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Optimization with orthogonality constraints frequently arises in various fields such as machine learning. Riemannian optimization offers a powerful framework for solving these problems by equipping the constraint set with a Riemannian…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Andi Han , Pierre-Louis Poirion , Akiko Takeda

We introduce a manifold-based framework for addressing optimization problems with equality and inequality constraints found in robotics. Our approach transforms the original problem into an unconstrained optimization problem directly on the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Yetong Zhang , Frank Dellaert

This paper implements topology optimization on two-dimensional manifolds. In this paper, the material interpolation is implemented on a material parameter in the partial differential equation used to describe a physical field, when this…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 Yongbo Deng , Zhenyu Liu , Jan G. Korvink

In this paper we study the problem of the optimal distribution of two materials on smooth submanifolds $M$ of dimension $d-1$ in $\mathbf R^d$ without boundary by means of the topological derivative. We consider a class of shape…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Peter Gangl , Kevin Sturm

Topology optimization is a powerful tool utilized in various fields for structural design. However, its application has primarily been restricted to static or passively moving objects, mainly focusing on hard materials with limited…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Changyoung Yuhn , Yuki Sato , Hiroki Kobayashi , Atsushi Kawamoto , Tsuyoshi Nomura

Multi-material structural topology and shape optimization problems are formulated within a phase field approach. First-order conditions are stated and the relation of the necessary conditions to classical shape derivatives are discussed. An…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-12-10 Luise Blank , M. Hassan Farshbaf-Shaker , Harald Garcke , Christoph Rupprecht , Vanessa Styles

This paper examines a variety of classical optimization problems, including well-known minimization tasks and more general variational inequalities. We consider a stochastic formulation of these problems, and unlike most previous work, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Vladimir Solodkin , Andrew Veprikov , Aleksandr Beznosikov

The work explores a specific scenario for structural computational optimization based on the following elements: (a) a relaxed optimization setting considering the ersatz (bi-material) approximation, (b) a treatment based on a nonsmoothed…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-08-06 J. Oliver , D. Yago , J. Cante , O. Lloberas-Valls

In this paper, we introduce the notion of generalized $\epsilon$-stationarity for a class of nonconvex and nonsmooth composite minimization problems on compact Riemannian submanifold embedded in Euclidean space. To find a generalized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-31 Zheng Peng , Weihe Wu , Jiang Hu , Kangkang Deng

In this paper, we study the role of boundary conditions on the optimal shape of a dyadic tree in which flows a Newtonian fluid. Our optimization problem consists in finding the shape of the tree that minimizes the viscous energy dissipated…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-12-13 Xavier Dubois De La Sablonière , Benjamin Mauroy , Yannick Privat

We examine the interaction of multigrid methods and shape optimization in appropriate shape spaces. Our aim is a scalable algorithm for application on supercomputers, which can only be achieved by mesh-independent convergence. The impact of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-12 Martin Siebenborn , Kathrin Welker

We compare surface metrics for shape optimization problems with constraints, consisting mainly of partial differential equations (PDE), from a computational point of view. In particular, classical Laplace-Beltrami type based metrics are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-12 Volker Schulz , Martin Siebenborn

Governing equations of motion for a viscous incompressible material surface are derived from the balance laws of continuum mechanics. The surface is treated as a time-dependent smooth orientable manifold of codimension one in an ambient…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-10-10 Thomas Jankuhn , Maxim A. Olshanskii , Arnold Reusken

The main issues of the original Symmetrical smoothing method consists of approximation of the extremal volume of the set by the smooth symmetric function (sum of step functions) and then solve the optimization problem. when making…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-03-10 Vladimir Blinovsky

Models for fluid deformable surfaces provide valid theories to describe the dynamics of thin fluidic sheets of soft materials. To use such models in morphogenesis and development requires to incorporate active forces. We consider active…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-08-20 Maik Porrmann , Axel Voigt

Mixing is an omnipresent process in a wide-range of industrial applications, which supports scientific efforts to devise techniques for optimising mixing processes under time and energy constraints. In this endeavor, we present a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-06-15 Maximilian F. Eggl , Peter J. Schmid

The classification of the possible equilibrium shapes that a self-gravitating fluid can take in a Riemannian manifold is a classical problem in mathematical physics. In this paper it is proved that the equilibrium shapes are isoparametric…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Daniel Peralta-Salas

A flag is a sequence of nested subspaces. Flags are ubiquitous in numerical analysis, arising in finite elements, multigrid, spectral, and pseudospectral methods for numerical PDE; they arise in the form of Krylov subspaces in matrix…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-08 Ke Ye , Ken Sze-Wai Wong , Lek-Heng Lim

In this paper we develop an intrinsic formalism to study the topology, smooth structure, and Riemannian geometry of the Wasserstein space of a closed Riemannian manifold. Our formalism allows for a new characterisation of the Weak topology…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-17 André Magalhães de Sá Gomes , Christian S. Rodrigues , Luiz A. B. San Martin

Variance parameter estimation in linear mixed models is a challenge for many classical nonlinear optimization algorithms due to the positive-definiteness constraint of the random effects covariance matrix. We take a completely novel view on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-12-20 Lena Sembach , Jan Pablo Burgard , Volker H. Schulz