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Self-Consistent Field Theory is applied to a film of cylindrical-forming block copolymer subject to a surface field which tends to align the cylinders parallel to electrical plates, and to an external electric field tending to align them…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Chin-Yet Lin , M. Schick

Self-consistent field theory (SCFT) is one of the useful methods to simulate phase separated structures of multi-component polymer systems. In this article, we propose an SCFT for semiflexible polymer melts, where the basic equations for…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-03-04 Yutaka Oya , Toshihiro Kawakatsu

Direct and large-eddy simulations of turbulence are often solved using explicit temporal schemes. However, this imposes very small time-steps because the eigenvalues of the (linearized) dynamical system, re-scaled by the time-step, must lie…

We study the discrete constrained saddle dynamics and their momentum variants for locating saddle points on manifolds. Under the assumption of exact unstable eigenvectors, we establish a local linear convergence of the discrete constrained…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-02 Qiang Du , Baoming Shi

In this work, we investigate the convergence of numerical approximations to coercivity constants of variational problems. These constants are essential components of rigorous error bounds for reduced-order modeling; extension of these…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-25 Peter Sentz , Jehanzeb Hameed Chaudhry , Luke N. Olson

We consider minimizing finite-sum and expectation objective functions via Hessian-averaging based subsampled Newton methods. These methods allow for gradient inexactness and have fixed per-iteration Hessian approximation costs. The recent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-15 Thomas O'Leary-Roseberry , Raghu Bollapragada

In this article, we derive fully guaranteed error bounds for the energy of convex nonlinear mean-field models. These results apply in particular to Kohn-Sham equations with convex density functionals, which includes the reduced Hartree-Fock…

The analysis of structure-preserving numerical methods for the Poisson--Nernst--Planck (PNP) system has attracted growing interests in recent years. In this work, we provide an optimal rate convergence analysis and error estimate for finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-23 Jie Ding , Cheng Wang , Shenggao Zhou

In this paper, we study the gradient descent-ascent method for convex-concave saddle-point problems. We derive a new non-asymptotic global convergence rate in terms of distance to the solution set by using the semidefinite programming…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-19 Moslem Zamani , Hadi Abbaszadehpeivasti , Etienne de Klerk

We study the convergence rate for the last iterate of stochastic gradient descent (SGD) and stochastic heavy ball (SHB) in the parametric setting when the objective function $F$ is globally convex or non-convex whose gradient is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Marcel Hudiani

A trace ratio optimization problem over the Stiefel manifold is investigated from the perspectives of both theory and numerical computations. At least three special cases of the problem have arisen from Fisher linear discriminant analysis,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-13 Li Wang , Lei-Hong Zhang , Ren-Cang Li

Gradient Langevin dynamics and a variety of its variants have attracted increasing attention owing to their convergence towards the global optimal solution, initially in the unconstrained convex framework while recently even in convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-15 Kanji Sato , Akiko Takeda , Reiichiro Kawai , Taiji Suzuki

In this work, we study the asymptotic randomness of an algorithmic estimator of the saddle point of a globally convex-concave and locally strongly-convex strongly-concave objective. Specifically, we show that the averaged iterates of a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-07 Abhishek Roy , Yi-An Ma

This paper deals with the impact of linear approximations for the unknown nonconvex confidence region of chance-constrained AC optimal power flow problems. Such approximations are required for the formulation of tractable chance…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-10-03 Lejla Halilbasic , Pierre Pinson , Spyros Chatzivasileiadis

In this paper, we study randomized and cyclic coordinate descent for convex unconstrained optimization problems. We improve the known convergence rates in some cases by using the numerical semidefinite programming performance estimation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-26 Hadi Abbaszadehpeivasti , Etienne de Klerk , Moslem Zamani

The generalized stacking-fault energy (GSFE) is the fundamental but key parameter for the plastic deformation of materials. We perform first-principles calculations by full-potential linearized augmented planewave (FLAPW) method to evaluate…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-12-06 Sitong Zhang , Xingyu Gao , Haifeng Song , Bin Wen

Loss functions with non-isolated minima have emerged in several machine learning problems, creating a gap between theory and practice. In this paper, we formulate a new type of local convexity condition that is suitable to describe the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Taehee Ko , Xiantao Li

Fixed-point iterations are at the heart of numerical computing and are often a computational bottleneck in real-time applications that typically need a fast solution of moderate accuracy. We present neural fixed-point acceleration which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-26 Shobha Venkataraman , Brandon Amos

We investigate pointwise estimation of the function-valued velocity field of a second-order linear SPDE. Based on multiple spatially localised measurements, we construct a weighted augmented MLE and study its convergence properties as the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-02-14 Claudia Strauch , Anton Tiepner

We present a novel approach to accelerate iterative methods to solve nonlinear Schr\"odinger eigenvalue problems using neural networks. Nonlinear eigenvector problems are fundamental in quantum mechanics and other fields, yet conventional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-23 Daniel Peterseim , Jan-F. Pietschmann , Jonas Püschel , Kilian Ruess