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This document, as the title stated, is meant to provide a vectorized implementation of adjoint dynamics calculation for Graph Convolutional Neural Ordinary Differential Equations (GCDE). The adjoint sensitivity method is the gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Jack Cai

Adjoint systems are widely used to inform control, optimization, and design in systems described by ordinary differential equations or differential-algebraic equations. In this paper, we explore the geometric properties and develop methods…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-20 Brian Tran , Melvin Leok

In this paper, we present a conditional gradient type (CGT) method for solving a class of composite optimization problems where the objective function consists of a (weakly) smooth term and a (strongly) convex regularization term. While…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-03 Saeed Ghadimi

Adjoint variable method in combination with gradient descent optimization has been widely used for the inverse design of nanophotonic devices. In many of such optimizations, the design region is only a small fraction of the total…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-07-24 Nathan Zhao , Salim Boutami , Shanhui Fan

The generalized alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) of Xiao et al. [{\tt Math. Prog. Comput., 2018}] aims at the two-block linearly constrained composite convex programming problem, in which each block is in the form of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-05 Hongwu Li , Haibin Zhang , Yunhai Xiao

Adjoint methods enable the accurate calculation of the sensitivities of a quantity of interest. The sensitivity is obtained by solving the adjoint system, which can be derived by continuous or discrete adjoint strategies. In acoustic wave…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-03-28 Luca Magri

We present a manifestly covariant formulation of the gradient descent method, ensuring consistency across arbitrary coordinate systems and general curved trainable spaces. The optimization dynamics is defined using a covariant force vector…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Dmitry Guskov , Vitaly Vanchurin

A fundamental task in numerical computation is the solution of large linear systems. The conjugate gradient method is an iterative method which offers rapid convergence to the solution, particularly when an effective preconditioner is…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-12-18 Jon Cockayne , Chris Oates , Ilse Ipsen , Mark Girolami

We devise the fast adjoint response algorithm for the gradient of physical measures (long-time-average statistics) of discrete-time hyperbolic chaos with respect to many system parameters. Its cost is independent of the number of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-09-13 Angxiu Ni

Solving structured systems of linear equations in a non-centralized fashion is an important step in many distributed optimization and control algorithms. Fast convergence is required in manifold applications. Known decentralized algorithms,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-03 Alexander Engelmann , Timm Faulwasser

The recently introduced Gradient Methods with Memory use a subset of the past oracle information to create an accurate model of the objective function that enables them to surpass the Gradient Method in practical performance. The model…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-30 Mihai I. Florea

Recent studies have shown that fractional calculus is an effective alternative mathematical tool in various scientific fields. However, some investigations indicate that results established in differential and integral calculus do not…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-09 Higor V. M. Ferreira , Camila A. Tavares , Nelson H. T. Lemes , José P. C. dos Santos

We present a new feasible proximal gradient method for constrained optimization where both the objective and constraint functions are given by the summation of a smooth, possibly nonconvex function and a convex simple function. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-01 Digvijay Boob , Qi Deng , Guanghui Lan

An adjoint-based procedure to determine weaknesses, or, more generally the material properties of structures is developed and tested. Given a series of force and deformation/strain measurements, the material properties are obtained by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-28 Facundo N. Airaudo , Rainald Löhner , Roland Wüchner , Harbir Antil

We address composite optimization problems, which consist in minimizing the sum of a smooth and a merely lower semicontinuous function, without any convexity assumptions. Numerical solutions of these problems can be obtained by proximal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-14 Alberto De Marchi

We establish that nonconvex definable parametric optimization problems with possibly nonsmooth objectives, inequality constraints, conic constraint systems, and non-unique primal and dual solutions admit an adjoint state formula under a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-23 Jérôme Bolte , Edouard Pauwels , Cheik Traoré

Gradient sampling (GS) has proved to be an effective methodology for the minimization of objective functions that may be nonconvex and/or nonsmooth. The most computationally expensive component of a contemporary GS method is the need to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-10 Frank E. Curtis , Minhan Li

We consider solving nonconvex composite optimization problems in which the sum of a smooth function and a nonsmooth function is minimized. Many of convergence analyses of proximal gradient-type methods rely on global descent property…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-09 Shotaro Yagishita , Masaru Ito

This paper proposes an algorithmic framework for solving parametric optimization problems which we call adjoint-based predictor-corrector sequential convex programming. After presenting the algorithm, we prove a contraction estimate that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-09-14 Q. Tran Dinh , C. Savorgnan , M. Diehl

Dynamic optimization is currently limited by sensitivity computations that require information from full forward and adjoint wave fields. Since the forward and adjoint solutions are computed in opposing time directions, the forward solution…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Leon Herrmann , Tim Bürchner , László Kudela , Stefan Kollmannsberger