English
Related papers

Related papers: Operator Splitting, Policy Iteration, and Machine …

200 papers

We establish a well-posedness and error-estimation framework that solves Hamilton-Jacobi equations by minimizing the least-squares residual of monotone finite-difference discretizations. This approach also applies naturally to second-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Olivier Bokanowski , Carlos Esteve-Yagüe , Richard Tsai

Splitting methods constitute a widely used class of numerical integrators for ordinary and partial differential equations, particularly well suited to problems that can be decomposed into simpler subproblems. High-order splitting schemes…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Fernando Casas , Ander Murua

We discuss systematic extensions of the standard (St{\"o}rmer-Verlet) splitting method for differential equations of Hamiltonian mechanics, with relative accuracy of order $\tau^2$ for a timestep of length $\tau$, to higher orders in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-10-09 Asif Mushtaq , Anne Kværnø , Kåre Olaussen

Second-order optimization methods offer superior convergence rates but are often bottlenecked by the wall-clock cost of Hessian computation and factorization. In the moderate-dimensional regime where the full Hessian fits in memory,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-18 El Mahdi Chayti , Martin Jaggi

This is the first in a series of papers in which we study an efficient approximation scheme for solving the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation for multi-dimensional problems in stochastic control theory. The method is a combination of a WKB…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2014-06-26 Sakda Chaiworawitkul , Patrick S. Hagan , Andrew Lesniewski

In this paper, we propose an iterative splitting method to solve the partial differential equations in option pricing problems. We focus on the Heston stochastic volatility model and the derived two-dimensional partial differential equation…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Hongshan Li , Zhongyi Huang

In this paper we study the convergence of a Lie-Trotter operator splitting for stochastic semi-linear evolution equations in a Hilbert space. The abstract Hilbert space setting allows for the consideration of convergence of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Joshua L Padgett , Qin Sheng

Policy iteration is a widely used technique to solve the Hamilton Jacobi Bellman (HJB) equation, which arises from nonlinear optimal feedback control theory. Its convergence analysis has attracted much attention in the unconstrained case.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-19 Sudeep Kundu , Karl Kunisch

Splitting is a method to handle application problems by splitting physics, scales, domain, and so on. Many splitting algorithms have been designed for efficient temporal discretization. In this paper, our goal is to use temporal splitting…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-17 Yalchin Efendiev , Wing Tat Leung , Guang Lin , Zecheng Zhang

In this paper, we combine the operator splitting methodology for abstract evolution equations with that of stochastic methods for large-scale optimization problems. The combination results in a randomized splitting scheme, which in a given…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-12 Monika Eisenmann , Tony Stillfjord

The main goal of this paper is to establish existence, regularity and uniqueness results for the solution of a Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation, whose operator is an elliptic integro-differential operator. The HJB equation studied in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-12-01 Harold A. Moreno-Franco

We study the efficiency of algorithms simulating a system evolving with Hamiltonian $H=\sum_{j=1}^m H_j$. We consider high order splitting methods that play a key role in quantum Hamiltonian simulation. We obtain upper bounds on the number…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-10-12 Anargyros Papageorgiou , Chi Zhang

In this paper, we propose an algorithm combining the forward-backward splitting method and the alternative projection method for solving the system of splitting inclusion problem. We want to find a point in the interception of a finite…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-04-08 R. Díaz Millán

Semi-Lagrangian schemes with various splitting methods, and with different reconstruction/interpolation strategies have been applied to kinetic simulations. For example, the order of spatial accuracy of the algorithms proposed in {[Qiu and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-17 Andrew Christlieb , Wei Guo , Maureen Morton , Jing-Mei Qiu

The Allen-Cahn equation is solved numerically by operator splitting Fourier spectral methods. The basic idea of the operator splitting method is to decompose the original problem into sub-equations and compose the approximate solution of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-02-10 Jaemin Shin , Hyun Geun Lee , June-Yub Lee

This paper investigates a Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) analysis to solve finite-horizon optimal control problems for high-dimensional systems. Although grid-based methods, such as the level-set method [1], numerically solve a general class of HJ…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-28 Donggun Lee , Claire J. Tomlin

The splitting method is a powerful method for solving partial differential equations. Various splitting methods have been designed to separate different physics, nonlinearities, and so on. Recently, a new splitting approach has been…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-22 Yalchin Efendiev , Wing Tat Leung , Wenyuan Li , Zecheng Zhang

In approximating solutions of nonstationary problems, various approaches are used to compute the solution at a new time level from a number of simpler (sub-)problems. Among these approaches are splitting methods. Standard splitting schemes…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-20 Yalchin Efendiev , Petr N. Vabishchevich

In this paper, we develop high-order splitting methods for linear port-Hamiltonian systems, focusing on preserving their intrinsic structure, particularly the dissipation inequality. Port-Hamiltonian systems are characterized by their…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-09-16 Marius Mönch , Nicole Marheineke

We show how the standard (St{\"o}rmer-Verlet) splitting method for differential equations of Hamiltonian mechanics (with accuracy of order $\tau^2$ for a timestep of length $\tau$) can be improved in a systematic manner without using the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-05-15 Asif Mushtaq , Anne Kværnø , Kåre Olaussen