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We approximate the solution of the stationary Stokes equations with various conforming and nonconforming inf-sup stable pairs of finite element spaces on simplicial meshes. Based on each pair, we design a discretization that is…

The objective of pose SLAM or pose-graph optimization (PGO) is to estimate the trajectory of a robot given odometric and loop closing constraints. State-of-the-art iterative approaches typically involve the linearization of a non-convex…

We consider constructing a surface from a given set of point cloud data. We explore two fast algorithms to minimize the weighted minimum surface energy in [Zhao, Osher, Merriman and Kang, Comp.Vision and Image Under., 80(3):295-319, 2000].…

In this work, we present several tools for efficient sequential hierarchical least-squares programming (S-HLSP) for lexicographical optimization tailored to robot control and planning. As its main step, S-HLSP relies on approximations of…

This article is devoted to the shape optimization of the internal structure of an electric motor, and more precisely of the arrangement of air and ferromagnetic material inside the rotor part with the aim to increase the torque of the…

This paper is concerned with the development and analysis of an iterative solver for high-dimensional second-order elliptic problems based on subspace-based low-rank tensor formats. Both the subspaces giving rise to low-rank approximations…

Adjoint-based shape optimization most often relies on Eulerian flow field formulations. However, since Lagrangian particle methods are the natural choice for solving sedimentation problems in oceanography, extensions to the Lagrangian…

First-order optimizers are reliable but slow in sharp, anisotropic regions. We study a curvature-adaptive method that periodically sketches a low-rank Hessian subspace via Hessian--vector products and preconditions gradients only in that…

Within the context of upcoming full-sky lensing surveys, the edge-preserving non- linear algorithm Aski is presented. Using the framework of Maximum A Posteriori inversion, it aims at recovering the full-sky convergence map from surveys…

We introduce a new level-set shape optimization approach based on polytopic (i.e., polygonal in two and polyhedral in three spatial dimensions) discontinuous Galerkin methods. The approach benefits from the geometric mesh flexibility of…

We analyze a fully discrete scheme based on the discontinuous (in time) Galerkin approach, which is combined with conforming finite element subspaces in space, for the distributed optimal control problem of the three-dimensional…

In this paper, we propose and analyze a multiscale method for a class of quasilinear elliptic problems of nonmonotone type with spatially multiscale coefficient. The numerical approach is inspired by the Localized Orthogonal Decomposition…

We propose a class of numerical methods for the nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) equation that conserves mass and energy, is of arbitrarily high-order accuracy in space and time, and requires only the solution of a scalar algebraic equation…

In the paper possible local and nonlocal reductions of the Ablowitz-Kaup-Newell-Suger (AKNS) hierarchy are collected, including the Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) hierarchy, modified KdV hierarchy and their nonlocal versions, nonlinear…

Elliptic optimal control problems with pointwise box constraints on the control (EOCP) are considered. To solve EOCP, the primal-dual active set (PDAS) method, which is a special semismooth Newton (SSN) method, used to be a priority in…

We consider the problem of optimization of cost functionals on the infinite-dimensional manifold of diffeomorphisms. We present a new class of optimization methods, valid for any optimization problem setup on the space of diffeomorphisms by…

We present a new parallel computational framework for the efficient solution of a class of $L^2$/$L^1$-regularized optimal control problems governed by semi-linear elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs). The main difficulty in…

Simultaneous Localization and Planning (SLAP) under process and measurement uncertainties is a challenge. It involves solving a stochastic control problem modeled as a Partially Observed Markov Decision Process (POMDP) in a general…

The state-of-art seismic imaging techniques treat inversion tasks such as FWI and LSRTM as PDE-constrained optimization problems. Due to the large-scale nature, gradient-based optimization algorithms are preferred in practice to update the…

Solving large-scale optimization problems is a bottleneck and is very important for machine learning and multiple kinds of scientific problems. Subspace-based methods using the local approximation strategy are one of the most important…