English
Related papers

Related papers: LaBonte's method revisited: An effective steepest …

200 papers

In this paper, we develop a set of efficient methods to compute stationary states of the spherical Landau-Brazovskii (LB) model in a discretization-then-optimization way. First, we discretize the spherical LB energy functional into a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Qun Qiu , Wei Si , Guanghua Ji , Kai Jiang

Several strategies are described and analyzed to speed-up gradient-type methods when applied to the minimization of strictly convex quadratics and strictly convex functions. The proposed techniques focus on relaxing the traditional optimal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-19 Jean-Paul Chehab , Gaspard Kemlin , Marcos Raydan , Yousef Saad

In this work we explore the use of thermodynamic length to improve the performance of experimental protocols. In particular, we implement Landauer erasure on a driven electron level in a semiconductor quantum dot, and compare the standard…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-03 Matteo Scandi , David Barker , Sebastian Lehmann , Kimberly A. Dick , Ville F. Maisi , Martí Perarnau-Llobet

A magneto-mechanical static modeling of ferromagnetic particle based on minimization of an energy function is presented. This modeling is made of a conjugate gradient method coupled with finite element method for the mechanical problem…

Classical Physics · Physics 2013-08-27 Frederick Mballa Mballa , Olivier Hubert , Song He , Sophie Depeyre , Philip Meilland

Reduced-order simulation is an emerging method for accelerating physical simulations with high DOFs, and recently developed neural-network-based methods with nonlinear subspaces have been proven effective in diverse applications as more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Aoran Lyu , Shixian Zhao , Chuhua Xian , Zhihao Cen , Hongmin Cai , Guoxin Fang

A third-order accurate implicit-explicit Runge-Kutta time marching numerical scheme is proposed and implemented for the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation, which models magnetization dynamics in ferromagnetic materials, with arbitrary damping…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-09 Yan Gui , Rui Du , Cheng Wang

Magnetization dynamics in ferromagnetic materials is modeled by the Landau-Lifshitz (LL) equation, a nonlinear system of partial differential equations. Among the numerical approaches, semi-implicit schemes are widely used in the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-27 Yan Gui , Cheng Wang , Jingrun Chen

We present a novel method, which we call dual minima hopping method (DMHM), that allows us to find the global minimum of the potential energy surface (PES) within density functional theory for systems where a fast but less accurate…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Stefan Goedecker , Waldemar Hellmann , Thomas Lenosky

We consider the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation (LLG) that models time-dependent micromagnetic phenomena. We propose a full discretization that employs first-order finite elements in space and a BDF2-type two-step method in time. In each…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Michele Aldé , Michael Feischl , Dirk Praetorius

Nonlinear conjugate gradient methods have recently garnered significant attention within the multiobjective optimization community. These methods aim to maintain consistency in conjugate parameters with their single-objective optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-15 Jian Chen , Liping Tang. Xinmin Yang

The gradient method for minimize a differentiable convex function on Riemannian manifolds with lower bounded sectional curvature is analyzed in this paper. The analysis of the method is presented with three different finite procedures for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-08 O. P. Ferreira , M. S. Louzeiro , L. F. Prudente

In order to save the memory, we propose a miniaturization method for neural network to reduce the parameter quantity existed in remote sensing (RS) image semantic segmentation model. The compact convolution optimization method is first used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Shou-Yu Chen , Guang-Sheng Chen , Wei-Peng Jing

This paper outlines an energy-minimization finite-element approach to the modeling of equilibrium configurations for nematic liquid crystals in the presence of internal and external electric fields. The method targets minimization of system…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-07-14 J. H. Adler , T. J. Atherton , T. R. Benson , D. B. Emerson , S. P. MacLachlan

Stochastic gradient methods have been a popular and powerful choice of optimization methods, aimed at minimizing functions. Their advantage lies in the fact that that one approximates the gradient as opposed to using the full Jacobian…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-26 Neil K. Chada , Philip J. Herbert

In this work, we derive particle schemes, based on micro-macro decomposition, for linear kinetic equations in the diffusion limit. Due to the particle approximation of the micro part, a splitting between the transport and the collision part…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-19 Anaïs Crestetto , Nicolas Crouseilles , Mohammed Lemou

We study the Landau-Lifshitz model for the energy of multi-scale transition layers -- called "domain walls" -- in soft ferromagnetic films. Domain walls separate domains of constant magnetization vectors $m^\pm \in \mathbb{S}^2$ that differ…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-09-11 Lukas Döring , Radu Ignat , Felix Otto

Escaping from saddle points and finding local minimum is a central problem in nonconvex optimization. Perturbed gradient methods are perhaps the simplest approach for this problem. However, to find $(\epsilon, \sqrt{\epsilon})$-approximate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-21 Zixiang Chen , Dongruo Zhou , Quanquan Gu

The performance of numerical micromagnetic models is limited by the demagnetizing field computation, which typically accounts for the majority of the computation time. For magnetization dynamics simulations explicit evaluation methods are…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-06-15 Serban Lepadatu

Generalizing the simplex method, circuit augmentation schemes for linear programs follow circuit directions through the interior of the underlying polyhedron. Steepest-descent augmentation is especially promising, but an implementation of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-21 Steffen Borgwardt , Charles Viss

Discrete energy minimization is a ubiquitous task in computer vision, yet is NP-hard in most cases. In this work we propose a multiscale framework for coping with the NP-hardness of discrete optimization. Our approach utilizes algebraic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-04-24 Shai Bagon , Meirav Galun