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A proof of convergence is given for semi- and full discretizations of mean curvature flow of closed two-dimensional surfaces. The numerical method proposed and studied here combines evolving finite elements, whose nodes determine the…

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We demonstrate that for strongly log-convex densities whose potentials are discontinuous on manifolds, the ULA algorithm converges with stepsize bias of order $1/2$ in Wasserstein-p distance. Our resulting bound is then of the same order as…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-12-05 Tim Johnston , Sotirios Sabanis

We introduce a novel dynamic learning-rate scheduling scheme grounded in theory with the goal of simplifying the manual and time-consuming tuning of schedules in practice. Our approach is based on estimating the locally-optimal stepsize,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Gilad Yehudai , Alon Cohen , Amit Daniely , Yoel Drori , Tomer Koren , Mariano Schain

There are much recent interests in solving noncovnex min-max optimization problems due to its broad applications in many areas including machine learning, networked resource allocations, and distributed optimization. Perhaps, the most…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-20 Thinh T. Doan

This paper proposes and analyzes a class of essentially non-oscillatory central discontinuous Galerkin (CDG) methods for general hyperbolic conservation laws. First, we introduce a novel compact, non-oscillatory stabilization mechanism that…

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Principal Component Analysis (PCA) finds the best linear representation of data, and is an indispensable tool in many learning and inference tasks. Classically, principal components of a dataset are interpreted as the directions that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-24 Raphael A. Hauser , Armin Eftekhari

The convex-concave splitting discretization of the Allen-Cahn is easy to implement and guaranteed to be energy decreasing even for large time-steps. We analyze the time-stepping scheme for a large class of potentials which includes the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-24 Patrick Dondl , Akwum Onwunta , Ludwig Striet , Stephan Wojtowytsch

Existing decentralized algorithms usually require knowledge of problem parameters for updating local iterates. For example, the hyperparameters (such as learning rate) usually require the knowledge of Lipschitz constant of the global…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-15 Jiaxiang Li , Xuxing Chen , Shiqian Ma , Mingyi Hong

Minimax problems have recently attracted a lot of research interests. A few efforts have been made to solve decentralized nonconvex strongly-concave (NCSC) minimax-structured optimization; however, all of them focus on smooth problems with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-06 Yangyang Xu

Delay-coordinates dynamic mode decomposition (DC-DMD) is widely used to extract coherent spatiotemporal modes from high-dimensional time series. A central challenge is distinguishing dynamically meaningful modes from spurious modes induced…

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This paper presents a decentralized algorithm for solving distributed convex optimization problems in dynamic networks with time-varying objectives. The unique feature of the algorithm lies in its ability to accommodate a wide range of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-12 Navneet Agrawal , Renato L. G. Cavalcante , Masahiro Yukawa , Slawomir Stanczak

Gradient descent-ascent (GDA) flows play a central role in finding saddle points of bivariate functionals, with applications in optimization, game theory, and robust control. While they are well-understood in Hilbert and Banach spaces via…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-26 Noboru Isobe , Sho Shimoyama

The Dynamic-Mode Decomposition (DMD) is a well established data-driven method of finding temporally evolving linear-mode decompositions of nonlinear time series. Traditionally, this method presumes that all relevant dimensions are sampled…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-01-13 Christopher W. Curtis , Daniel Jay Alford-Lago

Complexity is often exhibited in dynamical systems, where certain parameters evolve with time in a strange and chaotic nature. These systems lack predictability and are common in the physical world. Dissipative systems are one of such…

A variant of consensus based distributed gradient descent (\textbf{DGD}) is studied for finite sums of smooth but possibly non-convex functions. In particular, the local gradient term in the fixed step-size iteration of each agent is…

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The Improved Partial Area-Analytical Calculation (IPA-AC) method represents a leading meshfree discretization strategy for peridynamic models, distinguished by its rigorous geometric treatment of boundary intersections via dual corrections…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Xiuzhu Yang , Xiaobo Yin

We prove that every flat nonlinear discrete-time system can be decomposed by coordinate transformations into a smaller-dimensional subsystem and an endogenous dynamic feedback. For flat continuous-time systems, no comparable result is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-28 Bernd Kolar , Markus Schöberl , Johannes Diwold

Difference of convex (DC) functions cover a broad family of non-convex and possibly non-smooth and non-differentiable functions, and have wide applications in machine learning and statistics. Although deterministic algorithms for DC…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-05 Yi Xu , Qi Qi , Qihang Lin , Rong Jin , Tianbao Yang

In this paper we introduce the Boosted Double-proximal Subgradient Algorithm (BDSA), a novel splitting algorithm designed to address general structured nonsmooth and nonconvex mathematical programs expressed as sums and differences of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-30 Francisco J. Aragón-Artacho , Pedro Pérez-Aros , David Torregrosa-Belén

We consider a two-dimensional model of double-diffusive convection and its time discretisation using a second-order scheme which treat the nonlinear term explicitly (backward differentiation formula with a one-leg method). Uniform bounds on…

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