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We propose a discontinuous least squares finite element method for solving the linear elasticity. The approximation space is obtained by patch reconstruction with only one unknown per element. We apply the L 2 norm least squares principle…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-05 Ruo Li , Fanyi Yang

In this paper, we propose a structure-guided Gauss-Newton (SgGN) method for solving least squares problems using a shallow ReLU neural network. The method effectively takes advantage of both the least squares structure and the neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Zhiqiang Cai , Tong Ding , Min Liu , Xinyu Liu , Jianlin Xia

We investigate theoretically and numerically the use of the Least-Squares Finite-element method (LSFEM) to approach data-assimilation problems for the steady-state, incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. Our LSFEM discretization is based…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-04-20 Alexander Schwarz , Richard Dwight

We introduce and rigorously analyze a least-squares weak Galerkin (LS-WG) finite element method for the severely ill-posed Cauchy problem of convection--diffusion equations. The proposed framework utilizes weak derivatives defined on a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Chunmei Wang , Shangyou Zhang

In computational practice, most attention is paid to rational approximations of functions and approximations by the sum of exponents. We consider a wide enough class of nonlinear approximations characterized by a set of two required…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-18 Petr N. Vabishchevich

This paper studies the numerical analysis of a parameter identification problem governed by elliptic equations with power-type nonlinearity. We propose a numerical reconstruction via a suitable least-squares minimization problem based on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-10 De-Han Chen , Yi-Hsuan Lin , Irwin Yousept

We propose a new first-order-system least squares (FOSLS) finite-element discretization for singularly perturbed reaction-diffusion equations. Solutions to such problems feature layer phenomena, and are ubiquitous in many areas of applied…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-19 James H. Adler , Scott MacLachlan , Niall Madden

We study the problem of parameter estimation for reflected stochastic processes driven by a standard Brownian motion. The estimator is obtained using nonlinear least squares method based on discretely observed processes. Under some certain…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-05-03 Han Yuecai , Zhang Dingwen

This paper interprets the stabilized finite element method via residual minimization as a variational multiscale method. We approximate the solution to the partial differential equations using two discrete spaces that we build on a…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Juan F. Giraldo , Victor M. Calo

We consider the numerical solution of an abstract operator equation $Bu=f$ by using a least-squares approach. We assume that $B: X \to Y^*$ is an isomorphism, and that $A : Y \to Y^*$ implies a norm in $Y$, where $X$ and $Y$ are Hilbert…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-26 Christian Köthe , Richard Löscher , Olaf Steinbach

This is a brief tutorial on the least square estimation technique that is straightforward yet effective for parameter estimation. The tutorial is focused on the linear LSEs instead of nonlinear versions, since most nonlinear LSEs can be…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-29 Qingrui Zhang

Many problems in robotics, such as estimating the state from noisy sensor data or aligning two point clouds, can be posed and solved as least-squares problems. Unfortunately, vanilla nonminimal solvers for least-squares problems are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Kyungmin Jung , Thomas Hitchcox , James Richard Forbes

In this paper, we study the performance of the non-conforming least-squares spectral element method for Stokes problem. Generalized Stokes problem has been considered and the method is shown to be exponential accurate. The numerical method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-12 N. Kishore Kumar , Shubhashree Mohapatra

We present DFO-GN, a derivative-free version of the Gauss-Newton method for solving nonlinear least-squares problems. As is common in derivative-free optimization, DFO-GN uses interpolation of function values to build a model of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-31 Coralia Cartis , Lindon Roberts

In this paper we propose a new method to stabilise non-symmetric indefinite problems. The idea is to solve a forward and an adjoint problem simultaneously using a suitable stabilised finite element method. Both stabilisation of the element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-08-05 Erik Burman

We present a space-time least squares finite element method for the heat equation. It is based on residual minimization in L2 norms in space-time of an equivalent first order system. This implies that (i) the resulting bilinear form is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-06 Thomas Führer , Michael Karkulik

We describe stochastic Newton and stochastic quasi-Newton approaches to efficiently solve large linear least-squares problems where the very large data sets present a significant computational burden (e.g., the size may exceed computer…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-27 Julianne Chung , Matthias Chung , J. Tanner Slagel , Luis Tenorio

In this paper, the proximal Gauss-Newton method for solving penalized nonlinear least squares problems is studied. A local convergence analysis is obtained under the assumption that the derivative of the function associated with the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-04-25 G. Bouza Allende , M. L. N. Goncalves

The convergence analysis for least-squares finite element methods led to various adaptive mesh-refinement strategies: Collective marking algorithms driven by the built-in a posteriori error estimator or an alternative explicit…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-18 Philipp Bringmann

We consider the mathematical analysis and numerical approximation of a system of nonlinear partial differential equations that arises in models that have relevance to steady isochoric flows of colloidal suspensions. The symmetric velocity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-09 Andrea Bonito , Vivette Girault , Diane Guignard , Kumbakonam R. Rajagopal , Endre Süli