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Practical optimization problems may contain different kinds of difficulties that are often not tractable if one relies on a particular optimization method. Different optimization approaches offer different strengths that are good at…

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This paper concerns developing a numerical method of the Newton type to solve systems of nonlinear equations described by nonsmooth continuous functions. We propose and justify a new generalized Newton algorithm based on graphical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-09-03 T. Hoheisel , C. Kanzow , B. S. Mordukhovich , H. Phan

We prove that solution operators of elliptic obstacle-type variational inequalities (or, more generally, locally Lipschitz continuous functions possessing certain pointwise-a.e. convexity properties) are Newton differentiable when…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-09 Constantin Christof , Gerd Wachsmuth

In this paper, we consider a large class of nonlinear equations derived from first-order type methods for solving composite optimization problems. Traditional approaches to establishing superlinear convergence rates of semismooth…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-31 Jiang Hu , Tonghua Tian , Shaohua Pan , Zaiwen Wen

This paper aims to develop a Newton-type method to solve a class of nonconvex composite programs. In particular, the nonsmooth part is possibly nonconvex. To tackle the nonconvexity, we develop a notion of strong prox-regularity which is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-10 Jiang Hu , Kangkang Deng , Jiayuan Wu , Quanzheng Li

Newton's method has been an important approach for solving variational inequalities, quasi-Newton method is a good alternative choice to save computational cost. In this paper, we propose a new method for solving monotone variational…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Yuge Ye , Qingna Li , Deren Han

In this paper, we propose a decomposition approach for eigenvalue problems with spatial symmetries, including the formulation, discretization as well as implementation. This approach can handle eigenvalue problems with either Abelian or…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-11-16 Jun Fang , Xingyu Gao , Aihui Zhou

We introduce a methodology for seeking conservation laws within a Hamiltonian dynamical system, which we term ``neural deflation''. Inspired by deflation methods for steady states of dynamical systems, we propose to {iteratively} train a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-03-29 Wei Zhu , Hong-Kun Zhang , P. G. Kevrekidis

A method is given for finding roots of a one-variable function using Taylor's expansion of that function and fractional derivative calculated at a suitable tangent point without using Newton's method, but is regarded as a variant of Halley…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-10 Ali Dorostkar , Ahmad Sabihi

It is well known that the Newton method may not converge when the initial guess does not belong to a specific quadratic convergence region. We propose a family of new variants of the Newton method with the potential advantage of having a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-30 Regina S. Burachik , Bethany I. Caldwell , C. Yalçın Kaya

The Newton method is a powerful optimization algorithm, valued for its rapid local convergence and elegant geometric properties. However, its theoretical guarantees are usually limited to convex problems. In this work, we ask whether…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-01 Alexander Shestakov , Sushil Bohara , Samuel Horváth , Martin Takáč , Slavomír Hanzely

Semismooth* Newton methods have been proposed in recent years targeting multi-valued inclusion problems and have been successfully implemented to deal with several concrete generalized equations. In this paper, we show that two typical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-18 Liang Chen , Defeng Sun , Wangyongquan Zhang

In this work, we present a globalized stochastic semismooth Newton method for solving stochastic optimization problems involving smooth nonconvex and nonsmooth convex terms in the objective function. We assume that only noisy gradient and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-12 Andre Milzarek , Xiantao Xiao , Shicong Cen , Zaiwen Wen , Michael Ulbrich

This paper concerns the inclusion of Newton's method into an adaptive finite element method (FEM) for the solution of nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs). It features an adaptive choice of the damping parameter in the Newton…

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Many fields require computing the trace of the inverse of a large, sparse matrix. The typical method used for such computations is the Hutchinson method which is a Monte Carlo (MC) averaging over matrix quadratures. To improve its…

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In this paper, we propose an adaptive finite difference scheme in order to numerically solve total variation type problems for image processing tasks. The automatic generation of the grid relies on indicators derived from a local estimation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-18 Thomas Jacumin , Andreas Langer

A broad range of inverse problems can be abstracted into the problem of minimizing the sum of several convex functions in a Hilbert space. We propose a proximal decomposition algorithm for solving this problem with an arbitrary number of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-11-13 Patrick L. Combettes , Jean-Christophe Pesquet

We study the problem of maintaining a differentially private decaying sum under continual observation. We give a unifying framework and an efficient algorithm for this problem for \emph{any sufficiently smooth} function. Our algorithm is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Monika Henzinger , Jalaj Upadhyay , Sarvagya Upadhyay

Nonlinear dimensionality reduction methods provide a valuable means to visualize and interpret high-dimensional data. However, many popular methods can fail dramatically, even on simple two-dimensional manifolds, due to problems such as…

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