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Accelerating the convergence of second-order optimization, particularly Newton-type methods, remains a pivotal challenge in algorithmic research. In this paper, we extend previous work on the \textbf{Quadratic Gradient (QG)} and rigorously…

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We describe a midi-superspace quantization scheme for generic single horizon black holes in which only the spatial diffeomorphisms are fixed. The remaining Hamiltonian constraint yields an infinite set of decoupled eigenvalue equations: one…

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Discretization of non-linear Poisson-Boltzmann Equation equations results in a system of non-linear equations with symmetric Jacobian. The Newton algorithm is the most useful tool for solving non-linear equations. It consists of solving a…

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We introduce a framework for quasi-Newton forward--backward splitting algorithms (proximal quasi-Newton methods) with a metric induced by diagonal $\pm$ rank-$r$ symmetric positive definite matrices. This special type of metric allows for a…

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The separability assumption (Donoho & Stodden, 2003; Arora et al., 2012) turns non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) into a tractable problem. Recently, a new class of provably-correct NMF algorithms have emerged under this assumption. In…

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We present two analytical formulae for estimating the sensitivity -- namely, the gradient or Jacobian -- at given realizations of an arbitrary-dimensional random vector with respect to its distributional parameters. The first formula…

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We present a simple algorithm to approximate the viscosity solution of Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) equations by means of an artificial deep neural network. The algorithm uses a stochastic gradient descent-based method to minimize the least square…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-31 Carlos Esteve-Yagüe , Richard Tsai , Alex Massucco

Numerical relativity is an essential tool for solving Einstein's equations of general relativity for dynamical systems characterized by high velocities and strong gravitational fields. The implementation of new algorithms that can solve…

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A high-order Newton multigrid method is proposed for steady-state shallow water flows in open channels with regular and irregular geometries. The method integrates a finite volume discretization with third-order weighted essentially…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Zhicheng Hu , Guanghan Li , Chunwu Wang , Xiaowen Wang

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

We propose a new approach to the numerical solution of ergodic problems arising in the homogenization of Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) equations. It is based on a Newton-like method for solving inconsistent systems of nonlinear equations, coming…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-02-11 Simone Cacace , Fabio Camilli

We use the well-known observation that the solutions of Jacobi's differential equation can be represented via non-oscillatory phase and amplitude functions to develop a fast algorithm for computing multi-dimensional Jacobi polynomial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-13 James Bremer , Qiyuan Pang , Haizhao Yang

We propose a distributed cubic regularization of the Newton method for solving (constrained) empirical risk minimization problems over a network of agents, modeled as undirected graph. The algorithm employs an inexact, preconditioned Newton…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-21 Amir Daneshmand , Gesualdo Scutari , Pavel Dvurechensky , Alexander Gasnikov

We study a variant of Newton's algorithm applied to under-determined systems of non-smooth equations. The notion of regularity employed in our work is based on Newton differentiability, which generalizes semi-smoothness. The classic notion…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-28 Titus Pinta

Newton method is one of the most powerful methods for finding solutions of nonlinear equations and for proving their existence. In its "pure" form it has fast convergence near the solution, but small convergence domain. On the other hand…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-27 Boris Polyak , Andrey Tremba

We present an iterative root finding method for harmonic mappings in the complex plane, which is a generalization of Newton's method for analytic functions. The complex formulation of the method allows an analysis in a complex variables…

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We have presented some practical consequences on the molecular-dynamics simulations arising from the numerical algorithm published recently in paper Int. J. Mod. Phys. C 16, 413 (2005). The algorithm is not a finite-difference method and…

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Jacobi's method is a well-known algorithm in linear algebra to diagonalize symmetric matrices by successive elementary rotations. We report about the generalization of these elementary rotations towards canonical transformations acting in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-05-19 Christian Baumgarten

We develop a randomized Newton's method for solving differential equations, based on a fully connected neural network discretization. In particular, the randomized Newton's method randomly chooses equations from the overdetermined nonlinear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-09 Qipin Chen , Wenrui Hao

In recent years, various subspace algorithms have been developed to handle large-scale optimization problems. Although existing subspace Newton methods require fewer iterations to converge in practice, the matrix operations and full…

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