In MCMC methods, such as the Metropolis-Hastings (MH) algorithm, the Gibbs sampler, or recent adaptive methods, many different strategies can be proposed, often associated in practice to unknown rates of convergence. In this paper we propose a simulationbased methodology to compare these rates of convergence, grounded on an entropy criterion computed from parallel (i.i.d.) simulated Markov chai...

Abstract Topological optimization (TO) is commonly used to design a part for additive manufacturing (AM), but rarely entire systems including several parts. How can be optimized mechanical system in which each changes the boundary conditions? A Design method called TOMS (Topological Optimization of Mechanical System) has been developed take into account variation conditions when optimizing When...

In the beginning of the eighties, M. Shub and S. Smale developed a quantitative analysis of Newton’s method for multivariate analytic maps. In particular, their α-theory gives an effective criterion that ensures safe convergence to a simple isolated zero. This criterion requires only information concerning the map at the initial point of the iteration. Generalizing this theory to multiple zeros...

In this paper, we propose an inexact alternating direction method with square quadratic proximal  (SQP) regularization for  the structured variational inequalities. The predictor is obtained via solving SQP system  approximately  under significantly  relaxed accuracy criterion  and the new iterate is computed directly by an explicit formula derived from the original SQP method. Under appropriat...

In this paper, we apply the  homotopy analysis method (HAM) for solving fuzzy  linear systems and present  the necessary and sufficient conditions for the convergence of series solution obtained via the HAM. Also, we present a new criterion for choosing a proper value of convergence-control parameter $hbar$ when the HAM is applied to linear system of equations. Comparisons are made between the ...

We prove a criterion of convergence in the augmented Teichmüller space that can be phrased in terms of convergence of the hyperbolic metrics or of quasiconformal convergence away from the nodes.

The maximum correntropy criterion (MCC) has recently been successfully applied to adaptive filtering. Adaptive algorithms under MCC show strong robustness against large outliers. In this work, we apply the MCC criterion to develop a robust Hammerstein adaptive filter. Compared with the traditional Hammerstein adaptive filters, which are usually derived based on the well-known mean square error ...

In this study, a numerical solution of 2D steady incompressible lid-driven cavity flow is presented. Three different numerical schemes were employed to make a comparison on the practicality of the methods. An alternating direction implicit scheme for the vorticity-stream function formulation, explicit and implicit schemes for the primitive variable formulation of governing Navier-Stokes equatio...