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Saddle dynamics is a time continuous dynamics to efficiently compute the any-index saddle points and construct the solution landscape. In practice, the saddle dynamics needs to be discretized for numerical computations, while the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-01 Yue Luo , Xiangcheng Zheng , Xiangle Cheng , Lei Zhang

High-index saddle dynamics provides an effective means to compute the any-index saddle points and construct the solution landscape. In this paper we prove error estimates for Euler discretization of high-index saddle dynamics with respect…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-05 Lei Zhang , Pingwen Zhang , Xiangcheng Zheng

We prove error estimates for the semi-implicit numerical scheme of sphere-constrained high-index saddle dynamics, which serves as a powerful instrument in finding saddle points and constructing the solution landscapes of constrained systems…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-04 Lei Zhang , Pingwen Zhang , Xiangcheng Zheng

The high-index saddle dynamics (HiSD) method [J. Yin, L. Zhang, and P. Zhang, {\it SIAM J. Sci. Comput., }41 (2019), pp.A3576-A3595] serves as an efficient tool for computing index-$k$ saddle points and constructing solution landscapes.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-27 Yue Luo , Xiangcheng Zheng , Lei Zhang

High-index saddle dynamics (HiSD) is an effective approach for computing saddle points of a prescribed Morse index and constructing solution landscapes for complex nonlinear systems. However, for problems with ill-conditioned Hessians…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-25 Bingzhang Huang , Hua Su , Lei Zhang , Jin Zhao

We analyze the semi-implicit scheme of high-index saddle dynamics, which provides a powerful numerical method for finding the any-index saddle points and constructing the solution landscape. Compared with the explicit schemes of saddle…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-10 Yue Luo , Lei Zhang , Pingwen Zhang , Zhiyi Zhang , Xiangcheng Zheng

We present a mathematical and numerical investigation to the shrinkingdimer saddle dynamics for finding any-index saddle points in the solution landscape. Due to the dimer approximation of Hessian in saddle dynamics, the local Lipschitz…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-21 Lei Zhang , Pingwen Zhang , Xiangcheng Zheng

High-index saddle dynamics (HiSD) serves as a competitive instrument in searching the any-index saddle points and constructing the solution landscape of complex systems. The Lagrangian multiplier terms in HiSD ensure the Stiefel manifold…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-20 Lei Zhang , Pingwen Zhang , Xiangcheng Zheng

The high-index saddle dynamics (HiSD) method provides a powerful framework for finding saddle points and constructing solution landscapes. While originally derived for nondegenerate critical points, HiSD has demonstrated empirical success…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Tao Luo , Jianyuan Yin , Lei Zhang , Shixue Zhang

We consider a setting in which an evolving surface is implicitly characterized as the zero level of a level set function. Such an implicit surface does not encode any information about the path of a single point on the evolving surface. In…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-02 Tilman Aleman , Arnold Reusken

The Primal-Dual (PD) algorithm is widely used in convex optimization to determine saddle points. While the stability of the PD algorithm can be easily guaranteed, strict contraction is nontrivial to establish in most cases. This work…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-21 Hung D. Nguyen , Thanh Long Vu , Konstantin Turitsyn , Jean-Jacques Slotine

Here we present a multiscale method to calculate the saddle point associated with the effective dynamics arising from a stochastic system which couples slow deterministic drift and fast stochastic dynamics. This problem is motivated by the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-25 Shuting Gu , Xiang Zhou

We study the performance of stochastic first-order methods for finding saddle points of convex-concave functions. A notorious challenge faced by such methods is that the gradients can grow arbitrarily large during optimization, which may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Gergely Neu , Nneka Okolo

This work presents a numerical analysis of computing transition states of semilinear elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs) via the index-1 saddle dynamics, or equivalently, the gentlest ascent dynamics. To establish clear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Lei Zhang , Xiangcheng Zheng , Shangqin Zhu

The high-index saddle dynamics (HiSD) method is a powerful approach for computing saddle points and solution landscape. However, its practical applicability is constrained by the need for the explicit energy function expression. To overcome…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Yuankai Liu , Lei Zhang , Jin Zhao

In the present work, we investigate the computational efficiency afforded by higher-order finite-element discretization of the saddle-point formulation of orbital-free density functional theory. We first investigate the robustness of viable…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Phani Motamarri , Mrinal Iyer , Jaroslaw Knap , Vikram Gavini

In this paper error analysis for finite element discretizations of Dirichlet boundary control problems is developed. For the first time, optimal discretization error estimates are established in the case of three dimensional polyhedral and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-05 Johannes Pfefferer , Boris Vexler

Recent focus on robustness to adversarial attacks for deep neural networks produced a large variety of algorithms for training robust models. Most of the effective algorithms involve solving the min-max optimization problem for training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Yasaman Esfandiari , Aditya Balu , Keivan Ebrahimi , Umesh Vaidya , Nicola Elia , Soumik Sarkar

We propose a constrained high-index saddle dynamics (CHiSD) method to search for index-$k$ saddle points of an energy functional subject to equality constraints. With Riemannian manifold tools, the CHiSD is derived in a minimax framework,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-20 Jianyuan Yin , Zhen Huang , Lei Zhang

The article is devoted to the development of algorithmic methods ensuring efficient complexity bounds for strongly convex-concave saddle point problems in the case when one of the groups of variables is high-dimensional, and the other is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-26 Egor Gladin , Ilya Kuruzov , Fedor Stonyakin , Dmitry Pasechnyuk , Mohammad Alkousa , Alexander Gasnikov
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