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The primal-dual hybrid gradient (PDHG) algorithm for solving convex optimization problems that arise in tomographic imaging is revisited. In particular, simplification of the selection of step-size parameters is developed for optimization…

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This work presents a convex-optimization-based framework for analysis and control of nonlinear partial differential equations. The approach uses a particular weak embedding of the nonlinear PDE, resulting in a linear equation in the space…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-23 Milan Korda , Didier Henrion , Jean-Bernard Lasserre

The ParaDiag family of algorithms solves differential equations by using preconditioners that can be inverted in parallel through diagonalization. In the context of optimal control of linear parabolic PDEs, the state-of-the-art ParaDiag…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-15 Arne Bouillon , Giovanni Samaey , Karl Meerbergen

Composite optimization problems, formulated as the minimization of three functions, are ubiquitous in large-scale machine learning and signal processing. While state-of-the-art splitting methods such as Condat-V\~{u} (CV) [Condat, 2013,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Abdurakhmon Sadiev , Laurent Condat , Peter Richtárik

This paper proposes a novel proximal difference-of-convex (DC) algorithm enhanced with extrapolation and aggressive non-monotone line search for solving non-convex optimization problems. We introduce an adaptive conservative update strategy…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-18 Ran Zhang , Hongpeng Sun

The paper proposes a linesearch for a primal-dual method. Each iteration of the linesearch requires to update only the dual (or primal) variable. For many problems, in particular for regularized least squares, the linesearch does not…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-26 Yura Malitsky , Thomas Pock

This study investigates the variational posterior convergence rates of inverse problems for partial differential equations (PDEs) with parameters in Besov spaces $B_{pp}^\alpha$ ($p \geq 1$) which are modeled naturally in a Bayesian manner…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-17 Shaokang Zu , Junxiong Jia , Zhiguo Wang

We propose machine learning methods for solving fully nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs) with convex Hamiltonian. Our algorithms are conducted in two steps. First the PDE is rewritten in its dual stochastic control…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2022-05-23 William Lefebvre , Grégoire Loeper , Huyên Pham

Reduced-order models have long been used to understand the behavior of nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs). Naturally, reduced-order modeling techniques come at the price of computational accuracy for a decrease in computation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-26 Jovan Žigić

In this paper we propose distributed dual gradient algorithms for linearly constrained separable convex problems and analyze their rate of convergence under different assumptions. Under the strong convexity assumption on the primal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-02-04 Ion Necoara , Valentin Nedelcu

The first order by time partial differential equations are used as models in applications such as fluid flow, heat transfer, solid deformation, electromagnetic waves, and others. In this paper we propose the new numerical method to solve a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2008-01-14 Ivan Kazachkov

This paper proposes and analyzes a dampened proximal alternating direction method of multipliers (DP.ADMM) for solving linearly-constrained nonconvex optimization problems where the smooth part of the objective function is nonseparable.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-05 Weiwei Kong , Renato D. C. Monteiro

We propose two variants of the Primal Dual Hybrid Gradient (PDHG) algorithm for saddle point problems with block decomposable duals, hereafter called Multi-Timescale PDHG (MT-PDHG) and its accelerated variant (AMT-PDHG). Through novel…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Junhui Zhang , Patrick Jaillet

In this paper, we propose the primal-dual method of multipliers (PDMM) for distributed optimization over a graph. In particular, we optimize a sum of convex functions defined over a graph, where every edge in the graph carries a linear…

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This paper introduces PDEformer-1, a versatile neural solver capable of simultaneously addressing various partial differential equations (PDEs). With the PDE represented as a computational graph, we facilitate the seamless integration of…

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This paper deals with a new Tikhonov regularized primal-dual dynamical system with variable mass and Hessian-driven damping for solving a convex optimization problem with linear equality constraints. The system features several…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Xiangkai Sun , Feng Guo , Liang He , Xiaole Guo

The efficient solution of discretisations of coupled systems of partial differential equations (PDEs) is at the core of much of numerical simulation. Significant effort has been expended on scalable algorithms to precondition Krylov…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2018-02-22 Robert C. Kirby , Lawrence Mitchell

In this paper a new primal-dual mixed finite element method is introduced, aimed to model multiscale problems with several geometric subregions in the domain of interest. In each of these regions porous media fluid flow takes place, but…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-21 Fernando A Morales

In this paper, we address the efficient numerical solution of linear and quadratic programming problems, often of large scale. With this aim, we devise an infeasible interior point method, blended with the proximal method of multipliers,…

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