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The problem of consistency of smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) has demanded considerable attention in the past few years due to the ever increasing number of applications of the method in many areas of science and engineering. A loss…

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Successive quadratic approximations, or second-order proximal methods, are useful for minimizing functions that are a sum of a smooth part and a convex, possibly nonsmooth part that promotes regularization. Most analyses of iteration…

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Large scale optimization problems are ubiquitous in machine learning and data analysis and there is a plethora of algorithms for solving such problems. Many of these algorithms employ sub-sampling, as a way to either speed up the…

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We analyse a nonadiabatic self-consistent field method by means of an exactly-solvable model. The method is based on nuclear and electronic orbitals that are functions of the cartesian coordinates in the laboratory-fixed frame. The kinetic…

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This work proposes a universal and adaptive second-order method for minimizing second-order smooth, convex functions. Our algorithm achieves $O(\sigma / \sqrt{T})$ convergence when the oracle feedback is stochastic with variance $\sigma^2$,…

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Recently it was shown [A. Gordon and F. X. Kaertner, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 223901 (2005)] that the strong field approximation (SFA) for high-order harmonic generation (HHG) is significantly improved when the SFA wave function is used with…

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In this work we describe an Adaptive Regularization using Cubics (ARC) method for large-scale nonconvex unconstrained optimization using Limited-memory Quasi-Newton (LQN) matrices. ARC methods are a relatively new family of optimization…

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We propose a new self-consistent field (SCF) algorithm based on an iterative, partially stochastic \textit{``Divide \& Conquer''}-type approach. This new SCF algorithm is a simple variant of the usual SCF procedure and can be easily…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-08-04 Pierre-François Loos , Jean-Louis Rivail , Xavier Assfeld

A time-fractional Allen-Cahn equation with volume constraint is first proposed by introducing a nonlocal time-dependent Lagrange multiplier. Adaptive linear second-order energy stable schemes are developed for the proposed model by…

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In this paper, we generalize (accelerated) Newton's method with cubic regularization under inexact second-order information for (strongly) convex optimization problems. Under mild assumptions, we provide global rate of convergence of these…

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We consider minimization of a smooth nonconvex objective function using an iterative algorithm based on Newton's method and the linear conjugate gradient algorithm, with explicit detection and use of negative curvature directions for the…

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We perform a detailed analysis of high-order harmonic generation (HHG) in atoms within the strong field approximation (SFA) by considering spatially inhomogeneous monochromatic laser fields. We investigate how the individual pairs of…

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This work presents a novel approach to distribute orbitals into subspaces within electron-pairing-based natural orbital functionals (NOFs). This approach modifies the coupling between weakly and strongly occupied orbitals by applying an…

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Optimization plays a key role in machine learning. Recently, stochastic second-order methods have attracted much attention due to their low computational cost in each iteration. However, these algorithms might perform poorly especially if…

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For linear time-invariant (LTI) systems, the design of an optimal controller is a commonly encountered problem in many applications. Among all the optimization approaches available, the linear quadratic regulator (LQR) methodology certainly…

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In this paper, we propose two second-order methods for solving the \(\ell_1\)-regularized composite optimization problem, which are developed based on two distinct definitions of approximate second-order stationary points. We introduce a…

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The space fractional Cahn-Hilliard phase-field model is more adequate and accurate in the description of the formation and phase change mechanism than the classical Cahn-Hilliard model. In this article, we propose a temporal second-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-13 Yong-Liang Zhao , Meng Li , Alexander Ostermann , Xian-Ming Gu

Second-order optimization methods offer notable advantages in training deep neural networks by utilizing curvature information to achieve faster convergence. However, traditional second-order techniques are computationally prohibitive,…

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We present two new remarkably simple stochastic second-order methods for minimizing the average of a very large number of sufficiently smooth and strongly convex functions. The first is a stochastic variant of Newton's method (SN), and the…

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