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The method of ``Total Least Squares'' is proposed as a more natural way (than ordinary least squares) to approximate the data if both the matrix and and the right-hand side are contaminated by ``errors''. In this tutorial note, we give a…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2025-10-20 P. P. N. de Groen

Saddle-point systems appear in many scientific and engineering applications. The systems can be sparse, symmetric or nonsymmetric, and possibly singular. In many of these applications, the number of constraints is relatively small compared…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-11-24 Cao Lu , Tristan Delaney , Xiangmin Jiao

We introduce a new sequential subspace optimization method for large-scale saddle-point problems. It solves iteratively a sequence of auxiliary saddle-point problems in low-dimensional subspaces, spanned by directions derived from…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-24 Yoni Choukroun , Michael Zibulevsky , Pavel Kisilev

In this work, we propose a mixed finite element method for solving elliptic multiscale problems based on a localized orthogonal decomposition (LOD) of Raviart-Thomas finite element spaces. It requires to solve local problems in small…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-21 Fredrik Hellman , Patrick Henning , Axel Målqvist

In this paper, a novel technique for tight outer-approximation of the intersection region of a finite number of ellipses in 2-dimensional (2D) space is proposed. First, the vertices of a tight polygon that contains the convex intersection…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Siamak Yousefi , Xiao-Wen Chang , Henk Wymeersch , Benoit Champagne , Godfried Toussaint

We advance both the theory and practice of robust $\ell_p$-quasinorm regression for $p \in (0,1]$ by using novel variants of iteratively reweighted least-squares (IRLS) to solve the underlying non-smooth problem. In the convex case, $p=1$,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-14 Liangzu Peng , Christian Kümmerle , René Vidal

In this paper, we present two choices of structured spectral gradient methods for solving nonlinear least-squares problems. In the proposed methods, the scalar multiple of identity approximation of the Hessian inverse is obtained by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-31 Hassan Mohammad , Mohammed Yusuf Waziri

In this paper, we consider a modified projected Gauss-Newton method for solving constrained nonlinear least-squares problems. We assume that the functional constraints are smooth and the the other constraints are represented by a simple…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-02 Yassine Nabou , Lucian Toma , Ion Necoara

This article develops a weak Galerkin least-squares (WG--LS) finite element method for first-order linear convection equations in non-divergence form. The method is formulated using discontinuous finite element functions and does not…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-05 Chunmei Wang , Shangyou Zhang

In this paper, it is shown that any well-posed 2nd order PDE can be reformulated as a well-posed first order least squares system. This system will be solved by an adaptive wavelet solver in optimal computational complexity. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-11-17 Nikolaos Rekatsinas , Rob Stevenson

We study the finite element approximation of linear second-order elliptic partial differential equations in nondivergence form with highly heterogeneous diffusion and drift coefficients. A generalized Cordes condition is imposed to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-17 Moritz Hauck , Roland Maier , Timo Sprekeler

We develop a new spatial semidiscrete multiscale method based upon the edge multiscale methods to solve semilinear parabolic problems with heterogeneous coefficients and smooth initial data. This method allows for a cheap spatial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Leonardo A. Poveda , Shubin Fu , Guanglian Li , Eric Chung

This work presents a general framework for solving the low rank and/or sparse matrix minimization problems, which may involve multiple non-smooth terms. The Iteratively Reweighted Least Squares (IRLS) method is a fast solver, which smooths…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-06-18 Canyi Lu , Zhouchen Lin , Shuicheng Yan

In this paper, we propose a novel mesh-free numerical method for solving the elliptic interface problems based on deep learning. We approximate the solution by the neural networks and, since the solution may change dramatically across the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-12 Cuiyu He , Xiaozhe Hu , Lin Mu

Additive regression models are actively researched in the statistical field because of their usefulness in the analysis of responses determined by non-linear relationships with multivariate predictors. In this kind of statistical models,…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-04-10 German A. Schnaidt Grez , Brani Vidakovic

Given any domain $X\subseteq \mathbb{R}^d$ and a probability measure $\rho$ on $X$, we study the problem of approximating in $L^2(X,\rho)$ a given function $u:X\to\mathbb{R}$, using its noiseless pointwise evaluations at random samples. For…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-11 Giovanni Migliorati

The Stackelberg prediction game (SPG) is popular in characterizing strategic interactions between a learner and an attacker. As an important special case, the SPG with least squares loss (SPG-LS) has recently received much research…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-08 Jiali Wang , Wen Huang , Rujun Jiang , Xudong Li , Alex L. Wang

This paper proposes localized subspace iteration (LSI) methods to construct generalized finite element basis functions for elliptic problems with multiscale coefficients. The key components of the proposed method consist of the localization…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Xiaofei Guan , Lijian Jiang , Yajun Wang , Zihao Yang

This paper introduces a novel approach to solving multi-block nonconvex composite optimization problems through a proximal linearized Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM). This method incorporates an Increasing Penalization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Ganzhao Yuan

Least-squares (LS) forms of the transport equation can circumvent the void problems of other second order forms, but are almost always non-conservative. Additionally, the standard LS form is not compatible with discrete ordinates method…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-02-26 Hans Hammer , Jim Morel , Yaqi Wang