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We consider covariance estimation under Toeplitz structure. Numerous sophisticated optimization methods have been developed to maximize the Gaussian log-likelihood under Toeplitz constraints. In contrast, recent advances in deep learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Daniel Busbib , Ami Wiesel

In the realm of numerical analysis, the study of structured backward errors (BEs) in saddle point problems (SPPs) has shown promising potential for development. However, these investigations overlook the inherent sparsity pattern of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Sk. Safique Ahmad , Pinki Khatun

In the setting of saddle point reduction, we prove that the critical groups of the original functional and the reduced functional are isomorphic. As application, we obtain two nontrivial solutions for elliptic gradient systems which may be…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-08-28 Chong Li , Shibo Liu

Gradient-based optimization methods are the most popular choice for finding local optima for classical minimization and saddle point problems. Here, we highlight a systemic issue of gradient dynamics that arise for saddle point problems,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-15 Leonard Adolphs , Hadi Daneshmand , Aurelien Lucchi , Thomas Hofmann

We consider a setting in which an evolving surface is implicitly characterized as the zero level of a level set function. Such an implicit surface does not encode any information about the path of a single point on the evolving surface. In…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-02 Tilman Aleman , Arnold Reusken

This work is about the asymptotic spectral theory of tridiagonal Toeplitz matrices with matrix entries, with periodicity broken on a finite number of entries. Varying the ranks of these perturbations allow to interpolate between open…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-06-17 Lars Koekenbier , Hermann Schulz-Baldes

In this paper, we investigate optimal control problems governed by semilinear elliptic variational inequalities involving constraints on the state, and more precisely the obstacle problem. Since we adopt a numerical point of view, we first…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-10 El Hassene Osmani , Mounir Haddou , Naceurdine Bensalem

Large-scale constrained optimization problems are at the core of many tasks in control, signal processing, and machine learning. Notably, problems with functional constraints arise when, beyond a performance{\nobreakdash-}centric goal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-15 Antesh Upadhyay , Sang Bin Moon , Abolfazl Hashemi

In [1] we consider an optimal control problem subject to a semilinear elliptic PDE together with its variational discretization, where we provide a condition which allows to decide whether a solution of the necessary first order conditions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-04 Ahmad Ahmad Ali , Klaus Deckelnick , Michael Hinze

This paper studies the spectral properties of large matrices and the preconditioning of linear systems, arising from the finite difference discretization of a time-dependent space-fractional diffusion equation with a variable coefficient…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Muhammad Faisal Khan , Asim Ilyas , Rolf Krause , Stefano Serra-Capizzano , Cristina Tablino-Possio

This work studies the parameterized complexity of finding secluded solutions to classical combinatorial optimization problems on graphs such as finding minimum s-t separators, feedback vertex sets, dominating sets, maximum independent sets,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-11-14 René van Bevern , Till Fluschnik , George B. Mertzios , Hendrik Molter , Manuel Sorge , Ondřej Suchý

We study non-smooth stochastic decentralized optimization problems over time-varying networks, where objective functions are distributed across nodes and network connections may intermittently appear or break. Specifically, we consider two…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Maxim Divilkovskiy , Alexander Gasnikov

In recent years more and more involved block structures appeared in the literature in the context of numerical approximations of complex infinite dimensional operators modeling real-world applications. In various settings, thanks the theory…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-05 Isabella Furci , Andrea Adriani , Stefano Serra-Capizzano

We solve large-scale mixed-integer linear programs (MILPs) via distributed asynchronous saddle point computation. This is motivated by the MILPs being able to model problems in multi-agent autonomy, e.g., task assignment problems and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-23 Luke Fina , Matthew Hale

In this paper we solve mixed-integer linear programs (MILPs) via distributed asynchronous saddle point computation. This work is motivated by the MILPs being able to model problems in multi-agent autonomy, such as task assignment problems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-16 Luke Fina , Christopher Petersen , Matthew Hale

In this paper we study the optimal control of a class of semilinear elliptic partial differential equations which have nonlinear constituents that are only accessible by data and are approximated by nonsmooth ReLU neural networks. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-24 Guozhi Dong , Michael Hintermüller , Kostas Papafitsoros , Kathrin Völkner

The model problem of a plane angle for a second-order elliptic system subject to Dirichlet, mixed, and Neumann boundary conditions is analyzed. For each boundary condition, the existence of solutions of the form $r^\lambda v$ is reduced to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-26 Michael Tsopanopoulos

Random Matrix Theory (RMT) has successfully modeled diverse systems, from energy levels of heavy nuclei to zeros of $L$-functions; this correspondence has allowed RMT to successfully predict many number theoretic behaviors. However there…

This paper proposes an interior-point framework for constrained optimization problems whose decision variables evolve on matrix Lie groups. The proposed method, termed the Matrix Lie Group Interior-Point Method (MLG-IPM), operates directly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Aclécio J. Santos , Jean C. Pereira , Guilherme V. Raffo

Toeplitz matrices form a rich class of possibly non-normal matrices whose asymptotic spectral analysis in high dimension is well-understood. The spectra of these matrices are notoriously highly sensitive to small perturbations. In this…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-10-23 Charles Bordenave , François Chapon , Mireille Capitaine