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This work develops an algorithm for PDE-constrained shape optimization based on Lipschitz transformations. Building on previous work in this field, the $p$-Laplace operator is utilized to approximate a descent method for Lipschitz shapes.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-24 Peter Marvin Müller , Jose Pinzon , Thomas Rung , Martin Siebenborn

This paper is concerned with a shape optimization problem governed by a non-smooth PDE, i.e., the nonlinearity in the state equation is not necessarily differentiable. We follow the functional variational approach of [40] where the set of…

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In this paper, we propose a novel shape optimization approach for the source identification of elliptic equations. This identification problem arises from two application backgrounds: actuator placement in PDE-constrained optimal controls…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-04 Wei Gong , Ziyi Zhang

We present an initial implementation of a probabilistic PDE-constrained shape optimization algorithm. Our method is based on a novel probabilistic representation of the shape derivative, which is evaluated using Monte Carlo sampling; and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Stephan Schmidt , Maximilian Würschmidt

The ability to efficiently solve topology optimization problems is of great importance for many practical applications. Hence, there is a demand for efficient solution algorithms. In this paper, we propose novel quasi-Newton methods for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Sebastian Blauth , Kevin Sturm

We present a novel framework for PDE-constrained $r$-adaptivity of high-order meshes. The proposed method formulates mesh movement as an optimization problem, with an objective function defined as a convex combination of a mesh quality…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-03 Tzanio Kolev , Boyan Lazarov , Ketan Mittal , Mathias Schmidt , Vladimir Tomov

In this paper, we propose new proximal Newton-type methods for convex optimization problems in composite form. The applications include model predictive control (MPC) and embedded MPC. Our new methods are computationally attractive since…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-21 Ilan Adler , Zhiyue Tom Hu , Tianyi Lin

We present first a brief review of the existing literature on shape optimization, stressing the recent use of Hamiltonian systems in topology optimization. In the second section, we collect some preliminaries on the implicit parametrization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-23 Cornel Marius Murea , Dan Tiba

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

In this paper we investigate and compare different gradient algorithms designed for the domain expression of the shape derivative. Our main focus is to examine the usefulness of kernel reproducing Hilbert spaces for PDE constrained shape…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-04-20 Martin Eigel , Kevin Sturm

In this paper we propose local approximation spaces for localized model order reduction procedures such as domain decomposition and multiscale methods. Those spaces are constructed from local solutions of the partial differential equation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-31 Andreas Buhr , Kathrin Smetana

Shape optimization involves the minimization of a cost function defined over a set of shapes, often governed by a partial differential equation (PDE). In the absence of closed-form solutions, one relies on numerical methods to approximate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-21 Eloi Martinet , Leon Bungert

Shape optimization with constraints given by partial differential equations (PDE) is a highly developed field of optimization theory. The elegant adjoint formalism allows to compute shape gradients at the computational cost of a further PDE…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-03 Matthias Bolten , Onur Tanil Doganay , Hanno Gottschalk , Kathrin Klamroth

This paper is concerned with the numerical minimization of energy functionals in Hilbert spaces involving convex constraints coinciding with a semi-norm for a subspace. The optimization is realized by alternating minimizations of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-12-17 Massimo Fornasier , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

This article proposes a new discrete framework for approximating solutions to shape optimization problems under convexity constraints. The numerical method, based on the support function or the gauge function, is guaranteed to generate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-15 Beniamin Bogosel

In this paper, we propose an unfitted finite element method to solve PDE-constrained shape optimization problems via shape gradient flow. The shape gradient flow system consists of the state equation, the adjoint equation, the velocity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Wei Gong , Chuwen Ma , Ziyi Zhang

An adaptive regularization strategy for stabilizing Newton-like iterations on a coarse mesh is developed in the context of adaptive finite element methods for nonlinear PDE. Existence, uniqueness and approximation properties are known for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-01-27 Sara Pollock

This paper introduces an abstract framework for randomized subspace correction methods for convex optimization, which unifies and generalizes a broad class of existing algorithms, including domain decomposition, multigrid, and block…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Boou Jiang , Jongho Park , Jinchao Xu

We study a generalized framework for structured sparsity. It extends the well-known methods of Lasso and Group Lasso by incorporating additional constraints on the variables as part of a convex optimization problem. This framework provides…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2011-06-28 Andreas Argyriou , Luca Baldassarre , Jean Morales , Massimiliano Pontil

We study a PDE-constrained optimal control problem that involves functions of bounded variation as controls and includes the TV seminorm of the control in the objective. We apply a path-following inexact Newton method to the problems that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-31 Dominik Hafemeyer , Florian Mannel