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Our work considers the optimization of the sum of a non-smooth convex function and a finite family of composite convex functions, each one of which is composed of a convex function and a bounded linear operator. This type of problem is…

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Forward-backward methods are a very useful tool for the minimization of a functional given by the sum of a differentiable term and a nondifferentiable one and their investigation has experienced several efforts from many researchers in the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-10 Silvia Bonettini , Federica Porta , Valeria Ruggiero

In this work, we concern with the high order numerical methods for coupled forward-backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs). Based on the FBSDEs theory, we derive two reference ordinary differential equations (ODEs) from the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-03-27 Weidong Zhao , Yu Fu , Tao Zhou

These notes focus on the minimization of convex functionals using first-order optimization methods, which are fundamental in many areas of applied mathematics and engineering. The primary goal of this document is to introduce and analyze…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-28 Charles Dossal , Samuel Hurault , Nicolas Papadakis

We present novel model reduction methods for rapid solution of parametrized nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs) in real-time or many-query contexts. Our approach combines reduced basis (RB) space for rapidly convergent…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-04 Ngoc Cuong Nguyen

We present two approximate versions of the proximal subgradient method for minimizing the sum of two convex functions (not necessarily differentiable). The algorithms involve, at each iteration, inexact evaluations of the proximal operator…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-12 Reinier Díaz Millán , Majela Pentón Machado

In this work, we consider a connected network of finitely many agents working cooperatively to solve a min-max problem with convex-concave structure. We propose a decentralised first-order algorithm which can be viewed as a non-trivial…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Yura Malitsky , Matthew K. Tam

We consider high-order splitting schemes for large-scale differential Riccati equations. Such equations arise in many different areas and are especially important within the field of optimal control. In the large-scale case, it is critical…

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This paper investigates iterative methods for solving bi-level optimization problems where both inner and outer functions have a composite structure. We establish novel theoretical results, including the first analysis that provides…

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We introduce a class of first-order methods for smooth constrained optimization that are based on an analogy to non-smooth dynamical systems. Two distinctive features of our approach are that (i) projections or optimizations over the entire…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-15 Michael Muehlebach , Michael I. Jordan

Bilevel Optimization has experienced significant advancements recently with the introduction of new efficient algorithms. Mirroring the success in single-level optimization, stochastic gradient-based algorithms are widely used in bilevel…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-12 Junyi Li , Heng Huang

Applications in quantitative finance such as optimal trade execution, risk management of options, and optimal asset allocation involve the solution of high dimensional and nonlinear Partial Differential Equations (PDEs). The connection…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-28 Batuhan Güler , Alexis Laignelet , Panos Parpas

Convex optimization problems arising in applications often have favorable objective functions and complicated constraints, thereby precluding first-order methods from being immediately applicable. We describe an approach that exchanges the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-02-05 Aleksandr Y. Aravkin , James V. Burke , Dmitriy Drusvyatskiy , Michael P. Friedlander , Scott Roy

We design and analyze a posteriori error estimators for the Stokes system with singular sources in suitable $\mathbf{W}^{1,p}\times \mathrm{L}^p$ spaces. We consider classical low-order inf-sup stable and stabilized finite element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-19 Francisco Fuica , Felipe Lepe , Enrique Otarola , Daniel Quero

This paper studies a class of double-loop (inner-outer) algorithms for convex composite optimization. For unconstrained problems, we develop a restarted accelerated composite gradient method that attains the optimal first-order complexity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-23 Matthew X. Burns , Jiaming Liang

Proximal operators with affine constraints arise in numerous models in nonconvex projection, composite optimization, and structured regularization. However, their efficient computation remains challenging due to the simultaneous presence of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-02 Di Hou , Tianyun Tang , Kim-Chuan Toh , Shiwei Wang

We consider first-order linear systems of ordinary differential equations with periodic coefficients. Supposing that right-hand sides of equations are not known and subjected to some quadratic restrictions, we obtain optimal, in certain…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2018-10-18 Alexander Nakonechny , Yuri Podlipenko

Higher order numerical schemes for stochastic partial differential equations that do not possess commutative noise require the simulation of iterated stochastic integrals. In this work, we extend the algorithms derived by Kloeden, Platen,…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-09-21 Claudine Leonhard , Andreas Rößler

This work presents a convex-optimization-based framework for analysis and control of nonlinear partial differential equations. The approach uses a particular weak embedding of the nonlinear PDE, resulting in a linear equation in the space…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-23 Milan Korda , Didier Henrion , Jean-Bernard Lasserre