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In this paper, we introduce a multiscale framework based on adaptive edge basis functions to solve second-order linear elliptic PDEs with rough coefficients. One of the main results is that we prove the proposed multiscale method achieves…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-19 Yifan Chen , Thomas Y. Hou , Yixuan Wang

This paper investigates a symmetric dual-wind discontinuous Galerkin (DWDG) method for solving an elliptic optimal control problem with control constraints. The governing constraint is an elliptic partial differential equation (PDE), which…

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In the first part of this work, we analyzed a Dirichlet boundary control problem for an elliptic convection diffusion PDE and proposed a new hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) method to approximate the solution. For the case of a 2D…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-25 Weiwei Hu , Mariano Mateos , John R. Singler , Xiao Zhang , Yangwen Zhang

The flexibility of the DPG methodology is exposed by solving the linear elasticity equations under different variational formulations, including some with non-symmetric functional settings (different infinite-dimensional trial and test…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-12 Brendan Keith , Federico Fuentes , Leszek Demkowicz

We propose a least-squares penalization as a means to extend the discontinuous Petrov-Galerkin (DPG) method with optimal test functions to a class of semilinear elliptic problems. The nonlinear contributions are replaced with independent…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Carlos García Vera , Norbert Heuer , Dirk Praetorius

We consider structured optimisation problems defined in terms of the sum of a smooth and convex function, and a proper, l.s.c., convex (typically non-smooth) one in reflexive variable exponent Lebesgue spaces $L_{p(\cdot)}(\Omega)$. Due to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-10 Marta Lazzaretti , Luca Calatroni , Claudio Estatico

An efficient proximal-gradient-based method, called proximal extrapolated gradient method, is designed for solving monotone variational inequality in Hilbert space. The proposed method extends the acceptable range of parameters to obtain…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-05 Xiaokai Chang , Sanyang Liu , Jianchao Bai , Jun Yang

In this paper, we study superconvergence properties of the discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method for one-dimensional linear hyperbolic equation when upwind fluxes are used. We prove, for any polynomial degree $k$, the $2k+1$th (or $2k+1/2$th)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-11-28 Cao Waixiang , Zhang Zhimin , Zou Qingsong

We study the high-order local discontinuous Galerkin (LDG) method for the $p$-Laplace equation. We reformulate our spatial discretization as an equivalent convex minimization problem and use a preconditioned gradient descent method as the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-16 Yue Wu , Yan Xu

We present an ultra-weak formulation of a hypersingular integral equation on closed polygons and prove its well-posedness and equivalence with the standard variational formulation. Based on this ultra-weak formulation we present a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-09-09 Norbert Heuer , Felipe Pinochet

Adaptive gradient methods like AdaGrad are widely used in optimizing neural networks. Yet, existing convergence guarantees for adaptive gradient methods require either convexity or smoothness, and, in the smooth setting, only guarantee…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Xiaoxia Wu , Simon S. Du , Rachel Ward

This paper addresses the bilinearly coupled minimax optimization problem: $\min_{x \in \mathbb{R}^{d_x}}\max_{y \in \mathbb{R}^{d_y}} \ f_1(x) + f_2(x) + y^{\top} Bx - g_1(y) - g_2(y)$, where $f_1$ and $g_1$ are smooth convex functions,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Jingwang Li , Xiao Li

This article introduces a new primal-dual weak Galerkin (PDWG) finite element method for second order elliptic interface problems with ultra-low regularity assumptions on the exact solution and the interface and boundary data. It is proved…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-29 Waixiang Cao , Chunmei Wang , Junping Wang

We shall derive and propose several efficient overlapping domain decomposition methods for solving some typical linear inverse problems, including the identiffication of the flux, the source strength and the initial temperature in second…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-09-10 Jiang Daijun , Feng Hui , Zou Jun

This paper addresses a multi-scale finite element method for second order linear elliptic equations with arbitrarily rough coefficient. We propose a local oversampling method to construct basis functions that have optimal local…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-08-04 Thomas Y. Hou , Pengfei Liu

Policy gradient (PG) methods have played an essential role in the empirical successes of reinforcement learning. In order to handle large state-action spaces, PG methods are typically used with function approximation. In this setting, the…

In this paper, we propose and analyze an efficient preconditioning method for the elliptic problem based on the reconstructed discontinuous approximation method. We reconstruct a high-order piecewise polynomial space that arbitrary order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-16 Ruo Li , Qicheng Liu , Fanyi Yang

We introduce a finite element method for numerical upscaling of second order elliptic equations with highly heterogeneous coefficients. The method is based on a mixed formulation of the problem and the concepts of the domain decomposition…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-10-11 Yalchin Efendiev , Raytcho Lazarov , Ke Shi

A non-intrusive proper generalized decomposition (PGD) strategy, coupled with an overlapping domain decomposition (DD) method, is proposed to efficiently construct surrogate models of parametric linear elliptic problems. A parametric…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-17 Marco Discacciati , Ben J. Evans , Matteo Giacomini

We develop a general convergence theory for adaptive discontinuous Galerkin methods for elliptic PDEs covering the popular SIPG, NIPG and LDG schemes as well as all practically relevant marking strategies. Another key feature of the…

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