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This work introduces and rigorously analyzes a novel operator-splitting finite element scheme for approximating viscosity solutions of a broad class of constrained second-order partial differential equations. By decoupling the primary PDE…

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An evolving surface finite element discretisation is analysed for the evolution of a closed two-dimensional surface governed by a system coupling a generalised forced mean curvature flow and a reaction--diffusion process on the surface,…

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We present a stochastic descent algorithm for unconstrained optimization that is particularly efficient when the objective function is slow to evaluate and gradients are not easily obtained, as in some PDE-constrained optimization and…

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We prove the convergence of a particle method for the approximation of diffusive gradient flows in one dimension. This method relies on the discretisation of the energy via non-overlapping balls centred at the particles and preserves the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-09 J. A. Carrillo , F. S. Patacchini , P. Sternberg , G. Wolansky

We provide a numerical analysis and computation of neural network projected schemes for approximating one dimensional Wasserstein gradient flows. We approximate the Lagrangian mapping functions of gradient flows by the class of two-layer…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-27 Xinzhe Zuo , Jiaxi Zhao , Shu Liu , Stanley Osher , Wuchen Li

Stochastic Primal-Dual Hybrid Gradient (SPDHG) is an algorithm proposed by Chambolle et al. (2018) to efficiently solve a wide class of nonsmooth large-scale optimization problems. In this paper we contribute to its theoretical foundations…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-27 Eric B Gutierrez , Claire Delplancke , Matthias J Ehrhardt

In this paper, we present the proximal-proximal-gradient method (PPG), a novel optimization method that is simple to implement and simple to parallelize. PPG generalizes the proximal-gradient method and ADMM and is applicable to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-19 Ernest K. Ryu , Wotao Yin

This paper focuses on the numerical approximation of the linearized shallow water equations using hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) methods, leveraging the Hamiltonian structure of the evolution system. First, we propose an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-04 C. Núñez , M. A. Sánchez

We consider metric gradient flows and their discretizations in time and space. We prove an abstract convergence result for time-space discretizations and identify their limits as curves of maximal slope. As an application, we consider a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-22 Manuel Friedrich , Martin Kružík , Jan Valdman

We propose a new semi-discretization scheme to approximate nonlinear Fokker-Planck equations, by exploiting the gradient flow structures with respect to the 2-Wasserstein metric. We discretize the underlying state by a finite graph and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-20 Shui-Nee Chow , Luca Dieci , Wuchen Li , Haomin Zhou

We study a block-structured class of convex-concave saddle-point problems in which both the primal and dual variables admit natural separable decompositions. Motivated by large-scale applications where a full update on either side can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Yiheng Xiao , Huikang Liu

We propose a new family of high order staggered semi-implicit discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods for the simulation of natural convection problems. Assuming small temperature fluctuations, the Boussinesq approximation is valid and the flow…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-12-05 Saray Busto , Maurizio Tavelli , Walter Boscheri , Michael Dumbser

The theory of Wasserstein gradient flows in the space of probability measures has made an enormous progress over the last twenty years. It constitutes a unified and powerful framework in the study of dissipative partial differential…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-17 Daniel Adams , Manh Hong Duong , Goncalo dos Reis

In this paper, we discuss the problem of minimizing the sum of two convex functions: a smooth function plus a non-smooth function. Further, the smooth part can be expressed by the average of a large number of smooth component functions, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Luo Luo , Zihao Chen , Zhihua Zhang , Wu-Jun Li

We investigate the quality of space approximation of a class of stochastic integral equations of convolution type with Gaussian noise. Such equations arise, for example, when considering mild solutions of stochastic fractional order partial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-05 Erika Hausenblas , Mihály Kovács

In this paper we present results from a series of hydrodynamical tests aimed at validating the performance of a smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) formulation in which gradients are derived from an integral approach. We specifically…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-09 R. Valdarnini

Gradient flow in the 2-Wasserstein space is widely used to optimize functionals over probability distributions and is typically implemented using an interacting particle system with $n$ particles. Analyzing these algorithms requires showing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Chandan Tankala , Dheeraj M. Nagaraj , Anant Raj

The Stochastic Primal-Dual Hybrid Gradient (SPDHG) was proposed by Chambolle et al. (2018) and is an efficient algorithm to solve some nonsmooth large-scale optimization problems. In this paper we prove its almost sure convergence for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-02 Eric B. Gutierrez , Claire Delplancke , Matthias J. Ehrhardt

We consider decentralized gradient-free optimization of minimizing Lipschitz continuous functions that satisfy neither smoothness nor convexity assumption. We propose two novel gradient-free algorithms, the Decentralized Gradient-Free…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-29 Zhenwei Lin , Jingfan Xia , Qi Deng , Luo Luo

In this paper we analyze a zeroth-order proximal stochastic gradient method suitable for the minimization of weakly convex stochastic optimization problems. We consider nonsmooth and nonlinear stochastic composite problems, for which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-21 Spyridon Pougkakiotis , Dionysios S. Kalogerias
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