Parabolic PDE-constrained optimal control under uncertainty with entropic risk measure using quasi-Monte Carlo integration

PA Guth, V Kaarnioja, FY Kuo, C Schillings… - Numerische …, 2024 - Springer
We study the application of a tailored quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) method to a class of optimal
control problems subject to parabolic partial differential equation (PDE) constraints under …

Complexity analysis of stochastic gradient methods for PDE-constrained optimal control problems with uncertain parameters

M Martin, S Krumscheid, F Nobile - ESAIM: Mathematical Modelling …, 2021 - esaim-m2an.org
We consider the numerical approximation of an optimal control problem for an elliptic Partial
Differential Equation (PDE) with random coefficients. Specifically, the control function is a …

An efficient ADAM-type algorithm with finite elements discretization technique for random elliptic optimal control problems

H Song, H Wang, J Wu, J Yang - Journal of Computational and Applied …, 2025 - Elsevier
We consider an optimal control problem governed by an elliptic partial differential equation
(PDE) with random coefficient, and introduce an efficient numerical method for the problem …

A relaxation-based probabilistic approach for PDE-constrained optimization under uncertainty with pointwise state constraints

DP Kouri, M Staudigl, TM Surowiec - Computational Optimization and …, 2023 - Springer
We consider a class of convex risk-neutral PDE-constrained optimization problems subject
to pointwise control and state constraints. Due to the many challenges associated with …

Multilevel optimization for inverse problems

S Weissmann, A Wilson, J Zech - Conference on Learning …, 2022 - proceedings.mlr.press
Inverse problems occur in a variety of parameter identification tasks in engineering. Such
problems are challenging in practice, as they require repeated evaluation of computationally …

The continuous stochastic gradient method: part I–convergence theory

M Grieshammer, L Pflug, M Stingl, A Uihlein - Computational Optimization …, 2024 - Springer
In this contribution, we present a full overview of the continuous stochastic gradient (CSG)
method, including convergence results, step size rules and algorithmic insights. We consider …

Reliable error estimates for optimal control of linear elliptic PDEs with random inputs

J Milz - SIAM/ASA Journal on Uncertainty Quantification, 2023 - SIAM
We discretize a risk-neutral optimal control problem governed by a linear elliptic partial
differential equation with random inputs using a Monte Carlo sample-based approximation …

Efficient mini-batch stochastic gradient descent with Centroidal Voronoi Tessellation for PDE-constrained optimization under uncertainty

L Chen, M Xiong, J Ming, X He - Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 2024 - Elsevier
The study of optimal control problems under uncertainty plays an important role in scientific
numerical simulations. This class of optimization problems is frequently utilized in …

An approximation scheme for distributionally robust PDE-constrained optimization

J Milz, M Ulbrich - SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, 2022 - SIAM
We develop a sampling-free approximation scheme for distributionally robust PDE-
constrained optimization problems, which are min-max control problems. We define the …

Tensor train solution to uncertain optimization problems with shared sparsity penalty

H Antil, S Dolgov, A Onwunta - arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.03989, 2024 - arxiv.org
We develop both first and second order numerical optimization methods to solve non-
smooth optimization problems featuring a shared sparsity penalty, constrained by differential …