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We consider an enhanced version of the well-kwown "Petrov-Galerkin" projection in Hilbert spaces. The proposed procedure, dubbed "multi-slice" projector, exploits the fact that the sought solution belongs to the intersection of several…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-11 C. Herzet , M. Diallo , P. Héas

Many recently proposed gradient projection algorithms with inertial extrapolation step for solving quasi-variational inequalities in Hilbert spaces are proven to be strongly convergent with no linear rate given when the cost operator is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-23 Yonghong Yao , Lateef O. Jolaoso , Yekini Shehu

The discretization of least-squares problems for linear ill-posed operator equations in Hilbert spaces is considered. The main subject of this article concerns conditions for convergence of the associated discretized minimum-norm…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-02-10 Stefan Kindermann

Given two disjoint convex polyhedra, we look for a best approximation pair relative to them, i.e., a pair of points, one in each polyhedron, attaining the minimum distance between the sets. Cheney and Goldstein showed that alternating…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-06 Ron Aharoni , Yair Censor , Zilin Jiang

We propose a method for solving constrained fixed point problems involving compositions of Lipschitz pseudo contractive and firmly nonexpansive operators in Hilbert spaces. Each iteration of the method uses separate evaluations of these…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-01-10 Luis M. Briceño-Arias

We show that the set of realizations of a given dimension of a max-plus linear sequence is a finite union of polyhedral sets, which can be computed from any realization of the sequence. This yields an (expensive) algorithm to solve the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-03-14 Vincent Blondel , Stéphane Gaubert , Natacha Portier

Problems of quadratic optimization in Hilbert space often arise when solving ill-posed problems for differential equations. In this case, the target value of the functional is known. In addition, the structure of the functional allows…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-06 N. V. Pletnev

Suppose that there is a ground set which consists of a large number of vectors in a Hilbert space. Consider the problem of selecting a subset of the ground set such that the projection of a vector of interest onto the subspace spanned by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-20 Zhenliang Zhang , Yuan Wang , Edwin K. P. Chong , Ali Pezeshki , Louis Scharf

In this paper, we establish minimax optimal rates of convergence for prediction in a semi-functional linear model that consists of a functional component and a less smooth nonparametric component. Our results reveal that the smoother…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-11-01 Keli Guo , Jun Fan , Lixing Zhu

Many applications using large datasets require efficient methods for minimizing a proximable convex function subject to satisfying a set of linear constraints within a specified tolerance. For this task, we present a proximal projection…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-10 Howard Heaton

We introduce computable projection operators onto piecewise polynomial spaces, defined via sampling and discrete least-squares polynomial approximations. The resulting mappings exhibit (almost) optimal approximation properties in $L^2$ and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Johannes Storn

We propose a new first-order optimisation algorithm to solve high-dimensional non-smooth composite minimisation problems. Typical examples of such problems have an objective that decomposes into a non-smooth empirical risk part and a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-07-07 Niao He , Zaid Harchaoui

We solve the problem of best approximation by partial isometries of given rank to an arbitrary rectangular matrix, when the distance is measured in any unitarily invariant norm. In the case where the norm is strictly convex, we parametrize…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-08 Jorge Antezana , Eduardo Chiumiento

Due to their flexibility, frames of Hilbert spaces are attractive alternatives to bases in approximation schemes for problems where identifying a basis is not straightforward or even feasible. Computing a best approximation using frames,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-08 Ben Adcock , Mohsen Seifi

This paper summarizes results on some topics in the max-plus convex geometry, mainly concerning the role of multiorder, Kleene stars and cyclic projectors, and relates them to some topics in max algebra. The multiorder principle leads to…

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Symmetric submodular functions are an important family of submodular functions capturing many interesting cases including cut functions of graphs and hypergraphs. Maximization of such functions subject to various constraints receives little…

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In this paper, we proposed an alternating projection based algorithm to solve a class of distributed MIN-MAX convex optimization problems. We firstly transform this MINMAX problem into the problem of searching for the minimum distance…

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An important yet challenging problem in numerical linear algebra is finding a principal submatrix with maximum determinant from a given symmetric positive semidefinite matrix. This problem arises in experimental design, statistics, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Hao Hu , Stefan Sremac , Hugo J. Woerdeman , Henry Wolkowicz

In this paper we present a new iterative projection method for finding the closest point in the intersection of convex sets to any arbitrary point in a Hilbert space. This method, termed AAMR for averaged alternating modified reflections,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-06 Francisco J. Aragón Artacho , Rubén Campoy

We introduce new discrete best approximation problems, formulated and solved in the framework of tropical algebra, which deals with semirings and semifields with idempotent addition. Given a set of samples, each consisting of the input and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-19 Nikolai Krivulin