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We introduce a family of stochastic optimization methods based on the Runge-Kutta-Chebyshev (RKC) schemes. The RKC methods are explicit methods originally designed for solving stiff ordinary differential equations by ensuring that their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-01 Tony Stillfjord , Måns Williamson

Many control, optimization, and learning algorithms rely on discretizations of continuous-time contracting systems, where preservation of contractivity under numerical integration is key for stability, robustness, and reliable fixed-point…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-13 Yu Kawano , Francesco Bullo

The framework of inner product norm preserving relaxation Runge-Kutta methods (David I. Ketcheson, \emph{Relaxation Runge-Kutta Methods: Conservation and Stability for Inner-Product Norms}, SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, 2019) is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-26 Hendrik Ranocha , Mohammed Sayyari , Lisandro Dalcin , Matteo Parsani , David I. Ketcheson

This paper introduces the Runge-Kutta Chebyshev descent method (RKCD) for strongly convex optimisation problems. This new algorithm is based on explicit stabilised integrators for stiff differential equations, a powerful class of numerical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-30 Armin Eftekhari , Bart Vandereycken , Gilles Vilmart , Konstantinos C. Zygalakis

The convergence behavior of gradient methods for minimizing convex differentiable functions is one of the core questions in convex optimization. This paper shows that their well-known complexities can be achieved under conditions weaker…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-09-10 Hui Zhang , Wotao Yin

In this work we present a new class of Runge-Kutta (RK) methods for solving systems of hyperbolic equations with a particular structure, generalization of a wave-equation. The new methods are {\it partially implicit} in the sense that a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-11-10 Isabel Cordero-Carrión , Pablo Cerdá-Durán

Explicit Runge--Kutta (RK) methods are susceptible to a reduction in the observed order of convergence when applied to initial-boundary value problem with time-dependent boundary conditions. We study conditions on explicit RK methods that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Abhijit Biswas , David I. Ketcheson , Steven Roberts , Benjamin Seibold , David Shirokoff

A wide range of physical phenomena exhibit auxiliary admissibility criteria, such as conservation of entropy or various energies, which arise implicitly under the exact solution of their governing PDEs. However, standard temporal schemes,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-29 Mohammad R. Najafian , Brian C. Vermeire

We prove that Runge-Kutta (RK) methods for numerical integration of arbitrarily large systems of Ordinary Differential Equations are linearly stable. Standard stability arguments -- based on spectral analysis, resolvent condition or strong…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-27 Eitan Tadmor

This study focuses on the development and analysis of a group of high-order implicit-explicit (IMEX) Runge--Kutta (RK) methods that are suitable for discretizing gradient flows with nonlinearity that is Lipschitz continuous. We demonstrate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-22 Zhaohui Fu , Tao Tang , Jiang Yang

This paper focuses on the strong convergence rate of both Runge--Kutta methods and simplified step-$N$ Euler schemes for stochastic differential equations driven by multi-dimensional fractional Brownian motions with $H\in(\frac12,1)$. Based…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-23 Jialin Hong , Chuying Huang , Xu Wang

A wide range of physical phenomena exhibit auxiliary admissibility criteria, such as conservation of entropy or various energies, which arise implicitly under exact solution of their governing PDEs. However, standard temporal schemes, such…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-27 Mohammad R. Najafian , Brian C. Vermeire

In this master thesis we have compared different second order stabilized explicit Runge-Kutta methods when applied to the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations by means of a projection method and a differential algebraic approach. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-30 Giacomo Rosilho de Souza

This paper considers a nonconvex optimization problem that evolves over time, and addresses the synthesis and analysis of regularized primal-dual gradient methods to track a Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) trajectory. The proposed regularized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-04 Yujie Tang , Emiliano Dall'Anese , Andrey Bernstein , Steven Low

In this paper, we develop a new type of Runge--Kutta (RK) discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method for solving hyperbolic conservation laws. Compared with the original RKDG method, the new method features improved compactness and allows simple…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-26 Qifan Chen , Zheng Sun , Yulong Xing

Classical convergence theory of Runge-Kutta methods assumes that the time step is small relative to the Lipschitz constant of the ordinary differential equation (ODE). For stiff problems, that assumption is often violated, and a problematic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Steven B. Roberts , David Shirokoff , Abhijit Biswas , Benjamin Seibold

We put forward the use of total-variation-diminishing (or more generally, strong stability preserving) implicit-explicit Runge-Kutta methods for the time integration of the equations of motion associated with the semiconvection problem in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-03-09 Friedrich Kupka , Natalie Happenhofer , Inmaculada Higueras , Othmar Koch

The Runge--Kutta (RK) discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method is a mainstream numerical algorithm for solving hyperbolic equations. In this paper, we use the linear advection equation in one and two dimensions as a model problem to prove the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-02 Zheng Sun

Implicit-explicit Runge-Kutta (IMEX-RK) time discretization methods are very popular when solving stiff kinetic equations. In [21], an asymptotic analysis shows that a specific class of high-order IMEX-RK schemes can accurately capture the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-12 Sebastiano Boscarino , Seung Yeon Cho

Stabilized Runge-Kutta methods are especially efficient for the numerical solution of large systems of stiff nonlinear differential equations because they are fully explicit. For semi-discrete parabolic problems, for instance, stabilized…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-05 Assyr Abdulle , Marcus J. Grote , Giacomo Rosilho de Souza
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