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Solving Fredholm equations of the first kind is crucial in many areas of the applied sciences. In this work we adopt a probabilistic and variational point of view by considering a minimization problem in the space of probability measures…

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The proximal algorithm is a powerful tool to minimize nonlinear and nonsmooth functionals in a general metric space. Motivated by the recent progress in studying the training dynamics of the noisy gradient descent algorithm on two-layer…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Shuailong Zhu , Xiaohui Chen

Stochastic gradient descent is an optimisation method that combines classical gradient descent with random subsampling within the target functional. In this work, we introduce the stochastic gradient process as a continuous-time…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-05-11 Jonas Latz

Stability and convergence of full discretizations of various surface evolution equations are studied in this paper. The proposed discretization combines a higher-order evolving-surface finite element method (ESFEM) for space discretization…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-08 Balázs Kovács , Christian Lubich

In this article, we study the semi discrete and fully discrete formulations for a Kirchhoff type quasilinear integro-differential equation involving time-fractional derivative of order $\alpha \in (0,1) $. For the semi discrete formulation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-08 Lalit Kumar , Sivaji Ganesh Sista , Konijeti Sreenadh

We present an innovative numerical discretization of the equations of inviscid potential flow for the simulation of three dimensional unsteady and nonlinear water waves generated by a ship hull advancing in water. The equations of motion…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-02-06 Andrea Mola , Luca Heltai , Antonio DeSimone

We propose a new discretization method for the Stokes equations. The method is an improved version of the method recently presented in [C. Lehrenfeld, J. Sch\"oberl, Comp. Meth. Appl. Mech. Eng., 361 (2016)] which is based on an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-29 Philip L. Lederer , Christoph Lehrenfeld , Joachim Schöberl

Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) partial differential equations (PDEs) have diverse applications spanning physics, optimal control, game theory, and imaging sciences. This research introduces a first-order optimization-based technique for HJ PDEs,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-04 Tingwei Meng , Wenbo Hao , Siting Liu , Stanley J. Osher , Wuchen Li

Invariant discretization schemes are derived for the one- and two-dimensional shallow-water equations with periodic boundary conditions. While originally designed for constructing invariant finite difference schemes, we extend the usage of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-01-04 Alexander Bihlo , Roman O. Popovych

Inverse problems in scientific computing often require optimization over infinite-dimensional Hilbert spaces. A commonly used solver in such settings is stochastic gradient descent (SGD), where gradients are approximated using randomly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Sandra Cerrai , Qin Li , Anjali Nair , Jaeyoung Yoon

In this study, we investigate the performance of two novel first-order optimization algorithms, namely the rescaled-gradient flow (RGF) and the signed-gradient flow (SGF). These algorithms are derived from the forward Euler discretization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Siqi Zhang , Mouhacine Benosman , Orlando Romero

The least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (Lasso) is widely recognized across various fields of mathematics and engineering. Its variant, the generalized Lasso, finds extensive application in the fields of statistics, machine…

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We develop two compression based stochastic gradient algorithms to solve a class of non-smooth strongly convex-strongly concave saddle-point problems in a decentralized setting (without a central server). Our first algorithm is a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Chhavi Sharma , Vishnu Narayanan , P. Balamurugan

A modified primal-dual weak Galerkin (M-PDWG) finite element method is designed for the second order elliptic equation in non-divergence form. Compared with the existing PDWG methods proposed in \cite{wwnondiv}, the system of equations…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-24 Chunmei Wang

This paper studies finite element approximations of the stochastic Allen-Cahn equation with gradient-type multiplicative noises that are white in time and correlated in space. The sharp interface limit as the parameter $\epsilon \rightarrow…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-18 Xiaobing Feng , Yukun Li , Yi Zhang

We present a linear, second order fully discrete numerical scheme on a staggered grid for a thermodynamically consistent hydrodynamic phase field model of binary compressible fluid flow mixtures derived from the generalized Onsager…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-24 Xueping Zhao , Qi Wang

In this paper, a non-uniform time-stepping convex-splitting numerical algorithm for solving the widely used time-fractional Cahn-Hilliard equation is introduced. The proposed numerical scheme employs the $L1^+$ formula for discretizing the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-04 Jun Zhang , Jia Zhao , JinRong Wang

In this paper, we define new unfitted finite element methods for numerically approximating the solution of surface partial differential equations using bulk finite elements. The key idea is that the $n$-dimensional hypersurface, $\Gamma…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-03-21 Klaus Deckelnick , Charles M. Elliott , Thomas Ranner

Stratified fluids composed of a sequence of alternate layers show interesting macroscopic properties, which may be quite different from those of the individual constituent fluids. On a macroscopic scale, such systems can be considered a…

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