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Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-12 D. Ahmad , M. Donatelli , M. Mazza , S. Serra-Capizzano , K. Trotti

We consider saddle point problems which objective functions are the average of $n$ strongly convex-concave individual components. Recently, researchers exploit variance reduction methods to solve such problems and achieve linear-convergence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Luo Luo , Cheng Chen , Yujun Li , Guangzeng Xie , Zhihua Zhang

An efficient nonlinear multigrid method for a mixed finite element method of the Darcy-Forchheimer model is constructed in this paper. A Peaceman-Rachford type iteration is used as a smoother to decouple the nonlinearity from the divergence…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-27 Jian Huang , Long Chen , Hongxing Rui

We consider a generic convex-concave saddle point problem with separable structure, a form that covers a wide-ranged machine learning applications. Under this problem structure, we follow the framework of primal-dual updates for saddle…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-06-15 Zhanxing Zhu , Amos J. Storkey

In this paper we study convergence estimates for a multigrid algorithm with smoothers of successive subspace correction (SSC) type, applied to symmetric elliptic PDEs. First, we revisit a general convergence analysis on a class of multigrid…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-09 Eugenio Aulisa , Giorgio Bornia , Sara Calandrini , Giacomo Capodaglio

In this paper, we propose a generalized shift-splitting (GSS) preconditioner, along with its two relaxed variants to solve the double saddle point problem (DSPP). The convergence of the associated GSS iterative method is analyzed, and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Sk. Safique Ahmad , Pinki Khatun

Numerical simulation of incompressible fluid flows has been an active topic of research in Scientific Computing for many years, with many contributions to both discretizations and linear and nonlinear solvers. In this work, we propose an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Amin Rafiei , Scott MacLachlan

We present original time-parallel algorithms for the solution of the implicit Euler discretization of general linear parabolic evolution equations with time-dependent self-adjoint spatial operators. Motivated by the inf-sup theory of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-24 Martin Neumuller , Iain Smears

The importance of Schur complement based preconditioners are well-established for classical saddle point problems in $\mathbb{R}^N \times \mathbb{R}^M$. In this paper we extend these results to multiple saddle point problems in Hilbert…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-25 Jarle Sogn , Walter Zulehner

We consider the widely used continuous $\mathcal{Q}_{k}$-$\mathcal{Q}_{k-1}$ quadrilateral or hexahedral Taylor-Hood elements for the finite element discretization of the Stokes and generalized Stokes systems in two and three spatial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-01 Daniel Jodlbauer , Ulrich Langer , Thomas Wick , Walter Zulehner

Isogeometric Analysis is a high-order discretization method for boundary value problems that uses a number of degrees of freedom which is as small as for a low-order method. Standard isogeometric discretizations require a global…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-05 Stefan Takacs

We focus on the study of multigrid methods with aggressive coarsening and polynomial smoothers for the solution of the linear systems corresponding to finite difference/element discretizations of the Laplace equation. Using local Fourier…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-12-02 James Brannick , Xiaozhe Hu , Carmen Rodrigo , Ludmil Zikatanov

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

In this paper, we propose a new primal-dual algorithmic framework for a class of convex-concave saddle point problems frequently arising from image processing and machine learning. Our algorithmic framework updates the primal variable…

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A modification of the saddle point method is proposed for computation of non-stationary wave processes (pulses) in waveguides. The dispersion diagram of the waveguide is continued analytically. A set of possible saddle points on the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-03-12 A. V. Shanin , A. I. Korolkov , K. S. Kniazeva

Motivated by applications in Game Theory, Optimization, and Generative Adversarial Networks, recent work of Daskalakis et al \cite{DISZ17} and follow-up work of Liang and Stokes \cite{LiangS18} have established that a variant of the widely…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Constantinos Daskalakis , Ioannis Panageas

In the literature, there exist several studies on symbol-based multigrid methods for the solution of linear systems having structured coefficient matrices. In particular, the convergence analysis for such methods has been obtained in an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-15 Matthias Bolten , Marco Donatelli , Paola Ferrari , Isabella Furci

We consider the problem of computing optimal policies in average-reward Markov decision processes. This classical problem can be formulated as a linear program directly amenable to saddle-point optimization methods, albeit with a number of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-13 Joan Bas-Serrano , Gergely Neu

Multigrid is a powerful solver for large-scale linear systems arising from discretized partial differential equations. The convergence theory of multigrid methods for symmetric positive definite problems has been well developed over the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-19 Xuefeng Xu

We study an inexact inner-outer generalized Golub-Kahan algorithm for the solution of saddle-point problems with a two-times-two block structure. In each outer iteration, an inner system has to be solved which in theory has to be done…

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