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Stochastic nonconvex optimization problems with nonlinear constraints have a broad range of applications in intelligent transportation, cyber-security, and smart grids. In this paper, first, we propose an inexact-proximal accelerated…

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To solve optimization problems with parabolic PDE constraints, often methods working on the reduced objective functional are used. They are computationally expensive due to the necessity of solving both the state equation and a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-17 Sebastian Götschel , Michael L. Minion

We consider a wide range of regularized stochastic minimization problems with two regularization terms, one of which is composed with a linear function. This optimization model abstracts a number of important applications in artificial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-02 Tianyi Lin , Linbo Qiao , Teng Zhang , Jiashi Feng , Bofeng Zhang

In this paper, we consider the problem of minimizing the sum of two convex functions subject to linear linking constraints. The classical alternating direction type methods usually assume that the two convex functions have relatively easy…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-07-10 Tianyi Lin , Shiqian Ma , Shuzhong Zhang

We present a framework for bi-level trajectory optimization in which a system's dynamics are encoded as the solution to a constrained optimization problem and smooth gradients of this lower-level problem are passed to an upper-level…

A space-time adaptive scheme is presented for solving advection equations in two space dimensions. The gradient-augmented level set method using a semi-Lagrangian formulation with backward time integration is coupled with a point value…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-04-20 Dmitry Kolomenskiy , Jean-Christophe Nave , Kai Schneider

The adjoint sensitivity method scalably computes gradients of solutions to ordinary differential equations. We generalize this method to stochastic differential equations, allowing time-efficient and constant-memory computation of gradients…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Xuechen Li , Ting-Kam Leonard Wong , Ricky T. Q. Chen , David Duvenaud

We develop a reduced-order framework for optimizing mixing in two-dimensional incompressible flows. Instead of optimizing the full transport PDE, the method maximizes the length of advected material interfaces, leading to a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-07 Ziqian Li , Enrique Zuazua

Bilevel optimization, addressing challenges in hierarchical learning tasks, has gained significant interest in machine learning. The practical implementation of the gradient descent method to bilevel optimization encounters computational…

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We consider a one-dimensional one-phase inverse Stefan problem for the heat equation. It consists in recovering a boundary influx condition from the knowledge of the position of the moving front, and the initial state. We derived a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-02-24 Chifaa Ghanmi , Saloua Mani-Aouadi , Faouzi Triki

Dynamic optimization is currently limited by sensitivity computations that require information from full forward and adjoint wave fields. Since the forward and adjoint solutions are computed in opposing time directions, the forward solution…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Leon Herrmann , Tim Bürchner , László Kudela , Stefan Kollmannsberger

A stochastic-gradient-based interior-point algorithm for minimizing a continuously differentiable objective function (that may be nonconvex) subject to bound constraints is presented, analyzed, and demonstrated through experimental results.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-15 Frank E. Curtis , Vyacheslav Kungurtsev , Daniel P. Robinson , Qi Wang

Bilevel optimization is a fundamental tool in hierarchical decision-making and has been widely applied to machine learning tasks such as hyperparameter tuning, meta-learning, and continual learning. While significant progress has been made…

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We present the Multilevel Bregman Proximal Gradient Descent (ML BPGD) method, a novel multilevel optimization framework tailored to constrained convex problems with relative Lipschitz smoothness. Our approach extends the classical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Yara Elshiaty , Stefania Petra

In this letter, we consider a bilevel optimization problem in which the outer-level objective function is strongly convex, whereas the inner-level problem consists of a finite sum of convex functions. Bilevel optimization problems arise in…

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The purpose of this study is to show some mathematical aspects of the adjoint method that is a numerical method for the Cauchy problem, an inverse boundary value problem. The adjoint method is an iterative method based on the variational…

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A game theory inspired methodology is proposed for finding a function's saddle points. While explicit descent methods are known to have severe convergence issues, implicit methods are natural in an adversarial setting, as they take the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-04 Montacer Essid , Esteban Tabak , Giulio Trigila

The conjugate gradient method is a widely used algorithm for the numerical solution of a system of linear equations. It is particularly attractive because it allows one to take advantage of sparse matrices and produces (in case of infinite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-11-27 Sergey Voronin , Christophe Zaroli , Naresh P. Cuntoor

This paper develops a framework connecting discrete adjoint gradient-error analysis with an optimization method that uses directional error tolerances, and applies it to airfoil shape optimization governed by a conservative full-potential…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Humberto Gimenes Macedo , Luís Felipe Bueno

Automated code generation allows for a separation between the development of a model, expressed via a domain specific language, and lower level implementation details. Algorithmic differentiation can be applied symbolically at the level of…

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