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This paper discusses level set-based structural optimization. Level set-based structural optimization is a method used to determine an optimal configuration for minimizing an objective functional by updating level set functions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-03-29 Tomoyuki Oka , Ryota Misawa , Takayuki Yamada

When solving inverse problems, one increasingly popular approach is to use pre-trained diffusion models as plug-and-play priors. This framework can accommodate different forward models without re-training while preserving the generative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Hongkai Zheng , Wenda Chu , Austin Wang , Nikola Kovachki , Ricardo Baptista , Yisong Yue

In this work, we present a new derivative-free optimization method and investigate its use for training neural networks. Our method is motivated by the Ensemble Kalman Filter (EnKF), which has been used successfully for solving optimization…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-01 Eldad Haber , Felix Lucka , Lars Ruthotto

This work proposes ensemble Kalman randomized maximum likelihood estimation, a new derivative-free method for performing randomized maximum likelihood estimation, which is a method that can be used to generate approximate samples from…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Pavlos Stavrinides , Elizabeth Qian

In this paper, we study efficient approximate sampling for probability distributions known up to normalization constants. We specifically focus on a problem class arising in Bayesian inference for large-scale inverse problems in science and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Yifan Chen , Daniel Zhengyu Huang , Jiaoyang Huang , Sebastian Reich , Andrew M. Stuart

We show that Nesterov acceleration is an optimal-order iterative regularization method for linear ill-posed problems provided that a parameter is chosen accordingly to the smoothness of the solution. This result is proven both for an a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-07 Stefan Kindermann

This paper deals with a new accelerated path integral method, which iteratively searches optimal controls with a small number of iterations. This study is based on the recent observations that a path integral method for reinforcement…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Masashi Okada , Tadahiro Taniguchi

We study the use of novel techniques arising in machine learning for inverse problems. Our approach replaces the complex forward model by a neural network, which is trained simultaneously in a one-shot sense when estimating the unknown…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-15 Philipp A. Guth , Claudia Schillings , Simon Weissmann

Recent studies incorporate Nesterov's accelerated gradient method for the acceleration of gradient based training. The Nesterov's Accelerated Quasi-Newton (NAQ) method has shown to drastically improve the convergence speed compared to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-16 S. Indrapriyadarsini , Shahrzad Mahboubi , Hiroshi Ninomiya , Hideki Asai

In this study, an efficient stochastic gradient-free method, the ensemble neural networks (ENN), is developed. In the ENN, the optimization process relies on covariance matrices rather than derivatives. The covariance matrices are…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-11-11 Yuntian Chen , Haibin Chang , Meng Jin , Dongxiao Zhang

The {\it forward-backward algorithm} is a powerful tool for solving optimization problems with a {\it additively separable} and {\it smooth} + {\it nonsmooth} structure. In the convex setting, a simple but ingenious acceleration scheme…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-18 Hedy Attouch , Juan Peypouquet

We introduce a derivative-free computational framework for approximating solutions to nonlinear PDE-constrained inverse problems. The aim is to merge ideas from iterative regularization with ensemble Kalman methods from Bayesian inference…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Marco A. Iglesias

In recent years, uncertainty-aware full waveform inversion (FWI) has received increasing attention, with a growing emphasis on producing informative uncertainty estimates alongside inversion results. Bayesian inference methods--particularly…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-05-14 Yunduo Li , Yijie Zhang , Xueyu Zhu , Jinghuai Gao

Variance reduction is a crucial tool for improving the slow convergence of stochastic gradient descent. Only a few variance-reduced methods, however, have yet been shown to directly benefit from Nesterov's acceleration techniques to match…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-30 Derek Driggs , Matthias J. Ehrhardt , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

In this paper, we consider Nesterov's Accelerated Gradient method for solving Nonlinear Inverse and Ill-Posed Problems. Known to be a fast gradient-based iterative method for solving well-posed convex optimization problems, this method also…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-13 Simon Hubmer , Ronny Ramlau

The Bayesian approach to inverse problems is widely used in practice to infer unknown parameters from noisy observations. In this framework, the ensemble Kalman inversion has been successfully applied for the quantification of uncertainties…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-15 Neil K. Chada , Claudia Schillings , Simon Weissmann

Ensemble methods have become ubiquitous for the solution of Bayesian inference problems. State-of-the-art Langevin samplers such as the Ensemble Kalman Sampler (EKS), Affine Invariant Langevin Dynamics (ALDI) or its extension using weighted…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-23 Martin Eigel , Robert Gruhlke , David Sommer

In this paper we show how to accelerate randomized coordinate descent methods and achieve faster convergence rates without paying per-iteration costs in asymptotic running time. In particular, we show how to generalize and efficiently…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-05-09 Yin Tat Lee , Aaron Sidford

Incorporating second order curvature information in gradient based methods have shown to improve convergence drastically despite its computational intensity. In this paper, we propose a stochastic (online) quasi-Newton method with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-16 S. Indrapriyadarsini , Shahrzad Mahboubi , Hiroshi Ninomiya , Hideki Asai

In this work we propose a differential geometric motivation for Nesterov's accelerated gradient method (AGM) for strongly-convex problems. By considering the optimization procedure as occurring on a Riemannian manifold with a natural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Aaron Defazio