Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/334874 
Year of Publication: 
2025
Citation: 
[Journal:] Computational Optimization and Applications [ISSN:] 1573-2894 [Volume:] 93 [Issue:] 1 [Publisher:] Springer US [Place:] New York, NY [Year:] 2025 [Pages:] 209-265
Publisher: 
Springer US, New York, NY
Abstract: 
Total variation regularization has proven to be a valuable tool in the context of optimal control of differential equations. This is particularly attributed to the observation that TV-penalties often favor piecewise constant minimizers with well-behaved jumpsets. On the downside, their intricate properties significantly complicate every aspect of their analysis, from the derivation of first-order optimality conditions to their discrete approximation and the choice of a suitable solution algorithm. In this paper, we investigate a general class of minimization problems with TV-regularization, comprising both continuous and discretized control spaces, from a convex geometry perspective. This leads to a variety of novel theoretical insights on minimization problems with total variation regularization as well as tools for their practical realization. First, by studying the extremal points of the respective total variation unit balls, we enable their efficient solution by geometry exploiting algorithms, e.g. fully-corrective generalized conditional gradient methods. We give a detailed account on the practical realization of such a method for piecewise constant finite element approximations of the control on triangulations of the spatial domain. Second, in the same setting and for suitable sequences of uniformly refined meshes, it is shown that minimizers to discretized PDE-constrained optimal control problems approximate solutions to a continuous limit problem involving an anisotropic total variation reflecting the fine-scale geometry of the mesh.
Subjects: 
Total variation regularization
Optimal control
Extremal points
Nonsmooth optimization
Graph cuts
Homogenization
Sparsity
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