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Discrete gradient methods are a class of numerical integrators producing solutions with exact preservation of first integrals of ordinary differential equations. In this paper, we apply order theory combined with the symmetrized Itoh--Abe…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Håkon Noren Myhr , Sølve Eidnes

In this paper, we propose and analyze a fast two-point gradient algorithm for solving nonlinear ill-posed problems, which is based on the sequential subspace optimization method. A complete convergence analysis is provided under the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-06 Guangyu Gao , Bo Han , Shanshan Tong

Due to simplicity, computational cheapness, and efficiency, the Barzilai and Borwein (BB) gradient method has received a significant amount of attention in different fields of optimization. In the first part of this paper, based on spectral…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-29 Behzad Azmi , Karl Kunisch

Traditional nonparametric estimation methods often lead to a slow convergence rate in large dimensions and require unrealistically enormous sizes of datasets for reliable conclusions. We develop an approach based on partial derivatives,…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-08-20 Xiaowu Dai

We provide lower error bounds for randomized algorithms that approximate integrals of functions depending on an unrestricted or even infinite number of variables. More precisely, we consider the infinite-dimensional integration problem on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-09 Michael Gnewuch

Various tasks in scientific computing can be modeled as an optimization problem on the indefinite Stiefel manifold. We address this using the Riemannian approach, which basically consists of equipping the feasible set with a Riemannian…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-17 Dinh Van Tiep , Duong Thi Viet An , Nguyen Thi Ngoc Oanh , Nguyen Thanh Son

In this paper (part 1), we describe a derivative-free trust-region method for solving unconstrained optimization problems. We will discuss a method when we relax the model order assumption and use artificial neural network techniques to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-26 Mostafa Rezapour , Thomas Asaki

We propose new sequential simulation-optimization algorithms for general convex optimization via simulation problems with high-dimensional discrete decision space. The performance of each choice of discrete decision variables is evaluated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-15 Haixiang Zhang , Zeyu Zheng , Javad Lavaei

The paper has two major themes. The first part of the paper establishes certain general results for infinite-dimensional optimization problems on Hilbert spaces. These results cover the classical representer theorem and many of its variants…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-06-01 Arnab Ganguly , Riten Mitra , Jinpu Zhou

We propose the first unsupervised and learning-based method to identify interpretable directions in h-space of pre-trained diffusion models. Our method is derived from an existing technique that operates on the GAN latent space.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Zijian Zhang , Luping Liu , Zhijie Lin , Yichen Zhu , Zhou Zhao

This paper presents an algorithmic framework for solving unconstrained stochastic optimization problems using only stochastic function evaluations. We employ central finite-difference based gradient estimation methods to approximate the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-14 Raghu Bollapragada , Cem Karamanli

In this paper, we consider nonparametric estimation over general Dirichlet metric measure spaces. Unlike the more commonly studied reproducing kernel Hilbert space, whose elements may be defined pointwise, a Dirichlet space typically only…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-27 Prem Talwai , David Simchi-Levi

Robot design optimization, imitation learning and system identification share a common problem which requires optimization over robot or task parameters at the same time as optimizing the robot motion. To solve these problems, we can use…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Traiko Dinev , Carlos Mastalli , Vladimir Ivan , Steve Tonneau , Sethu Vijayakumar

In this work, we present a novel approach for solving stochastic shape optimization problems. Our method is the extension of the classical stochastic gradient method to infinite-dimensional shape manifolds. We prove convergence of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-03 Caroline Geiersbach , Estefania Loayza-Romero , Kathrin Welker

In this paper we propose a variant of the random coordinate descent method for solving linearly constrained convex optimization problems with composite objective functions. If the smooth part of the objective function has Lipschitz…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-02-14 Ion Necoara , Andrei Patrascu

This paper introduces generalized Bregman projection algorithms for solving nonlinear split feasibility problems (SF P s) in infinitedimensional Hilbert spaces. The methods integrate Bregman projections, proximal gradient steps, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Saeed Hashemi Sababe , Ehsan Lotfali Ghasab

Solving inverse and optimization problems over solutions of nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs) on complex spatial domains is a long-standing challenge. Here we introduce a method that parameterizes the solution using spectral…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-30 James V. Roggeveen , Michael P. Brenner

Motivated by the problem of tuning hyperparameters in machine learning, we present a new approach for gradually and adaptively optimizing an unknown function using estimated gradients. We validate the empirical performance of the proposed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Weijia Shao , Christian Geißler , Fikret Sivrikaya

Gradient-based methods are widely used to solve various optimization problems, however, they are either constrained by local optima dilemmas, simple convex constraints, and continuous differentiability requirements, or limited to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Ming Li

Multivariate functions encountered in high-dimensional uncertainty quantification problems often vary most strongly along a few dominant directions in the input parameter space. We propose a gradient-based method for detecting these…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-11 Olivier Zahm , Paul Constantine , Clémentine Prieur , Youssef Marzouk