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The Virtual Element Method (VEM) is a new family of numerical methods for the approximation of partial differential equations, where the geometry of the polytopal mesh elements can be very general. The aim of this article is to extend the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-05 Tommaso Bevilacqua , Simone Scacchi

The saddle-point optimization problems have a lot of practical applications. This paper focuses on such non-smooth problems in decentralized case. This work contains generalization of recently proposed sliding for centralized problem.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-01 Ilya Kuruzov , Alexander Rogozin , Demyan Yarmoshik , Alexander Gasnikov

In this work, we propose and analyze a residual-minimization strategy for the numerical solution of nonlinear PDEs posed in Banach spaces. Given a finite-dimensional trial space and a suitably enriched discrete test space (of higher…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Ignacio Muga , Jorge Perera , Sergio Rojas , Ricardo Ruiz-Baier

This paper considers an optimization problem for a dynamical system whose evolution depends on a collection of binary decision variables. We develop scalable approximation algorithms with provable suboptimality bounds to provide…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-31 Insoon Yang , Samuel A. Burden , Ram Rajagopal , S. Shankar Sastry , Claire J. Tomlin

We consider (stochastic) convex-concave saddle point (SP) problems with high-dimensional decision variables, arising in various applications including machine learning problems. To contend with the challenges in computing full gradients, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Erfan Yazdandoost Hamedani , Afrooz Jalilzadeh , Necdet Serhat Aybat

We study preconditioners for a model problem describing the coupling of two elliptic subproblems posed over domains with different topological dimension by a parameter dependent constraint. A pair of parameter robust and efficient…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-11 Miroslav Kuchta , Magne Nordaas , Joris C. G. Verschaeve , Mikael Mortensen , Kent-Andre Mardal

This paper introduces a discretization-accurate stopping criterion of symmetric iterative methods for solving systems of algebraic equations resulting from the finite element approximation. The stopping criterion consists of the evaluations…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-19 Zhiqiang Cai , Shuhao Cao , Robert D. Falgout

Fourth-order differential equations play an important role in many applications in science and engineering. In this paper, we present a three-field mixed finite-element formulation for fourth-order problems, with a focus on the effective…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-13 Patrick E. Farrell , Abdalaziz Hamdan , Scott P. MacLachlan

Motivated by the theory of self-duality which provides a variational formulation and resolution for non self-adjoint partial differential equations \cite{G1, G2}, we propose new templates for solving large non-symmetric linear systems. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2008-01-28 Nassif Ghoussoub , Amir Moradifam

An adaptive proximal method for a special class of variational inequalities and related problems is proposed. For example, the so-called mixed variational inequalities and composite saddle problems are considered. Some estimates of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-25 Fedor S. Stonyakin

This work introduces nodal auxiliary space preconditioners for discretizations of mixed-dimensional partial differential equations. We first consider the continuous setting and generalize the regular decomposition to this setting. With the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-15 Ana Budisa , Wietse Boon , Xiaozhe Hu

In this paper, we develop two classes of robust preconditioners for the structure-preserving discretization of the incompressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) system. By studying the well-posedness of the discrete system, we design block…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-22 Yicong Ma , Kaibo Hu , Xiaozhe Hu , Jinchao Xu

Though switched dynamical systems have shown great utility in modeling a variety of physical phenomena, the construction of an optimal control of such systems has proven difficult since it demands some type of optimal mode scheduling. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-02-04 Ramanarayan Vasudevan , Humberto Gonzalez , Ruzena Bajcsy , S. Shankar Sastry

We present a computational methodology for obtaining rotationally symmetric sets of points satisfying discrete geometric constraints, and demonstrate its applicability by discovering new solutions to some well-known problems in…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Bernardo Subercaseaux , Ethan Mackey , Long Qian , Marijn J. H. Heule

Based on a preconditioned version of the randomized block-coordinate forward-backward algorithm recently proposed in [Combettes,Pesquet,2014], several variants of block-coordinate primal-dual algorithms are designed in order to solve a wide…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-10-28 Jean-Christophe Pesquet , Audrey Repetti

The paper proposes a linesearch for a primal-dual method. Each iteration of the linesearch requires to update only the dual (or primal) variable. For many problems, in particular for regularized least squares, the linesearch does not…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-26 Yura Malitsky , Thomas Pock

In this paper, the distributed strongly convex optimization problem is studied with spatio-temporal compressed communication and equality constraints. For the case where each agent holds an distributed local equality constraint, a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-05 Zihao Ren , Lei Wang , Zhengguang Wu , Guodong Shi

Saddle points constitute a crucial challenge for first-order gradient descent algorithms. In notions of classical machine learning, they are avoided for example by means of stochastic gradient descent methods. In this work, we provide…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-26 Junyu Liu , Frederik Wilde , Antonio Anna Mele , Xin Jin , Liang Jiang , Jens Eisert

Optimization problems with constraints in the form of a partial differential equation arise frequently in the process of engineering design. The discretization of PDE-constrained optimization problems results in large-scale linear systems…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-01-04 Jacek Gondzio , Pavel Zhlobich

We study a stochastic first order primal-dual method for solving convex-concave saddle point problems over real reflexive Banach spaces using Bregman divergences and relative smoothness assumptions, in which we allow for stochastic error in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-23 Antonio Silveti-Falls , Cesare Molinari , Jalal Fadili