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In this paper we present a conservative cell-centered Lagrangian finite volume scheme for the solution of the hyper-elasticity equations on unstructured multidimensional grids. The starting point of the new method is the Eucclhyd scheme,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-07 Walter Boscheri , Raphaël Loubère , Pierre-Henri Maire

Lagrangian trajectories are widely used as observations for recovering the underlying flow field via Lagrangian data assimilation (DA). However, the strong nonlinearity in the observational process and the high dimensionality of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-02-06 Quanling Deng , Nan Chen , Samuel N. Stechmann , Jiuhua Hu

This work investigates the convergence behavior of augmented Lagrangian methods (ALMs) when applied to convex optimization problems that may be infeasible. ALMs are a popular class of algorithms for solving constrained optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Roland Andrews , Justin Carpentier , Adrien Taylor

We consider optimization problems on manifolds with equality and inequality constraints. A large body of work treats constrained optimization in Euclidean spaces. In this work, we consider extensions of existing algorithms from the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-26 Changshuo Liu , Nicolas Boumal

This paper proposes a proximal variant of the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) for distributed optimization. Although the current versions of ADMM algorithm provide promising numerical results in producing solutions that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-01 Reza Mirzaeifard , Naveen K. D. Venkategowda , Alexander Jung , Stefan Werner

In this paper, we obtain global $\mathcal{O} (1/ \sqrt{k})$ pointwise and $\mathcal{O} (1/ {k})$ ergodic convergence rates for a variable metric proximal alternating direction method of multipliers(VM-PADMM) for solving linearly constrained…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-05 Max L. N. Goncalves , Jefferson G. Melo , M. Marques Alves

We consider the problem of minimizing the sum of non-smooth convex functions in non-Euclidean spaces, e.g., probability simplex, via only local computation and communication on an undirected graph. We propose two algorithms motivated by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-22 Yue Yu , Behçet Açıkmeşe , Mehran Mesbahi

We consider minimization of the sum of a large number of convex functions, and we propose an incremental aggregated version of the proximal algorithm, which bears similarity to the incremental aggregated gradient and subgradient methods…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-11-05 Dimitri P. Bertsekas

This paper considers decentralized consensus optimization problems where different summands of a global objective function are available at nodes of a network that can communicate with neighbors only. The proximal method of multipliers is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-02-02 Aryan Mokhtari , Wei Shi , Qing Ling , Alejandro Ribeiro

In this paper, we define the geometric median of a probability measure on a Riemannian manifold, give its characterization and a natural condition to ensure its uniqueness. In order to calculate the median in practical cases, we also…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Le Yang

Motivated by data analysis and machine learning applications, we consider the popular high-dimensional Euclidean $k$-median and $k$-means problems. We propose a new primal-dual algorithm, inspired by the classic algorithm of Jain and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Vincent Cohen-Addad , Hossein Esfandiari , Vahab Mirrokni , Shyam Narayanan

We consider the problem of decentralized composite optimization over a symmetric connected graph, in which each node holds its own agent-specific private convex functions, and communications are only allowed between nodes with direct links.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-06 Bin Wang , Jun Fang , Huiping Duan , Hongbin Li

Anatomical mesh segmentation requires models that operate directly on irregular surface geometry while remaining robust to arbitrary patient pose and mesh resolution variation. Existing task-specific mesh and point-cloud methods are not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Daniel Saragih

Gaussian noise removal is an interesting area in digital image processing not only to improve the visual quality, but for its impact on other post-processing algorithms like image registration or segmentation. Many presented…

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In this paper, we consider the adaptive Eulerian--Lagrangian method (ELM) for linear convection-diffusion problems. Unlike the classical a posteriori error estimations, we estimate the temporal error along the characteristics and derive a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-09-07 Xiaozhe Hu , Young-Ju Lee , Jinchao Xu , Chensong Zhang

Measuring the similarity between data points often requires domain knowledge, which can in parts be compensated by relying on unsupervised methods such as latent-variable models, where similarity/distance is estimated in a more compact…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-08-13 Nutan Chen , Alexej Klushyn , Francesco Ferroni , Justin Bayer , Patrick van der Smagt

We introduce a framework for designing primal methods under the decentralized optimization setting where local functions are smooth and strongly convex. Our approach consists of approximately solving a sequence of sub-problems induced by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-15 Yossi Arjevani , Joan Bruna , Bugra Can , Mert Gürbüzbalaban , Stefanie Jegelka , Hongzhou Lin

Euclidean Distance Matrix (EDM), which consists of pairwise squared Euclidean distances of a given point configuration, finds many applications in modern machine learning. This paper considers the setting where only a set of anchor nodes is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Chandra Kundu , Abiy Tasissa , HanQin Cai

The recently proposed Broximal Point Method (BPM) [Gruntkowska et al., 2025] offers an idealized optimization framework based on iteratively minimizing the objective function over norm balls centered at the current iterate. It enjoys…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-02 Kaja Gruntkowska , Peter Richtárik

In this paper, we develop a splitting algorithm incorporating Bregman distances to solve a broad class of linearly constrained composite optimization problems, whose objective function is the separable sum of possibly nonconvex nonsmooth…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-01 Tan Nhat Pham , Minh N. Dao , Andrew Eberhard , Nargiz Sultanova