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We are concerned with a novel Bayesian statistical framework for the characterization of natural subsurface formations, a very challenging task. Because of the large dimension of the stochastic space of the prior distribution in the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-23 Alsadig Ali , Abdullah Al-Mamun , Felipe Pereira , Arunasalam Rahunanthan

Variational models for image deblurring problems typically consist of a smooth term and a potentially non-smooth convex term. A common approach to solving these problems is using proximal gradient methods. To accelerate the convergence of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-22 Stefano Aleotti , Marco Donatelli , Rolf Krause , Giuseppe Scarlato

In this paper, we propose a new finite element approach to simulate the time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau equations under the temporal gauge, and design an efficient preconditioner for the Newton iteration of the resulting discrete system. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-28 Qingguo Hong , Limin Ma , Jinchao Xu

Preconditioning is at the heart of iterative solutions of large, sparse linear systems of equations in scientific disciplines. Several algebraic approaches, which access no information beyond the matrix itself, are widely studied and used,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-28 Jie Chen

We analyze nonlinearly preconditioned gradient methods for solving smooth minimization problems. We introduce a generalized smoothness property, based on the notion of abstract convexity, that is broader than Lipschitz smoothness and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-18 Konstantinos Oikonomidis , Jan Quan , Emanuel Laude , Panagiotis Patrinos

Structured convex optimization on weighted graphs finds numerous applications in machine learning and computer vision. In this work, we propose a novel adaptive preconditioning strategy for proximal algorithms on this problem class. Our…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-28 Zhenzhang Ye , Thomas Möllenhoff , Tao Wu , Daniel Cremers

This paper combines the use of high order finite element methods with parallel preconditioners of domain decomposition type for solving electromagnetic problems arising from brain microwave imaging. The numerical algorithms involved in such…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-03-23 M. Bonazzoli , V. Dolean , F. Rapetti , P. -H. Tournier

Nonconvex optimization problems are widespread in modern machine learning and data science. We introduce an extrapolation strategy into a class of preconditioned second-order convex splitting algorithms for nonconvex optimization problems.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-19 Xinhua Shen , Hongpeng Sun

Large-scale numerical simulations often come at the expense of daunting computations. High-Performance Computing has enhanced the process, but adapting legacy codes to leverage parallel GPU computations remains challenging. Meanwhile,…

The linear conjugate gradient method is widely used in physical simulation, particularly for solving large-scale linear systems derived from Newton's method. The nonlinear conjugate gradient method generalizes the conjugate gradient method…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-15 Xing Shen , Runyuan Cai , Mengxiao Bi , Tangjie Lv

We apply preconditioning, which is widely used in classical solvers for linear systems $A\textbf{x}=\textbf{b}$, to the variational quantum linear solver. By utilizing incomplete LU factorization as a preconditioner for linear equations…

Model-based iterative reconstruction plays a key role in solving inverse problems. However, the associated minimization problems are generally large-scale, nonsmooth, and sometimes even nonconvex, which present challenges in designing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-21 Tao Hong , Zhaoyi Xu , Jason Hu , Jeffrey A. Fessler

The coupled nonlinear space fractional Ginzburg-Landau (CNLSFGL) equations with the fractional Laplacian have been widely used to model the dynamical processes in a fractal media with fractional dispersion. Due to the existence of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-05 Hengfei Ding , Yuxin Zhang , Qian Yi

Ginzburg--Landau (GL) functionals on graphs, which are relaxations of graph-cut functionals on graphs, have yielded a variety of insights in image segmentation and graph clustering. In this paper, we study large-graph limits of GL…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Edith Zhang , James Scott , Qiang Du , Mason A. Porter

Concerning huge-scale aggregative convex programming of a linear objective subject to the affine constraints of equality and inequality and the quadratic constraints of inequality, convex and aggregatively computable, an algorithm is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Luoyi Tao

We introduce a unified framework for computing approximately-optimal preconditioners for solving linear and non-linear systems of equations. We demonstrate that the condition number minimization problem, under structured transformations…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-09 M. Levent Doğan , Alperen Ergür , Elias Tsigaridas

We propose and analyze a general framework called nonlinear preconditioned primal-dual with projection for solving nonconvex-nonconcave and non-smooth saddle-point problems. The framework consists of two steps. The first is a nonlinear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-11 Lu Zhang , Hongxia Wang , Hui Zhang

Estimating optical flows is one of the most interesting problems in computer vision, which estimates the essential information about pixel-wise displacements between two consecutive images. This work introduces an efficient dual…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-05 Hongpeng Sun , Xue-Cheng Tai , Jing Yuan

This paper presents a framework that supports the implementation of parallel solutions for the widespread parametric maximum flow computational routines used in image segmentation algorithms. The framework is based on supergraphs, a special…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-08 Vlad Olaru , Mihai Florea , Cristian Sminchisescu

We propose a decomposition framework for the parallel optimization of the sum of a differentiable {(possibly nonconvex)} function and a nonsmooth (possibly nonseparable), convex one. The latter term is usually employed to enforce structure…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Amir Daneshmand , Francisco Facchinei , Vyacheslav Kungurtsev , Gesualdo Scutari