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The nonlinear conjugate gradient methods are known to be an effective approach for standard unconstrained optimization problems especially for large-scale problems. This paper proposes a proximal nonlinear conjugate gradient method, which…

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In this paper, single-stage stellarator optimization is combined with stochastic coil optimization to improve the robustness of the stellarator as compared to deterministic methods. The plasma boundary, solved with an MHD solver in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-03-13 Pedro F. Gil , Jason Smoniewski , Rogerio Jorge , Paul Huslage , Eve V. Stenson

An efficient algorithm for the reconstruction of the magnetization state within magnetic components is presented. The occurring inverse magnetostatic problem is solved by means of an adjoint approach, based on the Fredkin-Koehler method for…

Gradient-based techniques are becoming increasingly critical in quantitative fields, notably in statistics and computer science. The utility of these techniques, however, ultimately depends on how efficiently we can evaluate the derivatives…

Computation · Statistics 2020-02-04 Michael Betancourt , Charles C. Margossian , Vianey Leos-Barajas

In this paper, we propose a descent method for composite optimization problems with linear operators. Specifically, we first design a structure-exploiting preconditioner tailored to the linear operator so that the resulting preconditioned…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Jian Chen , Xinmin Yang

We investigate the techniques and ideas used in the convergence analysis of two proximal ADMM algorithms for solving convex optimization problems involving compositions with linear operators. Besides this, we formulate a variant of the ADMM…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-20 Sebastian Banert , Radu Ioan Bot , Ernö Robert Csetnek

We propose a new method to compute magnetic surfaces that are parametrized in Boozer coordinates for vacuum magnetic fields. We also propose a measure for quasi-symmetry on the computed surfaces and use it to design coils that generate a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-08-17 Andrew Giuliani , Florian Wechsung , Matt Landreman , Georg Stadler , Antoine Cerfon

Stellarators commonly comprise different sets of coils to produce diverse magnetic configurations. However, the diversity of possible configurations in a single device is usually rather limited. The achievement of a broad variety of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-09-07 Vicente Queral

Understanding how the release of stored magnetic energy contributes to the generation of non-thermal high energy particles during solar flares is an important open problem in solar physics. Magnetic reconnection plays a fundamental role in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-11 Alexei Borissov , Thomas Neukirch , Eduard Kontar , James Threlfall , Clare Parnell

In this work, we utilize new coil objectives for stellarator optimization with autodifferentiation, including pointwise and net coil-coil forces and torques. We use these methods to perform the first large-scale optimization of planar…

This paper considers the problem of distributed model fitting using the alternating directions method of multipliers (ADMM). ADMM splits the learning problem into several smaller subproblems, usually by partitioning the data samples. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-04 Dinesh Krishnamoorthy , Vyacheslav Kungurtsev

In this paper, a stochastic alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) is proposed for a class of nonsmooth composite and stochastic convex optimization problems in Hilbert space, motivated by optimization problems constrained by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-18 Weihua Deng , Haiming Song , Hao Wang , Jinda Yang

We present a novel method for numerically finding quasi-isodynamic stellarator magnetic fields with excellent fast-particle confinement and extremely small neoclassical transport. The method works particularly well in configurations with…

Accompanied with the rising popularity of compressed sensing, the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) has become the most widely used solver for linearly constrained convex problems with separable objectives. In this work, we…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2016-07-12 Canyi Lu , Jiashi Feng , Shuicheng Yan , Zhouchen Lin

Accelerated proximal gradient methods have recently been developed for solving quasi-static incremental problems of elastoplastic analysis with some different yield criteria. It has been demonstrated through numerical experiments that these…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-13 Yoshihiro Kanno

Adaptable, low-cost, coils designed by carefully selecting the arrangements and geometries of simple primitive units are used to generate magnetic fields for diverse applications. These extend from magnetic resonance and fundamental physics…

The paper contributes to strengthening the relation between machine learning and the theory of differential equations. In this context, the inverse problem of fitting the parameters, and the initial condition of a differential equation to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Imre Fekete , András Molnár , Péter L. Simon

This paper introduces a shape optimisation framework for achieving desired mutual inductances (MIs) among coils in 3D space. Utilising a wire modelling approach, the coils are discretised using B-spline curves, with control points (CPs)…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-06-18 Toru Takahashi , Tatsuya Tokito , Yi Cui , Toshiro Matsumoto

This paper aims to present a fairly accessible generalization of several symmetric Gauss-Seidel decomposition based multi-block proximal alternating direction methods of multipliers (ADMMs) for convex composite optimization problems. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-09 Liang Chen , Defeng Sun , Kim-Chuan Toh , Ning Zhang

Adjoint methods have gained popularity in recent years for driving adaptation procedures which aim to reduce error in solution functionals. While adjoint methods have been proven effective for functional-based adaptation, the practical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-11-09 William C. Tyson , Christopher J. Roy