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A well-posed initial-boundary value problem is formulated for the model problem of the vector wave equation subject to the divergence-free constraint. Existence, uniqueness and stability of the solution is proved by reduction to a system…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-08-23 Alexander M. Alekseenko

We study the optimal control of a rate-independent system that is driven by a convex, quadratic energy. Since the associated solution mapping is non-smooth, the analysis of such control problems is challenging. In order to derive optimality…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-04 Ulisse Stefanelli , Gerd Wachsmuth , Daniel Wachsmuth

We consider a class of (ill-posed) optimal control problems in which a distributed vector-valued control is enforced to pointwise take values in a finite set $\mathcal{M}\subset\mathbb{R}^m$. After convex relaxation, one obtains a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-28 Christian Clason , Carla Tameling , Benedikt Wirth

A class of evolution variational inequalities (EVIs), which comprises ordinary differential equations (ODEs) coupled with variational inequalities (VIs) associated with time-varying set-valued mappings, is proposed in this paper. We first…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-04-02 Aneel Tanwani , Bernard Brogliato , Christophe Prieur

We propose a new numerical scheme of evolution for the Einstein equations using the discrete variational derivative method (DVDM). We derive the discrete evolution equation of the constraint using this scheme and show the constraint…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-24 Takuya Tsuchiya , Gen Yoneda

We introduce the Virtual Element Method (VEM) for elliptic eigenvalue problems. The main result of the paper states that VEM provides an optimal order approximation of the eigenmodes. A wide set of numerical tests confirm the theoretical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-21 Francesca Gardini , Giuseppe Vacca

Curve evolution is often used to solve computer vision problems. If the curve evolution fails to converge, we would not be able to solve the targeted problem in a lifetime. This paper studies the theoretical aspect of the convergence of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-06-20 Junyan Wang , Kap Luk Chan

The present paper extends the theory of Adaptive Virtual Element Methods (AVEMs) to the three-dimensional meshes showing the possibility to bound the stabilization term by the residual-type error estimator. This new bound enables a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-17 Stefano Berrone , Davide Fassino , Fabio Vicini

Self-optimizing control is a strategy for selecting controlled variables, where the economic objective guides the selection and design of controlled variables, with the expectation that maintaining the controlled variables at constant…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Chenchen Zhou , Shaoqi Wang , Hongxin Su , Xinhui Tang , Yi Cao , Shuang-Hua Yang

We study a nonconforming virtual element method (VEM) for advection-diffusion-reaction problems with continuous interior penalty (CIP) stabilization. The design of the method is based on a standard variational formulation of the problem (no…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-19 Carlo Lovadina , Ilaria Perugia , Manuel Trezzi

We introduce a variational algorithm to estimate the likelihood of a rare event within a nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulation through the evaluation of an optimal control force. Optimization of a control force within a chosen basis…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-01-14 Avishek Das , David T. Limmer

A general maximum principle is proved for optimal controls of abstract semilinear stochastic evolution equations. The control variable, as well as linear unbounded operators, acts in both drift and diffusion terms, and the control set need…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-12-30 Kai Du , Qingxin Meng

Evolutionary computation techniques have mostly been used to solve various optimization and learning problems successfully. Evolutionary algorithm is more effective to gain optimal solution(s) to solve complex problems than traditional…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-03-05 Moslema Jahan , M. M. A. Hashem , Gazi Abdullah Shahriar

A recently introduced general-purpose heuristic for finding high-quality solutions for many hard optimization problems is reviewed. The method is inspired by recent progress in understanding far-from-equilibrium phenomena in terms of {\em…

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In this work, we explore the application of Stabilization-Free Virtual Element Methods for Neumann boundary Optimal Control Problems in saddle point formulation. The method is proposed for arbitrary polynomial order of accuracy and general…

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A new model for evolving Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) is proposed in this paper. The model is based on the Multi Expression Programming (MEP) technique. Each MEP chromosome encodes an evolutionary pattern that is repeatedly used for…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Mihai Oltean

Taking insight from the theory of general relativity, where space and time are treated on the same footing, we develop a novel geometric variational discretization for second order initial value problems (IVPs). By discretizing the dynamics…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-11 Alexander Rothkopf , Jan Nordström

We present numerical tests of the Virtual Element Method (VEM) tailored for the discretization of a three dimensional Poisson problem with high-order "polynomial" degree (up to $p=10$). Besides, we discuss possible reasons for which the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-14 Lorenzo Mascotto , Franco Dassi

Support vector machine (SVM) is a powerful machine learning algorithm to handle classification tasks. However, the classical SVM is developed for binary problems with the assumption of balanced datasets. Obviously, the multi-class…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Zhong-Liang Zhang , Jie Yang , Jian-Ming Ru , Xiao-Xi Zhao , Xing-Gang Luo

In this work, we propose a novel framework for the numerical solution of time-dependent conservation laws with implicit schemes via primal-dual hybrid gradient methods. We solve an initial value problem (IVP) for the partial differential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-18 Siting Liu , Stanley Osher , Wuchen Li , Chi-Wang Shu