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We develop a parallel-in-time multigrid preconditioner for augmented systems. These saddle-point systems are foundational to numerical optimization. Our preconditioner, when paired with a suitable optimization method, accelerates the…

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In this paper preconditioners for the Conjugate Gradient method are studied to solve the Newton system with symmetric positive definite Jacobian. In particular, we define a sequence of preconditioners built by means of SR1 and BFGS low-rank…

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We develop robust solvers for a class of perturbed saddle-point problems arising in the study of a second-order elliptic equation in mixed form (in terms of flux and potential), and of the four-field formulation of Biot's consolidation…

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We derive novel algorithms for optimization problems constrained by partial differential equations describing multiscale particle dynamics, including non-local integral terms representing interactions between particles. In particular, we…

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Regularization robust preconditioners for PDE-constrained optimization problems have been successfully developed. These methods, however, typically assume that observation data is available throughout the entire domain of the state…

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The preconditioned iterative solution of large-scale saddle-point systems is of great importance in numerous application areas, many of them involving partial differential equations. Robustness with respect to certain problem parameters is…

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We study preconditioners for a model problem describing the coupling of two elliptic subproblems posed over domains with different topological dimension by a parameter dependent constraint. A pair of parameter robust and efficient…

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In this work, we propose a novel diagonalization-based preconditioner for the all-at-once linear system arising from the optimal control problem of parabolic equations. The proposed preconditioner is constructed based on an…

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In this paper, the generalized shift-splitting preconditioner is implemented for saddle point problems with symmetric positive definite (1,1)-block and symmetric positive semidefinite (2,2)-block. The proposed preconditioner is extracted…

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PDE-constrained optimization problems with control or state constraints are challenging from an analytical as well as numerical perspective. The combination of these constraints with a sparsity-promoting $\rm L^1$ term within the objective…

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In this paper, we present a structured solver based on the preconditioned conjugate gradient method (PCGM) for solving the linear quadratic (LQ) optimal control problem for $K \times N$ sub-systems connected in a two-dimensional (2D) grid…

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We present a new parallel computational framework for the efficient solution of a class of $L^2$/$L^1$-regularized optimal control problems governed by semi-linear elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs). The main difficulty in…

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In contact mechanics computation, the constraint conditions on the contact surfaces are typically enforced by the Lagrange multiplier method, resulting in a saddle point system. Given that the saddle point matrix is indefinite, solving…

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In this paper we propose an efficiently preconditioned Newton method for the computation of the leftmost eigenpairs of large and sparse symmetric positive definite matrices. A sequence of preconditioners based on the BFGS update formula is…

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Topology optimization problems generally support multiple local minima, and real-world applications are typically three-dimensional. In previous work [I. P. A. Papadopoulos, P. E. Farrell, and T. M. Surowiec, Computing multiple solutions of…

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High-order implicit shock tracking (fitting) is a class of high-order numerical methods that use numerical optimization to simultaneously compute a high-order approximation to a conservation law solution and align elements of the…

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Based on the needs of convergence proofs of preconditioned proximal point methods, we introduce notions of partial strong submonotonicity and partial (metric) subregularity of set-valued maps. We study relationships between these two…

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