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We propose a nonlinear additive Schwarz method for solving nonlinear optimization problems with bound constraints. Our method is used as a "right-preconditioner" for solving the first-order optimality system arising within the sequential…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-07 Hardik Kothari , Alena Kopaničáková , Rolf Krause

We analyze the convergence of the (algebraic) multiplicative Schwarz method applied to linear algebraic systems with matrices having a special block structure that arises, for example, when a (partial) differential equation is posed and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-20 Carlos Echeverría , Jörg Liesen , Petr Tichý

In this paper we propose several adaptive gradient methods for stochastic optimization. Unlike AdaGrad-type of methods, our algorithms are based on Armijo-type line search and they simultaneously adapt to the unknown Lipschitz constant of…

We present additive Schwarz preconditioners for a class of elliptic optimal control problems discretized by a partition of unity method. The discrete problem is solved by a primal-dual active set algorithm, where the auxiliary system in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-20 Susanne C. Brenner , Christopher B. Davis , Li-yeng Sung

We present and analyze a class of nonsymmetric preconditioners within a normal (weighted least-squares) matrix form for use in GMRES to solve nonsymmetric matrix problems that typically arise in finite element discretizations. An example of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-09-02 Blanca Ayuso de Dios , Andrew T. Barker , Panayot S. Vassilevski

In this paper we introduce an additive Schwarz method for a Crouzeix-Raviart Finite Volume Element (CRFVE) discretization of a second order elliptic problem with discontinuous coefficients, where the discontinuities are both inside the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-14 Atle Loneland , Leszek Marcinkowski , Talal Rahman

We analyze nonlinearly preconditioned gradient methods for solving smooth minimization problems. We introduce a generalized smoothness property, based on the notion of abstract convexity, that is broader than Lipschitz smoothness and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-18 Konstantinos Oikonomidis , Jan Quan , Emanuel Laude , Panagiotis Patrinos

We develop multi-step gradient methods for network-constrained optimization of strongly convex functions with Lipschitz-continuous gradients. Given the topology of the underlying network and bounds on the Hessian of the objective function,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-06-12 Euhanna Ghadimi , Iman Shames , Mikael Johansson

Neural networks are powerful tools for approximating high dimensional data that have been used in many contexts, including solution of partial differential equations (PDEs). We describe a solver for multiscale fully nonlinear elliptic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-07 Shi Chen , Zhiyan Ding , Qin Li , Stephen J. Wright

In this paper, we design and analyze a new family of adaptive subgradient methods for solving an important class of weakly convex (possibly nonsmooth) stochastic optimization problems. Adaptive methods that use exponential moving averages…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-26 Parvin Nazari , Davoud Ataee Tarzanagh , George Michailidis

We present new convergence analyses for parallel subspace correction methods for unconstrained semicoercive and nearly semicoercive convex optimization problems, generalizing the theory of singular and nearly singular linear problems to a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Young-Ju Lee , Jongho Park

The dynamic iteration method with a restricted additive Schwarz splitting is investigated to co-simulate linear differential algebraic equations system coming from RLC electrical circuit with linear components. We show the pure linear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-16 Helena Shourick , Damien Tromeur-Dervout , Laurent Chedot

Convergence is proven for Schwarz-like methods applied to degenerate elliptic-parabolic equations with a $p$-structure. This family of PDEs, e.g., arises when modelling nonlinear diffusion processes. The Schwarz-like approximation methods…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-07 Monika Eisenmann , Eskil Hansen

Recent advances in convex optimization have leveraged computer-assisted proofs to develop optimized first-order methods that improve over classical algorithms. However, each optimized method is specially tailored for a particular problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Jinho Bok , Jason M. Altschuler

We propose an accelerated meta-algorithm, which allows to obtain accelerated methods for convex unconstrained minimization in different settings. As an application of the general scheme we propose nearly optimal methods for minimizing…

In this work, a local Fourier analysis is presented to study the convergence of multigrid methods based on additive Schwarz smoothers. This analysis is presented as a general framework which allows us to study these smoothers for any type…

In this paper, we present a generic framework to extend existing uniformly optimal convex programming algorithms to solve more general nonlinear, possibly nonconvex, optimization problems. The basic idea is to incorporate a local search…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-10-27 Saeed Ghadimi , Guanghui Lan , Hongchao Zhang

Lagrangian-based methods are classical methods for solving convex optimization problems with equality constraints. We present novel prediction-correction frameworks for such methods and their variants, which can achieve $O(1/k)$ non-ergodic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-06 Tao Zhang , Yong Xia , Shiru Li

We suggest simple implementable modifications of conditional gradient and gradient projection methods for smooth convex optimization problems in Hilbert spaces. Usually, the custom methods attain only weak convergence. We prove strong…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-04 Igor Konnov

The additive Schwarz method is usually presented as a preconditioner for a PDE linearization based on overlapping subsets of nodes from a global discretization. It has previously been shown how to apply Schwarz preconditioning to a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-05 Kevin W. Aiton , Tobin A. Driscoll