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Layer-wise preconditioning methods are a family of memory-efficient optimization algorithms that introduce preconditioners per axis of each layer's weight tensors. These methods have seen a recent resurgence, demonstrating impressive…

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Pre-conditioning is a well-known concept that can significantly improve the convergence of optimization algorithms. For noise-free problems, where good pre-conditioners are not known a priori, iterative linear algebra methods offer one way…

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To facilitate widespread adoption of automated engineering design techniques, existing methods must become more efficient and generalizable. In the field of topology optimization, this requires the coupling of modern optimization methods…

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This paper proposes a method for designing diagonal preconditioners for a preconditioned primal-dual splitting method (P-PDS), an efficient algorithm that solves nonsmooth convex optimization problems. To speed up the convergence of P-PDS,…

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The preconditioned iterative solution of large-scale saddle-point systems is of great importance in numerous application areas, many of them involving partial differential equations. Robustness with respect to certain problem parameters is…

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When considering an unconstrained minimization problem, a standard approach is to solve the optimality system with a Newton method possibly preconditioned by, e.g., nonlinear elimination. In this contribution, we argue that nonlinear…

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We propose and analyze an overlapping Schwarz preconditioner for the $p$ and $hp$ boundary element method for the hypersingular integral equation in 3D. We consider surface triangulations consisting of triangles. The condition number is…

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We consider the preconditioned conjugate gradient method (PCG) with optimal preconditioner in the frame of the boundary element method (BEM) for elliptic first-kind integral equations. Our adaptive algorithm steers the termination of PCG as…

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We introduce a new general purpose multiresolution preconditioner for symmetric linear systems. Most existing multiresolution preconditioners use some standard wavelet basis that relies on knowledge of the geometry of the underlying domain.…

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Topology optimization problems generally support multiple local minima, and real-world applications are typically three-dimensional. In previous work [I. P. A. Papadopoulos, P. E. Farrell, and T. M. Surowiec, Computing multiple solutions of…

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The Crank-Nicolson (CN) method is a well-known time integrator for evolutionary partial differential equations (PDEs) arising in many real-world applications. Since the solution at any time depends on the solution at previous time steps,…

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We deal with the numerical solution of linear elliptic problems with varying diffusion coefficient by the $hp$-discontinuous Galerkin method. We develop a two-level hybrid Schwarz preconditioner for the arising linear algebraic systems. The…

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We propose a new approach to solving bilevel optimization problems, intermediate between solving full-system optimality conditions with a Newton-type approach, and treating the inner problem as an implicit function. The overall idea is to…

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