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We provide an asymptotic expansion of the value function of a multidimensional utility maximization problem from consumption with small non-linear price impact. In our model cross-impacts between assets are allowed. In the limit for small…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-25 Erhan Bayraktar , Thomas Caye , Ibrahim Ekren

We consider the problem of the approximation of the solution of a one-dimensional SDE with non-globally Lipschitz drift and diffusion coefficients behaving as $x^\alpha$, with $\alpha>1$. We propose an (semi-explicit) exponential-Euler…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-11-30 Mireille Bossy , Jean Francois Jabir , Kerlyns Martinez

In this paper, we first study nonsmooth steepest descent method for nonsmooth functions defined on Hilbert space and establish the corresponding algorithm by proximal subgradients. Then, we use this algorithm to find stationary points for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-02-25 Zhou Wei , Qing Hai He

This paper aims to investigate the numerical approximation of semilinear non-autonomous stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs) driven by multiplicative or additive noise. Such equations are more realistic than autonomous SPDEs…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-18 Jean Daniel Mukam , Antoine Tambue

In this paper, a descent method for nonsmooth multiobjective optimization problems on complete Riemannian manifolds is proposed. The objective functions are only assumed to be locally Lipschitz continuous instead of convexity used in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-14 Chunming Tang , Hao He , Jinbao Jian , Miantao Chao

We study a class of optimization problems on Riemannian manifolds, where the objective function consists of a smooth term and quasi-norm type penalties with exponent $p \in (0, 1]$. The essential difficulty lies in the fact that the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Lei Wang , Xiaojun Chen

We investigate the stochastic optimization problem of minimizing population risk, where the loss defining the risk is assumed to be weakly convex. Compositions of Lipschitz convex functions with smooth maps are the primary examples of such…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-19 Damek Davis , Dmitriy Drusvyatskiy

We propose a single time-scale stochastic subgradient method for constrained optimization of a composition of several nonsmooth and nonconvex functions. The functions are assumed to be locally Lipschitz and differentiable in a generalized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-22 Andrzej Ruszczynski

This paper demonstrates that the space of piecewise smooth functions can be well approximated by the space of functions defined by a set of simple (non-linear) operations on smooth uniform splines. The examples include bivariate functions…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-13 David Levin

Nonlinear (systems of) ordinary differential equations (ODEs) are common tools in the analysis of complex one-dimensional dynamic systems. In this paper we propose a smoothing approach regularized by a quasilinearized ODE-based penalty in…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-04-30 Gianluca Frasso , Jonathan Jaeger , Philippe Lambert

We propose a new variant of Kelley's cutting-plane method for minimizing a nonsmooth convex Lipschitz-continuous function over the Euclidean space. We derive the method through a constructive approach and prove that it attains the optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-06-16 Yoel Drori , Marc Teboulle

This survey hinges on the interplay between regularity and approximation for linear and quasi-linear fractional elliptic problems on Lipschitz domains. For the linear Dirichlet integral Laplacian, after briefly recalling H\"older regularity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-02 Juan Pablo Borthagaray , Wenbo Li , Ricardo H. Nochetto

We establish existence of steepest descent curves emanating from almost every point of a regular locally Lipschitz quasiconvex functions, where regularity means that the sweeping process flow induced by the sublevel sets is reversible. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-19 Aris Daniilidis , David Salas

In this paper, we analyze the mirror descent algorithm for non-smooth optimization problems in which the objective function is relatively strongly convex, without relying on the standard Lipschitz continuity assumption commonly used in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Mohammad S. Alkousa , Fedor S. Stonyakin

In this work, we investigate the numerical approximation of the second order non-autonomous semilnear parabolic partial differential equation (PDE) using the finite element method. To the best of our knowledge, only the linear case is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-27 Antoine Tambue , Jean Daniel Mukam

This paper deals with the backward Euler method applied to semilinear parabolic stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs) driven by additive noise. The SPDE is discretized in space by the finite element method and in time by the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-01 Jean Daniel Mukam , Antoine Tambue

This article investigates the numerical approximation of shape optimization problems with PDE constraint on classes of convex domains. The convexity constraint provides a compactness property which implies well posedness of the problem.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-26 Sören Bartels , Gerd Wachsmuth

This technical note studies a class of distributed nonsmooth convex consensus optimization problem. The cost function is a summation of local cost functions which are convex but nonsmooth. Each of the local cost functions consists of a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-17 Yue Wei , Hao Fang , Xianlin Zeng , Jie Chen , Panos M. Pardalos

This work investigates a dynamical system functioning as a nonsmooth adaptation of the continuous Newton method, aimed at minimizing the sum of a primal lower-regular and a locally Lipschitz function, both potentially nonsmooth. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-10 Juan Guillermo Garrido , Pedro Pérez-Aros , Emilio Vilches

This article introduces a novel method for the implementation of shape optimisation with Lipschitz domains. We propose to use the shape derivative to determine deformation fields which represent steepest descent directions of the shape…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-15 Klaus Deckelnick , Philip J. Herbert , Michael Hinze