English
Related papers

Related papers: Explicit a posteriori error representation for var…

200 papers

We consider a Markov chain approximation scheme for utility maximization problems in continuous time, which uses, in turn, a piecewise constant policy approximation, Euler-Maruyama time stepping, and a Gauss-Hermite approximation of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-07 Athena Picarelli , Christoph Reisinger

We construct a space-time parallel method for solving parabolic partial differential equations by coupling the Parareal algorithm in time with overlapping domain decomposition in space. The goal is to obtain a discretization consisting of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-17 Jehanzeb Chaudhry , Donald Estep , Simon Tavener

In this work, we present an algorithmically tractable safe approximation of distributionally robust optimization (DRO) problems that contain univariate indicator functions. The latter appear in different applications, but render the model…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-22 Jana Dienstbier , Frauke Liers , Florian Rösel , Jan Rolfes

We consider Poisson's equation with a finite number of weighted Dirac masses as a source term, together with its discretization by means of conforming finite elements. For the error in fractional Sobolev spaces, we propose residual-type a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-07-30 Fernando D. Gaspoz , Pedro Morin , Andreas Veeser

A finite element based computational scheme is developed and employed to assess a duality based variational approach to the solution of the linear heat and transport PDE in one space dimension and time, and the nonlinear system of ODEs of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-10 Uditnarayan Kouskiya , Amit Acharya

In this paper we present a simple method of deriving a posteriori error equalities and estimates for linear elliptic and parabolic partial differential equations. The error is measured in a combined norm taking into account both the primal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-11-16 Immanuel Anjam , Dirk Pauly

For the Stokes equation over 2D and 3D domains, explicit a posteriori and a priori error estimation are novelly developed for the finite element solution. The difficulty in handling the divergence-free condition of the Stokes equation is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-05 Xuefeng Liu , Mitsuhiro Nakao , Chun'guang You , Shin'ichi Oishi

In this paper we develop two goal-oriented adaptive strategies for a posteriori error estimation within the generalized multiscale finite element framework. In this methodology, one seeks to determine the number of multiscale basis…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-09-21 Eric T. Chung , Wing Tat Leung , Sara Pollock

This work is aimed at the derivation of reliable and efficient a posteriori error estimates for convection-dominated diffusion problems motivated by a linear Fokker-Planck problem appearing in computational neuroscience. We obtain…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2018-05-16 Svetlana Matculevich , Monika Wolfmayr

Deep learning has shown successful application in visual recognition and certain artificial intelligence tasks. Deep learning is also considered as a powerful tool with high flexibility to approximate functions. In the present work,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Ayan Chakraborty , Thomas Wick , Xiaoying Zhuang , Timon Rabczuk

In this note, we provide an overarching analysis of primal-dual dynamics associated to linear equality-constrained optimization problems using contraction analysis. For the well-known standard version of the problem: we establish…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-22 Pedro Cisneros-Velarde , Saber Jafarpour , Francesco Bullo

Our work considers the optimization of the sum of a non-smooth convex function and a finite family of composite convex functions, each one of which is composed of a convex function and a bounded linear operator. This type of problem is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-30 Yu-Chao Tang , Chuan-Xi Zhu , Meng Wen , Ji-Gen Peng

We consider a finite element discretization for the dual Rudin--Osher--Fatemi model using a Raviart--Thomas basis for $H_0 (\mathrm{div};\Omega)$. Since the proposed discretization has splitting property for the energy functional, which is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-06-10 Chang-Ock Lee , Eun-Hee Park , Jongho Park

Primal-dual algorithms are frequently used for iteratively solving large-scale convex optimization problems. The analysis of such algorithms is usually done on a case-by-case basis, and the resulting guaranteed rates of convergence can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-21 Bryan Van Scoy , John W. Simpson-Porco , Laurent Lessard

By applying the perturbation function approach, we propose the Lagrangian and the conjugate duals for minimization problems of the sum of two, generally nonconvex, functions. The main tools are the $\Phi$-convexity theory and minimax…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-05 Ewa M. Bednarczuk , Monika Syga

In the present work, we derive functional upper bounds for the potential error arising from finite-element boundary-element coupling formulations for a nonlinear Poisson-type transmission problem. The proposed a posteriori error estimates…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Alexander Freiszlinger , Dirk Pauly , Dirk Praetorius , Michael Schomburg

Inverse problems use physical measurements along with a computational model to estimate the parameters or state of a system of interest. Errors in measurements and uncertainties in the computational model lead to inaccurate estimates. This…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-02-02 Vishwas Rao , Adrian Sandu

This work focuses on numerical solutions of optimal control problems. A time discretization error representation is derived for the approximation of the associated value function. It concerns Symplectic Euler solutions of the Hamiltonian…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-02-23 Jesper Karlsson , Stig Larsson , Mattias Sandberg , Anders Szepessy , Raùl Tempone

We study the problem of minimizing a sum of local objective convex functions over a network of processors/agents. This problem naturally calls for distributed optimization algorithms, in which the agents cooperatively solve the problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-01 Fatemeh Mansoori , Ermin Wei

The Stokes-Brinkman equations model flow in heterogeneous porous media by combining the Stokes and Darcy models of flow into a single system of equations. With suitable parameters, the equations can model either flow without detailed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-08-28 Kevin Williamson , Pavel Burda , Bedřich Sousedík