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We present a scalable approach to solve a class of elliptic partial differential equation (PDE)-constrained optimization problems with bound constraints. This approach utilizes a robust full-space interior-point (IP)-Gauss-Newton…
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State-of-the-art models are now trained with billions of parameters, reaching hardware limits in terms of memory consumption. This has created a recent demand for memory-efficient optimizers. To this end, we investigate the limits and…
We develop and analyze numerical methods for a stochastic Keller-Segel system perturbed by Stratonovich noise, which models chemotactic behavior under randomly fluctuating environmental conditions. The proposed fully discrete scheme couples…
As integrated circuits become increasingly complex, the demand for efficient and accurate simulation solvers continues to rise. Traditional solvers often struggle with large-scale sparse systems, leading to prolonged simulation times and…
In this paper, we describe and analyze the spectral properties of a number of exact block preconditioners for a class of double saddle point problems. Among all these, we consider an inexact version of a block triangular preconditioner…
Solving optimal control problems (OCPs) of autonomous agents operating under spatial and temporal constraints fast and accurately is essential in applications ranging from eco-driving of autonomous vehicles to quadrotor navigation. However,…
We introduce a preconditioner based on a hierarchical low-rank compression scheme of Schur complements. The construction is inspired by standard nested dissection, and relies on the assumption that the Schur complements can be approximated,…
This work describes the development of matrix-free GPU-accelerated solvers for high-order finite element problems in $H(\mathrm{div})$. The solvers are applicable to grad-div and Darcy problems in saddle-point formulation, and have…
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Derivative based optimization methods are efficient at solving optimal control problems near local optima. However, their ability to converge halts when derivative information vanishes. The inference approach to optimal control does not…
We consider the solution of saddle-point systems with a tree-based block structure, introducing a parallelizable direct method for their solution. As our key contribution, we then propose several structure-exploiting preconditioners to be…
We propose a time stepping scheme for the space-time systems obtained from Galerkin time-domain boundary element methods for the wave equation. Based on extrapolation, the method proves stable, becomes exact for increasing degrees of…
In this paper, a local-global model reduction method is presented to solve stochastic optimal control problems governed by partial differential equations (PDEs). If the optimal control problems involve uncertainty, we need to use a few…
In this paper, the fully parabolic Keller-Segel system \begin{equation} \left\{ \begin{array}{llc} u_t=\Delta u-\nabla\cdot(u\nabla v), &(x,t)\in \Omega\times (0,T),\\ v_t=\Delta v-v+u, &(x,t)\in\Omega\times (0,T),\\ \end{array} \right.…
We present a generalized Keller-Segel model where an arbitrary number of chemical compounds react, some of which are produced by a species, and one of which is a chemoattractant for the species. To investigate the stability of homogeneous…