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In this paper we develop convergence and acceleration theory for Anderson acceleration applied to Newton's method for nonlinear systems in which the Jacobian is singular at a solution. For these problems, the standard Newton algorithm…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-27 Matt Dallas , Sara Pollock

BoostConv has been introduced in earlier works as an effective acceleration technique for nonlinear iterative processes and has been successfully employed in a variety of applications to enhance convergence rates or to compute unstable…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Vincenzo Citro , Davide Palitta

Anderson Acceleration (AA) is a method to accelerate the convergence of fixed point iterations for nonlinear, algebraic systems of equations. Due to the requirement of solving a least squares problem at each iteration and a reliance on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-08 Shelby Lockhart , David J. Gardner , Carol S. Woodward , Stephen Thomas , Luke N. Olson

In this paper, the Newton-Anderson method, which results from applying an extrapolation technique known as Anderson acceleration to Newton's method, is shown both analytically and numerically to provide superlinear convergence to non-simple…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-26 Sara Pollock

This paper develops an efficient and robust solution technique for the steady Boussinesq model of non-isothermal flow using Anderson acceleration applied to a Picard iteration. After analyzing the fixed point operator associated with the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-15 Sara Pollock , Leo G. Rebholz , Mengying Xiao

Despite their frequent slow convergence, proximal gradient schemes are widely used in large-scale optimization tasks due to their tremendous stability, scalability, and ease of computation. In this paper, we develop and investigate a…

Computation · Statistics 2025-08-19 Nicholas C. Henderson , Ravi Varadhan

In this paper, we consider the Anderson acceleration method for solving the contractive fixed point problem, which is nonsmooth in general. We define a class of smoothing functions for the original nonsmooth fixed point mapping, which can…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-11 Zekai Li , Wei Bian

The derivative-free projection method (DFPM) is an efficient algorithm for solving monotone nonlinear equations. As problems grow larger, there is a strong demand for speeding up the convergence of DFPM. This paper considers the application…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-23 Jiachen Jin , Hongxia Wang , Kangkang Deng

In this paper we explore acceleration techniques for large scale nonconvex optimization problems with special focuses on deep neural networks. The extrapolation scheme is a classical approach for accelerating stochastic gradient descent for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-18 Guangzeng Xie , Yitan Wang , Shuchang Zhou , Zhihua Zhang

This paper studies the commonly utilized windowed Anderson acceleration (AA) algorithm for fixed-point methods, $x^{(k+1)}=q(x^{(k)})$. It provides the first proof that when the operator $q$ is linear and symmetric the windowed AA, which…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-01 Casey Garner , Gilad Lerman , Teng Zhang

This work investigates the local convergence behavior of Anderson acceleration in solving nonlinear systems. We establish local R-linear convergence results for Anderson acceleration with general depth $m$ under the assumptions that the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Yonghui Ling , Zikang Xiong , Juan Liang

This paper examines a number of extrapolation and acceleration methods, and introduces a few modifications of the standard Shanks transformation that deal with general sequences. One of the goals of the paper is to lay out a general…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-09 Claude Brezinski , Stefano Cipolla , Michela Redivo-Zaglia , Yousef Saad

The Uzawa algorithm is an iterative method for the solution of saddle-point problems, which arise in many applications, including fluid dynamics. Viewing the Uzawa algorithm as a fixed- point iteration, we explore the use of Anderson…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-24 Nguyenho Ho , Sarah D. Olson , Homer F. Walker

This paper studies a finite element discretization of the regularized Bingham equations that describe viscoplastic flow. An efficient nonlinear solver for the discrete model is then proposed and analyzed. The solver is based on Anderson…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-09 Sara Pollock , Leo G. Rebholz , Duygu Vargun

In this work, we extend a modified Anderson acceleration proposed in [Y. He, arXiv:2603.25983, 2026] to accelerate the Picard iteration for the Navier-Stokes equations. In this variant of Anderson acceleration, named AAg, the nonlinear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Yunhui He , Leo Rebholz

Iteratively reweighted L1 (IRL1) algorithm is a common algorithm for solving sparse optimization problems with nonconvex and nonsmooth regularization. The development of its acceleration algorithm, often employing Nesterov acceleration, has…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-13 Kexin Li

We propose several deep-learning accelerated optimization solvers with convergence guarantees. We use ideas from the analysis of accelerated forward-backward schemes like FISTA, but instead of the classical approach of proving convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-12 Sebastian Banert , Jevgenija Rudzusika , Ozan Öktem , Jonas Adler

In this paper, we study the robust linearization of nonlinear poromechanics of unsaturated materials. The model of interest couples the Richards equation with linear elasticity equations, employing the equivalent pore pressure. In practice…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-24 Jakub Wiktor Both , Kundan Kumar , Jan Martin Nordbotten , Florin Adrian Radu

The Anderson Mixing (AM) method is a popular approach for accelerating fixed-point iterations by leveraging historical information from previous steps. In this paper, we introduce the Riemannian Anderson Mixing (RAM) method, an extension of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-13 Zanyu Li , Chenglong Bao

This paper proposes an extra gradient Anderson-accelerated algorithm for solving pseudomonotone variational inequalities, which uses the extra gradient scheme with line search to guarantee the global convergence and Anderson acceleration to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Xin Qu , Wei Bian , Xiaojun Chen