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We introduce the smt toolbox for Matlab. It implements optimized storage and fast arithmetics for circulant and Toeplitz matrices, and is intended to be transparent to the user and easily extensible. It also provides a set of test matrices,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-16 Michela Redivo-Zaglia , Giuseppe Rodriguez

We develop an inexact primal-dual first-order smoothing framework to solve a class of non-bilinear saddle point problems with primal strong convexity. Compared with existing methods, our framework yields a significant improvement over the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-25 Le Thi Khanh Hien , Renbo Zhao , William B. Haskell

This paper derives a discrete dual problem for a prototypical hybrid high-order method for convex minimization problems. The discrete primal and dual problem satisfy a weak convex duality that leads to a priori error estimates with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-10 Ngoc Tien Tran

XMDS2 is a cross-platform, GPL-licensed, open source package for numerically integrating initial value problems that range from a single ordinary differential equation up to systems of coupled stochastic partial differential equations. The…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-11-22 Graham R. Dennis , Joseph J. Hope , Mattias T. Johnsson

Primal-dual interior-point methods solve constrained convex optimization problems to tight tolerances with speed and robustness. Their solutions are also efficiently differentiable with respect to the problem data through the implicit…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Jon Arrizabalaga , Kevin Tracy , Zachary Manchester

Scientific computing requires handling large linear models, which are often composed of structured matrices. With increasing model size, dense representations quickly become infeasible to compute or store. Matrix-free implementations are…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Christoph Wilfried Wagner , Sebastian Semper , Jan Kirchhof

This paper presents a simple primal dual method named DPD which is a flexible framework for a class of saddle point problem with or without strongly convex component. The presented method has linearized version named LDPD and exact version…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-16 Zhipeng Xie , Jianwen Shi

We introduce a convex optimization modeling framework that transforms a convex optimization problem expressed in a form natural and convenient for the user into an equivalent cone program in a way that preserves fast linear transforms in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-11-05 Steven Diamond , Stephen Boyd

We consider robust discrete minimization problems where uncertainty is defined by a convex set in the objective. We show how an integrality gap verifier for the linear programming relaxation of the non-robust version of the problem can be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-17 Khaled Elbassioni

The context of this work is the design of a software, called MEMSALab, dedicated to the automatic derivation of multiscale models of arrays of micro- and nanosystems. In this domain a model is a partial differential equation. Multiscale…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Walid Belkhir , Alain Giorgetti , Michel Lenczner

We consider linear programming (LP) problems in infinite dimensional spaces that are in general computationally intractable. Under suitable assumptions, we develop an approximation bridge from the infinite-dimensional LP to tractable finite…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-22 Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani , Tobias Sutter , Daniel Kuhn , John Lygeros

Based on a preconditioned version of the randomized block-coordinate forward-backward algorithm recently proposed in [Combettes,Pesquet,2014], several variants of block-coordinate primal-dual algorithms are designed in order to solve a wide…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-10-28 Jean-Christophe Pesquet , Audrey Repetti

We propose a new primal-dual algorithmic framework for a prototypical constrained convex optimization template. The algorithmic instances of our framework are universal since they can automatically adapt to the unknown Holder continuity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-11-09 Alp Yurtsever , Quoc Tran-Dinh , Volkan Cevher

We propose a primal--dual technique that applies to infinite dimensional equality constrained problems, in particular those arising from optimal control. As an application of our general framework, we solve a control-constrained double…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-14 Regina S. Burachik , C. Yalçın Kaya , Xuemei Liu

Proximal operators with affine constraints arise in numerous models in nonconvex projection, composite optimization, and structured regularization. However, their efficient computation remains challenging due to the simultaneous presence of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-02 Di Hou , Tianyun Tang , Kim-Chuan Toh , Shiwei Wang

In this article we develop a new primal dual variational formulation suitable for a large class of non-convex problems in the calculus of variations. The results are obtained through basic tools of convex analysis, duality theory, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-05 Fabio Botelho

We consider convex-concave saddle point problems with a separable structure and non-strongly convex functions. We propose an efficient stochastic block coordinate descent method using adaptive primal-dual updates, which enables flexible…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-11-24 Zhanxing Zhu , Amos J. Storkey

Matrices with hierarchical low-rank structure, including HODLR and HSS matrices, constitute a versatile tool to develop fast algorithms for addressing large-scale problems. While existing software packages for such matrices often focus on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-30 Stefano Massei , Leonardo Robol , Daniel Kressner

Combining gradient-based trajectory optimization with differentiable physics simulation is an efficient technique for solving soft-body manipulation problems. Using a well-crafted optimization objective, the solver can quickly converge onto…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Zhiao Huang , Feng Chen , Yewen Pu , Chunru Lin , Hao Su , Chuang Gan

We present Epsilon, a system for general convex programming using fast linear and proximal operators. As with existing convex programming frameworks, users specify convex optimization problems using a natural grammar for mathematical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-11-17 Matt Wytock , Po-Wei Wang , J. Zico Kolter