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This paper studies the $J$-method of [E. Jarlebring, S. Kvaal, W. Michiels. SIAM J. Sci. Comput. 36-4:A1978-A2001, 2014] for nonlinear eigenvector problems in a general Hilbert space framework. This is the basis for variational…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-10 Robert Altmann , Patrick Henning , Daniel Peterseim

We study global optimization of non-convex functions through optimal control theory. Our main result establishes that (quasi-)optimal trajectories of a discounted control problem converge globally and practically asymptotically to the set…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-17 Yuyang Huang , Dante Kalise , Hicham Kouhkouh

The use of second order information on the forward operator often comes at a very moderate additional computational price in the context of parameter identification probems for differential equation models. On the other hand the use of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-22 Barbara Kaltenbacher

The convergence analysis of a third-order scheme for the highly nonlinear Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation with a non-convex constraint is considered. In this paper, we first present a fully discrete semi-implicit method for solving the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-14 Changjian Xie , Cheng Wang

In this work we analyze the inverse problem of recovering the space-dependent potential coefficient in an elliptic / parabolic problem from distributed observation. We establish novel (weighted) conditional stability estimates under very…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-21 Bangti Jin , Xiliang Lu , Qimeng Quan , Zhi Zhou

For approximately solving linear ill-posed problems in Hilbert spaces, we investigate the regularization properties of the aggregation method and the RatCG method. These recent algorithms use previously calculated solutions of Tikhonov…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-16 Stefan Kindermann

The purpose of this work is the development of space-time discretization schemes for phase-field optimal control problems. Specifically in the optimal control minimization problem, a tracking-type cost functional is minimized to steer the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-14 Denis Khimin , Marc C. Steinbach , Thomas Wick

This paper aims at developing two versions of the generalized Newton method to compute not merely arbitrary local minimizers of nonsmooth optimization problems but just those, which possess an important stability property known as tilt…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-01 Boris Mordukhovich , Ebrahim Sarabi

In this paper, we propose a random gradient-free method for optimization in infinite dimensional Hilbert spaces, applicable to functional optimization in diverse settings. Though such problems are often solved through finite-dimensional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-25 Caio Lins Peixoto , Daniel Csillag , Bernardo F. P. da Costa , Yuri F. Saporito

In this work we present and discuss a possible globalization concept for Newton-type methods. We consider nonlinear problems $f(x)=0$ in $\mathbb{R}^{n}$ using the concepts from ordinary differential equations as a basis for the proposed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-24 Mario Amrein

We prove that the global minimum of the backpropagation (BP) training problem of neural networks with an arbitrary nonlinear activation is given by the ridgelet transform. A series of computational experiments show that there exists an…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-01-31 Sho Sonoda , Isao Ishikawa , Masahiro Ikeda , Kei Hagihara , Yoshihiro Sawano , Takuo Matsubara , Noboru Murata

We study the generalized forward-reflected-backward (GFRB) method, an extension of the forward-reflected-backward (FRB) scheme due to Malitsky and Tam, for solving monotone inclusion problems in real Hilbert spaces. We first analyze GFRB…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-22 Santanu Soe , V. Vetrivel , Jen-Chih Yao

Proximal splitting algorithms for monotone inclusions (and convex optimization problems) in Hilbert spaces share the common feature to guarantee for the generated sequences in general weak convergence to a solution. In order to achieve…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-21 Radu Ioan Bot , Ernö Robert Csetnek , Dennis Meier

The article discusses the gradient discretisation method (GDM) for distributed optimal control problems governed by diffusion equation with pure Neumann boundary condition. Using the GDM framework enables to develop an analysis that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-09 Jerome Droniou , Neela Nataraj , Devika Shylaja

We develop a new variational formulation of the inverse Stefan problem, where information on the heat flux on the fixed boundary is missing and must be found along with the temperature and free boundary. We employ optimal control framework,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-11-01 Ugur G. Abdulla

When a solution to an abstract inverse linear problem on Hilbert space is approximable by finite linear combinations of vectors from the cyclic subspace associated with the datum and with the linear operator of the problem, the solution is…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-01 Noe Angelo Caruso , Alessandro Michelangeli

Nonlinear optimal control problems in Hilbert spaces are considered for which we derive approximation theorems for Galerkin approximations. Approximation theorems are available in the literature. The originality of our approach relies on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-07-21 Mickaël D. Chekroun , Axel Kröner , Honghu Liu

While the optimization landscape of policy gradient methods has been recently investigated for partially observed linear systems in terms of both static output feedback and dynamical controllers, they only provide convergence guarantees to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-25 Feiran Zhao , Xingyun Fu , Keyou You

A method is presented for the numerical solution of optimal boundary control problems governed by parabolic partial differential equations. The continuous space-time optimal control problem is transcribed into a sparse nonlinear programming…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Alexander M. Davies , Sara Pollock , Miriam E. Dennis , Anil V. Rao

In a Hilbert framework, for convex differentiable optimization, we consider accelerated gradient methods obtained by combining temporal scaling and averaging techniques with Tikhonov regularization. We start from the continuous steepest…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-21 Hedy Attouch , Zaki Chbani , Hassan Riahi