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The paper starts with a concise description of the recently developed semismooth* Newton method for the solution of general inclusions. This method is then applied to a class of variational inequalities of the second kind. As a result, one…
This paper concerns developing a numerical method of the Newton type to solve systems of nonlinear equations described by nonsmooth continuous functions. We propose and justify a new generalized Newton algorithm based on graphical…
This paper details a novel indirect method for solving constrained optimal control problems (OCPs) directly in continuous-time function space. The KKT conditions are embedded in a non-smooth complementarity function, which enables their…
This study proposes a cubic regularization of the Newton method for generating weakly efficient points of unconstrained vector optimization problems under no convexity assumption on the objective function. It is observed that at a given…
We develop a semismooth Newton framework for the numerical solution of fixed-point equations that are posed in Banach spaces. The framework is motivated by applications in the field of obstacle-type quasi-variational inequalities and…
We are concerned with a class of nonconvex and nonsmooth composite optimization problems, comprising a twice differentiable function and a prox-regular function. We establish a sufficient condition for the proximal mapping of a prox-regular…
In this work we present and discuss a possible globalization concept for Newton-type methods. We consider nonlinear problems $f(x)=0$ in $\mathbb{R}^{n}$ using the concepts from ordinary differential equations as a basis for the proposed…
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In this work, we present a globalized stochastic semismooth Newton method for solving stochastic optimization problems involving smooth nonconvex and nonsmooth convex terms in the objective function. We assume that only noisy gradient and…
The ground state energy of a many-electron system can be approximated by an variational approach in which the total energy of the system is minimized with respect to one and two-body reduced density matrices (RDM) instead of many-electron…
A semi-local analysis of Newton's method for solving nonlinear inclusion problems in Banach space is presented in this paper. Under a affine majorant condition on the nonlinear function which is associated to the inclusion problem, the…
In the paper, a variant of the \ssstar Newton method is developed for the numerical solution of generalized equations, in which the multi-valued part is a so-called SCD (subspace containing derivative) mapping. Under a rather mild…
Compositional simulation is challenging, because of highly nonlinear couplings between multi-component flow in porous media with thermodynamic phase behavior. The coupled nonlinear system is commonly solved by the fully-implicit scheme.…
In this paper, we present an efficient semismooth Newton method, named SSNCP, for solving a class of semidefinite programming problems. Our approach is rooted in an equivalent semismooth system derived from the saddle point problem induced…
Simulating compositional multiphase flow in porous media is a challenging task, especially when phase transition is taken into account. The main problem with phase transition stems from the inconsistency of the primary variables such as…
This paper addresses the study of a new class of nonsmooth optimization problems, where the objective is represented as a difference of two generally nonconvex functions. We propose and develop a novel Newton-type algorithm to solving such…
The problem of finding a point in the intersection of closed sets can be solved by the method of alternating projections and its variants. It was shown in earlier papers that for convex sets, the strategy of using quadratic programming (QP)…
This work concerns the local convergence theory of Newton and quasi-Newton methods for convex-composite optimization: minimize f(x):=h(c(x)), where h is an infinite-valued proper convex function and c is C^2-smooth. We focus on the case…
This paper is concerned with an algorithm for finding a singularity of the nonsmooth vector fields. Firstly, we discuss the main results of the Newton method presented in [1] for solving the aforementioned problem. Combining this method…