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The goal of this paper is to provide computational tools able to find a solution of a system of polynomial inequalities. The set of inequalities is reformulated as a system of polynomial equations. Three different methods, two of which…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-03-04 Laura Menini , Corrado Possieri , Antonio Tornambè

Our work focuses on stochastic gradient methods for optimizing a smooth non-convex loss function with a non-smooth non-convex regularizer. Research on this class of problem is quite limited, and until recently no non-asymptotic convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-15 Michael R. Metel , Akiko Takeda

We aim to solve a structured convex optimization problem, where a nonsmooth function is composed with a linear operator. When opting for full splitting schemes, usually, primal-dual type methods are employed as they are effective and also…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-17 Radu Ioan Bot , Axel Böhm

Spectral methods provide an elegant and efficient way of numerically solving differential equations of all kinds. For smooth problems, truncation error for spectral methods vanishes exponentially in the infinity norm and $L_2$-norm.…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2019-10-09 Joanna Piotrowska , Jonah M. Miller , Erik Schnetter

We develop theory for nonlinear dimensionality reduction (NLDR). A number of NLDR methods have been developed, but there is limited understanding of how these methods work and the relationships between them. There is limited basis for using…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-08 Daniel Ting , Michael I. Jordan

We propose a regularization method to solve a nonlinear ill-posed problem connected to inversion of data gathered by a ground conductivity meter.

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-21 Gian Piero Deidda , Caterina Fenu , Giuseppe Rodriguez

We analyze nonlinearly preconditioned gradient methods for solving smooth minimization problems. We introduce a generalized smoothness property, based on the notion of abstract convexity, that is broader than Lipschitz smoothness and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-18 Konstantinos Oikonomidis , Jan Quan , Emanuel Laude , Panagiotis Patrinos

Regularization is used in many different areas of optimization when solutions are sought which not only minimize a given function, but also possess a certain degree of regularity. Popular applications are image denoising, sparse regression…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-15 Bennet Gebken , Katharina Bieker , Sebastian Peitz

Composite minimization involves a collection of smooth functions which are aggregated in a nonsmooth manner. In the convex setting, we design an algorithm by linearizing each smooth component in accordance with its main curvature. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-26 Jérôme Bolte , Zheng Chen , Edouard Pauwels

We study a variant of Newton's algorithm applied to under-determined systems of non-smooth equations. The notion of regularity employed in our work is based on Newton differentiability, which generalizes semi-smoothness. The classic notion…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-28 Titus Pinta

Nonlinear (systems of) ordinary differential equations (ODEs) are common tools in the analysis of complex one-dimensional dynamic systems. In this paper we propose a smoothing approach regularized by a quasilinearized ODE-based penalty in…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-04-30 Gianluca Frasso , Jonathan Jaeger , Philippe Lambert

We consider global efficiency of algorithms for minimizing a sum of a convex function and a composition of a Lipschitz convex function with a smooth map. The basic algorithm we rely on is the prox-linear method, which in each iteration…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-16 Dmitriy Drusvyatskiy , Courtney Paquette

A broad range of inverse problems can be abstracted into the problem of minimizing the sum of several convex functions in a Hilbert space. We propose a proximal decomposition algorithm for solving this problem with an arbitrary number of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-11-13 Patrick L. Combettes , Jean-Christophe Pesquet

This paper focuses on stochastic proximal gradient methods for optimizing a smooth non-convex loss function with a non-smooth non-convex regularizer and convex constraints. To the best of our knowledge we present the first non-asymptotic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-27 Michael R. Metel , Akiko Takeda

Spline functions are smooth piecewise polynomials widely used for interpolation and smoothing, and nonnegative spline smoothing is also studied for nonnegative data. Previous research used sufficient conditions for the nonnegativity of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Hiroki Arai , Daichi Kitahara

We derive an efficient stochastic algorithm for inverse problems that present an unknown linear forcing term and a set of nonlinear parameters to be recovered. It is assumed that the data is noisy and that the linear part of the problem is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-17 Darko Volkov

We propose a systemic method of applying the auxiliary systems of original equations to find the high order nonlocal symmetries of nonlinear evolution equation. In order to validate the effectiveness of the method, some examples are…

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Recently, the stochastic asymptotical regularization (SAR) has been developed in (\emph{Inverse Problems}, 39: 015007, 2023) for the uncertainty quantification of the stable approximate solution of linear ill-posed inverse problems. In this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-27 Haie Long , Ye Zhang

We propose a method to solve the Non Perturbative Renormalization Group equations for the $n$-point functions. In leading order, it consists in solving the equations obtained by closing the infinite hierarchy of equations for the $n$-point…

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