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A novel and detailed convergence analysis is presented for a greedy algorithm that was previously introduced for operator reconstruction problems in the field of quantum mechanics. This algorithm is based on an offline/online decomposition…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-02 S Buchwald , G Ciaramella , Julien Salomon

Kernel-based schemes are state-of-the-art techniques for learning by data. In this work we extend some ideas about kernel-based greedy algorithms to exponential-polynomial splines, whose main drawback consists in possible overfitting and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-31 Rosanna Campagna , Stefano De Marchi , Emma Perracchione , Gabriele Santin

The paper presents a priori error analysis of the shallow neural network approximation to the solution to the indefinite elliptic equation and and cutting-edge implementation of the Orthogonal Greedy Algorithm (OGA) tailored to overcome the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-28 Qingguo Hong , Jiwei Jia , Young Ju Lee , Ziqian Li

When solving PDEs, classical numerical solvers are often computationally expensive, while machine learning methods can suffer from spectral bias, failing to capture high-frequency components. Designing an optimal hybrid iterative…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-08 Sahana Rayan , Yash Patel , Ambuj Tewari

We empirically analyze a simple heuristic for large sparse set cover problems. It uses the weighted greedy algorithm as a basic building block. By multiplicative updates of the weights attached to the elements, the greedy solution is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Marc Alexa

We study online bipartite edge coloring, with nodes on one side of the graph revealed sequentially. The trivial greedy algorithm is $(2-o(1))$-competitive, which is optimal for graphs of low maximum degree, $\Delta=O(\log n)$ [BNMN IPL'92].…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Joakim Blikstad , Ola Svensson , Radu Vintan , David Wajc

In [25], T. Oikhberg introduced and studied variants of the greedy and weak greedy algorithms for sequences with gaps, with a focus on the $\mathbf n$-$t$-quasi-greedy property that is based on them. Building upon this foundation, our…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-04 Miguel Berasategui , Pablo M. Berná

We present a fast two-phase algorithm for super-resolution with strong theoretical guarantees. Given the low-frequency part of the spectrum of a sequence of impulses, Phase I consists of a greedy algorithm that roughly estimates the impulse…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-12 Armin Eftekhari , Michael B. Wakin

We briefly discuss the greedy method and a couple of its more efficient variants for approximately maximizing monotone submodular functions.

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Alen Alexanderian

In the classic online graph balancing problem, edges arrive sequentially and must be oriented immediately upon arrival, to minimize the maximum in-degree. For adversarial arrivals, the natural greedy algorithm is $O(\log n)$-competitive,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Nikhil Bansal , Milind Prabhu , Sahil Singla , Siddharth M. Sundaram

In this paper we propose a unified way of analyzing a certain kind of greedy-type algorithms in Banach spaces. We define a class of the Weak Biorthogonal Greedy Algorithms that contains a wide range of greedy algorithms. In particular, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-07 Anton Dereventsov , Vladimir Temlyakov

The contextual bandit literature has traditionally focused on algorithms that address the exploration-exploitation tradeoff. In particular, greedy algorithms that exploit current estimates without any exploration may be sub-optimal in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-04-21 Hamsa Bastani , Mohsen Bayati , Khashayar Khosravi

We show for several computational problems how classical greedy algorithms for special cases can be derived in a simple way from dynamic programs for the general case: interval scheduling (restricted to unit weights), knapsack (restricted…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Dieter van Melkebeek

Collective communications are ubiquitous in parallel applications. We present two new algorithms for performing a reduction. The operation associated with our reduction needs to be associative and commutative. The two algorithms are…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-10-18 Bradley R. Lowery , Julien Langou

Optical focusing through scattering media has important implications for optical applications in medicine, communications, and detection. In recent years, many wavefront shaping methods have been successfully applied to the field, among…

A $k$-submodular function is a generalization of the submodular set function. Many practical applications can be modeled as maximizing a $k$-submodular function, such as multi-cooperative games, sensor placement with $k$ type sensors,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-12-13 Hongyang Zhang , Wenchang Luo

Local-search methods are widely employed in statistical applications, yet interestingly, their theoretical foundations remain rather underexplored, compared to other classes of estimators such as low-degree polynomials and spectral methods.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-12 Max Lovig , Conor Sheehan , Konstantinos Tsirkas , Ilias Zadik

In this article, we present a greedy algorithm based on a tensor product decomposition, whose aim is to compute the global minimum of a strongly convex energy functional. We prove the convergence of our method provided that the gradient of…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-13 Eric Cances , Virginie Ehrlacher , Tony Lelievre

Greedy optimization methods such as Matching Pursuit (MP) and Frank-Wolfe (FW) algorithms regained popularity in recent years due to their simplicity, effectiveness and theoretical guarantees. MP and FW address optimization over the linear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-21 Francesco Locatello , Michael Tschannen , Gunnar Rätsch , Martin Jaggi

We propose a fast greedy algorithm to compute sparse representations of signals from continuous dictionaries that are factorizable, i.e., with atoms that can be separated as a product of sub-atoms. Existing algorithms strongly reduce the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-01 Gilles Monnoyer de Galland , Luc Vandendorpe , Laurent Jacques