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We derive an extension of the sequential homotopy method that allows for the application of inexact solvers for the linear (double) saddle-point systems arising in the local semismooth Newton method for the homotopy subproblems. For the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-30 John W. Pearson , Andreas Potschka

The first order condition of the constrained minimization problem leads to a saddle point problem. A multigrid method using a multiplicative Schwarz smoother for saddle point problems can thus be interpreted as a successive subspace…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-19 Long Chen

We study the performance of a new block preconditioner for a class of $3\times3$ block saddle point problems which arise from finite element methods for solving time-dependent Maxwell equations and some other practical problems. We also…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-24 Maryam Abdolmaleki , Saeed Karimi , Davod Khojasteh Salkuyeh

The goal of this work is to construct and study hybrid and multiplicative two-level overlapping Schwarz algorithms with standard coarse spaces for the almost incompressible linear elasticity and Stokes systems, discretized by mixed finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-03 Mingchao Cai , Luca F. Pavarino

In this paper, we describe and analyze the spectral properties of a number of exact block preconditioners for a class of double saddle point problems. Among all these, we consider an inexact version of a block triangular preconditioner…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-04 Fariba Balani Bakrani , Luca Bergamaschi , Angeles Martinez , Masoud Hajarian

In this paper, we introduce a multilevel algorithm for approximating variational formulations of symmetric saddle point systems. The algorithm is based on availability of families of stable finite element pairs and on the availability of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-05-14 Constantin Bacuta

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

The preconditioned iterative solution of large-scale saddle-point systems is of great importance in numerous application areas, many of them involving partial differential equations. Robustness with respect to certain problem parameters is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-22 Roland Herzog

Saddle point problems arise in many important practical applications. In this paper we propose and analyze some algorithms for solving symmetric saddle point problems which are based upon the block Gram-Schmidt method. In particular, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-12-19 Felicja Okulicka-Dłużewska , Alicja Smoktunowicz

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

The solution of matrices with $2\times 2$ block structure arises in numerous areas of computational mathematics, such as PDE discretizations based on mixed-finite element methods, constrained optimization problems, or the implicit or steady…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-07 Ben S. Southworth , Abdullah A. Sivas , Sander Rhebergen

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

We address the problem of preconditioning a sequence of saddle point linear systems arising in the solution of PDE-constrained optimal control problems via active-set Newton methods, with control and (regularized) state constraints. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-25 Margherita Porcelli , Valeria Simoncini , Mattia Tani

This paper proposes an asymmetric perturbation technique for solving bilinear saddle-point optimization problems, commonly arising in minimax problems, game theory, and constrained optimization. Perturbing payoffs or values is known to be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-16 Kenshi Abe , Mitsuki Sakamoto , Kaito Ariu , Atsushi Iwasaki

We consider block preconditioners for double saddle-point systems, and investigate the effect of approximating the nested Schur complement associated with the trailing diagonal block on the eigenvalue distribution of the preconditioned…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Chen Greif

We propose two variants of the Primal Dual Hybrid Gradient (PDHG) algorithm for saddle point problems with block decomposable duals, hereafter called Multi-Timescale PDHG (MT-PDHG) and its accelerated variant (AMT-PDHG). Through novel…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Junhui Zhang , Patrick Jaillet

The Potts model has many applications. It is equivalent to some min-cut and max-flow models. Primal-dual algorithms have been used to solve these problems. Due to the special structure of the models, convergence proof is still a difficult…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-24 Hongpeng Sun , Xuecheng Tai , Jing Yuan

The main focus of this paper is the study of efficient multigrid methods for large linear systems with a particular saddle-point structure. Indeed, when the system matrix is symmetric, but indefinite, the variational convergence theory that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-30 Marco Donatelli , Matthias Bolten , Paola Ferrari , Isabella Furci

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

In this paper we consider multiple saddle point problems with block tridiagonal Hessian in a Hilbert space setting. Well-posedness and the related issue of preconditioning are discussed. We give a characterization of all block structured…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-23 Alexander Beigl , Jarle Sogn , Walter Zulehner