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In this paper we are concerned with the stabilization of MUSCL-type finite volume schemes in arbitrary space dimensions. We consider a number of limited reconstruction techniques which are defined in terms inequality-constrained linear or…

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Conic optimization plays a crucial role in many machine learning (ML) problems. However, practical algorithms for conic constrained ML problems with large datasets are often limited to specific use cases, as stochastic algorithms for…

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In [Heimann, Lehrenfeld, Preu{\ss}, SIAM J. Sci. Comp. 45(2), 2023, B139 - B165] new geometrically unfitted space-time Finite Element methods for partial differential equations posed on moving domains of higher-order accuracy in space and…

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We extend our study of Motion Planning via Manifold Samples (MMS), a general algorithmic framework that combines geometric methods for the exact and complete analysis of low-dimensional configuration spaces with sampling-based approaches…

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In this paper, we propose a low-rank coordinate descent approach to structured semidefinite programming with diagonal constraints. The approach, which we call the Mixing method, is extremely simple to implement, has no free parameters, and…

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We introduce a manifold-based framework for addressing optimization problems with equality and inequality constraints found in robotics. Our approach transforms the original problem into an unconstrained optimization problem directly on the…

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With advances in technology, there has been growing interest in developing effective mapping methods for 3-dimensional objects in recent years. Volumetric parameterization for 3D solid manifolds plays an important role in processing 3D…

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We consider mechanics of composite materials in which thin inclusions are modeled by lower-dimensional manifolds. By successively applying the dimensional reduction to junctions and intersections within the material, a geometry of…

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Subspace optimization methods have the attractive property of reducing large-scale optimization problems to a sequence of low-dimensional subspace optimization problems. However, existing subspace optimization frameworks adopt a fixed…

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While MCMC methods have become a main work-horse for Bayesian inference, scaling them to large distributed datasets is still a challenge. Embarrassingly parallel MCMC strategies take a divide-and-conquer stance to achieve this by writing…

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Stochastic gradient Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms have received much attention in Bayesian computing for big data problems, but they are only applicable to a small class of problems for which the parameter space has a fixed…

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Establishing Lipschitz stability estimates is crucial for ensuring the mathematical robustness of neural network (NN) approximations in machine learning (ML)-based parameter estimation, particularly in physics-informed settings. In this…

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Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods are one of the most popular classes of algorithms for sampling from a target probability distribution. A rising trend in recent years consists in analyzing the convergence of MCMC algorithms using…

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We consider MCMC algorithms for certain particle systems which include both attractive and repulsive forces, making their convergence analysis challenging. We prove that a version of these algorithms on a bounded state space is uniformly…

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A majorized accelerated block coordinate descent (mABCD) method in Hilbert space is analyzed to solve a sparse PDE-constrained optimization problem via its dual. The finite element approximation method is investigated. The attractive…

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This paper investigates model-order reduction methods for geometrically nonlinear structures. The parametrisation method of invariant manifolds is used and adapted to the case of mechanical systems expressed in the physical basis, so that…

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