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20152026
most citedNonsmooth Analysis and Optimization

77 citations · 625 across the 37 of their papers we have counts for

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39 papers

math.OC2026

Observability as a constraint qualification for a nonsmooth bilevel PDE-constrained problem

Christian Clason, Alberto Domínguez Corella, Jyrki Jauhiainen

Motivated by experiment design for parameter identification in image reconstruction, we analyze a bilevel control problem involving sparse inversion at the lower level. Qualified o…

math.AP2026

Orlicz space relaxation of total variation denoising

Christian Clason, Tobias Unterberger

We consider variational image denoising with spatially dependent Orlicz regularization and introduce an Orlicz--Sobolev approximation of the ROF model based on a scaled -t…

math.OC2025

Variational Analysis in Spectral Decomposition Systems

Hòa T. Bùi, Minh N. Bùi, Christian Clason

This work is concerned with the variational analysis of functions defined on Euclidean spaces whose values depend solely on certain invariants (``spectrum'') of their arguments, a…

math.OC2025

Convex Analysis in Spectral Decomposition Systems

Hòa T. Bùi, Minh N. Bùi, Christian Clason

This work is concerned with the convex analysis of functions defined on (not necessarily finite-dimensional) Hilbert spaces whose values depend solely on a certain ``spectrum'' of…

math.NA2023

Numerical analysis of a nonsmooth quasilinear elliptic control problem: II. Finite element discretization and error estimates

Christian Clason, Vu Huu Nhu, Arnd Rösch

In this paper, we carry out the numerical analysis of a nonsmooth quasilinear elliptic optimal control problem, where the coefficient in the divergence term of the corresponding st…

math.OC2022

Numerical analysis of a nonsmooth quasilinear elliptic control problem: I. Explicit second-order optimality conditions

Christian Clason, Vu Huu Nhu, Arnd Rösch

In this paper, we derive explicit second-order necessary and sufficient optimality conditions of a local minimizer to an optimal control problem for a quasilinear second-order part…

math.OC2021★ 3 cited

Convex relaxation of discrete vector-valued optimization problems

Christian Clason, Carla Tameling, Benedikt Wirth

We consider a class of infinite-dimensional optimization problems in which a distributed vector-valued variable should pointwise almost everywhere take values from a given finite s…

math.OC2020★ 6 cited

No-gap second-order optimality conditions for optimal control of a non-smooth quasilinear elliptic equation

Christian Clason, Vu Huu Nhu, Arnd Rösch

This paper deals with second-order optimality conditions for a quasilinear elliptic control problem with a nonlinear coefficient in the principal part that is countably (con…

math.FA2020★ 12 cited

Regularization of Inverse Problems

Christian Clason

These lecture notes for a graduate class present the regularization theory for linear and nonlinear ill-posed operator equations in Hilbert spaces. Covered are the general framewor…

math.OC2020★ 5 cited

Introduction to Nonsmooth Analysis and Optimization

Christian Clason, Tuomo Valkonen

Functions that are not differentiable in the classical sense have become a central tool in modern mathematical models for imaging, inverse problems, machine learning, and optimal c…

math.OC2019★ 6 cited

Optimal control of the principal coefficient in a scalar wave equation

Christian Clason, Karl Kunisch, Philip Trautmann

We consider optimal control of the scalar wave equation where the control enters as a coefficient in the principal part. Adding a total variation penalty allows showing existence o…

math.OC2019★ 51 cited

Entropic regularization of continuous optimal transport problems

Christian Clason, Dirk A. Lorenz, Hinrich Mahler +1

We analyze continuous optimal transport problems in the so-called Kantorovich form, where we seek a transport plan between two marginals that are probability measures on compact su…

math.NA2019★ 18 cited

Bouligand-Levenberg-Marquardt iteration for a non-smooth ill-posed inverse problem

Christian Clason, Vu Huu Nhu

In this paper, we consider a modified Levenberg--Marquardt method for solving an ill-posed inverse problem where the forward mapping is not Gâteaux differentiable. By relaxing the…

math.OC2019★ 15 cited

Primal-dual proximal splitting and generalized conjugation in non-smooth non-convex optimization

Christian Clason, Stanislav Mazurenko, Tuomo Valkonen

We demonstrate that difficult non-convex non-smooth optimization problems, such as Nash equilibrium problems and anisotropic as well as isotropic Potts segmentation model, can be w…

math.OC2018★ 18 cited

Optimal control of a non-smooth quasilinear elliptic equation

Christian Clason, Vu Huu Nhu, Arnd Rösch

This work is concerned with an optimal control problem governed by a non-smooth quasilinear elliptic equation with a nonlinear coefficient in the principal part that is locally Lip…

math.OC2018★ 11 cited

Optimal control problems with control complementarity constraints

Christian Clason, Yu Deng, Patrick Mehlitz +1

A special class of optimal control problems with complementarity constraints on the control functions is studied. It is shown that such problems possess optimal solutions whenever…

math.ST2018★ 18 cited

Generalized modes in Bayesian inverse problems

Christian Clason, Tapio Helin, Remo Kretschmann +1

Uncertainty quantification requires efficient summarization of high- or even infinite-dimensional (i.e., non-parametric) distributions based on, e.g., suitable point estimates (mod…

math.NA2018

Regularization of ill-posed problems with non-negative solutions

Christian Clason, Barbara Kaltenbacher, Elena Resmerita

This survey reviews variational and iterative methods for reconstructing non-negative solutions of ill-posed problems in infinite-dimensional spaces. We focus on two classes of met…

math.OC2018★ 5 cited

Quasi-solution of linear inverse problems in non-reflexive Banach spaces

Christian Clason, Andrej Klassen

We consider the method of quasi-solutions (also referred to as Ivanov regularization) for the regularization of linear ill-posed problems in non-reflexive Banach spaces. Using the…

math.OC2018★ 1 cited

Error estimates for the approximation of multibang control problems

Christian Clason, Thi Bich Tram Do, Frank Pörner

This work is concerned with optimal control problems where the objective functional consists of a tracking-type functional and an additional "multibang" regularization functional t…

math.NA2018★ 34 cited

Bouligand-Landweber iteration for a non-smooth ill-posed problem

Christian Clason, Vu Huu Nhu

This work is concerned with the iterative regularization of a non-smooth nonlinear ill-posed problem where the forward mapping is merely directionally but not Gâteaux differentiabl…

math.OC2018★ 11 cited

Contingent derivatives and regularization for noncoercive inverse problems

Christian Clason, Akhtar A. Khan, Miguel Sama +1

We study the inverse problem of parameter identification in non-coercive variational problems that commonly appear in applied models. We examine the differentiability of the set-va…

math.OC2018★ 24 cited

Acceleration and global convergence of a first-order primal--dual method for nonconvex problems

Christian Clason, Stanislav Mazurenko, Tuomo Valkonen

The primal--dual hybrid gradient method (PDHGM, also known as the Chambolle--Pock method) has proved very successful for convex optimization problems involving linear operators ari…

math.OC2017★ 1 cited

A Sinkhorn-Newton method for entropic optimal transport

Christoph Brauer, Christian Clason, Dirk Lorenz +1

We consider the entropic regularization of discretized optimal transport and propose to solve its optimality conditions via a logarithmic Newton iteration. We show a quadratic conv…