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We study Polynomial Lawvere logic PL, a logic defined over the Lawvere quantale of extended positive reals with sum as tensor, to which we add multiplication, thereby obtaining a semiring structure. PL is designed for complex quantitative…
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Piecewise Polynomials (PPs) are utilized in several engineering disciplines, like trajectory planning, to approximate position profiles given in the form of a set of points. While the approximation target along with domain-specific…
The present paper establishes a local well-posed result for piecewise regular solutions with single shock of scalar balance laws with singular integral of convolution type kernels. In a neighborhood of the shock curve, a detailed…
We propose a novel method to model nonlinear regression problems by adapting the principle of penalization to Partial Least Squares (PLS). Starting with a generalized additive model, we expand the additive component of each variable in…
We develop an efficient and reliable adaptive finite element method (AFEM) for the nonlinear Poisson-Boltzmann equation (PBE). We first examine the regularization technique of Chen, Holst, and Xu; this technique made possible the first a…
We consider continuous linear programs over a continuous finite time horizon $T$, with a constant coefficient matrix, linear right hand side functions and linear cost coefficient functions, where we search for optimal solutions in the space…
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Let $A$ be a $n\times n$ real matrix. The piecewise linear equation system $z-A\vert z\vert =b$ is called an absolute value equation (AVE). It is well-known to be equivalent to the linear complementarity problem. Unique solvability of the…
This paper provides a new regularization method which is particularly suitable for linear exponentially ill-posed problems. Under logarithmic source conditions (which have a natural interpretation in terms of Sobolev spaces in the…
In this paper we present an efficient active-set method for the solution of convex quadratic programming problems with general piecewise-linear terms in the objective, with applications to sparse approximations and risk-minimization. The…
We consider Continuous Linear Programs over a continuous finite time horizon $T$, with linear cost coefficient functions, linear right hand side functions, and a constant coefficient matrix, as well as their symmetric dual. We search for…
Linear and semidefinite programming (LP, SDP), regularisation through basis pursuit (BP) and Lasso have seen great success in mathematics, statistics, data science, computer-assisted proofs and learning. The success of LP is traditionally…
We study the basic computational problem of detecting approximate stationary points for continuous piecewise affine (PA) functions. Our contributions span multiple aspects, including complexity, regularity, and algorithms. Specifically, we…
We introduce a derivative-free computational framework for approximating solutions to nonlinear PDE-constrained inverse problems. The aim is to merge ideas from iterative regularization with ensemble Kalman methods from Bayesian inference…
The main goal of this paper is to develop uniformly optimal first-order methods for convex programming (CP). By uniform optimality we mean that the first-order methods themselves do not require the input of any problem parameters, but can…
The problem of a solute described by Quantum Chemistry within a solvent represented as a polarizable continuum model (PCM) is here reformulated in terms of the open quantum systems (OQS) theory. Using its stochastic Schr\"{o}dinger Equation…