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A new numerical method for an inverse problem for an elliptic equation with unknown potential is proposed. In this problem the point source is running along a straight line and the source-dependent Dirichlet boundary condition is measured…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2008-09-24 Hua Shan , M. V. Klibanov , Jianzhong Su , Natee Pantong , Hanli Liu

To compute the spatially distributed dielectric constant from the backscattering data, we study a coefficient inverse problem for a 1D hyperbolic equation. To solve the inverse problem, we establish a new version of Carleman estimate and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-26 Michael V. Klibanov , Thuy T. Le , Loc H. Nguyen , Anders Sullivan , Lam Nguyen

We are interested in high-order linear multistep schemes for time discretization of adjoint equations arising within optimal control problems. First we consider optimal control problems for ordinary differential equations and show loss of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-24 Giacomo Albi , Michael Herty , Lorenzo Pareschi

We develop a globalized Proximal Newton method for composite and possibly non-convex minimization problems in Hilbert spaces. Additionally, we impose less restrictive assumptions on the composite objective functional considering…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-02 Bastian Pötzl , Anton Schiela , Patrick Jaap

A class of second-order algorithms is proposed for minimizing smooth nonconvex functions that alternates between regularized Newton and negative curvature steps in an iteration-dependent subspace. In most cases, the Hessian matrix is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-22 Serge Gratton , Sadok Jerad , Philippe L. Toint

In this paper we consider the computation of approximate solutions for inverse problems in Hilbert spaces. In order to capture the special feature of solutions, non-smooth convex functions are introduced as penalty terms. By exploiting the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-18 Qinian Jin , Xiliang Lu

We study the problem of robust global stabilization in control-affine systems, focusing on dynamic uncertainties in the control directions \emph{and} the presence of topological obstructions that prevent the existence of smooth global…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-10 Mahmoud Abdelgalil , Jorge I. Poveda

In this paper we study the semi-global (approximate) state feedback stabilization of an infinite dimensional quantum stochastic system towards a target state. A discrete-time Markov chain on an infinite-dimensional Hilbert space is used to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-03-22 Ram Somaraju , Mazyar Mirrahimi , Pierre Rouchon

In this paper, we consider the Newton-Schur method in Hilbert space and obtain quadratic convergence. For the symmetric elliptic eigenvalue problem discretized by the standard finite element method and non-overlapping domain decomposition…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-05 Nian Shao , Wenbin Chen

In this paper, we consider the finite element approximation to a parabolic Dirichlet boundary control problem and establish new a priori error estimates. In the temporal semi-discretization we apply the DG(0) method for the state and the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-29 Dongdong Liang , Wei Gong , Xiaoping Xie

We study the convergence of the gradient descent method for solving ill-posed problems where the solution is characterized as a global minimum of a differentiable functional in a Hilbert space. The classical least-squares functional for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-02 Stefan Kindermann

Landweber-type methods are prominent for solving ill-posed inverse problems in Banach spaces and their convergence has been well-understood. However, how to derive their convergence rates remains a challenging open question. In this paper,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-15 Qinian Jin

Recently, many machine learning optimizers have been analysed considering them as the asymptotic limit of some differential equations when the step size goes to zero. In other words, the optimizers can be seen as a finite difference scheme…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-02 Bilel Bensaid , Gaël Poëtte , Rodolphe Turpault

We propose a sequential homotopy method for the solution of mathematical programming problems formulated in abstract Hilbert spaces under the Guignard constraint qualification. The method is equivalent to performing projected backward Euler…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-15 Andreas Potschka , Hans Georg Bock

Many optimization problems require hyperparameters, i.e., parameters that must be pre-specified in advance, such as regularization parameters and parametric regularizers in variational regularization methods for inverse problems, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-09 Matthias J. Ehrhardt , Silvia Gazzola , Sebastian J. Scott

Solving equilibrium problems under constraints is an important problem in optimization and optimal control. In this context an important practical challenge is the efficient incorporation of constraints. We develop a continuous-time method…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-21 Siqi Qu , Mathias Staudigl

We study the behavior of first-order methods applied to a lower-unbounded convex function $f$, i.e., $\inf f = -\infty$. Such a setting has received little attention since the trajectories of gradient descent and Nesterov's accelerated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Keiya Sakabe

We consider a class of infinite-dimensional singular stochastic control problems. These can be thought of as spatial monotone follower problems and find applications in spatial models of production and climate transition. Let…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-06 Salvatore Federico , Giorgio Ferrari , Frank Riedel , Michael Röckner

This paper studies the continuous-time dynamics generated by control-theoretic Lagrangian methods for equality-constrained optimization. In particular, we consider dynamics induced by proportional-integral and feedback linearization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Simone Pirrera , Francesco Ripa , Daniele Astolfi , Vito Cerone , Sophie M. Fosson , Diego Regruto

Second-order optimization methods, such as cubic regularized Newton methods, are known for their rapid convergence rates; nevertheless, they become impractical in high-dimensional problems due to their substantial memory requirements and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-09 Ruichen Jiang , Parameswaran Raman , Shoham Sabach , Aryan Mokhtari , Mingyi Hong , Volkan Cevher