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We consider an optimal control problem for the obstacle problem with an elliptic variational inequality. The obstacle function which is the control function is assumed in $H^{2}$. We use an approximate technique to introduce a family of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2008-12-18 Radouen Ghanem

In this paper, we study federated optimization for solving stochastic variational inequalities (VIs), a problem that has attracted growing attention in recent years. Despite substantial progress, a significant gap remains between existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Guanghui Wang , Satyen Kale

Available algorithms for the initialization of volume fractions typically utilize exact functions to model fluid interfaces, or they rely on computationally costly intersections between volume meshes. Here, a new algorithm is proposed that…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-02-07 Tobias Tolle , Dirk Gründing , Dieter Bothe , Tomislav Marić

We investigate structured grids aligned to the contours of a two-dimensional flux-function with an X-point (saddle point). Our theoretical analysis finds that orthogonal grids exist if and only if the Laplacian of the flux-function vanishes…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 M. Wiesenberger , M. Held , L. Einkemmer , A. Kendl

We consider elliptic variational inequalities generated by obstacle type problems with thin obstacles. For this class of problems, we deduce estimates of the distance (measured in terms of the natural energy norm) between the exact solution…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-09-18 Darya E. Apushkinskaya , Sergey I. Repin

In this work, new theoretical results on functional type a posteriori estimates for elliptic optimal control problems with control constraints are presented. More precisely, we derive new, sharp, guaranteed and fully computable lower bounds…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-06-02 Monika Wolfmayr

This paper defines a distance function that measures the dissimilarity between planar geometric figures formed with straight lines. This function can in turn be used in partial matching of different geometric figures. For a given pair of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-06 Apoorva Honnegowda Roopa , Shrisha Rao

We survey different perspectives on the stochastic localization process of Eldan, a powerful construction that has had many exciting recent applications in high-dimensional probability and algorithm design. Unlike prior surveys on this…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Bobby Shi , Kevin Tian , Matthew S. Zhang

Recent advances in cutting-plane strategies applied to robust optimization problems show that they are competitive with respect to problem reformulations and interior-point algorithms. However, although its application with polyhedral…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-03 Roberto Mínguez , Víctor Casero-Alonso

In this paper, using altering distance functions we obtain a generalization of the results due to B.K. Das and S. Gupta as well as the results given by B. Samet and H. Yazid. Moreover, we study the so-called property P for the contraction…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2012-01-26 José R. Morales , E. M. Rojas

We consider a sketched implementation of the finite element method for elliptic partial differential equations on high-dimensional models. Motivated by applications in real-time simulation and prediction we propose an algorithm that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Robert Lung , Yue Wu , Dimitris Kamilis , Nick Polydorides

Many important physical problems, such as fluid structure interaction or conjugate heat transfer, require numerical methods that compute boundary derivatives or fluxes to high accuracy. This paper proposes a novel alternative to calculating…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-12 David Wells , Jeffrey Banks

The distributed optimization problem is set up in a collection of nodes interconnected via a communication network. The goal is to find the minimizer of a global objective function formed by the addition of partial functions locally known…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-07 Damián Marelli , Yong Xu , Minyue Fu , Zenghong Huang

We introduce a new iterative method for computing solutions of elliptic equations with random rapidly oscillating coefficients. Similarly to a multigrid method, each step of the iteration involves different computations meant to address…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-31 S. Armstrong , A. Hannukainen , T. Kuusi , J. -C. Mourrat

Implicit reconstruction of ESDF (Euclidean Signed Distance Field) involves training a neural network to regress the signed distance from any point to the nearest obstacle, which has the advantages of lightweight storage and continuous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Yufeng Yue , Yinan Deng , Jiahui Wang , Yi Yang

This paper presents a novel stochastic gradient descent algorithm for constrained optimization. The proposed algorithm randomly samples constraints and components of the finite sum objective function and relies on a relaxed logarithmic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-13 Naum Dimitrieski , Jing Cao , Christian Ebenbauer

In this note we discuss an abstract framework for standard boundary value problems in divergence form with maximal monotone relations as "coefficients". A reformulation of the respective problems is constructed such that they turn out to be…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-09-04 Sascha Trostorff , Marcus Waurick

This paper studies approximate solutions of a linear fractional vector optimization problem without requiring boundedness of the constraint set. We establish necessary and sufficient conditions for approximating weakly efficient points of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-12 Nguyen Thi Thu Huong

Our contribution in this paper is two folded. We consider first the case of linear programming with real coefficients and give a method which allows the computation of a new upper bound on the distance from the origin to a feasible point.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-30 Beniamin Costandin , Marius Costandin , Petru Dobra

In this paper, error estimates are presented for a certain class of optimal control problems with elliptic PDE-constraints. It is assumed that in the cost functional the state is measured in terms of the energy norm generated by the state…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-10-31 Olli Mali