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We study the problem of efficiency under $\alpha$ local differential privacy ($\alpha$ LDP) in both discrete and continuous settings. Building on a factorization lemma, which shows that any privacy mechanism can be decomposed into an…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-30 Chiara Amorino , Arnaud Gloter

We consider parametrized problems driven by spatially nonlocal integral operators with parameter-dependent kernels. In particular, kernels with varying nonlocal interaction radius $\delta > 0$ and fractional Laplace kernels, parametrized by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-02 Olena Burkovska , Max Gunzburger

In this paper we introduce a new notion of optimal control, or source identification in inverse, problems with fractional parabolic PDEs as constraints. This new notion allows a source/control placement outside the domain where the PDE is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-16 Harbir Antil , Deepanshu Verma , Mahamadi Warma

This paper studies equality-constrained composite minimization problems. This class of problems, capturing regularization terms and inequality constraints, naturally arises in a wide range of engineering and machine learning applications.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Veronica Centorrino , Francesca Rossi , Francesco Bullo , Giovanni Russo

Recently the authors have studied a state and control constrained optimal control problem with fractional elliptic PDE as constraints. The goal of this paper is to continue that program forward and introduce an algorithm to solve such…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-12 Harbir Antil , Thomas S. Brown , Deepanshu Verma

We study an optimal control problem under uncertainty, where the target function is the solution of an elliptic partial differential equation with random coefficients, steered by a control function. The robust formulation of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-23 Philipp A. Guth , Vesa Kaarnioja , Frances Y. Kuo , Claudia Schillings , Ian H. Sloan

This work discusses the finite element discretization of an optimal control problem for the linear wave equation with time-dependent controls of bounded variation. The main focus lies on the convergence analysis of the discretization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-26 Sebastian Engel , Philip Trautmann , Boris Vexler

In this paper, we consider optimizing a smooth, convex, lower semicontinuous function in Riemannian space with constraints. To solve the problem, we first convert it to a dual problem and then propose a general primal-dual algorithm to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Shijun Wang , Baocheng Zhu , Lintao Ma , Yuan Qi

The existence of minimizers in the fractional isoperimetric problem with multiple volume constraints is proved, together with a partial regularity result.

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-05-19 Maria Colombo , Francesco Maggi

We show that, for a fixed order $\gamma\geq 1$, each local minimizer of a rather general nonsmooth optimization problem in Euclidean spaces is either M-stationary in the classical sense (corresponding to stationarity of order $1$),…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-10 Matúš Benko , Patrick Mehlitz

We formulate and analyse an optimal control problem for the coagulation-fragmentation equation, where a scalar, time-dependent control modulates the coagulation rate by multiplying the coagulation kernel. The objective functional consists…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Enrico Sartor

We propose a semi-discrete numerical scheme and establish well-posedness of a class of parabolic systems. Such systems naturally arise while studying the optimal control of grain boundary motions. The latter is typically described using a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-26 Harbir Antil , Ken Shirakawa , Noriaki Yamazaki

We consider optimal control of fractional in time (subdiffusive, i.e., for $% 0<\gamma <1$) semilinear parabolic PDEs associated with various notions of diffusion operators in an unifying fashion. Under general assumptions on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-08 Harbir Antil , Ciprian G. Gal , Mahamadi Warma

An important problem that arises in many engineering applications is the boundary value problem for ordinary differential equations. There have been many computational methods proposed for dealing with this problem. The convergence of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-17 Duggirala Meher Krishna , Duggirala Ravi

In this paper we propose a new finite element method for solving elliptic optimal control problems with pointwise state constraints, including the distributed controls and the Dirichlet or Neumann boundary controls. The main idea is to use…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-07 Wei Gong , Zhiyu Tan

A regularization algorithm allowing random noise in derivatives and inexact function values is proposed for computing approximate local critical points of any order for smooth unconstrained optimization problems. For an objective function…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-07 S. Bellavia , G. Gurioli , B. Morini , Ph. L. Toint

This paper focuses on the regularization of backward time-fractional diffusion problem on unbounded domain. This problem is well-known to be ill-posed, whence the need of a regularization method in order to recover stable approximate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-03 Walter Simo Tao Lee

We consider linear and obstacle problems driven by a nonlocal integral operator, for which nonlocal interactions are restricted to a ball of finite radius. These type of operators are used to model anomalous diffusion and, for a special…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-30 Olena Burkovska , Max Gunzburger

Distributionally robust optimization (DRO) is a widely used framework for optimizing objective functionals in the presence of both randomness and model-form uncertainty. A key step in the practical solution of many DRO problems is a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-22 Jeremiah Birrell

We study inexact fixed-point proximity algorithms for solving a class of sparse regularization problems involving the $\ell_0$ norm. Specifically, the $\ell_0$ model has an objective function that is the sum of a convex fidelity term and a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-30 Ronglong Fang , Yuesheng Xu , Mingsong Yan