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A new Hamilton principle of convolutional type, completely compatible with the initial conditions of an IVP, has been proposed in a recent publication arXiv:1912.08490v1 [math-ph]. In the present paper the possible use of this principle for…

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In this paper, we construct novel first- and second-order decoupled schemes for the Navier-Stokes equations based on the penalty method and the sequential regularization method (SRM), respectively. These schemes do not require the boundary…

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We propose a predictor-corrector adaptive method for the simulation of hyperbolic partial differential equations (PDEs) on networks under general uncertainty in parameters, initial conditions, or boundary conditions. The approach is based…

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In arXiv:2305.03945 [math.NA], a first-order optimization algorithm has been introduced to solve time-implicit schemes of reaction-diffusion equations. In this research, we conduct theoretical studies on this first-order algorithm equipped…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Shu Liu , Xinzhe Zuo , Stanley Osher , Wuchen Li

We design and compute first-order implicit-in-time variational schemes with high-order spatial discretization for initial value gradient flows in generalized optimal transport metric spaces. We first review some examples of gradient flows…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-16 Guosheng Fu , Stanley Osher , Wuchen Li

Discrete inverse problems correspond to solving a system of equations in a stable way with respect to noise in the data. A typical approach to enforce uniqueness and select a meaningful solution is to introduce a regularizer. While for most…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-22 Cristian Vega , Cesare Molinari , Lorenzo Rosasco , Silvia Villa

The paper is devoted to the study of a new class of optimal control problems governed by discontinuous constrained differential inclusions of the sweeping type with involving the duration of the dynamic process into optimization. We develop…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-18 Giovanni Colombo , Boris S. Mordukhovich , Dao Nguyen , Trang Nguyen

We propose a primal-dual interior-point method (IPM) with convergence to second-order stationary points (SOSPs) of nonlinear semidefinite optimization problems, abbreviated as NSDPs. As far as we know, the current algorithms for NSDPs only…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-19 Shun Arahata , Takayuki Okuno , Akiko Takeda

Variational regularization techniques are dominant in the field of mathematical imaging. A drawback of these techniques is that they are dependent on a number of parameters which have to be set by the user. A by now common strategy to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-10 Matthias J. Ehrhardt , Lindon Roberts

Variational problems that involve Wasserstein distances and more generally optimal transport (OT) theory are playing an increasingly important role in data sciences. Such problems can be used to form an examplar measure out of various…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Marco Cuturi , Gabriel Peyré

It's well-known that inverse problems are ill-posed and to solve them meaningfully one has to employ regularization methods. Traditionally, the most popular regularization approaches are Variational-type approaches, i.e.,…

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This paper presents a novel approach to construct regularizing operators for severely ill-posed Fredholm integral equations of the first kind by introducing parametrized discretization. The optimal values of discretization and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-12 Vladimir V Kryzhniy

A high-order accurate adjoint-based optimization framework is presented for unsteady multiphysics problems. The fully discrete adjoint solver relies on the high-order, linearly stable, partitioned solver introduced in [1], where different…

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In this paper we propose a stochastic primal dual fixed point method (SPDFP) for solving the sum of two proper lower semi-continuous convex function and one of which is composite. The method is based on the primal dual fixed point method…

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In this work, we present a numerical method for the initial-boundary value problem (IBVP) of first-order hyperbolic systems with source terms. The scheme directly solves the relaxation system using a relatively coarse mesh and captures the…

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This work presents a non-linear extension of the high-order discretisation framework based on the Variational Multiscale (VMS) method previously introduced for steady linear problems. We build on the concept of an optimal projector defined…

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We derive a compatible discretization method that relies heavily on the underlying geometric structure, and obeys the topological sequences and commuting properties that are constructed. As a sample problem we consider the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-04-29 Jasper Kreeft , Marc Gerritsma

We consider a control-constrained parabolic optimal control problem without Tikhonov term in the tracking functional. For the numerical treatment, we use variational discretization of its Tikhonov regularization: For the state and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-08 Nikolaus von Daniels , Michael Hinze

Stochastic gradient descent is one of the most successful approaches for solving large-scale problems, especially in machine learning and statistics. At each iteration, it employs an unbiased estimator of the full gradient computed from one…

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