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The classical level set method, which represents the boundary of the unknown geometry as the zero-level set of a function, has been shown to be very effective in solving shape optimization problems. The present work addresses the issue of…

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We consider the projected gradient algorithm for the nonconvex best subset selection problem that minimizes a given empirical loss function under an $\ell_0$-norm constraint. Through decomposing the feasible set of the given sparsity…

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The problem of minimizing the sum of nonsmooth, convex objective functions defined on a real Hilbert space over the intersection of fixed point sets of nonexpansive mappings, onto which the projections cannot be efficiently computed, is…

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The purpose of this work is two-fold. First, we introduce an efficient homogenization-based approach to perform topology optimization of coated structures with orthotropic infill material. By making use of the relaxed design space, we can…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Jeroen Groen , Jun Wu , Ole Sigmund

The robust truss topology optimization against the uncertain static external load can be formulated as mixed-integer semidefinite programming. Although a global optimal solution can be computed with a branch-and-bound method, it is very…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-25 Yoshihiro Kanno

In this work, we study a novel class of projection-based algorithms for linearly constrained problems (LCPs) which have a lot of applications in statistics, optimization, and machine learning. Conventional primal gradient-based methods for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-06 Xiang Li , Zhihua Zhang

In this paper, we present a novel framework for deriving the evolution equation of the level set function in topology optimization, departing from conventional Hamilton-Jacobi based formulations. The key idea is the introduction of an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Jan Oellerich , Takayuki Yamada

Regularization is often used in high-dimensional regression settings to generate a sparse model, which can save tremendous computing resources and identify predictors that are most strongly associated with the response. When the predictors…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-07 Jia Wei He , R. Ayesha Ali , Gerarda Darlington

We study multilevel techniques, commonly used in PDE multigrid literature, to solve structured optimization problems. For a given hierarchy of levels, we formulate a coarse model that approximates the problem at each level and provides a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-19 Ferdinand Vanmaele , Yara Elshiaty , Stefania Petra

We present a cut finite element method for shape optimization in the case of linear elasticity. The elastic domain is defined by a level-set function, and the evolution of the domain is obtained by moving the level-set along a velocity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-05 Erik Burman , Daniel Elfverson , Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson , Karl Larsson

We propose and analyze a constrained level-set method for semi-automatic image segmentation. Our level-set model with constraints on the level-set function enables us to specify which parts of the image lie inside respectively outside the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-12-11 Vladimír Klement , Tomáš Oberhuber , Daniel Ševčovič

We propose and analyze a constrained level-set method for semi-automatic image segmentation. Our level-set model with constraints on the level-set function enables us to specify which parts of the image lie inside respectively outside the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-01-07 Vladimír Klement , Tomáš Oberhuber , Daniel Ševčovič

Topology optimization is concerned with the identification of optimal shapes of deformable bodies with respect to given target functionals. The focus of this paper is on a topology optimization problem for a time-evolving elastoplastic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-21 Stefano Almi , Ulisse Stefanelli

We introduce a computational framework for the topology optimization of cellular structures with spatially varying architecture, which is applied to functionally graded truss lattices under quasistatic loading. We make use of a first-order…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-05-31 Bastian Telgen , Ole Sigmund , Dennis M. Kochmann

This paper presents enhancements to the projection pursuit tree classifier and visual diagnostic methods for assessing their impact in high dimensions. The original algorithm uses linear combinations of variables in a tree structure where…

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Topology optimization has emerged as a powerful and increasingly relevant strategy for enhancing the flexibility and efficiency of power system operations. However, solving these problems is computationally demanding due to their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Salvador Pineda , Juan Miguel Morales

Subspace recycling techniques have been used quite successfully for the acceleration of iterative methods for solving large-scale linear systems. These methods often work by augmenting a solution subspace generated iteratively by a known…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-18 Ronny Ramlau , Kirk M. Soodhalter , Victoria Hutterer

Convergence of a projected stochastic gradient algorithm is demonstrated for convex objective functionals with convex constraint sets in Hilbert spaces. In the convex case, the sequence of iterates ${u_n}$ converges weakly to a point in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-01 Caroline Geiersbach , Georg Pflug

An efficient proximal-gradient-based method, called proximal extrapolated gradient method, is designed for solving monotone variational inequality in Hilbert space. The proposed method extends the acceptable range of parameters to obtain…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-05 Xiaokai Chang , Sanyang Liu , Jianchao Bai , Jun Yang

Discrete regularization methods are often applied for obtaining stable approximate solutions for ill-posed operator equations $Tx=y$, where $T: X\to Y$ is a bounded operator between Hilbert spaces with non-closed range $R(T)$ and $y\in…

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