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These lecture notes for a graduate course cover generalized derivative concepts useful in deriving necessary optimality conditions and numerical algorithms for nondifferentiable optimization problems in inverse problems, imaging, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-16 Christian Clason

We study the complexity of optimizing nonsmooth nonconvex Lipschitz functions by producing $(\delta,\epsilon)$-stationary points. Several recent works have presented randomized algorithms that produce such points using $\tilde…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Michael I. Jordan , Guy Kornowski , Tianyi Lin , Ohad Shamir , Manolis Zampetakis

This paper aims to investigate the numerical approximation of a general second order parabolic stochastic partial differential equation(SPDE) driven by multiplicative and additive noise under more relaxed conditions. The SPDE is discretized…

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

This paper considers the nonconvex nonsmooth problem in which the objective function is Lipschitz continuous. We focus on the stochastic setting where the algorithm can access stochastic function value evaluations with heavy-tailed noise,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Zhuanghua Liu , Luo Luo

We consider the problem of model reduction of parametrized PDEs where the goal is to approximate any function belonging to the set of solutions at a reduced computational cost. For this, the bottom line of most strategies has so far been…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-02 V. Ehrlacher , D. Lombardi , O. Mula , F. -X. Vialard

The present work introduces and investigates an explicit time discretization scheme, called the projected Euler method,to numerically approximate random periodic solutions of semi-linear SDEs under non-globally Lipschitz conditions. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-26 Yujia Guo , Xiaojie Wang , Yue Wu

Randomized smoothing is a widely adopted technique for optimizing nonsmooth objective functions. However, its efficiency analysis typically relies on global Lipschitz continuity, a condition rarely met in practical applications. To address…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-10 Jingfan Xia , Zhenwei Lin , Qi Deng

We present a nonlinear dynamical approximation method for time-dependent Partial Differential Equations (PDEs). The approach makes use of parametrized decoder functions, and provides a general, and principled way of understanding and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Daan Bon , Benjamin Caris , Olga Mula

In this paper, we propose a linear and monolithic finite element method for the approximation of an incompressible viscous fluid interacting with an elastic and deforming plate. We use the arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) approach that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-13 Sebastian Schwarzacher , Bangwei She , Karel Tuma

We consider nonconforming methods for symmetric elliptic problems and characterize their quasi-optimality in terms of suitable notions of stability and consistency. The quasi-optimality constant is determined and the possible impact of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-11 Andreas Veeser , Pietro Zanotti

We consider the problem of minimizing a convex objective which is the sum of a smooth part, with Lipschitz continuous gradient, and a nonsmooth part. Inspired by various applications, we focus on the case when the nonsmooth part is a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-08-28 Ting Kei Pong

We investigate a class of composite nonconvex functions, where the outer function is the sum of univariate extended-real-valued convex functions and the inner function is the limit of difference-of-convex functions. A notable feature of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-21 Hanyang Li , Ying Cui

Many stochastic differential equations (SDEs) in the literature have a superlinearly growing nonlinearity in their drift or diffusion coefficient. Unfortunately, moments of the computationally efficient Euler-Maruyama approximation method…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-11-25 Martin Hutzenthaler , Arnulf Jentzen

We study the global convergence of the gradient descent method of the minimization of strictly convex functionals on an open and bounded set of a Hilbert space. Such results are unknown for this type of sets, unlike the case of the entire…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-08 Thuy T. Le , Loc. H. Nguyen

We extend Peng's maximum principle for semilinear stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs) in one space-dimension with non-convex control domains and control-dependent diffusion coefficients to the case of general cost functionals…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-10-28 Wilhelm Stannat , Lukas Wessels

We survey recent developments in the field of complexity of pathwise approximation in $p$-th mean of the solution of a stochastic differential equation at the final time based on finitely many evaluations of the driving Brownian motion.…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-03-04 T. Müller-Gronbach , L. Yaroslavtseva

We study the adaptive minimax estimation of non-linear integral functionals of a density and extend the results obtained for linear and quadratic functionals to general functionals. The typical rate optimal non-adaptive minimax estimators…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-01-12 Rajarshi Mukherjee , Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen , James Robins

We propose and analyze a numerical algorithm for solving a class of optimal control problems for learning-informed semilinear partial differential equations. The latter is a class of PDEs with constituents that are in principle unknown and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-17 Guozhi Dong , Michael Hintermüller , Kostas Papafitsoros

We consider a class of nonlinear elliptic problems associated with models in biophysics, which are described by the Poisson-Boltzmann equation (PBE). We prove mathematical correctness of the problem, study a suitable class of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-15 Johannes Kraus , Svetoslav Nakov , Sergey Repin

We present a trust-region-based adaptive finite-element algorithm for numerically solving a class of nonsmooth PDE-constrained optimization problems that includes problems with sparsifying regularizers and convex constraints. In particular,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Harbir Antil , Robert J. Baraldi , Rohit Khandelwal , Drew P. Kouri