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This work is about a new two-level solver for Helmholtz equations discretized by finite elements. The method is inspired by two-grid methods for finite-difference Helmholtz problems as well as by previous work on two-level…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Christiaan C. Stolk

To mitigate pollution effects in high-frequency Helmholtz problems, Learning-based Numerical Methods (LbNM) reconstruct solution operators using complete systems of exact solutions. However, the previously used fundamental-solution (FS)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Lifu Song , Tingyue Li , Jin Cheng

In this paper we propose a variant of the random coordinate descent method for solving linearly constrained convex optimization problems with composite objective functions. If the smooth part of the objective function has Lipschitz…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-02-14 Ion Necoara , Andrei Patrascu

We propose a doubly stochastic primal-dual coordinate optimization algorithm for empirical risk minimization, which can be formulated as a bilinear saddle-point problem. In each iteration, our method randomly samples a block of coordinates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-04-13 Adams Wei Yu , Qihang Lin , Tianbao Yang

In this article, we study the convergence of Mirror Descent (MD) and Optimistic Mirror Descent (OMD) for saddle point problems satisfying the notion of coherence as proposed in Mertikopoulos et al. We prove convergence of OMD with exact…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-06 Yanting Ma , Shuchin Aeron , Hassan Mansour

This paper presents local and global bifurcation results for radially symmetric solutions of the cubic Helmholtz system \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} -\Delta u - \mu u = \left( u^2 + b \: v^2 \right) u &\text{ on } \mathbb{R}^3, \\…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-05 Rainer Mandel , Dominic Scheider

We explain how to use smooth bivariate splines of arbitrary degree to solve the exterior Helmholtz equation based on a Perfectly Matched Layer (PML) technique. In a previous study (cf. [26]), it was shown that bivariate spline functions of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-20 Shelvean Kapita , Ming Jun Lai

In this paper we extend analysis of the WaveHoltz iteration -- a time-domain iterative method for the solution of the Helmholtz equation. We expand the previous analysis of energy conserving problems and prove convergence of the WaveHoltz…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-26 Fortino Garcia , Daniel Appelö , Olof Runborg

Here we present a multiscale method to calculate the saddle point associated with the effective dynamics arising from a stochastic system which couples slow deterministic drift and fast stochastic dynamics. This problem is motivated by the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-25 Shuting Gu , Xiang Zhou

The Monge-Kantorovich problem is revisited by means of a variant of the saddle-point method without appealing to $c$-conjugates. A new abstract characterization of the optimal plans is obtained in the case where the cost function takes…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-08-02 Christian Léonard

This paper develops some interior penalty $hp$-discontinuous Galerkin ($hp$-DG) methods for the Helmholtz equation in two and three dimensions. The proposed $hp$-DG methods are defined using a sesquilinear form which is not only…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-07-21 Xiaobing Feng , Haijun Wu

A central challenge to many fields of science and engineering involves minimizing non-convex error functions over continuous, high dimensional spaces. Gradient descent or quasi-Newton methods are almost ubiquitously used to perform such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-06-11 Yann Dauphin , Razvan Pascanu , Caglar Gulcehre , Kyunghyun Cho , Surya Ganguli , Yoshua Bengio

We consider the numerical solution of high-frequency scattering problems modeled by the Helmholtz equation with a bounded obstacle. Although the analysis of this problem dates back at least 50 years, over the past decade or so, tools and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Jeffrey Galkowski , Euan A. Spence

A full multigrid finite element method is proposed for semilinear elliptic equations. The main idea is to transform the solution of the semilinear problem into a series of solutions of the corresponding linear boundary value problems on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-29 Hehu Xie , Fei Xu

We consider (stochastic) convex-concave saddle point (SP) problems with high-dimensional decision variables, arising in various applications including machine learning problems. To contend with the challenges in computing full gradients, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Erfan Yazdandoost Hamedani , Afrooz Jalilzadeh , Necdet Serhat Aybat

We present a computational methodology for obtaining rotationally symmetric sets of points satisfying discrete geometric constraints, and demonstrate its applicability by discovering new solutions to some well-known problems in…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Bernardo Subercaseaux , Ethan Mackey , Long Qian , Marijn J. H. Heule

The study of stochastic variational principles involves the problem of constructing fixed-endpoint and adapted variations of semimartingales. We provide a detailed construction of variations of semimartingales that are not only fixed at…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-09-11 Archishman Saha

Wavelet theory has been well studied in recent decades. Due to their appealing features such as sparse multiscale representation and fast algorithms, wavelets have enjoyed many tremendous successes in the areas of signal/image processing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-27 Bin Han , Michelle Michelle , Yau Shu Wong

This paper presents an efficient parallel direct algorithm with near-optimal complexity for the compact fourth and sixth-order approximation of the three-dimensional Helmholtz equations [1] with the problem coefficient depending on only one…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-13 Ronald Gonzales , Yury Gryazin , Yun Teck Lee

We consider saddle point problems which objective functions are the average of $n$ strongly convex-concave individual components. Recently, researchers exploit variance reduction methods to solve such problems and achieve linear-convergence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Luo Luo , Cheng Chen , Yujun Li , Guangzeng Xie , Zhihua Zhang