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Newton-type solvers have been extensively employed for solving a variety of nonlinear system of algebraic equations. However, for some complex nonlinear system of algebraic equations, efficiently solving these systems remains a challenging…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-08 Renjie Ding , Dongling Wang

We introduce a new class of optimal iterative methods without memory for approximating a simple root of a given nonlinear equation. The proposed class uses four function evaluations and one first derivative evaluation per iteration and it…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-10-13 Somayeh Sharifi , Mehdi Salimi , Stefan Siegmund , Taher Lotfi

The global minimum point of an optimization problem is of interest in engineering fields and it is difficult to be found, especially for a nonconvex large-scale optimization problem. In this article, we consider a new memetic algorithm for…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Xin-long Luo , Hang Xiao , Sen Zhang

In a recent joint work, the author has developed a modification of Newton's method, named New Q-Newton's method, which can avoid saddle points and has quadratic rate of convergence. While good theoretical convergence guarantee has not been…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-10 Tuyen Trung Truong

We study and derive algorithms for nonlinear eigenvalue problems, where the system matrix depends on the eigenvector, or several eigenvectors (or their corresponding invariant subspace). The algorithms are derived from an implicit…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-02 Elias Jarlebring , Parikshit Upadhyaya

We propose a distributed cubic regularization of the Newton method for solving (constrained) empirical risk minimization problems over a network of agents, modeled as undirected graph. The algorithm employs an inexact, preconditioned Newton…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-21 Amir Daneshmand , Gesualdo Scutari , Pavel Dvurechensky , Alexander Gasnikov

We present a new algorithm for refining a real interval containing a single real root: the new method combines characteristics of the classical Bisection algorithm and Newton's Iteration. Our method exhibits quadratic convergence when…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-07-01 John Abbott

Finite elasticity problems commonly include material and geometric nonlinearities and are solved using various numerical methods. However, for highly nonlinear problems, achieving convergence is relatively difficult and requires small load…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-01 Yue Mei , Daniel E. Hurtado , Sanjay Pant , Ankush Aggarwal

Nonlinear systems of partial differential equations (PDEs) may permit several distinct solutions. The typical current approach to finding distinct solutions is to start Newton's method with many different initial guesses, hoping to find…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-07-03 Patrick E. Farrell , Ásgeir Birkisson , Simon W. Funke

The present author recently proposed and proved a relationship theorem between nonlinear polynomial equations and the corresponding Jacobian matrix. By using this theorem, this paper derives a Newton iterative formula without requiring the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-09-21 W. Chen

Optimization problems in disciplines such as machine learning are commonly solved with iterative methods. Gradient descent algorithms find local minima by moving along the direction of steepest descent while Newton's method takes into…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-20 Patrick Rebentrost , Maria Schuld , Leonard Wossnig , Francesco Petruccione , Seth Lloyd

Fixed-point or Newton-methods are typically employed for the numerical solution of nonlinear systems arising from discretization of nonlinear magnetic field problems. We here discuss an alternative strategy which uses local Quasi-Newton…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-11 Herbert Egger , Felix Engertsberger , Lukas Domenig , Klaus Roppert , Manfred Kaltenbacher

Finding a Z-eigenpair of a symmetric tensor is equivalent to finding a KKT point of a sphere constrained minimization problem. Based on this equivalency, in this paper, we first propose a class of iterative methods to get a Z-eigenpair of a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-15 Dong-hui Li , Xueli Bai , Jiefeng Xu

In this paper, we propose a third-order Newton's method which in each iteration solves a semidefinite program as a subproblem. Our approach is based on moving to the local minimum of the third-order Taylor expansion at each iteration,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-08 Olha Silina , Jeffrey Zhang

In this paper, we study iterative methods on the coefficients of the rational univariate representation (RUR) of a given algebraic set, called global Newton iteration. We compare two natural approaches to define locally quadratically…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2014-04-23 Jonathan D. Hauenstein , Victor Pan , Agnes Szanto

The Newton method is a powerful optimization algorithm, valued for its rapid local convergence and elegant geometric properties. However, its theoretical guarantees are usually limited to convex problems. In this work, we ask whether…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-01 Alexander Shestakov , Sushil Bohara , Samuel Horváth , Martin Takáč , Slavomír Hanzely

In this paper we present in detail Newton's method and its modification, based on the Continuous analog of Newton's method for computing periodic orbits of the planar three-body problem. The linear system at each step of the method is…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2021-11-23 I. Hristov , R. Hristova , I. Puzynin , T. Puzynina , Z. Sharipov , Z. Tukhliev

Root-finding method is an iterative process that constructs a sequence converging to a solution of an equation. Householder's method is a higher-order method that requires higher order derivatives of the reciprocal of a function and has…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-26 Wei Guo Foo , Chik How Tan

We consider systems of recursively defined combinatorial structures. We give algorithms checking that these systems are well founded, computing generating series and providing numerical values. Our framework is an articulation of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-12-18 Carine Pivoteau , Bruno Salvy , Michele Soria

In this paper we study the convergence of Newton-Raphson method. For this method there exists some convergence results which are practically not very useful and just guarantee the convergence of this method when the first term of this…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2021-12-10 Hassan Khandani