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In this paper, we study Newton-conjugate gradient (Newton-CG) methods for minimizing a nonconvex function $f$ whose Hessian is $(H_f,\nu)$-H\"older continuous with modulus $H_f>0$ and exponent $\nu\in(0,1]$. Recently proposed Newton-CG…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Ziyang Zeng , Junyu Zhang , Chuan He

Incremental Potential Contact (IPC) is a widely used, robust, and accurate method for simulating complex frictional contact behaviors. However, achieving high efficiency remains a major challenge, particularly as material stiffness…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Kemeng Huang , Xinyu Lu , Huancheng Lin , Taku Komura , Minchen Li

A new decomposition optimization algorithm, called \textit{path-following gradient-based decomposition}, is proposed to solve separable convex optimization problems. Unlike path-following Newton methods considered in the literature, this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-09-21 Quoc Tran Dinh , Ion Necoara , Moritz Diehl

We present a scalable approach to solve a class of elliptic partial differential equation (PDE)-constrained optimization problems with bound constraints. This approach utilizes a robust full-space interior-point (IP)-Gauss-Newton…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-22 Tucker Hartland , Cosmin G. Petra , Noemi Petra , Jingyi Wang

In this paper, we establish the local superlinear convergence property of some polynomial-time interior-point methods for an important family of conic optimization problems. The main structural property used in our analysis is the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-12-08 Yu. Nesterov , Levent Tuncel

We present a fast, differentiable, GPU-accelerated optimization method for ray path tracing in environments containing planar reflectors and straight diffraction edges. Based on Fermat's principle, our approach reformulates the path-finding…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-01 Jérome Eertmans , Sophie Lequeu , Benoît Legat , Laurent Jacques , Claude Oestges

This paper considers the fixed point problem for a nonexpansive mapping on a real Hilbert space and proposes novel line search fixed point algorithms to accelerate the search. The termination conditions for the line search are based on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-09-21 Hideaki Iiduka

Fast computation of demagnetization curves is essential for the computational design of soft magnetic sensors or permanent magnet materials. We show that a sparse preconditioner for a nonlinear conjugate gradient energy minimizer can lead…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-10-23 Lukas Exl , Johann Fischbacher , Alexander Kovacs , Harald Oezelt , Markus Gusenbauer , Thomas Schrefl

We present an efficient, robust and fully GPU-accelerated aggregation-based algebraic multigrid preconditioning technique for the solution of large sparse linear systems. These linear systems arise from the discretization of elliptic PDEs.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-03-10 Rajesh Gandham , Ken Esler , Yongpeng Zhang

In this paper, we present a generic framework to extend existing uniformly optimal convex programming algorithms to solve more general nonlinear, possibly nonconvex, optimization problems. The basic idea is to incorporate a local search…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-10-27 Saeed Ghadimi , Guanghui Lan , Hongchao Zhang

We investigate the potential of Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) to solve large-scale nonlinear programs with a dynamic structure. Using ExaModels, a GPU-accelerated automatic differentiation tool, and the interior-point solver MadNLP, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-13 François Pacaud , Sungho Shin

Conjugate gradient is an efficient algorithm for solving large sparse linear systems. It has been utilized to accelerate the computation in Bayesian analysis for many large-scale problems. This article discusses the applications of…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-08-30 Lu Zhang

In this paper, we consider the nonconvex quadratically constrained quadratic programming (QCQP) with one quadratic constraint. By employing the conjugate gradient method, an efficient algorithm is proposed to solve QCQP that exploits the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-17 Akram Taati , Maziar Salahi

In this paper, we propose nonlinear conjugate gradient methods for vector optimization on Riemannian manifolds. The concepts of Wolfe and Zoutendjik conditions are extended for Riemannian manifolds. Specifically, we establish the existence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Kangming Chen , Ellen H. Fukuda , Hiroyuki Sato

We present a preconditioning method for the linear systems arising from the boundary element discretization of the Laplace hypersingular equation on a $2$-dimensional triangulated surface $\Gamma$ in $\mathbb{R}^3$. We allow $\Gamma$ to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-16 Martin Averseng , Xavier Claeys , Ralf Hiptmair

In this note we exploit polynomial preconditioners for the Conjugate Gradient method to solve large symmetric positive definite linear systems in a parallel environment. We put in connection a specialized Newton method to solve the matrix…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-30 Luca Bergamaschi , Angeles Martinez

We will make a link between the steepest descent method for an unconstrained minimisation problem and fixed-point iterations for its Euler-Lagrange equation. In this context, we shall rediscover the preconditioned nonlinear conjugate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-12 Pascal Heid

We provide a condition-based analysis of two interior-point methods for unconstrained geometric programs, a class of convex programs that arise naturally in applications including matrix scaling, matrix balancing, and entropy maximization.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-28 Peter Bürgisser , Yinan Li , Harold Nieuwboer , Michael Walter

The Legendre spectral Galerkin method of self-adjoint second order elliptic equations usually results in a linear system with a dense and ill-conditioned coefficient matrix. In this paper, the linear system is solved by a preconditioned…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-30 Xuhao Diao , Jun Hu , Suna Ma

We provide a rounding error analysis of a mixed-precision preconditioned Jacobi algorithm, which uses low precision to compute the preconditioner, applies it at high precision (amounting to two matrix-matrix multiplications) and solves the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Nicholas J. Higham , Françoise Tisseur , Marcus Webb , Zhengbo Zhou