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Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-10 Michela Eleuteri , Antonia Passarelli di Napoli

We consider nonlinear equations having generalized Orlicz growth (also known as Musielak--Orlicz growth). We prove that if differential operators $\mathcal{A}_i$ converge locally uniformly to an operator $\mathcal{A}$, then the sequence of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-03-28 Petteri Harjulehto , Arttu Karppinen

This paper considers the distributed nonconvex optimization problem of minimizing a global cost function formed by a sum of local cost functions by using local information exchange. We first consider a distributed first-order primal-dual…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-26 Xinlei Yi , Shengjun Zhang , Tao Yang , Tianyou Chai , Karl H. Johansson

Tilt stability plays a pivotal role in understanding how local solutions of an optimization problem respond to small, targeted perturbations of the objective. Although quadratic bundles are a powerful tool for capturing second-order…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-07 Chao Ding , Ebrahim Sarabi , Shiwei Wang

Minimax optimization problems are an important class of optimization problems arising from both modern machine learning and from traditional research areas. We focus on the stability of constrained minimax optimization problems based on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-11 Yu-Hong Dai , Liwei Zhang

In this paper we consider the minimization of a novel class of fractional linear growth functionals involving the Riesz fractional gradient. These functionals lack the coercivity properties in the fractional Sobolev spaces needed to apply…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-02-28 Hidde Schönberger

Tilt stability is a fundamental concept of variational analysis and optimization that plays a pivotal role in both theoretical issues and numerical computations. This paper investigates tilt stability of local minimizers for a general class…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-16 Boris S. Mordukhovich , Peipei Tang , Chengjing Wang

In 1963, Polyak proposed a simple condition that is sufficient to show a global linear convergence rate for gradient descent. This condition is a special case of the \L{}ojasiewicz inequality proposed in the same year, and it does not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Hamed Karimi , Julie Nutini , Mark Schmidt

We consider a Neumann problem for strictly convex variational functionals of linear growth. We establish the existence of minimisers among $\operatorname{W}^{1,1}$-functions provided that the domain under consideration is simply connected.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-15 Lisa Beck , Miroslav Bulíček , Franz Gmeineder

We consider regularization of non-convex optimization problems involving a non-linear least-squares objective. By adding an auxiliary set of variables, we introduce a novel regularization framework whose corresponding objective function is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-23 Rixon Crane , Fred Roosta

We consider integral functionals with slow growth and explicit dependence on u of the lagrangian; this includes many relevant examples, as, for instance, in elastoplastic torsion problems or in image restoration problems. Our aim is to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-20 Michela Eleuteri , Stefania Perrotta , Giulia Treu

We prove higher differentiability of bounded local minimizers to some widely degenerate functionals, verifying superquadratic anisotropic growth conditions. In the two dimensional case, we prove that local minimizers to a model functional…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-04-15 Lorenzo Brasco , Chiara Leone , Giovanni Pisante , Anna Verde

Conservation laws are usually studied in the context of sufficient regularity conditions imposed on the flux function, usually $C^{2}$ and uniform convexity. Some results are proven with the aid of variational methods and a unique minimizer…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-06 Carey Caginalp

We investigate regularity properties of minimizers for non-autonomous convex variational integrands $F(x, \mathrm{D} u)$ with linear growth, defined on bounded Lipschitz domains $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^n$. Assuming appropriate…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-13 Lukas Fußangel , Buddhika Priyasad , Paul Stephan

Under various conditions on the data we analyse how appearence of lower order terms affects the gradient estimates on solutions to a general nonlinear elliptic equation of the form \[-{\rm div}\, a(x,Du)+b(x,u)=\mu\] with data $\mu$ not…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-02-15 Iwona Chlebicka

We prove an a priori estimate for the second derivatives of local minimizers of integral functionals of calculus of variation with convex integrand with respect to the gradient variable, assuming that the function that measures the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-07-30 Andrea Gentile

We consider minimization problems with the well-known Polya-Lojasievich condition and Lipshitz-continuous gradient. Such problem occurs in different places in machine learning and related fields. Furthermore, we assume that a gradient is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-12 Sergei M. Puchinin , Fedor S. Stonyakin

This paper is devoted to the study of second order optimality conditions for strong local minimizers in the frameworks of unconstrained and constrained optimization problems in finite dimensions via subgradient graphical derivative. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-15 Nguyen Huy Chieu , Le Van Hien , Tran T. A. Nghia , Ha Anh Tuan

The Kurdyka-{\L}ojasiewicz (K{\L}) property, exponent and modulus have played a very important role in the study of global convergence and rate of convergence for optimal algorithms. In this paper, at a stationary point of a locally lower…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Minghua Li , Kaiwen Meng , Xiaoqi Yang

We give a sufficient condition, in the spirit of Kowalczyk-Martel-Munoz-Van Den Bosch \cite{KMMvdB21AnnPDE}, for the local asymptotic stability of kinks under odd perturbations. In particular, we allow the existence of quite general…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-03-28 Scipio Cuccagna , Masaya Maeda