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We develop new solvability methods for divergence form second order, real and complex, elliptic systems above Lipschitz graphs, with $L_2$ boundary data. The coefficients $A$ may depend on all variables, but are assumed to be close to…

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Popular machine learning estimators involve regularization parameters that can be challenging to tune, and standard strategies rely on grid search for this task. In this paper, we revisit the techniques of approximating the regularization…

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We extend our previous work on a semi-Lagrangian adaptive rank (SLAR) integrator, in the finite difference framework for nonlinear Vlasov-Poisson systems, to the general high-order tensor setting. The proposed scheme retains the high-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-30 Nanyi Zheng , William A. Sands , Daniel Hayes , Andrew J. Christlieb , Jing-Mei Qiu

In this paper, we propose new linearly convergent second-order methods for minimizing convex quartic polynomials. This framework is applied for designing optimization schemes, which can solve general convex problems satisfying a new…

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In this paper, we propose a first second-order scheme based on arbitrary non-Euclidean norms, incorporated by Bregman distances. They are introduced directly in the Newton iterate with regularization parameter proportional to the square…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-07 Nikita Doikov , Yurii Nesterov

In this paper, we study nonconvex constrained optimization problems with both equality and inequality constraints, covering deterministic and stochastic settings. We propose a novel first-order algorithm framework that employs a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-10 Qiankun Shi , Xiao Wang

Motivated, in particular, by the entropy-regularized optimal transport problem, we consider convex optimization problems with linear equality constraints, where the dual objective has Lipschitz $p$-th order derivatives, and develop two…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-11 Pavel Dvurechensky , Petr Ostroukhov , Alexander Gasnikov , César A. Uribe , Anastasiya Ivanova

Tensor completion is a natural higher-order generalization of matrix completion where the goal is to recover a low-rank tensor from sparse observations of its entries. Existing algorithms are either heuristic without provable guarantees,…

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We consider linear inverse problems under white noise. These types of problems can be tackled with, e.g., iterative regularisation methods and the main challenge is to determine a suitable stopping index for the iteration. Convergence…

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In this work, we propose a high-order multiscale method for an elliptic model problem with rough and possibly highly oscillatory coefficients. Convergence rates of higher order are obtained using the regularity of the right-hand side only.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-18 Zhaonan Dong , Moritz Hauck , Roland Maier

We study the interrelation between the limit $L_p(\Omega)$-Sobolev regularity $\overline{s}_p$ of (classes of) functions on bounded Lipschitz domains $\Omega\subseteq\mathbb{R}^d$, $d\geq 2$, and the limit regularity $\overline{\alpha}_p$…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-11 Petru A. Cioica-Licht , Markus Weimar

Solutions to many important partial differential equations satisfy bounds constraints, but approximations computed by finite element or finite difference methods typically fail to respect the same conditions. Chang and Nakshatrala enforce…

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In this paper we propose three $p$-th order tensor methods for $\mu$-strongly-convex-strongly-concave saddle point problems (SPP). The first method is based on the assumption of $p$-th order smoothness of the objective and it achieves a…

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First-order methods for minimization and saddle point (min-max) problems are widely used for solving large-scale problems, in particular arising in machine learning. The majority of works obtain favorable complexity guarantees of such…

Second-order optimization methods are among the most widely used optimization approaches for convex optimization problems, and have recently been used to optimize non-convex optimization problems such as deep learning models. The widely…

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We provide a statistical analysis of regularization-based continual learning on a sequence of linear regression tasks, with emphasis on how different regularization terms affect the model performance. We first derive the convergence rate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Xuyang Zhao , Huiyuan Wang , Weiran Huang , Wei Lin

In this paper, we propose new accelerated methods for smooth convex optimization, called contracting proximal methods. At every step of these methods, we need to minimize a contracted version of the objective function augmented by a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-21 Nikita Doikov , Yurii Nesterov

In this paper, we present a new adaptive rank approximation technique for computing solutions to the high-dimensional linear kinetic transport equation. The approach we propose is based on a macro-micro decomposition of the kinetic model in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-09 William A. Sands , Wei Guo , Jing-Mei Qiu , Tao Xiong

This paper investigates numerical solution methods for the Schatten-$p$ quasi-norm regularized problem with $p \in [0,1]$, which has been widely studied for finding low-rank solutions of linear inverse problems and gained successful…

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