we…

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In this paper, we propose new methods to efficiently solve convex optimization problems encountered in sparse estimation, which include a new quasi-Newton method that avoids computing the Hessian matrix and improves efficiency, and we prove…

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Shape optimization problems for interior eigenvalues is a very challenging task since already the computation of interior eigenvalues for a given shape is far from trivial. For example, a concrete maximizer with respect to shapes of fixed…

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A Riemannian metric is termed a Hessian metric if in some coordinate system it can be locally represented as the Hessian quadratic form of some locally defined smooth potential function. Under very mild extra technical conditions, we first…

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In this paper, we consider the composite optimization problems over the Stiefel manifold. A successful method to solve this class of problems is the proximal gradient method proposed by Chen et al. Motivated by the proximal Newton-type…

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For the numerical solution of shape optimization problems, particularly those constrained by partial differential equations (PDEs), the quality of the underlying mesh is of utmost importance. Particularly when investigating complex…

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In this paper, we propose a novel shape optimization approach for the source identification of elliptic equations. This identification problem arises from two application backgrounds: actuator placement in PDE-constrained optimal controls…

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Computations on a manifold often involve constructing an operator on the tangent space and computing its inverse, which can be time-consuming in many applications. In order to reduce the computational costs and preserve the benign…

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We present a new method for stochastic shape optimisation of engineering structures. The method generalises an existing deterministic scheme, in which the structure is represented and evolved by a level-set method coupled with mathematical…

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We propose a randomized second-order method for optimization known as the Newton Sketch: it is based on performing an approximate Newton step using a randomly projected or sub-sampled Hessian. For self-concordant functions, we prove that…

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