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We propose and analyze a general framework called nonlinear preconditioned primal-dual with projection for solving nonconvex-nonconcave and non-smooth saddle-point problems. The framework consists of two steps. The first is a nonlinear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-11 Lu Zhang , Hongxia Wang , Hui Zhang

This work introduces a methodology for generating linear operators that approximately represent nonlinear systems of perturbed ordinary differential equations. This is done through the application of classical perturbation theory via the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-03 Miguel Avillez , David Arnas

We propose a proximal algorithm for minimizing objective functions consisting of three summands: the composition of a nonsmooth function with a linear operator, another nonsmooth function, each of the nonsmooth summands depending on an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-03 Radu Ioan Bot , Ernö Robert Csetnek , Dang-Khoa Nguyen

The Boltzmann equation without an angular cutoff is considered when the initial data is a small perturbation of a global Maxwellian with an algebraic decay in the velocity variable. A well-posedness theory in the perturbative framework is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-08 Ricardo Alonso , Yoshinori Morimoto , Weiran Sun , Tong Yang

We introduce a compositional framework for convex analysis based on the notion of convex bifunction of Rockafellar. This framework is well-suited to graphical reasoning, and exhibits rich dualities such as the Legendre-Fenchel transform,…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-01-30 Dario Stein , Richard Samuelson

This paper presents a stochastic block-coordinate proximal Newton method for minimizing the sum of a blockwise Lipschitz-continuously differentiable function and a separable nonsmooth convex function. At each iteration, the method randomly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-25 Hong Zhu , Xun Qian

For some typical and widely used non-convex half-quadratic regularization models and the Ambrosio-Tortorelli approximate Mumford-Shah model, based on the Kurdyka-\L ojasiewicz analysis and the recent nonconvex proximal algorithms, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-30 Shengxiang Deng , Ismail Ben Ayed , Hongpeng Sun

We propose a primal-dual splitting algorithm for solving monotone inclusions involving a mixture of sums, linear compositions, and parallel sums of set-valued and Lipschitzian operators. An important feature of the algorithm is that the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-08-09 Patrick L. Combettes , Jean-Christophe Pesquet

We propose an abstract stochastic scheme for solving a broad range of monotone operator inclusion problems in Hilbert spaces. This framework allows for the introduction of stochasticity at several levels in monotone operator splitting…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-13 Patrick L. Combettes , Javier I. Madariaga

In his monograph \emph{Conjugate Duality and Optimization}, Rockafellar puts forward a ``perturbation + duality'' method to obtain a dual problem for an original minimization problem. First, one embeds the minimization problem into a family…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-13 Michel de Lara

Our work considers the optimization of the sum of a non-smooth convex function and a finite family of composite convex functions, each one of which is composed of a convex function and a bounded linear operator. This type of problem is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-30 Yu-Chao Tang , Chuan-Xi Zhu , Meng Wen , Ji-Gen Peng

The Riemann-Hilbert problem associated with the integrable PDE is used as a nonlinear transformation of the nearly integrable PDE to the spectral space. The temporal evolution of the spectral data is derived with account for arbitrary…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2015-06-26 V. S. Shchesnovich

In this paper we provide a generalization of the Douglas-Rachford splitting (DRS) and the primal-dual algorithm (Vu 2013, Condat 2013) for solving monotone inclusions in a real Hilbert space involving a general linear operator. The proposed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-22 Luis M. Briceño-Arias , Fernando Roldán

In this paper, we propose a descent method for composite optimization problems with linear operators. Specifically, we first design a structure-exploiting preconditioner tailored to the linear operator so that the resulting preconditioned…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Jian Chen , Xinmin Yang

We consider perturbations of the non-unitary minimal model solutions of two-dimensional conformal turbulence proposed by Polyakov. Demanding the absence of non-integrable singularities in the resulting theories leads to constraints on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Omduth Coceal , Steven Thomas

In this paper, we propose a primal-dual splitting algorithm for a broad class of structured composite monotone inclusions that involve finitely many set-valued operators, compositions of set-valued operators with bounded linear operators,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Minh N. Dao , Hung M. Phan , Matthew K. Tam , Thang D. Truong

Recent advancements in data science have significantly elevated the importance of orthogonally constrained optimization problems. The Riemannian approach has become a popular technique for addressing these problems due to the advantageous…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Linglingzhi Zhu , Wentao Ding , Shangyuan Liu , Anthony Man-Cho So

Bundle methods have been intensively studied for solving both convex and nonconvex optimization problems. In most of the bundle methods developed thus far, at least one quadratic programming (QP) subproblem needs to be solved in each…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-07-08 Shuai Liu , Andrew Eberhard , Yousong Luo

We introduce and analyze an algorithm for the minimization of convex functions that are the sum of differentiable terms and proximable terms composed with linear operators. The method builds upon the recently developed smoothed gap…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-06-20 Quang Van Nguyen , Olivier Fercoq , Volkan Cevher