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Recent years have witnessed increasing interest in optimization proxies, i.e., machine learning models that approximate the input-output mapping of parametric optimization problems and return near-optimal feasible solutions. Following…

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Scientists have demonstrated that quantum computing has presented novel approaches to address computational challenges, each varying in complexity. Adapting problem-solving strategies is crucial to harness the full potential of quantum…

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Binary optimization is a powerful tool for modeling combinatorial problems, yet scalable and theoretically sound solution methods remain elusive. Conventional solvers often rely on heuristic strategies with weak guarantees or struggle with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Wenbo Liu , Akang Wang , Dun Ma , Hongyi Jiang , Jianghua Wu , Wenguo Yang

In this thesis I discuss combinatorial optimization problems, from the statistical physics perspective. The starting point are the motivations which brought physicists together with computer scientists and mathematicians to work on this…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-01-13 Andrea Di Gioacchino

In this paper, we study a constrained utility maximization problem following the convex duality approach. After formulating the primal and dual problems, we construct the necessary and sufficient conditions for both the primal and dual…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2016-12-15 Yusong Li , Harry Zheng

We develop a general duality between neural networks and compositional kernels, striving towards a better understanding of deep learning. We show that initial representations generated by common random initializations are sufficiently rich…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-23 Amit Daniely , Roy Frostig , Yoram Singer

In this paper, we consider an equivalence problem of second order partially differential equations (PDE) and a duality of the flat differential equation. For the equivalence problem, explicit form of invariants (curvatures) are given. We…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Takahiro Noda

This paper is devoted to the study of an inertial accelerated primal-dual algorithm, which is based on a second-order differential system with time scaling, for solving a non-smooth convex optimization problem with linear equality…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Huan Zhang , Xiangkai Sun , Shengjie Li , Kok Lay Teo

Deploying mathematical optimization in autonomous production systems requires precise contracts for objects returned by an optimization solver. Unfortunately, conventions on dual solution and infeasibility certificates (rays) vary widely…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Juan Pablo Vielma , Ross Anderson , Joey Huchette

We consider primal-dual pairs of semidefinite programs and assume that they are ill-posed, i.e., both primal and dual are either weakly feasible or weakly infeasible. Under such circumstances, strong duality may break down and the primal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-25 Takashi Tsuchiya , Bruno F. Lourenco , Masakazu Muramatsu , Takayuki Okuno

We present two modified versions of the primal-dual splitting algorithm relying on forward-backward splitting proposed in \cite{vu} for solving monotone inclusion problems. Under strong monotonicity assumptions for some of the operators…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-03-13 Radu Ioan Bot , Ernö Robert Csetnek , Andre Heinrich

We explore the relationship between complexity and duality in quantum systems, focusing on how local and non-local operators evolve under time evolution. We find that non-local operators, which are dual to local operators under specific…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-06 Jeff Murugan , Zayd Pandit , Hendrik J. R. van Zyl

An overview of the results of new exhaustive computations of gaps between primes in arithmetic progressions is presented. We also give new numerical results for exceptionally large least primes in arithmetic progressions.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-04-06 Martin Raab

We survey results on the formalization and independence of mathematical statements related to major open problems in computational complexity theory. Our primary focus is on recent findings concerning the (un)provability of complexity…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Igor C. Oliveira

This paper associates a dual problem to the minimization of an arbitrary linear perturbation of the robust sum function introduced in DOI 10.1007/s11228-019-00515-2. It provides an existence theorem for primal optimal solutions and, under…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-07 Nguyen Dinh , Miguel A. Goberna , Michel Volle

We study structured optimization problems with polynomial objective function and polynomial equality constraints. The structure comes from a multi-grading on the polynomial ring in several variables. For fixed multi-degrees we determine the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-23 Kemal Rose

The article focuses on the problems of prime gaps and zero spacings. Possible solutions of several related problems such as the greatest lower bound, the least upper bound of the zero spacings, and the least upper bound of the prime gaps…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2022-12-13 N. A. Carella

This article surveys the burgeoning area at the intersection of dynamical systems theory and algorithms for NP-hard problems. Traditionally, computational complexity and the analysis of non-deterministic polynomial-time (NP)-hard problems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-12 Tuhin Sahai

This article develops a duality principle applicable to a large class of variational problems. Firstly, we apply the results to a Ginzburg-Landau type model. In a second step, we develop another duality principle and related primal dual…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-18 Fabio Botelho

In this work, we show that for linearly constrained optimization problems the primal-dual hybrid gradient algorithm, analyzed by Chambolle and Pock [3], can be written as an entirely primal algorithm. This allows us to prove convergence of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-27 Yura Malitsky