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We show how to increase the order of one-dimensional discrete gradient numerical integrator without losing its advantages, such as exceptional stability, exact conservation of the energy integral and exact preservation of the trajectories…

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We describe a novel constructive technique for devising efficient first-order methods for a wide range of large-scale convex minimization settings, including smooth, non-smooth, and strongly convex minimization. The technique builds upon a…

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In this paper we introduce discrete gradient methods to discretize irreversible port-Hamiltonian systems showing that the main qualitative properties of the continuous system are preserved using this kind discretizations methods.

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-15 Alexandre Anahory Simoes , David Martín de Diego , Bernhard Maschke

Mathematical descriptions of flow phenomena usually come in the form of partial differential equations. The differential operators used in these equations may have properties such as symmetry, skew-symmetry, positive or negative…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-20 Bas van 't Hof , Mathea J. Vuik

This work extends our previous study from S. Shrestha et al. (2024) by introducing a new abstract framework for Variational Multiscale (VMS) methods at the discrete level. We introduce the concept of what we define as the optimal projector…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-04 Suyash Shrestha , Marc Gerritsma , Gonzalo Rubio , Steven Hulshoff , Esteban Ferrer

We introduce the Optimizing a Discrete Loss (ODIL) framework for the numerical solution of Partial Differential Equations (PDE) using machine learning tools. The framework formulates numerical methods as a minimization of discrete residuals…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-23 Petr Karnakov , Sergey Litvinov , Petros Koumoutsakos

The iterative nature of many discretisation methods for continuous dynamical systems has led to the study of the connections between iterative numerical methods in numerical linear algebra and continuous dynamical systems. Certain…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-28 Yuto Miyatake , Tomohiro Sogabe , Shao-Liang Zhang

Invex programs are a special kind of non-convex problems which attain global minima at every stationary point. While classical first-order gradient descent methods can solve them, they converge very slowly. In this paper, we propose new…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-11 Adarsh Barik , Suvrit Sra , Jean Honorio

Objective: In this work, we propose a framework for differentiable forward and back-projector that enables scalable, accurate, and memory-efficient gradient computation for rigid motion estimation tasks. Methods: Unlike existing approaches…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-12-16 Xiao Jiang , Xin Wang , Ali Uneri , Wojciech B. Zbijewski , J. Webster Stayman

In this paper we propose projection methods based on spline quasi-interpolating projectors of degree $d$ and class $C^{d-1}$ on a bounded interval for the numerical solution of nonlinear integral equations. We prove that they have high…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-15 Catterina Dagnino , Angelo Dallefrate , Sara Remogna

First-order operator splitting methods are ubiquitous among many fields through science and engineering, such as inverse problems, signal/image processing, statistics, data science and machine learning, to name a few. In this paper, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-10 Clarice Poon , Jingwei Liang

In this work, we study a novel class of projection-based algorithms for linearly constrained problems (LCPs) which have a lot of applications in statistics, optimization, and machine learning. Conventional primal gradient-based methods for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-06 Xiang Li , Zhihua Zhang

We propose a family of optimization methods that achieve linear convergence using first-order gradient information and constant step sizes on a class of convex functions much larger than the smooth and strongly convex ones. This larger…

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In this paper, we consider gradient methods for minimizing smooth convex functions, which employ the information obtained at the previous iterations in order to accelerate the convergence towards the optimal solution. This information is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-02 Yurii Nesterov , Mihai I. Florea

We study the projective systems in both continuous and discrete settings. These systems are linearizable by construction and thus, obviously, integrable. We show that in the continuous case it is possible to eliminate all variables but one…

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Neural field models are nonlinear integro-differential equations for the evolution of neuronal activity, and they are a prototypical large-scale, coarse-grained neuronal model in continuum cortices. Neural fields are often simulated…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-01 Daniele Avitabile

One of the main difficulties in micromagnetics simulation is the norm preserving constraints $\|\mathbf{m}\|=1$ at the continuous or the discrete level. Another difficulty is the stability with the time step constraint. Using standard…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Changjian Xie , Yingxi Miao , Haocheng Yang

We show that the primal-dual gradient method, also known as the gradient descent ascent method, for solving convex-concave minimax problems can be viewed as an inexact gradient method applied to the primal problem. The gradient, whose exact…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-03 Shuo Han

We provide a comprehensive survey of splitting and composition methods for the numerical integration of ordinary differential equations (ODEs). Splitting methods constitute an appropriate choice when the vector field associated with the ODE…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-04-11 Sergio Blanes , Fernando Casas , Ander Murua

Projected Gradient Descent denotes a class of iterative methods for solving optimization programs. Its applicability to convex optimization programs has gained significant popularity for its intuitive implementation that involves only…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-24 Giampaolo Torrisi , Sergio Grammatico , Roy S. Smith , Manfred Morari