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    Inexact model: A framework for optimization and variational inequalities
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2020) Stonyakin, Fedor; Gasnikov, Alexander; Tyurin, Alexander; Pasechnyuk, Dmitry; Agafonov, Artem; Dvurechensky, Pavel; Dvinskikh, Darina; Piskunova, Victorya
    In this paper we propose a general algorithmic framework for first-order methods in optimization in a broad sense, including minimization problems, saddle-point problems and variational inequalities. This framework allows to obtain many known methods as a special case, the list including accelerated gradient method, composite optimization methods, level-set methods, proximal methods. The idea of the framework is based on constructing an inexact model of the main problem component, i.e. objective function in optimization or operator in variational inequalities. Besides reproducing known results, our framework allows to construct new methods, which we illustrate by constructing a universal method for variational inequalities with composite structure. This method works for smooth and non-smooth problems with optimal complexity without a priori knowledge of the problem smoothness. We also generalize our framework for strongly convex objectives and strongly monotone variational inequalities.
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    Inexact relative smoothness and strong convexity for optimization and variational inequalities by inexact model
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2020) Stonyakin, Fedor; Gasnikov, Alexander; Tyurin, Alexander; Pasechnyuk, Dmitry; Agafonov, Artem; Dvurechensky, Pavel; Dvinskikh, Darina; Artamonov, Sergei; Piskunova, Victorya
    In this paper we propose a general algorithmic framework for first-order methods in optimization in a broad sense, including minimization problems, saddle-point problems and variational inequalities. This framework allows to obtain many known methods as a special case, the list including accelerated gradient method, composite optimization methods, level-set methods, Bregman proximal methods. The idea of the framework is based on constructing an inexact model of the main problem component, i.e. objective function in optimization or operator in variational inequalities. Besides reproducing known results, our framework allows to construct new methods, which we illustrate by constructing a universal conditional gradient method and universal method for variational inequalities with composite structure. These method works for smooth and non-smooth problems with optimal complexity without a priori knowledge of the problem smoothness. As a particular case of our general framework, we introduce relative smoothness for operators and propose an algorithm for VIs with such operator. We also generalize our framework for relatively strongly convex objectives and strongly monotone variational inequalities.
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    A variational inequality for the derivative of the scalar play operator
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2021) Brokate, Martin; Krejčí, Pavel
    We show that the directional derivative of the scalar play operator is the unique solution of a certain variational inequality. Due to the nature of the discontinuities involved, the variational inequality has an integral form based on the Kurzweil-Stieltjes integral.
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    Optimal control problems with sparsity for phase field tumor growth models involving variational inequalities
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2021) Colli, Pierluigi; Signori, Andrea; Sprekels, Jürgen
    This paper treats a distributed optimal control problem for a tumor growth model of Cahn--Hilliard type including chemotaxis. The evolution of the tumor fraction is governed by a variational inequality corresponding to a double obstacle nonlinearity occurring in the associated potential. In addition, the control and state variables are nonlinearly coupled and, furthermore, the cost functional contains a nondifferentiable term like the $L^1$--norm in order to include sparsity effects which is of utmost relevance, especially time sparsity, in the context of cancer therapies as applying a control to the system reflects in exposing the patient to an intensive medical treatment. To cope with the difficulties originating from the variational inequality in the state system, we employ the so-called ``deep quench approximation'' in which the convex part of the double obstacle potential is approximated by logarithmic functions. For such functions, first-order necessary conditions of optimality can be established by invoking recent results. We use these results to derive corresponding optimality conditions also for the double obstacle case, by deducing a variational inequality in terms of the associated adjoint state variables. The resulting variational inequality can be exploited to also obtain sparsity results for the optimal controls.
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    On the convexity of optimal control problems involving non-linear PDEs or VIs and applications to Nash games (changed title: Vector-valued convexity of solution operators with application to optimal control problems)
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2020) Hintermüller, Michael; Stengl, Steven-Marian
    Generalized Nash equilibrium problems in function spaces involving PDEs are considered. One of the central issues arising in this context is the question of existence, which requires the topological characterization of the set of minimizers for each player of the associated Nash game. In this paper, we propose conditions on the operator and the functional that guarantee the reduced formulation to be a convex minimization problem. Subsequently, we generalize results of convex analysis to derive optimality systems also for non-smooth operators. Our theoretical findings are illustrated by examples.
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    On the numerical approximation of a viscoelastodynamic problem with unilateral constraints
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2010) Petrov, Adrien; Martins, J.A.C.
    The present work is dedicated to the study of numerical schemes for a viscoelastic bar vibrating longitudinally and having its motion limited by rigid obstacles at the both ends. Finite elements and finite difference schemes are presented and their convergence is proved. Finally, some numerical examples are reported and analyzed.