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In this paper, we propose and analyse a family of generalised stochastic composite mirror descent algorithms. With adaptive step sizes, the proposed algorithms converge without requiring prior knowledge of the problem. Combined with an…

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This paper presents a novel algorithm that leverages Stochastic Gradient Descent strategies in conjunction with Random Features to augment the scalability of Conic Particle Gradient Descent (CPGD) specifically tailored for solving sparse…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-05 Yohann De Castro , Sébastien Gadat , Clément Marteau

In many fields of science, comprehensive and realistic computational models are available nowadays. Often, the respective numerical calculations call for the use of powerful supercomputers, and therefore only a limited number of cases can…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-11-22 Ionut-Gabriel Farcas , Gabriele Merlo , Frank Jenko

Numerically solving high-dimensional random parametric PDEs poses a challenging computational problem. It is well-known that numerical methods can greatly benefit from adaptive refinement algorithms, in particular when functional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-29 Martin Eigel , Nando Hegemann

We develop the uniform sparse Fast Fourier Transform (usFFT), an efficient, non-intrusive, adaptive algorithm for the solution of elliptic partial differential equations with random coefficients. The algorithm is an adaption of the sparse…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-05 Lutz Kämmerer , Daniel Potts , Fabian Taubert

We extend stochastic basis adaptation and spatial domain decomposition methods to solve time varying stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs) with a large number of input random parameters. Stochastic basis adaptation allows the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-08 Ramakrishna Tipireddy , Panos Stinis , Alexandre M. Tartakovsky

This paper studies the distributed adaptiveestimation problems for stochastic large regression modelswith an infinite number of parameters. By constructing a re-cursive local cost function, we propose a novel distributedrecursive least…

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We present a simple and robust strategy for the selection of sampling points in Uncertainty Quantification. The goal is to achieve the fastest possible convergence in the cumulative distribution function of a stochastic output of interest.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-05-08 Enrico Camporeale , Ashutosh Agnihotri , Casper Rutjes

We consider an elliptic partial differential equation with a random diffusion parameter discretized by a stochastic collocation method in the parameter domain and a finite element method in the spatial domain. We prove convergence of an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-03 Michael Feischl , Andrea Scaglioni

Distributed stochastic gradient descent (SGD) with gradient compression has become a popular communication-efficient solution for accelerating distributed learning. One commonly used method for gradient compression is Top-K sparsification,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Mengzhe Ruan , Guangfeng Yan , Yuanzhang Xiao , Linqi Song , Weitao Xu

This paper constitutes our initial effort in developing sparse grid discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods for high-dimensional partial differential equations (PDEs). Over the past few decades, DG methods have gained popularity in many…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-04-20 Zixuan Wang , Qi Tang , Wei Guo , Yingda Cheng

The Karhunen-Lo\`{e}ve (KL) expansion is a popular method for approximating random fields by transforming an infinite-dimensional stochastic domain into a finite-dimensional parameter space. Its numerical approximation is of central…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-08-02 Michael Griebel , Guanglian Li

We study the proximal gradient descent (PGD) method for $\ell^{0}$ sparse approximation problem as well as its accelerated optimization with randomized algorithms in this paper. We first offer theoretical analysis of PGD showing the bounded…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-06 Yingzhen Yang , Jiashi Feng , Nebojsa Jojic , Jianchao Yang , Thomas S. Huang

Partial differential equations (PDEs) with inputs that depend on infinitely many parameters pose serious theoretical and computational challenges. Sophisticated numerical algorithms that automatically determine which parameters need to be…

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Sparse polynomial approximation has become indispensable for approximating smooth, high- or infinite-dimensional functions from limited samples. This is a key task in computational science and engineering, e.g., surrogate modelling in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-08 Ben Adcock , Simone Brugiapaglia , Nick Dexter , Sebastian Moraga

In this paper, a sparsity-aware adaptive algorithm for distributed learning in diffusion networks is developed. The algorithm follows the set-theoretic estimation rationale. At each time instance and at each node of the network, a closed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-03 Symeon Chouvardas , Konstantinos Slavakis , Yannis Kopsinis , Sergios Theodoridis

Numerical resolution of high-dimensional nonlinear PDEs remains a huge challenge due to the curse of dimensionality. Starting from the weak formulation of the Lawson-Euler scheme, this paper proposes a stochastic particle method (SPM) by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-11 Zhengyang Lei , Sihong Shao , Yunfeng Xiong

We propose a novel method for establishing the sparsity of the coefficients of the Laguerre generalized polynomial chaos expansion of solutions to parametric elliptic PDEs with log-gamma inputs on $\mathbb{R}_+^\infty$. The established…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Dinh Dũng , Van Kien Nguyen , Viet Ha Hoang

In the field of uncertainty quantification, sparse polynomial chaos (PC) expansions are commonly used by researchers for a variety of purposes, such as surrogate modeling. Ideas from compressed sensing may be employed to exploit this…

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