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Many researchers have used Oneshot optimization methods based on user-specified primal state iterations, the corresponding adjoint iterations, and appropriately preconditioned design steps. Our goal here is to develop heuristics for sequencing these three subtasks, in order to optimize the convergence rate of the resulting coupled iteration cycle. A key ingredient is the preconditioning in the design step by a BFGS approximation of the projected Hessian. We provide a hard bound on the spectral radius of the coupled iteration cycle at local minima satisfying second order sufficiency conditions. Finally, we show how certain problem specific parameters can be estimated by local samples and be used to steer the whole process adaptively. We present limited numerical results that confirm the theoretical analysis.
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The research for this paper was funded by the Schwerpunktprogramm 1253 Optimization with partial Differential Equations of the Deutsche Forschungsgesellschaft DFG in the project Automated Extension of Fixed Point PDE Solvers for Optimal Design with Bounded Retardation. The authors are indebted to the other members of this project, namely N. Gauger, E. Ozkaya, C. Kratzenstein and Th. Slawig.
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Bosse, T., Lehmann, L. & Griewank, A. Adaptive sequencing of primal, dual, and design steps in simulation based optimization. Comput Optim Appl 57, 731–760 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10589-013-9606-z
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