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First-order methods are often analyzed via their continuous-time models, where their worst-case convergence properties are usually approached via Lyapunov functions. In this work, we provide a systematic and principled approach to find and…

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We construct an efficient numerical scheme for solving obstacle problems in divergence form. The numerical method is based on a reformulation of the obstacle in terms of an L1-like penalty on the variational problem. The reformulation is an…

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In this paper, the solvability of the Inverse Optimal Control (IOC) problem based on two existing minimum principal methods, is analysed. The aim of this work is to answer the question regarding what kinds of trajectories, that is depending…

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We introduce a dynamical system to the problem of finding zeros of the sum of two maximally monotone operators. We investigate the existence, uniqueness and extendability of solutions to this dynamical system in a Hilbert space. We prove…

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We give in this paper a convergence result concerning parallel asynchronous algorithm with bounded delays to solve a nonlinear fixed point problems. This result is applied to calculate the solution of a strongly monotone operator. Special…

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This paper addresses a doubly nonlinear parabolic inclusion of the form $A(u_t)+B(u)\ni f$. Existence of a solution is proved under suitable monotonicity, coercivity, and structure assumptions on the operators $A$ and $B$, which in…

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Firstly, we invoke the weak convergence (resp. strong convergence) of translated basic methods involving nonexpansive operators to establish the weak convergence (resp. strong convergence) of the associated method with both perturbation and…

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We study an inverse drift problem for a two-dimensional parabolic equation on the unit square with mixed boundary conditions, where the drift coefficient is recovered from terminal observation data $g=u(\cdot,T)$. A monotone operator is…

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We propose a forward-backward splitting dynamical system for solving inclusion problems of the form $0\in A(x)+B(x)$ in Hilbert spaces, where $A$ is a maximal operator and $B$ is a single-valued operator. Involved operators are assumed to…

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We propose a penalty-based smoothing framework for convex nonsmooth functions with a supremum structure. The regularization yields a differentiable surrogate with controlled approximation error, a single-valued dual maximizer, and explicit…

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In this series of eight papers we present the applications of methods from wavelet analysis to polynomial approximations for a number of accelerator physics problems. In this part we consider a model for spin-orbital motion: orbital…

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We consider a general class of constrained optimization problems with an additional $\ell_0$- sparsity term in the objective function. Based on a recent reformulation of this difficult $\ell_0$-term, we consider a nonsmooth penalty approach…

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We propose an elementary proof based on a penalization technique to show the existence and uniqueness of the solution to a system of variational inequalities modelling the friction-based motion of a two-body crawling system. Here for each…

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First order optimization algorithms play a major role in large scale machine learning. A new class of methods, called adaptive algorithms, were recently introduced to adjust iteratively the learning rate for each coordinate. Despite great…

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We consider small nonlinear perturbations of linear systems on a time scale with the phase space being finite or infinite-dimensional. For $\Delta$-differential operators, corresponding to linear dynamic systems we consider their…

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