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This paper aims first at a simultaneous axiomatic presentation of the proof of optimal convergence rates for adaptive finite element methods and second at some refinements of particular questions like the avoidance of (discrete) lower…

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Sampling equilibrium distributions is fundamental to statistical mechanics. While flow matching has emerged as scalable state-of-the-art paradigm for generative modeling, its potential for equilibrium sampling in condensed-phase systems…

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This paper focuses on an adaptive and fault-tolerant vision-guided robotic system that enables to choose the most appropriate control action if partial or complete failure of the vision system in the short term occurs. Moreover, the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Farhad Aghili

Discrete-time stochastic systems are an essential modelling tool for many engineering systems. We consider stochastic control systems that are evolving over continuous spaces. For this class of models, methods for the formal verification…

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Stochastic parameterizations are increasingly being used to represent the uncertainty associated with model errors in ensemble forecasting and data assimilation. One of the challenges associated with the use of these parameterizations is…

Computation · Statistics 2019-10-23 Guillermo Scheffler , Juan Ruiz , Manuel Pulido

We propose and analyze a general goal-oriented adaptive strategy for approximating quantities of interest (QoIs) associated with solutions to linear elliptic partial differential equations with random inputs. The QoIs are represented by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-11 Alex Bespalov , Dirk Praetorius , Thomas Round , Andrey Savinov

This paper presents a novel framework for goal-oriented optimal static sensor placement and dynamic sensor steering in PDE-constrained inverse problems, utilizing a Bayesian approach accelerated by low-rank approximations. The framework is…

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This article proposes an improved trajectory optimization approach for stochastic optimal control of dynamical systems affected by measurement noise by combining optimal control with maximum likelihood techniques to improve the reduction of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-25 Prakash Mallick , Zhiyong Chen

We study a class of optimization problems on Riemannian manifolds, where the objective function consists of a smooth term and quasi-norm type penalties with exponent $p \in (0, 1]$. The essential difficulty lies in the fact that the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Lei Wang , Xiaojun Chen

We present a real-time-capable set-based framework for closed-loop predictive control of autonomous systems using tools from computational geometry, dynamic programming, and convex optimization. The control architecture relies on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Abhinav G. Kamath , Abraham P. Vinod , Purnanand Elango , Stefano Di Cairano , Avishai Weiss

It is an interesting open problem to achieve adaptive prescribed-time control for strict-feedback systems with unknown and fast or even abrupt time-varying parameters. In this paper we present a solution with the aid of several design and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-25 Hefu Ye , Yongduan Song

Stochastic nonconvex optimization problems with nonlinear constraints have a broad range of applications in intelligent transportation, cyber-security, and smart grids. In this paper, first, we propose an inexact-proximal accelerated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-08 Morteza Boroun , Afrooz Jalilzadeh

In this article we develop a convergence theory for goal-oriented adaptive finite element algorithms designed for a class of second-order semilinear elliptic equations. We briefly discuss the target problem class, and introduce several…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-04-24 Michael Holst , Sara Pollock , Yunrong Zhu

A stochastic optimal control problem for incompressible Newtonian channel flow past a circular cylinder is used as a prototype optimal control problem for the stochastic Navier-Stokes equations. The inlet flow and the rotation speed of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-13 Liuhong Chen , Ju Ming , Max D. Gunzburger

This paper proposes a Riemannian Multiobjective Proximal Gradient Method (RMPGM) for composite optimization problems on manifolds. Unlike scalarization-based approaches, the proposed framework directly handles vector-valued objectives and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Kangming Chen

Optimization techniques are at the core of many scientific and engineering disciplines. The steepest descent methods play a foundational role in this area. In this paper we studied a generalized steepest descent method on Riemannian…

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We consider a linear symmetric and elliptic PDE and a linear goal functional. We design and analyze a goal-oriented adaptive finite element method, which steers the adaptive mesh-refinement as well as the approximate solution of the arising…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-12 Roland Becker , Gregor Gantner , Michael Innerberger , Dirk Praetorius

Anisotropic mesh adaptation is studied for linear finite element solution of 3D anisotropic diffusion problems. The M-uniform mesh approach is used, where an anisotropic adaptive mesh is generated as a uniform one in the metric specified by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-20 Xianping Li , Weizhang Huang

In this article, we develop goal-oriented error indicators to drive adaptive refinement algorithms for the Poisson-Boltzmann equation. Empirical results for the solvation free energy linear functional demonstrate that goal-oriented…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-09-20 Burak Aksoylu , Stephen Bond , Eric Cyr , Michael Holst

In many real-world applications, optimization problems evolve continuously over time and are often subject to stochastic noise. We consider a stochastic time-varying optimization problem in which the objective function $f(x;t)$ changes…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-18 Tomoya Kamijima , Naoki Marumo , Akiko Takeda