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In this paper, we propose a derivative-free Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm for nonlinear least squares problems, where the Jacobian matrices are approximated via orthogonal spherical smoothing. It is shown that the gradient models which use…

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Developing a contemporary optimal transport (OT) solver requires navigating trade-offs among several critical requirements: GPU parallelization, scalability to high-dimensional problems, theoretical convergence guarantees, empirical…

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This work links optimization approaches from hierarchical least-squares programming to instantaneous prioritized whole-body robot control. Concretely, we formulate the hierarchical Newton's method which solves prioritized non-linear…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Kai Pfeiffer , Adrien Escande , Pierre Gergondet , Abderrahmane Kheddar

We will consider the damped Newton method for strongly monotone and Lipschitz continuous operator equations in a variational setting. We will provide a very accessible justification why the undamped Newton method performs better than its…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-26 Pascal Heid

We propose a regularized Hessian-free Newton-type method for minimizing smooth convex functions with Lipschitz continuous Hessians. The algorithm constructs an approximate Hessian by finite differences and selects the regularization…

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We consider minimization of indefinite quadratics with either trust-region (norm) constraints or cubic regularization. Despite the nonconvexity of these problems we prove that, under mild assumptions, gradient descent converges to their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-17 Yair Carmon , John C. Duchi

We propose a Randomised Subspace Gauss-Newton (R-SGN) algorithm for solving nonlinear least-squares optimization problems, that uses a sketched Jacobian of the residual in the variable domain and solves a reduced linear least-squares on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-11 Coralia Cartis , Jaroslav Fowkes , Zhen Shao

We study the stability with respect to perturbations and the accuracy of numerical algorithms for computing solutions to the multilinear PageRank problem $\mathbf{x} = (1-\alpha)\mathbf{v} + \alpha \mathcal{P} \mathbf{x}^2$. Our results…

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In this paper, applied strictly monotonic increasing scaled maps, a kind of well-conditioned linear barycentric rational interpolations are proposed to approximate functions of singularities at the origin, such as $x^\alpha$ for $\alpha \in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-21 Desong Kong , Shuhuang Xiang

We consider the well-known method of least squares on an equidistant grid with $N+1$ nodes on the interval $[-1,1]$ with the goal to approximate a function $f\in\mathcal{C}\left[-1,1\right]$ by a polynomial of degree $n$. We investigate the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 René Goertz

This work blends the inexact Newton method with iterative combined approximations (ICA) for solving topology optimization problems under the assumption of geometric nonlinearity. The density-based problem formulation is solved using a…

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We present a Newton-type method that converges fast from any initialization and for arbitrary convex objectives with Lipschitz Hessians. We achieve this by merging the ideas of cubic regularization with a certain adaptive…

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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…

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We develop a discretisation of the semigeostrophic rotating shallow water equations, based upon their optimal transport formulation. This takes the form of a Moreau-Yoshida regularisation of the Wasserstein metric. Solutions of the optimal…

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Variational inequalities represent a broad class of problems, including minimization and min-max problems, commonly found in machine learning. Existing second-order and high-order methods for variational inequalities require precise…

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We establish a general nonlocal approximation principle for the entropy solutions of scalar conservation laws on $\mathbb{R}$. More precisely, we show that the entropy solution to a nonnegative initial datum can be obtained as a weak-star…

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We propose LeAP-SSN (Levenberg--Marquardt Adaptive Proximal Semismooth Newton method), a semismooth Newton-type method with a simple, parameter-free globalisation strategy that guarantees convergence from arbitrary starting points in…

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Recent advancements in data science have significantly elevated the importance of orthogonally constrained optimization problems. The Riemannian approach has become a popular technique for addressing these problems due to the advantageous…

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