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We propose a unified iterative framework for the solution of frictionless mechanical contact problems, which relies exclusively on the solution of standard stiffness systems. The framework is built upon a two-step fixed-point algorithm:…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-13 Daria Koliesnikova , Isabelle Ramière

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) have recently become a popular method for solving forward and inverse problems governed by partial differential equations (PDEs). By incorporating the residual of the PDE into the loss function of a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-07 Saviz Mowlavi , Saleh Nabi

In this paper, we study the statistical limits of deep learning techniques for solving elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs) from random samples using the Deep Ritz Method (DRM) and Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs). To…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-16 Yiping Lu , Haoxuan Chen , Jianfeng Lu , Lexing Ying , Jose Blanchet

In this paper, we propose a low rank approximation method for efficiently solving stochastic partial differential equations. Specifically, our method utilizes a novel low rank approximation of the stiffness matrices, which can significantly…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-20 Yujun Zhu , Ju Ming , Jie Zhu , Zhongming Wang

Solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) using neural networks presents different challenges, including integration errors and spectral bias, often leading to poor approximations. In addition, standard neural network-based methods,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Pablo Herrera , Jamie M. Taylor , Carlos Uriarte , Ignacio Muga , David Pardo , Kristoffer G. van der Zee

We consider a linear iterative solver for large scale linearly constrained quadratic minimization problems that arise, for example, in optimization with PDEs. By a primal-dual projection (PDP) iteration, which can be interpreted and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-07 Anton Schiela , Matthias Stöcklein , Martin Weiser

Fast and accurate solution of time-dependent partial differential equations (PDEs) is of key interest in many research fields including physics, engineering, and biology. Generally, implicit schemes are preferred over the explicit ones for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-28 Suprosanna Shit , Abinav Ravi Venkatakrishnan , Ivan Ezhov , Jana Lipkova , Marie Piraud , Bjoern Menze

This paper introduces a new approximation scheme for solving high-dimensional semilinear partial differential equations (PDEs) and backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs). First, we decompose a target semilinear PDE (BSDE) into…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-09 Akihiko Takahashi , Yoshifumi Tsuchida , Toshihiro Yamada

We consider both discrete and continuous control problems constrained by a fixed budget of some resource, which may be renewed upon entering a preferred subset of the state space. In the discrete case, we consider both deterministic and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-09-30 Ryo Takei , Weiyan Chen , Zachary Clawson , Slav Kirov , Alexander Vladimirsky

This paper introduces a generalization of the well-known Riccati recursion for solving the discrete-time equality-constrained linear quadratic optimal control problem. The recursion can be used to compute the solutions as well as optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-31 Lander Vanroye , Joris De Schutter , Wilm Decré

PDE-constrained optimal control problems require regularisation to ensure well-posedness, introducing small perturbations that make the solutions challenging to approximate accurately. We propose a finite element approach that couples both…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-17 Jenny Power , Tristan Pryer

In this paper, we present and analyze an interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin method for the distributed elliptic optimal control problems. It is based on a reconstructed discontinuous approximation which admits arbitrarily high-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-05 Ruo Li , Haoyang Liu , Jun Yin

We propose a finite-dimensional control-based method to approximate solution operators for evolutional partial differential equations (PDEs), particularly in high-dimensions. By employing a general reduced-order model, such as a deep neural…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-22 Nathan Gaby , Xiaojing Ye

In this paper, a quadratic optimal control problem is considered for second-order parabolic PDEs with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions, in which the "point" control function (depending only on time) constitutes a source term. These…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-04 Gilberto O. Corrêa , Marlon M. López-Flores , Alexandre L. Madureira

We discretize a risk-neutral optimal control problem governed by a linear elliptic partial differential equation with random inputs using a Monte Carlo sample-based approximation and a finite element discretization, yielding finite…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-10 Johannes Milz

We adopt the integral definition of the fractional Laplace operator and analyze an optimal control problem for a fractional semilinear elliptic partial differential equation (PDE); control constraints are also considered. We establish the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-07 Enrique Otarola

In this work, we introduce a novel strategy for tackling constrained optimization problems through a modified penalty method. Conventional penalty methods convert constrained problems into unconstrained ones by incorporating constraints…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-05 Shilin Ma , Yukun Yue

We present a deep recurrent neural network architecture to solve a class of stochastic optimal control problems described by fully nonlinear Hamilton Jacobi Bellmanpartial differential equations. Such PDEs arise when one considers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Marcus A Pereira , Ziyi Wang , Tianrong Chen , Emily Reed , Evangelos A Theodorou

We study deterministic optimal control problems for differential games with finite horizon. We propose new approximations of the strategies in feedback form, and show error estimates and a convergence result of the value in some weak sense…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Olivier Bokanowski , Xavier Warin

Although there is a substantial body of literature on control and optimization problems for parabolic and hyperbolic systems, the specific problem of controlling and optimizing the coefficients of the associated operators within such…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Alain Bensoussan , Minh-Binh Tran , Bangjie Wang