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This study introduces two second-order methods designed to provably avoid saddle points in composite nonconvex optimization problems: (i) a nonsmooth trust-region method and (ii) a curvilinear linesearch method. These developments are…
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This paper introduces a preconditioned method designed to comprehensively address the saddle point system with the aim of improving convergence efficiency. In the preprocessor construction phase, a technical approach for solving the…
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We shall propose and analyze some new preconditioners for the saddle-point systems arising from the edge element discretization of the time-harmonic Maxwell equations in three dimensions. We will first consider the saddle-point systems with…
We develop eigenvalue bounds for symmetric, block tridiagonal multiple saddle-point linear systems, preconditioned with block diagonal matrices. We extend known results for $3 \times 3$ block systems [Bradley and Greif, IMA J.\ Numer. Anal.…
In this paper, we extend the inexact Uzawa algorithm in [Q. Hu, J. Zou, SIAM J. Matrix Anal., 23(2001), pp. 317-338] to the nonsymmetric generalized saddle point problem. The techniques used here are similar to those in [Bramble \emph{et…
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Most finite element methods for solving time-harmonic wave-propagation problems lead to a linear system with a non-normal coefficient matrix. The non-normality is due to boundary conditions and losses. One way to solve these systems is to…
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