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A new variant of Newton's method for empirical risk minimization is studied, where at each iteration of the optimization algorithm, the gradient and Hessian of the objective function are replaced by robust estimators taken from existing…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-07-18 Eirini Ioannou , Muni Sreenivas Pydi , Po-Ling Loh

In this paper, we present linearized learning methods to accelerate the convergence of training for stationary nonlinear Navier-Stokes equations. To solve the stationary nonlinear Navier-Stokes (NS) equation, we integrate the procedure of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-06 Lizuo Liu , Bo Wang , Wei Cai

To approximate solutions of complex nonlinear partial differential equations remains a computational challenge, especially for sets of equations relevant in industry, such as Euler or Navier-Stokes equations. Even the most sophisticated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-25 Maximilian Mandelt Buxadé , Stefan Langer , Philipp Bekemeyer

The Newton method is a powerful optimization algorithm, valued for its rapid local convergence and elegant geometric properties. However, its theoretical guarantees are usually limited to convex problems. In this work, we ask whether…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-01 Alexander Shestakov , Sushil Bohara , Samuel Horváth , Martin Takáč , Slavomír Hanzely

The nonlinear systems obtained by discretizing degenerate parabolic equations may be hard to solve, especially with Newton's method. In this paper, we apply to Richards equation a strategy that consists in defining a new primary unknown for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-08-08 Konstantin Brenner , Clément Cancès

In this paper we develop an a priori error analysis of a new unified mixed finite element method for the coupling of fluid flow with porous media flow in $\mathbb{R}^N$, $N\in\{2,3\}$ on isotropic meshes. Flows are governed by the Stokes…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-08-07 Koffi Wilfrid Houédanou

We present a computational method for the simulation of the solidification of multicomponent alloys in the sharp-interface limit. Contrary to the case of binary alloys where a fixed point iteration is adequate, we hereby propose a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-09-26 Daniil Bochkov , Tresa Pollock , Frederic Gibou

In this paper we propose and analyze a new Finite Element method for the solution of the two- and three-dimensional incompressible Navier--Stokes equations based on a hybrid discretization of both the velocity and pressure variables. The…

This work links optimization approaches from hierarchical least-squares programming to instantaneous prioritized whole-body robot control. Concretely, we formulate the hierarchical Newton's method which solves prioritized non-linear…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Kai Pfeiffer , Adrien Escande , Pierre Gergondet , Abderrahmane Kheddar

Newton's method may exhibit slower convergence than vanilla Gradient Descent in its initial phase on strongly convex problems. Classical Newton-type multilevel methods mitigate this but, like Gradient Descent, achieve only linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-25 Nick Tsipinakis , Panos Parpas , Matthias Voigt

Newton's method may exhibit slower convergence than vanilla Gradient Descent in its initial phase on strongly convex problems. Classical Newton-type multilevel methods mitigate this but, like Gradient Descent, achieve only linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-05 Nick Tsipinakis , Panagiotis Tigkas , Panos Parpas

In this paper, we propose a distributed Newton method for consensus optimization. Our approach outperforms state-of-the-art methods, including ADMM. The key idea is to exploit the sparsity of the dual Hessian and recast the computation of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-06-22 Rasul Tutunov , Haitham Bou Ammar , Ali Jadbabaie

The iterative problem of solving nonlinear equations is studied. A new Newton like iterative method with adjustable parameters is designed based on the dynamic system theory. In order to avoid the derivative function in the iterative…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-09 Yonglong Liao , Limin Cui

We consider a time-dependent coupled Navier--Stokes/generalized poroelastic flow problem and propose a unified and monolithic finite element discretization based on implicit time stepping. To handle the fluid-structure interface we employ a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Aparna Bansal , Nicolas A. Barnafi , Dwijendra Narain Pandey , Ricardo Ruiz-Baier

In this paper we develop an a posteriori error analysis for the stationary Stokes-Darcy coupled problem approximated by conforming finite element method on isotropic meshes in $\mathbb{R}^d$, $d\in\{2,3\}$. The approach utilizes a new…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-10 Koffi Wilfrid Houédanou , Jamal Adetola

In this paper, we consider variants of Newton-MR algorithm for solving unconstrained, smooth, but non-convex optimization problems. Unlike the overwhelming majority of Newton-type methods, which rely on conjugate gradient algorithm as the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-02 Yang Liu , Fred Roosta

Many machine learning models involve solving optimization problems. Thus, it is important to deal with a large-scale optimization problem in big data applications. Recently, subsampled Newton methods have emerged to attract much attention…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Haishan Ye , Luo Luo , Zhihua Zhang

Most existing work uses dual decomposition and subgradient methods to solve Network Utility Maximization (NUM) problems in a distributed manner, which suffer from slow rate of convergence properties. This work develops an alternative…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Ermin Wei , Asuman Ozdaglar , Ali Jadbabaie

This paper proposes a Newton-type method to solve numerically the eigenproblem of several diagonalizable matrices, which pairwise commute. A classical result states that these matrices are simultaneously diagonalizable. From a suitable…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-07 Rima Khouja , Bernard Mourrain , Jean-Claude Yakoubsohn

This paper proposes new proximal Newton-type methods with a diagonal metric for solving composite optimization problems whose objective function is the sum of a twice continuously differentiable function and a proper closed directionally…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-11 Shotaro Yagishita , Shummin Nakayama