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This paper introduces a novel method for the efficient second-order accurate computation of normal fields from volume fractions on unstructured polyhedral meshes. Locally, i.e. in each mesh cell, an averaged normal is reconstructed by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-16 Johannes Kromer , Fabio Leotta , Dieter Bothe

This paper sets up an approach for shape optimization problems constrained by variational inequalities (VI) in an appropriate shape space. In contrast to classical VI, where no explicit dependence on the domain is given, VI constrained…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-12 Tim Suchan , Volker Schulz , Kathrin Welker

Second-order methods for neural network optimization have several advantages over methods based on first-order gradient descent, including better scaling to large mini-batch sizes and fewer updates needed for convergence. But they are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-21 Huishuai Zhang , Caiming Xiong , James Bradbury , Richard Socher

Total Generalized Variation (TGV) has recently been proven certainly successful in image processing for preserving sharp features as well as smooth transition variations. However, none of the existing works aims at numerically calculating…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Zheng Liu , YanLei Li , Weina Wang , Ligang Liu , Renjie Chen

Motivated by important applications in image processing, we study a class of second-order geometric quasilinear hyperbolic partial differential equations (PDEs). This is inspired by the recent development of second-order damping systems…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-06 Guozhi Dong , Michael Hintermüller , Ye Zhang

Second-order optimization uses curvature information about the objective function, which can help in faster convergence. However, such methods typically require expensive computation of the Hessian matrix, preventing their usage in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Mohamed Elsayed , A. Rupam Mahmood

We analyze the performance of a variant of Newton method with quadratic regularization for solving composite convex minimization problems. At each step of our method, we choose regularization parameter proportional to a certain power of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-12 Nikita Doikov , Konstantin Mishchenko , Yurii Nesterov

We consider discretized two-dimensional PDE-constrained shape optimization problems, in which shapes are represented by triangular meshes. Given the connectivity, the space of admissible vertex positions was recently identified to be a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-17 Roland Herzog , Estefanía Loayza-Romero

In this paper we propose a Newton method for shape functions defined on an image set generated by the (Micheletti) metric group. We review basic properties of the metric group and a quotient associated with the metric group and a fixed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-06 Kevin Sturm

In this work, we propose a second-order accurate scheme for shallow water equations in general covariant coordinates over manifolds. In particular, the covariant parametrization in general covariant coordinates is induced by the metric…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Michele Giuliano Carlino , Elena Gaburro

In this work, we develop a framework based on piecewize B\'ezier curves to plane shapes deformation and we apply it to shape optimization problems. We describe a general setting and some general result to reduce the study of a shape…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-02-19 Olivier Ruatta

Deformations of the computational mesh arising from optimization routines usually lead to decrease of mesh quality or even destruction of the mesh. We propose a theoretical framework using pre-shapes to generalize classical shape…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-18 Daniel Luft , Volker Schulz

For shape optimization problems, governed by elliptic equations with Dirichlet boundary condition and random coefficients, we utilize a penalization technique to get the approximate problem. We consider that uncertainties exists in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Xiaowei Pang

We deal with the regularity problem for linear, second order parabolic equations and systems in divergence form with measurable data over non-smooth domains, related to variational problems arising in the modeling of composite materials and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-10 Sun-Sig Byun , Dian K. Palagachev , Lubomira G. Softova

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-04 Wei Gong , Ziyi Zhang

In this paper, we study the iteration complexity of cubic regularization of Newton method for solving composite minimization problems with uniformly convex objective. We introduce the notion of second-order condition number of a certain…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-21 Nikita Doikov , Yurii Nesterov

The Newton, Gauss--Newton and Levenberg--Marquardt methods all use the first derivative of a vector function (the Jacobian) to minimise its sum of squares. When the Jacobian matrix is ill-conditioned, the function varies much faster in some…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-01 S. J. Brooks

We introduce a novel method for the implementation of shape optimziation in fluid dynamics applications, where we propose to use the shape derivative to determine deformation fields with the help of the $p-$ Laplacian for $p > 2$. This…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-30 Peter Marvin Müller , Niklas Kühl , Martin Siebenborn , Klaus Deckelnick , Michael Hinze , Thomas Rung

In general, standard necessary optimality conditions cannot be formulated in a straightforward manner for semi-smooth shape optimization problems. In this paper, we consider shape optimization problems constrained by variational…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-17 Daniel Luft , Volker H. Schulz , Kathrin Welker

Shape priors have been widely utilized in medical image segmentation to improve segmentation accuracy and robustness. A major way to encode such a prior shape model is to use a mesh representation, which is prone to causing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-31 Junjie Bai , Abhay Shah , Xiaodong Wu