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Algebraic Multigrid (AMG) methods have been proven to be effective solvers for large-scale linear algebraic systems $Ax = b$ with Hermitian positive definite (HPD) matrix $A$. For such problems the convergence in the $A$-norm is well…
We propose and analyze two a posteriori error indicators for hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) discretizations of the Helmholtz equation. These indicators are built to minimize the residual associated with a local superconvergent…
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This paper introduces a unified analysis framework of equal-order hybridized discontinuous finite element (HDG) methods. The general framework covers standard HDG, embedded discontinuous finite element, and embedded-hybridized discontinuous…
A robust $hp$-adaptive finite element framework is presented for the investigation of static cracks in materials characterized by complex, pointwise density variations. Within such heterogeneous media, the equilibrium equation governed by…
We consider the problem of estimating (diagonally dominant) M-matrices as precision matrices in Gaussian graphical models. These models exhibit intriguing properties, such as the existence of the maximum likelihood estimator with merely two…
For a generalized Hodge Laplace equation, we prove the quasi-optimal convergence rate of an adaptive mixed finite element method. This adaptive method can control the error in the natural mixed variational norm when the space of harmonic…
This work is related to PHG (Parallel Hierarchical Grid). PHG is a toolbox for developing parallel adaptive finite element programs, which is under active development at the State Key Laboratory of Scientific and Engineering Computing. The…
Many relevant problems in the area of systems and control, such as controller synthesis, observer design and model reduction, can be viewed as optimization problems involving dynamical systems: for instance, maximizing performance in the…
We propose some new mixed finite element methods for the time dependent stochastic Stokes equations with multiplicative noise, which use the Helmholtz decomposition of the driving multiplicative noise. It is known [16] that the pressure…
Decentralized stochastic optimization methods have gained a lot of attention recently, mainly because of their cheap per iteration cost, data locality, and their communication-efficiency. In this paper we introduce a unified convergence…
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Gaussian radial basis functions can be an accurate basis for multivariate interpolation. In practise, high accuracies are often achieved in the flat limit where the interpolation matrix becomes increasingly ill-conditioned. Stable…
We consider hierarchical variational inequality problems, or more generally, variational inequalities defined over the set of zeros of a monotone operator. This framework includes convex optimization over equilibrium constraints and…
This work proposes a unified $hp$-adaptivity framework for hybridized discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) method for a large class of partial differential equations (PDEs) of Friedrichs' type. In particular, we present unified $hp$-HDG…
We here adapt an extended version of the adaptive cubic regularisation method with dynamic inexact Hessian information for nonconvex optimisation in [3] to the stochastic optimisation setting. While exact function evaluations are still…