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In this paper, we explore the concept of metric-driven numerical methods as a powerful tool for solving various types of multiscale partial differential equations. Our focus is on computing constrained minimizers of functionals - or,…

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We consider generalized gradient systems in Banach spaces whose evolutions are generated by the interplay between an energy functional and a dissipation potential. We focus on the case in which the dual dissipation potential is given by a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-01 Alexander Mielke , Riccarda Rossi , Artur Stephan

The proximal gradient algorithm for minimizing the sum of a smooth and a nonsmooth convex function often converges linearly even without strong convexity. One common reason is that a multiple of the step length at each iteration may…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-06-29 Dmitriy Drusvyatskiy , Adrian S. Lewis

Wasserstein gradient flows have become a central tool for optimization problems over probability measures. A natural numerical approach is forward-Euler time discretization. We show, however, that even in the simple case where the energy…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Yewei Xu , Qin Li

This paper investigates the approximation of Gaussian random variables in Banach spaces, focusing on the high-probability bounds for the approximation of Gaussian random variables using finitely many observations. We derive non-asymptotic…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-28 Daniel Winkle , Ingo Steinwart , Bernard Haasdonk

In this article, we propose two kinds of neural networks inspired by power method and inverse power method to solve linear eigenvalue problems. These neural networks share similar ideas with traditional methods, in which the differential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-18 Qihong Yang , Yangtao Deng , Yu Yang , Qiaolin He , Shiquan Zhang

For addressing optimisation tasks on finite dimensional quantum systems, we give a comprehensive account of the foundations of gradient flows on Riemannian manifolds including new developments: we extend former results from Lie groups such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-12-07 T. Schulte-Herbrueggen , S. J. Glaser , G. Dirr , U. Helmke

While it is well known that nonlinear methods of approximation can often perform dramatically better than linear methods, there are still questions on how to measure the optimal performance possible for such methods. This paper studies…

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This paper studies the $J$-method of [E. Jarlebring, S. Kvaal, W. Michiels. SIAM J. Sci. Comput. 36-4:A1978-A2001, 2014] for nonlinear eigenvector problems in a general Hilbert space framework. This is the basis for variational…

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This paper concerns an extension of discrete gradient methods to finite-dimensional Riemannian manifolds termed discrete Riemannian gradients, and their application to dissipative ordinary differential equations. This includes Riemannian…

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Finite difference method and finite element method are popular methods for solving groundwater flow equations. This paper presents a new method that uses gradually varied functions to solve such equation. In this paper, we have established…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-10-17 Li Chen , Xun-Hong Chen

Active Flux is an extension of the Finite Volume method and additionally incorporates point values located at cell boundaries. This gives rise to a globally continuous approximation of the solution. Originally, the Active Flux method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-26 Rémi Abgrall , Wasilij Barsukow , Christian Klingenberg

We consider the approximation of initial/boundary value problems involving, possibly high-dimensional, dissipative evolution partial differential equations (PDEs) using a deep neural network framework. More specifically, we first propose…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-02 Emmanuil H. Georgoulis , Michail Loulakis , Asterios Tsiourvas

The equality between dissipation and energy drop is a structural property of gradient-flow dynamics. The classical implicit Euler scheme fails to reproduce this equality at the discrete level. We discuss two modifications of the Euler…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-08-28 Ansgar Jüngel , Ulisse Stefanelli , Lara Trussardi

We investigate a variational approach to nonpotential perturbations of gradient flows of nonconvex energies in Hilbert spaces. We prove existence of solutions to elliptic-in-time regularizations of gradient flows by combining the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-05-04 Stefano Melchionna

We study the equation of one-dimensional quasistatic nonlinear viscoelasticity with Dirichlet boundary conditions, in the particular case that the underlying dissipation geometry (provided by the viscosity) is comparable to the Bhattacharya…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Alexander Mielke , Billy Sumners

We consider the task of computing an approximate minimizer of the sum of a smooth and non-smooth convex functional, respectively, in Banach space. Motivated by the classical forward-backward splitting method for the subgradients in Hilbert…

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This paper considers non-smooth optimization problems where we seek to minimize the pointwise maximum of a continuously parameterized family of functions. Since the objective function is given as the solution to a maximization problem,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-12 Dimitris Boskos , Jorge Cortés , Sonia Martínez

We prove an abstract compactness result for gradient flow lines of a non-local unregularized gradient flow equation on a scale Hilbert space. This is the first step towards Floer theory on scale Hilbert spaces.

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-29 Peter Albers , Urs Frauenfelder , Felix Schlenk

General conservation equations are derived for 2D dense granular flows from the Euler equation within the Boussinesq approximation. In steady flows, the 2D fields of granular temperature, vorticity and stream function are shown to be…