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Nonlinear parabolic equations are central to numerous applications in science and engineering, posing significant challenges for analytical solutions and necessitating efficient numerical methods. Exponential integrators have recently…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Trung Hau Hoang

We show that symplectic Runge-Kutta methods provide effective symplectic integrators for Hamiltonian systems with index one constraints. These include the Hamiltonian description of variational problems subject to position and velocity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-02-28 Robert I McLachlan , Klas Modin , Olivier Verdier , Matt Wilkins

We consider the development of high order asymptotic-preserving linear multistep methods for kinetic equations and related problems. The methods are first developed for BGK-like kinetic models and then extended to the case of the full…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-03-06 Giacomo Dimarco , Lorenzo Pareschi

We present a general, high-order, fully explicit relaxation scheme which can be applied to any system of nonlinear hyperbolic conservation laws in multiple dimensions. The scheme consists of two steps. In a first (relaxation) step, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-06 Pauline Lafitte , Ward Melis , Giovanni Samaey

The aim of this paper is to construct and analyze exponential Runge-Kutta methods for the temporal discretization of a class of semilinear parabolic problems with arbitrary state-dependent delay. First, the well-posedness of the problem is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-12 Qiumei Huang , Alexander Ostermann , Gangfan Zhong

Finite element discretization of time dependent problems also require effective time-stepping schemes. While implicit Runge-Kutta methods provide favorable accuracy and stability problems, they give rise to large and complicated systems of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-01 Robert C. Kirby

In this paper, we provide conditions under which one can take derivatives of the solution to convex optimization problems with respect to problem data. These conditions are (roughly) that Slater's condition holds, the functions involved are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-13 Shane Barratt

Recently some specific classes of non-smooth and non-Lipschitz convex optimization problems were selected by Yu.~Nesterov along with H.~Lu. We consider convex programming problems with similar smoothness conditions for the objective…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-07 Alexander Titov , Fedor Stonyakin , Mohammad Alkousa , Seydamet Ablaev , Alexander Gasnikov

The Stokes resolvent problem $\lambda u - \Delta u + \nabla \phi = f$ with $\mathrm{div}(u) = 0$ subject to homogeneous Dirichlet or homogeneous Neumann-type boundary conditions is investigated. In the first part of the paper we show that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-15 Patrick Tolksdorf

The difference-of-convex algorithm (DCA) and its variants are the most popular methods to solve the difference-of-convex optimization problem. Each iteration of them is reduced to a convex optimization problem, which generally needs to be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-19 Songnian He , Qiao-Li Dong , Michael Th. Rassias

We consider the gradient method with variable step size for minimizing functions that are definable in o-minimal structures on the real field and differentiable with locally Lipschitz gradients. We prove that global convergence holds if…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-02 Cédric Josz

In this work, we study the iteration complexity of gradient methods for minimizing convex quadratic functions regularized by powers of Euclidean norms. We show that, due to the uniform convexity of the objective, gradient methods have…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-28 Daniel Berg Thomsen , Nikita Doikov

The usual approach to developing and analyzing first-order methods for smooth convex optimization assumes that the gradient of the objective function is uniformly smooth with some Lipschitz constant $L$. However, in many settings the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-11 Haihao Lu , Robert M. Freund , Yurii Nesterov

In this paper, we present new second-order algorithms for composite convex optimization, called Contracting-domain Newton methods. These algorithms are affine-invariant and based on global second-order lower approximation for the smooth…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-23 Nikita Doikov , Yurii Nesterov

Fully implicit Runge-Kutta (IRK) methods have many desirable accuracy and stability properties as time integration schemes, but high-order IRK methods are not commonly used in practice with large-scale numerical PDEs because of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-07 Ben S. Southworth , Oliver Krzysik , Will Pazner

We study global optimization of non-convex functions through optimal control theory. Our main result establishes that (quasi-)optimal trajectories of a discounted control problem converge globally and practically asymptotically to the set…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-17 Yuyang Huang , Dante Kalise , Hicham Kouhkouh

We present the formulation and optimization of a Runge-Kutta-type time-stepping scheme for solving the shallow water equations, aimed at substantially increasing the effective allowable time-step over that of comparable methods. This…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-27 Jeremy R. Lilly , Darren Engwirda , Giacomo Capodaglio , Robert L. Higdon , Mark R. Petersen

Runge-Kutta (RK) methods may exhibit order reduction when applied to stiff problems. For linear problems with time-independent operators, order reduction can be avoided if the method satisfies certain weak stage order (WSO) conditions,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-06 Abhijit Biswas , David Ketcheson , Benjamin Seibold , David Shirokoff

Optimal Strong Stability Preserving (SSP) Runge--Kutta methods has been widely investegated in the last decade and many open conjectures have been formulated. The iterated implicit midpoint rule has been observed numerically optimal in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-10-01 Tihamér A. Kocsis , Adrián Németh

Optimization over low rank matrices has broad applications in machine learning. For large scale problems, an attractive heuristic is to factorize the low rank matrix to a product of two much smaller matrices. In this paper, we study the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-19 Huan Li , Zhouchen Lin