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Mixed-dimensional partial differential equations (PDEs) are characterized by coupled operators defined on domains of varying dimensions and pose significant computational challenges due to their inherent ill-conditioning. Moreover, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-14 Nunzio Dimola , Nicola Rares Franco , Paolo Zunino

We consider the solution of saddle-point systems with a tree-based block structure, introducing a parallelizable direct method for their solution. As our key contribution, we then propose several structure-exploiting preconditioners to be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-01 Christoph Hansknecht , Bernhard Heinzelreiter , John W. Pearson , Andreas Potschka

This paper proposes a new preconditioning scheme for a linear system with a saddle-point structure arising from a hybrid approximation scheme on the sphere, an approximation scheme that combines (local) spherical radial basis functions and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-09-23 Q. T. Le Gia , Ian H. Sloan , Andrew J. Wathen

We derive parameter-robust quasi-optimal error estimates for mixed finite element methods for the nonlinear Darcy--Forchheimer equations with mixed boundary conditions. Using the framework of operator preconditioning, we also design…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-25 Rishi Das , Harsha Hutridurga , Amiya K. Pani , Ricardo Ruiz-Baier

We propose and analyze a general framework called nonlinear preconditioned primal-dual with projection for solving nonconvex-nonconcave and non-smooth saddle-point problems. The framework consists of two steps. The first is a nonlinear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-11 Lu Zhang , Hongxia Wang , Hui Zhang

In this paper, a new block preconditioner is proposed for the saddle point problem arising from the Neumann boundary control problem. In order to deal with the singularity of the stiffness matrix, the saddle point problem is first extended…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-31 Chaojie Wang , Xuan Zhang , Xingding Chen

The backtracking line-search is an effective technique to automatically tune the step-size in smooth optimization. It guarantees similar performance to using the theoretically optimal step-size. Many approaches have been developed to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-06 Frederik Kunstner , Victor S. Portella , Mark Schmidt , Nick Harvey

We present parameter-robust preconditioners for linear systems that arise after applying static condensation to a hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) discretization of the time-dependent Stokes problem. Building upon the theoretical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-09 Esteban Henríquez , Jeonghun J. Lee , Sander Rhebergen

In the context of micro-circulation, the coexistence of two distinct length scales - the vascular radius and the tissue/organ scale - with a substantial difference in magnitude, poses significant challenges. To handle slender inclusions and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-18 Nunzio Dimola , Miroslav Kuchta , Kent-Andre Mardal , Paolo Zunino

This paper focuses on stochastic saddle point problems with decision-dependent distributions. These are problems whose objective is the expected value of a stochastic payoff function and whose data distribution drifts in response to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-15 Killian Wood , Emiliano Dall'Anese

In many matching markets--such as athlete recruitment or academic admissions--participants on one side are evaluated by attribute vectors known to the other side, which in turn applies individual \emph{salience vectors} to assign relative…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Amit Ronen , S. S. Ravi , Sarit Kraus

High-index saddle dynamics (HiSD) is an effective approach for computing saddle points of a prescribed Morse index and constructing solution landscapes for complex nonlinear systems. However, for problems with ill-conditioned Hessians…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-25 Bingzhang Huang , Hua Su , Lei Zhang , Jin Zhao

We consider convex-concave saddle point problems with a separable structure and non-strongly convex functions. We propose an efficient stochastic block coordinate descent method using adaptive primal-dual updates, which enables flexible…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-11-24 Zhanxing Zhu , Amos J. Storkey

We consider strongly-convex-strongly-concave saddle point problems assuming we have access to unbiased stochastic estimates of the gradients. We propose a stochastic accelerated primal-dual (SAPD) algorithm and show that SAPD sequence,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Xuan Zhang , Necdet Serhat Aybat , Mert Gürbüzbalaban

We have presented a fast method for solving a specific type of block four-by-four saddlepoint problem arising from the finite element discretization of the generalized 3D Stokes problem. We analyze the eigenvalue distribution and the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-22 Achraf Badahmane , Ahmed Ratnani , Hassane Sadok

In this paper, a fast solver is studied for saddle point system arising from a second-order Crank-Nicolson discretization of an initial-valued parabolic PDE constrained optimal control problem, which is indefinite and ill-conditioned.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-21 Xue-Lei Lin , Shu-Lin Wu

We study the performance of stochastic first-order methods for finding saddle points of convex-concave functions. A notorious challenge faced by such methods is that the gradients can grow arbitrarily large during optimization, which may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Gergely Neu , Nneka Okolo

A modification of the generalized shift-splitting (GSS) method is presented for solving singular saddle point problems. In this kind of modification, the diagonal shift matrix is replaced by a block diagonal matrix which is symmetric…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-26 Davod Khojasteh Salkuyeh , Maryam Rahimian

This paper studies the problem of stability of a parameterized delay differential equations (DDE see equation (0.1)). After discretizing the DDE (0.1), we show that the problem can be equivalently casted into a semi-definite programming…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-01-03 Dongcai Su

In this paper we propose two variants of the substructuring preconditioner for solving three-dimensional elliptic-type equations with strongly discontinuous coefficients. In the new preconditioners, we use the simplest coarse solver…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-29 Qiya Hu , Shaoliang Hu