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Existence and uniqueness of global in time measure solution for the multidimensional aggregation equation is analyzed. Such a system can be written as a continuity equation with a velocity field computed through a self-consistent…

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Metric regularity is among the central concepts of nonlinear and variational analysis, constrained optimization, and their numerous applications. However, metric regularity can be elusive for some important ill-posed classes of problems…

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The center of interest in this work are variational problems with integral functionals depending on special nonlocal gradients. The latter correspond to truncated versions of the Riesz fractional gradient, as introduced in [Bellido, Cueto &…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-04-18 Javier Cueto , Carolin Kreisbeck , Hidde Schönberger

Accelerated gradient descent iterations are widely used in optimization. It is known that, in the continuous-time limit, these iterations converge to a second-order differential equation which we refer to as the accelerated gradient flow.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-16 Mohammad Farazmand

Convergence of projection-based methods for nonconvex set feasibility problems has been established for sets with ever weaker regularity assumptions. What has not kept pace with these developments is analogous results for convergence of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-26 Aris Daniilidis , D. Russell Luke , Matthew K. Tam

We study the possible regularization of collision solutions for one centre problems with a weak singularity. In the case of logarithmic singularities, we consider the method of regularization via smoothing of the potential. With this…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2009-05-12 Castelli Roberto , Terracini Susanna

We analyze a gradient flow of closed planar curves minimizing the anisoperimetric ratio. For such a flow the normal velocity is a function of the anisotropic curvature and it also depends on the total interfacial energy and enclosed area of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-06-06 Daniel Sevcovic , Shigetoshi Yazaki

The aim of this work is to study the Navier-Stokes-Voigt equations that govern flows with non-negative density of incompressible fluids with elastic properties. For the associated non-linear initial-and boundary-value problem, we prove the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-04 Hermenegildo Borges de Oliveira , Khonatbek Khompysh , Aidos Ganizhanuly Shakir

Many practical optimization problems lack strong convexity. Fortunately, recent studies have revealed that first-order algorithms also enjoy linear convergences under various weaker regularity conditions. While the relationship among…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Feng-Yi Liao , Lijun Ding , Yang Zheng

The performance of optimization methods is often tied to the spectrum of the objective Hessian. Yet, conventional assumptions, such as smoothness, do often not enable us to make finely-grained convergence statements -- particularly not for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-08 Nikita Doikov , Sebastian U. Stich , Martin Jaggi

This paper is devoted to existence and uniqueness results for classes of nonlinear diffusion equations (or systems) which may be viewed as regular perturbations of Wasserstein gradient flows. First, in the case. where the drift is a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-07 Guillaume Carlier , Maxime Laborde

In nonsmooth optimization, a negative subgradient is not necessarily a descent direction, making the design of convergent descent methods based on zeroth-order and first-order information a challenging task. The well-studied bundle methods…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-13 Hanyang Li , Ying Cui

We study non-convex subgradient flows for training two-layer ReLU neural networks from a convex geometry and duality perspective. We characterize the implicit bias of unregularized non-convex gradient flow as convex regularization of an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Yifei Wang , Mert Pilanci

We consider a boundary value problem for the parabolic Lam\'e type operator being a linearization of the Navier-Stokes' equations for compressible flow of Newtonian fluids. It consists of recovering a vector-function, satisfying the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-16 R. Puzyrev , A. Shlapunov

We consider the initial boundary value problem for a model system of one-dimensional equations which describe unsteady polytropic motions of a mixture of viscous compressible fluids. We prove the global existence and uniqueness theorem for…

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We present a new feasible proximal gradient method for constrained optimization where both the objective and constraint functions are given by the summation of a smooth, possibly nonconvex function and a convex simple function. The…

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This paper studies simple bilevel problems, where a convex upper-level function is minimized over the optimal solutions of a convex lower-level problem. We first show the fundamental difficulty of simple bilevel problems, that the…

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We investigate uniqueness of weak solutions for a system of partial differential equations capturing behavior of magnetoelastic materials. This system couples the Navier-Stokes equations with evolutionary equations for the deformation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-13 Anja Schlömerkemper , Josef Žabenský

We consider strictly convex hypersurfaces which are evolving by the non-parametric logarithmic Gauss curvature flow subject to a Neumann boundary condition. Solutions are shown to converge smoothly to hypersurfaces moving by translation. In…

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