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We study a variational problem motivated by models of species population density in a nonhomogeneous environment. We first analyze local minimizers and the structure of the saturated region (where the population attains its maximal density)…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Pu-Zhao Kow , Masato Kimura , Hiroshi Ohtsuka

We develop a variational approach to the minimization problem of functionals of the type $\frac12\left\lVert \nabla \phi \right\rVert^2_2 + \beta \left\lVert \phi \right\rVert_1$ constrained by $\left\lVert \phi \right\rVert_2 = 1$ which is…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-14 Alexander Hach

We investigate the properties of minimizers of one-dimensional variational problems when the Lagrangian has no higher smoothness than continuity. An elementary approximation result is proved, but it is shown that this cannot be in general…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2017-04-12 Richard Gratwick

Fractional equations have become the model of choice in several applications where heterogeneities at the microstructure result in anomalous diffusive behavior at the macroscale. In this work we introduce a new fractional operator…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-29 Marta D'Elia , Christian Glusa

There are many significant applied contexts that require the solution of discontinuous optimization problems in finite dimensions. Yet these problems are very difficult, both computationally and analytically. With the functions being…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-25 Ying Cui , Junyi Liu , Jong-Shi Pang

This paper presents a method for finding a sparse representation of Barron functions. Specifically, given an $L^2$ function $f$, the inverse scale space flow is used to find a sparse measure $\mu$ minimising the $L^2$ loss between the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-12-06 Tjeerd Jan Heeringa , Tim Roith , Christoph Brune , Martin Burger

We prove that minimizers of variational problems on open sets $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^n$ $$ \mbox{minimize}\quad \mathcal E(v)=\int_\Omega f(v(x))\mathrm{d} x\quad\text{for } \mathscr{A} v=0, $$ are partially continuous provided that the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-09 Zhuolin Li , Bogdan Raiţă

The present work constitutes a first step towards establishing a systematic framework for treating variational problems that depend on a given input function through a mixture of its derivatives of different orders in different directions.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-09 Adam Prosinski

We study the planar least gradient problem with respect to an anisotropic norm $\phi$ for continuous boundary data. We prove existence of minimizers for strictly convex domains $\Omega$. Furthermore, we inspect the issue of uniqueness and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-07 Wojciech Górny

This paper is concerned with backward problem for nonlinear space fractional diffusion with additive noise on the right-hand side and the final value. To regularize the instable solution, we develop some new regularized method for solving…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-12-19 Erkan Nane , Nguyen Huy Tuan

This paper is concerned with the numerical minimization of energy functionals in Hilbert spaces involving convex constraints coinciding with a semi-norm for a subspace. The optimization is realized by alternating minimizations of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-12-17 Massimo Fornasier , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

Regularization approaches have demonstrated their effectiveness for solving ill-posed problems. However, in the context of variational restoration methods, a challenging question remains, which is how to find a good regularizer. While total…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-10-25 Nelly Pustelnik , Caroline Chaux , Jean-Christophe Pesquet

We present an instructive example of using Banach spaces of solutions to (linear, generally, non-scalar) elliptic operator $A$ to investigate variational inverse problems related to neural networks and/or to regularization of solutions to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Alexander Shlapunov , Alexander Polkovnikov , Kseniya Gagelgans

For an elliptic, semilinear differential operator of the form $S(u) = A : D^2 u + b(x, u , Du)$, consider the functional $E_\infty(u) = \mathop{\mathrm{ess \, sup}}_\Omega |S(u)|$. We study minimisers of $E_\infty$ for prescribed boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-20 Nikos Katzourakis , Roger Moser

We look at continuum solutions in optimisation problems associated to linear inverse problems $y = Ax$ with non-negativity constraint $x \geq 0$. We focus on the case where the noise model leads to maximum likelihood estimation through…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-20 Camille Pouchol , Olivier Verdier

In this work we are interested in the problems of supervised learning and variable selection when the input-output dependence is described by a nonlinear function depending on a few variables. Our goal is to consider a sparse nonparametric…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-08-14 Lorenzo Rosasco , Silvia Villa , Sofia Mosci , Matteo Santoro , Alessandro verri

Inspired by several recent developments in regularization theory, optimization, and signal processing, we present and analyze a numerical approach to multi-penalty regularization in spaces of sparsely represented functions. The sparsity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-11-25 Valeriya Naumova , Steffen Peter

The recent literature has intensively studied two classes of nonlocal variational problems, namely the ones related to the minimisation of energy functionals that act on functions in suitable Sobolev-Gagliardo spaces, and the ones related…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-15 Claudia Bucur , Serena Dipierro , Luca Lombardini , Enrico Valdinoci

We consider a minimization problem whose objective function is the sum of a fidelity term, not necessarily convex, and a regularization term defined by a positive regularization parameter $\lambda$ multiple of the $\ell_0$ norm composed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-17 Yuesheng Xu

We consider the problem of minimizing an objective function that is the sum of a convex function and a group sparsity-inducing regularizer. Problems that integrate such regularizers arise in modern machine learning applications, often for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-30 Frank E. Curtis , Yutong Dai , Daniel P. Robinson