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This paper develops a posteriori error estimates of residual type for conforming and mixed finite element approximations of the fourth order Cahn-Hilliard equation $u_t+\De\bigl(\eps \De u-\eps^{-1} f(u)\bigr)=0$. It is shown that the {\it…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-08-17 Xiaobing Feng , Haijun Wu

This paper is devoted to the convergence analysis of stochastic approximation algorithms of the form $\theta\_{n+1} = \theta\_n + \gamma\_{n+1} H\_{\theta\_n}(X\_{n+1})$ where $\{\theta\_nn, n \geq 0\}$ is a $R^d$-valued sequence,…

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A fully discrete approximation of the one-dimensional stochastic heat equation driven by multiplicative space-time white noise is presented. The standard finite difference approximation is used in space and a stochastic exponential method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-01 Rikard Anton , David Cohen , Lluis Quer-Sardanyons

We propose a fully discretised numerical scheme for the hyperelastic rod wave equation on the line. The convergence of the method is established. Moreover, the scheme can handle the blow-up of the derivative which naturally occurs for this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-09-12 David Cohen , Xavier Raynaud

In this article we propose a new adaptive numerical quadrature procedure which includes both local subdivision of the integration domain, as well as local variation of the number of quadrature points employed on each subinterval. In this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-08-17 Paul Houston , Thomas P. Wihler

We study the convergence rate of the proximal-gradient homotopy algorithm applied to norm-regularized linear least squares problems, for a general class of norms. The homotopy algorithm reduces the regularization parameter in a series of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-28 Reza Eghbali , Maryam Fazel

Diffusion approximation provides weak approximation for stochastic gradient descent algorithms in a finite time horizon. In this paper, we introduce new tools motivated by the backward error analysis of numerical stochastic differential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Yuanyuan Feng , Tingran Gao , Lei Li , Jian-Guo Liu , Yulong Lu

In this article a unified approach to iterative soft-thresholding algorithms for the solution of linear operator equations in infinite dimensional Hilbert spaces is presented. We formulate the algorithm in the framework of generalized…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2010-10-26 Kristian Bredies , Dirk A. Lorenz

The paper proposes and justifies a new algorithm of the proximal Newton type to solve a broad class of nonsmooth composite convex optimization problems without strong convexity assumptions. Based on advanced notions and techniques of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-02 Boris S. Mordukhovich , Xiaoming Yuan , Shangzhi Zeng , Jin Zhang

Recently, significant connections between compressed sensing problems and optimization of a particular class of functions relating to solutions of Hamilton-Jacobi equation was discovered. In this paper we introduce a fast approximate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-11-27 Farzin Barekat , Stanley Osher , Jerome Darbon

We revisit three classical numerical methods for solving unconstrained optimal control problems - multiple shooting, single shooting, and differential dynamic programming - and examine their local convergence behaviour. In particular, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-05 Katrin Baumgärtner , Florian Messerer , Moritz Diehl

We consider concave minimization problems over non-convex sets.Optimization problems with this structure arise in sparse principal component analysis. We analyze both a gradient projection algorithm and an approximate Newton algorithm where…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2019-04-09 William W. Hager , Dzung T. Phan , Jia-Jie Zhu

We prove the convergence of an incremental projection numerical scheme for the time-dependent incompressible Navier--Stokes equations, without any regularity assumption on the weak solution. The velocity and the pressure are discretised in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-30 Robert Eymard , David Maltese

We investigate the effective behaviour of a small transversal perturbation of order $\epsilon$ to a completely integrable stochastic Hamiltonian system, by which we mean a stochastic differential equation whose diffusion vector fields are…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-10-11 Xue-Mei Li

In this work, we investigate the $hp$-discontinuous Galerkin (DG) time-stepping method for the generalized Burgers-Huxley equation with memory, a non-linear advection-diffusion-reaction problem featuring weakly singular kernels. We derive a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Sumit Mahajan , Arbaz Khan

We develop convergence acceleration procedures that enable a gradient descent-type iteration method to efficiently simulate Hartree--Fock equations for atoms interacting both with each other and with an external potential. Our development…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-03-03 Y. Ohno , A. Del Maestro , T. I. Lakoba

We propose a randomized algorithm with quadratic convergence rate for convex optimization problems with a self-concordant, composite, strongly convex objective function. Our method is based on performing an approximate Newton step using a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-18 Jonathan Lacotte , Yifei Wang , Mert Pilanci

Sparse inverse covariance selection is a fundamental problem for analyzing dependencies in high dimensional data. However, such a problem is difficult to solve since it is NP-hard. Existing solutions are primarily based on convex…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2018-04-05 Ganzhao Yuan , Haoxian Tan , Wei-Shi Zheng

Inspired by the recent paper (L. Ying, Mirror descent algorithms for minimizing interacting free energy, Journal of Scientific Computing, 84 (2020), pp. 1-14),we explore the relationship between the mirror descent and the variable metric…

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