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The multiplicative Newton-like method developed by the author et al. is extended to the situation where the dynamics is restricted to the orthogonal group. A general framework is constructed without specifying the cost function. Though the…

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In this article, a fast algorithm based on time two-mesh (TT-M) finite element (FE) scheme, which aims at solving nonlinear problems quickly, is considered to numerically solve the nonlinear space fractional Allen-Cahn equations with smooth…

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Product formula methods, particularly the second-order Suzuki decomposition, are an important tool for simulating quantum dynamics on quantum computers due to their simplicity and unitarity preservation. While higher-order schemes have been…

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The aim of this work is to design implicit and semi-implicit high-order well-balanced finite-volume numerical methods for 1D systems of balance laws. The strategy introduced by two of the authors in a previous paper for explicit schemes…

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Here we present a new approach to search for first order invariants (first integrals) of rational second order ordinary differential equations. This method is an alternative to the Darbouxian and symmetry approaches. Our procedure can…

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We propose a new second-order accurate lattice Boltzmann formulation for linear elastodynamics that is stable for arbitrary combinations of material parameters under a CFL-like condition. The construction of the numerical scheme uses an…

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Min-max optimization problems, also known as saddle point problems, have attracted significant attention due to their applications in various fields, such as fair beamforming, generative adversarial networks (GANs), and adversarial…

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Two-point zeroth order methods are important in many applications of zeroth-order optimization, such as robotics, wind farms, power systems, online optimization, and adversarial robustness to black-box attacks in deep neural networks, where…

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We consider rank-one non-symmetric tensor estimation and derive simple formulas for the mutual information. We start by the order 2 problem, namely matrix factorization. We treat it completely in a simpler fashion than previous proofs using…

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Stochastic optimization methods encounter new challenges in the realm of streaming, characterized by a continuous flow of large, high-dimensional data. While first-order methods, like stochastic gradient descent, are the natural choice,…

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This paper studies the data-driven balanced truncation (BT) method for second-order systems based on the measurements in the frequency domain. The basic idea is to approximate Gramians used the numerical quadrature rules, and establish the…

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In this paper, a centred universal high-order finite volume method for solving hyperbolic balance laws is presented. The scheme belongs to the family of ADER methods where the Generalized Riemann Problems (GRP) is a building block. The…

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To address the magnetization dynamics in ferromagnetic materials described by the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation under large damping parameters, a third-order accurate numerical scheme is developed by building upon a second-order method…

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