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We consider a space-time finite element method on fully unstructured simplicial meshes for optimal sparse control of semilinear parabolic equations. The objective is a combination of a standard quadratic tracking-type functional including a…

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We investigate the continuous optimal transport problem in the so-called Kantorovich form, i.e. given two Radon measures on two compact sets, we seek an optimal transport plan which is another Radon measure on the product of the sets that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-16 Dirk A. Lorenz , Hinrich Mahler

This paper is concerned with an optimization problem that is constrained by the Kantorovich optimal transportation problem. This bilevel optimization problem can be reformulated as a mathematical problem with complementarity constraints in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-15 Sebastian Hillbrecht , Paul Manns , Christian Meyer

Minimizing a convex function of a measure with a sparsity-inducing penalty is a typical problem arising, e.g., in sparse spikes deconvolution or two-layer neural networks training. We show that this problem can be solved by discretizing the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-04 Lenaic Chizat

Entropic regularization provides a generalization of the original optimal transport problem. It introduces a penalty term defined by the Kullback-Leibler divergence, making the problem more tractable via the celebrated Sinkhorn algorithm.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-04 Dávid Terjék , Diego González-Sánchez

We introduce the optimal transportation interpretation of the Kantorovich norm on thespace of signed Radon measures with finite mass, based on a generalized Wasserstein distancefor measures with different masses.With the formulation and the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-14 Benedetto Piccoli , Francesco Rossi , Magali Tournus

The goal of this paper is to settle the study of non-commutative optimal transport problems with convex regularization, in their static and finite-dimensional formulations. We consider both the balanced and unbalanced problem and show in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-06-27 Emanuele Caputo , Augusto Gerolin , Nataliia Monina , Lorenzo Portinale

Greedy point insertion algorithms have emerged as an attractive tool for the solution of minimization problems over the space of Radon measures. Conceptually, these methods can be split into two phases: first, the computation of a new…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-06 Arsen Hnatiuk , Daniel Walter

One revisits the standard saddle-point method based on conjugate duality for solving convex minimization problems. Our aim is to reduce or remove unnecessary topological restrictions on the constraint set. Dual equalities and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-10-09 Christian Léonard

In this paper we characterize sharp time-data tradeoffs for optimization problems used for solving linear inverse problems. We focus on the minimization of a least-squares objective subject to a constraint defined as the sub-level set of a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-06 Samet Oymak , Benjamin Recht , Mahdi Soltanolkotabi

This work proposes new estimators for discrete optimal transport plans that enjoy Gaussian limits centered at the true solution. This behavior stands in stark contrast with the performance of existing estimators, including those based on…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-08 Shuyu Liu , Florentina Bunea , Jonathan Niles-Weed

We study a general class of convex submodular optimization problems with indicator variables. Many applications such as the problem of inferring Markov random fields (MRFs) with a sparsity or robustness prior can be naturally modeled in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Andres Gomez , Shaoning Han

Optimization problems involving the minimization of a finite sum of smooth, possibly non-convex functions arise in numerous applications. To achieve a consensus solution over a network, distributed optimization algorithms, such as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-09 Lei Qin , Ye Pu

This contribution introduces a model order reduction approach for an advection-reaction problem with a parametrized reaction function. The underlying discretization uses an ultraweak formulation with an $L^2$-like trial space and an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-01 Christian Engwer , Mario Ohlberger , Lukas Renelt

In this work, we analyze two of the most fundamental algorithms in geodesically convex optimization: Riemannian gradient descent and (possibly inexact) Riemannian proximal point. We quantify their rates of convergence and produce different…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-18 David Martínez-Rubio , Christophe Roux , Sebastian Pokutta

This paper deals with Tikhonov regularization for linear and nonlinear ill-posed operator equations with wavelet Besov norm penalties. We focus on $B^0_{p,1}$ penalty terms which yield estimators that are sparse with respect to a wavelet…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Thorsten Hohage , Philip Miller

This paper presents a theoretical discussion on Ruttan's optimality conditions for rational minimax approximations in discrete and continuum settings, integrating analytical foundations with computational practice. We develop extended…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Lei-Hong Zhang

This study develops a fixed-time convergent saddle point dynamical system for solving min-max problems under a relaxation of standard convexity-concavity assumption. In particular, it is shown that by leveraging the dynamical systems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-28 Kunal Garg , Mayank Baranwal

We present distributed subgradient methods for min-max problems with agreement constraints on a subset of the arguments of both the convex and concave parts. Applications include constrained minimization problems where each constraint is a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-05-25 David Mateos-Núñez , Jorge Cortés

Inspired in the theorem of Krein-Milamn, we investigate the existence of extreme points in compact convex subsets of asymmetric normed spaces. We focus our attention in the finite dimensional case, giving a geometric description of all…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2014-04-03 Natalia Jonard-Pérez , Enrique A. Sánchez-Pérez