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In this article, we introduce a new homotopy function to trace the trajectory by applying modified homotopy continuation method for finding the solution of the linear complementarity problem. Earlier several authors attempted to propose…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-24 A. Dutta , A. K. Das , R. Jana

This work studies the average complexity of solving structured polynomial systems that are characterized by a low evaluation cost, as opposed to the dense random model previously used. Firstly, we design a continuation algorithm that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-12 Peter Bürgisser , Felipe Cucker , Pierre Lairez

Numerical homotopy continuation methods for three classes of polynomial systems are presented. For a generic instance of the class, every path leads to a solution and the homotopy is optimal. The counting of the roots mirrors the resolution…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Jan Verschelde

This paper investigates the cost of solving systems of sparse polynomial equations by homotopy continuation. First, a space of systems of $n$-variate polynomial equations is specified through $n$ monomial bases. The natural locus for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-05 Gregorio Malajovich

By a numerical continuation method called a diagonal homotopy we can compute the intersection of two positive dimensional solution sets of polynomial systems. This paper proposes to use this diagonal homotopy as the key step in a procedure…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Andrew J. Sommese , Jan Verschelde , Charles W. Wampler

In this paper we propose a method that uses Lagrange multipliers and numerical algebraic geometry to find all critical points, and therefore globally solve, polynomial optimization problems. We design a polyhedral homotopy algorithm that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-10 Julia Lindberg , Leonid Monin , Kemal Rose

We present a continuation method to compute all zeros of a harmonic mapping $f$ in the complex plane. Our method works without any prior knowledge of the number of zeros or their approximate location. We start by computing all solution of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-04 Olivier Sète , Jan Zur

Polynomial system solving has seen major progress in both theory and practice over the past decade. A landmark achievement was addressing Smale's 17th problem, establishing average-case polynomial-time algorithms for computing approximate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-07 Abigail R. Jones , Kisun Lee , Jose Israel Rodriguez

The optimal transport problem has many applications in machine learning, physics, biology, economics, etc. Although its goal is very clear and mathematically well-defined, finding its optimal solution can be challenging for large datasets…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-14 Roozbeh Yousefzadeh

Three aspects of applying homotopy continuation, which is commonly used to solve parameterized systems of polynomial equations, are investigated. First, for parameterized systems which are homogeneous, we investigate options for performing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-18 Jonathan D. Hauenstein , Margaret H. Regan

A solution for Smale's 17th problem, for the case of systems with bounded degree was recently given. This solution, an algorithm computing approximate zeros of complex polynomial systems in average polynomial time, assumed infinite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-05-07 Irenee Briquel , Felipe Cucker , Javier Pena , Vera Roshchina

A method for solving zero-finding problems is developed by tracking homotopy paths, which define connecting channels between an auxiliary problem and the objective problem. Current algorithms' success highly relies on empirical knowledge,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-24 Yang Wang , Francesco Topputo

In this article, we consider nonlinear complementarity problem. We introduce a new homotopy function for finding the solution of nonlinear complementarity problem through the trajectory . We show that the homotopy path approaching the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-02 A. Dutta , A. K. Das

We develop a certified numerical algorithm for computing Galois/monodromy groups of parametrized polynomial systems. Our approach employs certified homotopy path tracking to guarantee the correctness of the monodromy action produced by the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-19 Timothy Duff , Kisun Lee

We give a framework for constructing generically optimal homotopies for parametrized polynomial systems from tropical data. Here, generically optimal means that the number of paths tracked is equal to the generic number of solutions. We…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-12-31 Paul Alexander Helminck , Oskar Henriksson , Yue Ren

If you are predicting the label $y$ of a new object with $\hat y$, how confident are you that $y = \hat y$? Conformal prediction methods provide an elegant framework for answering such question by building a $100 (1 - \alpha)\%$ confidence…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-11-11 Eugene Ndiaye , Ichiro Takeuchi

The manuscript addresses the problem of finding all solutions of power flow equations or other similar nonlinear system of algebraic equations. This problem arises naturally in a number of power systems contexts, most importantly in the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2014-08-13 Dhagash Mehta , Hung Nguyen , Konstantin Turitsyn

$ \ell_1 $-regularized linear inverse problems are frequently used in signal processing, image analysis, and statistics. The correct choice of the regularization parameter $ t \in \mathbb{R}_{\geq 0} $ is a delicate issue. Instead of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-05-03 Björn Bringmann , Daniel Cremers , Felix Krahmer , Michael Möller

We present a new continuation algorithm to find all nondegenerate real solutions to a system of polynomial equations. Unlike homotopy methods, it is not based on a deformation of the system; instead, it traces real curves connecting the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2009-09-01 Dan Bates , Frank Sottile

We introduce the topological complexity of the work map associated to a robot system. In broad terms, this measures the complexity of any algorithm controlling, not just the motion of the configuration space of the given system, but the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-01-30 Aniceto Murillo , Jie Wu