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Despite the impressive numerical performance of the quasi-Newton and Anderson/nonlinear acceleration methods, their global convergence rates have remained elusive for over 50 years. This study addresses this long-standing issue by…
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We show that Newton methods for generalized equations are input-to-state stable with respect to disturbances such as due to inexact computations. We then use this result to obtain convergence and robustness of a multistep Newton-type method…
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