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Nonconvex minimization algorithms often benefit from the use of second-order information as represented by the Hessian matrix. When the Hessian at a critical point possesses negative eigenvalues, the corresponding eigenvectors can be used…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Warren Hare , Clément W. Royer

This paper addresses the problem of computing the eigenvalues lying in the gaps of the essential spectrum of a periodic Schrodinger operator perturbed by a fast decreasing potential. We use a recently developed technique, the so called…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2009-11-13 Lyonell Boulton , Michael Levitin

We introduce and study Laplacians on a finite metric graph endowed with generalized densities, that is, measures of finite mass. One important motivation is that this setting provides a common framework for several interesting classes of…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-24 Kiyan Naderi , Noema Nicolussi

Despite their popularity in the field of continuous optimisation, second-order quasi-Newton methods are challenging to apply in machine learning, as the Hessian matrix is intractably large. This computational burden is exacerbated by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Elre T. Oldewage , Ross M. Clarke , José Miguel Hernández-Lobato

We present a hierarchy of tractable relaxations to obtain lower bounds on the minimum value of a polynomial over a constraint set defined by polynomial equations. In contrast to previous convex relaxation techniques for this problem, our…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-23 Elvira Moreno , Venkat Chandrasekaran

The paper deals with the Neumann spectral problem for a singularly perturbed second order elliptic operator with bounded lower order terms. The main goal is to provide a refined description of the limit behaviour of the principal eigenvalue…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-24 A. Piatnitski , A. Rybalko , V. Rybalko

We consider minimizing a smooth and strongly convex objective function using a stochastic Newton method. At each iteration, the algorithm is given an oracle access to a stochastic estimate of the Hessian matrix. The oracle model includes…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-29 Sen Na , Michał Dereziński , Michael W. Mahoney

We give explicit polynomial-sized (in $n$ and $k$) semidefinite representations of the hyperbolicity cones associated with the elementary symmetric polynomials of degree $k$ in $n$ variables. These convex cones form a family of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-17 James Saunderson , Pablo A. Parrilo

In this paper we propose and analyze spectral-Galerkin methods for the Stokes eigenvalue problem based on the stream function formulation in polar geometries. We first analyze the stream function} formulated fourth-order equation under the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-28 Jing An , Huiyuan Li , Zhimin Zhang

In this paper we give an estimate on the asymptotic behavior of eigenvalues of discretized elliptic boundary values problems. We first prove a simple min-max principle for selfadjoint operators on a Hilbert space. Then we show two sided…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-01 Jinchao Xu , Hongxuan Zhang , Ludmil Zikatanov

We propose a numerical method for solving high dimensional fully nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs). Our algorithm estimates simultaneously by backward time induction the solution and its gradient by multi-layer neural…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-27 Huyen Pham , Xavier Warin , Maximilien Germain

Random projections or sketching are widely used in many algorithmic and learning contexts. Here we study the performance of iterative Hessian sketch for least-squares problems. By leveraging and extending recent results from random matrix…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-26 Jonathan Lacotte , Sifan Liu , Edgar Dobriban , Mert Pilanci

We consider an eigenvalue problem for a divergence form elliptic operator $A_\epsilon$ with high contrast periodic coefficients with period $\epsilon$ in each coordinate, where $\epsilon$ is a small parameter. The coefficients are perturbed…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-09-29 M. I. Cherdantsev

A discretization scheme for variable coefficient Helmholtz problems on two-dimensional domains is presented. The scheme is based on high-order spectral approximations and is designed for problems with smooth solutions. The resulting system…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-06-20 P. G. Martinsson

We associate a sequence of variational eigenvalues to any Radon measure on a compact Riemannian manifold. For particular choices of measures, we recover the Laplace, Steklov and other classical eigenvalue problems. In the first part of the…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2020-12-08 Alexandre Girouard , Mikhail Karpukhin , Jean Lagacé

This paper is concerned with regular approximations of spectra of singular discrete linear Hamiltonian systems with one singular endpoint. For any given self-adjoint subspace extension (SSE) of the corresponding minimal subspace, its…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2017-01-25 Yan Liu , Yuming Shi

Assume that the eigenvalues of a finite hermitian linear operator have been deduced accurately but the linear operator itself could not be determined with precision. Given a set of eigenvalues $\lambda$ and a hermitian matrix $M$, this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-03 Marcel Padilla , Benedikt Kolbe , Aniruddha Chakraborty

In this paper, we introduce a Homogeneous Second-Order Descent Method (HSODM) using the homogenized quadratic approximation to the original function. The merit of homogenization is that only the leftmost eigenvector of a gradient-Hessian…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Chuwen Zhang , Dongdong Ge , Chang He , Bo Jiang , Yuntian Jiang , Chenyu Xue , Yinyu Ye

We present two algorithms for constructing orthonormal bases of rational function vectors with respect to a discrete inner product, and discuss how to use them for a rational approximation problem. Building on the pencil-based formulation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Robbe Vermeiren

We study asymptotic behavior of the bottom point of the spectrum of convolution type operators in environments with locally periodic microstructure. We show that its limit is described by an additive eigenvalue problem for Hamilton-Jacobi…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-31 Andrey Piatnitski , Volodymyr Rybalko