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In this paper we present a novel quasi-Newton algorithm for use in stochastic optimisation. Quasi-Newton methods have had an enormous impact on deterministic optimisation problems because they afford rapid convergence and computationally…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-04 Adrian Wills , Thomas Schön

The multilevel Schwarz preconditioner is one of the most popular parallel preconditioners for enhancing convergence and improving parallel efficiency. However, its parallel implementation on arbitrary unstructured triangular/tetrahedral…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-13 Chengdi Ma

Alternating least squares (ALS) is often considered the workhorse algorithm for computing the rank-R canonical tensor approximation, but for certain problems its convergence can be very slow. The nonlinear conjugate gradient (NCG) method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-07-22 Hans De Sterck , Manda Winlaw

The main focus in this paper is exact linesearch methods for minimizing a quadratic function whose Hessian is positive definite. We give a class of limited-memory quasi-Newton Hessian approximations which generate search directions parallel…

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

In this report, we present a versatile and efficient preconditioned Anderson acceleration (PAA) method for fixed-point iterations. The proposed framework offers flexibility in balancing convergence rates (linear, super-linear, or quadratic)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-09 Kewang Chen , Ye Ji , Matthias Möller , Cornelis Vuik

We introduce a two-level hybrid restricted additive Schwarz (RAS) preconditioner for heterogeneous steady-state convection-diffusion equations at high P\'{e}clet numbers. Our construction builds on the multiscale spectral generalized finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Lukas Holbach , Peter Bastian , Robert Scheichl

The computation time for reservoir simulation is dominated by the linear solver. The sets of linear equations which arise in reservoir simulation have two distinctive features: the problems are usually highly anisotropic, with a dominant…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-02-10 Haran Jackson , Michele Taroni , David Ponting

One of the state-of-the-art strategies for predicting crack propagation, nucleation, and interaction is the phase-field approach. Despite its reliability and robustness, the phase-field approach suffers from burdensome computational cost,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-17 Alena Kopaničáková , Hardik Kothari , Rolf Krause

We consider the finite-sum optimization problem, where each component function is strongly convex and has Lipschitz continuous gradient and Hessian. The recently proposed incremental quasi-Newton method is based on BFGS update and achieves…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-06 Zhuanghua Liu , Luo Luo , Bryan Kian Hsiang Low

This work presents a set of preconditioning strategies able to significantly accelerate the performance of fully implicit energy-conserving Particle-in-Cell methods to a level that becomes competitive with semi-implicit methods. We compare…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-06-13 Lorenzo Siddi , Emanuele Cazzola , Giovanni Lapenta

The analysis of the acceleration behavior of gradient-based eigensolvers with preconditioning presents a substantial theoretical challenge. In this work, we present a novel framework for preconditioning on Riemannian manifolds and introduce…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-25 Nian Shao , Wenbin Chen

Training deep neural networks at scale can benefit from domain decomposition, where the network is split into subdomains trained in parallel and coupled by a global trust-region mechanism. Building on the Additively Preconditioned…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Andrea Angino , Bindi Çapriqi , Shega Likaj , Ken Trotti , Rolf Krause

Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithms allow artificial agents to improve their action selections so as to increase rewarding experiences in their environments. Deep Reinforcement Learning algorithms require solving a nonconvex and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Jacob Rafati , Roummel F. Marcia

We present a derivative-based algorithm for nonlinearly constrained optimization problems that is tolerant of inaccuracies in the data. The algorithm solves a semi-smooth set of nonlinear equations that are equivalent to the first-order…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-21 Jason E. Hicken , Pengfei Meng , Alp Dener

This paper proposes a two-level restricted additive Schwarz (RAS) method for multiscale PDEs, built on top of a multiscale spectral generalized finite element method (MS-GFEM). The method uses coarse spaces constructed from optimal local…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-30 Arne Strehlow , Chupeng Ma , Robert Scheichl

Kernel quantile regression (KQR) extends classical quantile regression to nonlinear settings using kernel methods, offering a powerful tool for modeling conditional distributions. However, its application to large-scale datasets remains…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-24 Shengxiang Deng , Xudong Li , Yangjing Zhang

This paper gives a unified convergence analysis of additive Schwarz methods for general convex optimization problems. Resembling to the fact that additive Schwarz methods for linear problems are preconditioned Richardson methods, we prove…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-21 Jongho Park

We propose a k-space preconditioning formulation for accelerating the convergence of iterative Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) reconstructions from non-uniformly sampled k-space data. Existing methods either use sampling density…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-05-13 Frank Ong , Martin Uecker , Michael Lustig

In this paper, we further investigate and refine the subspace-constrained preconditioning technique to enhance the theoretical and numerical convergence properties of randomized iterative methods for solving linear systems. In particular,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Yonghan Sun , Hou-Duo Qi , Deren Han , Jiaxin Xie

We propose a new method for preconditioning Kaczmarz method by sketching. Kaczmarz method is a stochastic method for solving overdetermined linear systems based on a sampling of matrix rows. The standard approach to speed up convergence of…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Alexandr Katrutsa , Ivan Oseledets