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This work is concerned with the efficient optimization method for solving a large class of optimal mass transport problems. An inexact primal-dual algorithm is presented from the time discretization of a proper dynamical system, and by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-29 Jun Hu , Hao Luo , Zihang Zhang

In this paper, we study dynamical optimal transport on a connected graph from the perspective of the Benamou-Brenier formulation, where densities are assigned to vertices and velocities to edges. However, directly using Newton's method on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Qujiangxue Chen , Jianbo Cui , Luca Dieci , Haomin Zhou

It was recently demonstrated that the boundary element method based on the Burton-Miller formulation (BM-BEM), widely used for solving exterior problems, can be adapted to solve transmission problems efficiently. This approach utilises…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-03 Keigo Tomoyasu , Hiroshi Isakari

We develop a numerical method for the martingale analogue of the Benamou--Brenier optimal transport problem, which seeks a martingale interpolating two prescribed marginals which is closest to the Brownian motion. Recent contributions have…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2026-03-10 Manuel Hasenbichler , Benjamin Joseph , Gregoire Loeper , Jan Obloj , Gudmund Pammer

We introduce and study a new optimal transport problem on a bounded domain $\bar\Omega \subset \mathbb R^d$, defined via a dynamical Benamou-Brenier formulation. The model handles differently the motion in the interior and on the boundary,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-05 Léonard Monsaingeon

A trajectory-following primal--dual interior-point method solves nonlinear optimization problems with inequality and equality constraints by approximately finding points satisfying perturbed Karush--Kuhn--Tucker optimality conditions for a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-03 Pim Heeman , Anders Forsgren

In this paper we propose an efficiently preconditioned Newton method for the computation of the leftmost eigenpairs of large and sparse symmetric positive definite matrices. A sequence of preconditioners based on the BFGS update formula is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-12-06 Luca Bergamaschi , Angeles Martinez

We derive an extension of the sequential homotopy method that allows for the application of inexact solvers for the linear (double) saddle-point systems arising in the local semismooth Newton method for the homotopy subproblems. For the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-30 John W. Pearson , Andreas Potschka

This paper proposes a new preconditioning scheme for a linear system with a saddle-point structure arising from a hybrid approximation scheme on the sphere, an approximation scheme that combines (local) spherical radial basis functions and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-09-23 Q. T. Le Gia , Ian H. Sloan , Andrew J. Wathen

The discretization of constrained nonlinear optimization problems arising in the field of topology optimization yields algebraic systems which are challenging to solve in practice, due to pathological ill-conditioning, strong nonlinearity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-31 Michal Kocvara , Daniel Loghin , James Turner

The focus in this paper is interior-point methods for bound-constrained nonlinear optimization, where the system of nonlinear equations that arise are solved with Newton's method. There is a trade-off between solving Newton systems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-04 David Ek , Anders Forsgren

The dynamic formulation of optimal transport, also known as the Benamou-Brenier formulation, has been extended to the unbalanced case by introducing a source term in the continuity equation. When this source term is penalized based on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-11 Mao Nishino , Martin Bauer , Tom Needham , Nicolas Charon

In this paper, we propose a descent method for composite optimization problems with linear operators. Specifically, we first design a structure-exploiting preconditioner tailored to the linear operator so that the resulting preconditioned…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Jian Chen , Xinmin Yang

We describe how the low-rank structure in an SDP can be exploited to reduce the per-iteration cost of a convex primal-dual interior-point method down to $O(n^{3})$ time and $O(n^{2})$ memory, even at very high accuracies. A traditional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-04 Hong-Ming Chiu , Richard Y. Zhang

We propose an implicit neural formulation of optimal transport that eliminates adversarial min--max optimization and multi-network architectures commonly used in existing approaches. Our key idea is to parameterize a single potential in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Yesom Park , Eric Gelphman , Stanley Osher , Samy Wu Fung

The conic bundle implementation of the spectral bundle method for large scale semidefinite programming solves in each iteration a semidefinite quadratic subproblem by an interior point approach. For larger cutting model sizes the limiting…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-25 Christoph Helmberg

In this paper, a fast solver is studied for saddle point system arising from a second-order Crank-Nicolson discretization of an initial-valued parabolic PDE constrained optimal control problem, which is indefinite and ill-conditioned.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-21 Xue-Lei Lin , Shu-Lin Wu

In this paper, we consider the optimal coordination of automated vehicles at intersections under fixed crossing orders. We formulate the problem using direct optimal control and exploit the structure to construct a semi-distributed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-22 Robert Hult , Mario Zanon , Sebastien Gros , Paolo Falcone

Preconditioning has long been a staple technique in optimization, often applied to reduce the condition number of a matrix and speed up the convergence of algorithms. Although there are many popular preconditioning techniques in practice,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-08 Zhaonan Qu , Wenzhi Gao , Oliver Hinder , Yinyu Ye , Zhengyuan Zhou

In this paper, we propose a new finite element approach to simulate the time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau equations under the temporal gauge, and design an efficient preconditioner for the Newton iteration of the resulting discrete system. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-28 Qingguo Hong , Limin Ma , Jinchao Xu