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Successive quadratic approximations, or second-order proximal methods, are useful for minimizing functions that are a sum of a smooth part and a convex, possibly nonsmooth part that promotes regularization. Most analyses of iteration…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-25 Ching-pei Lee , Stephen J. Wright

We introduce a subexponential algorithm for geometric solving of multivariate polynomial equation systems whose bit complexity depends mainly on intrinsic geometric invariants of the solution set. From this algorithm, we derive a new…

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We present a new algorithm for reconstructing an exact algebraic number from its approximate value using an improved parameterized integer relation construction method. Our result is consistent with the existence of error controlling on…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-02-06 Xiaolin Qin , Yong Feng , Jingwei Chen , Jingzhong Zhang

The problem of obtaining optimal projections for performing discriminant analysis with Gaussian class densities is studied. Unlike in most existing approaches to the problem, the focus of the optimisation is on the multinomial likelihood…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-04-08 David P. Hofmeyr , Francois Kamper , Michail C. Melonas

We give a polynomial time reduction from vector scheduling problem (VS) to generalized load balancing problem (GLB). This reduction gives the first non-trivial online algorithm for VS where vectors come in an online fashion. The online…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-01-15 Xiaojun Zhu , Qun Li , Weizhen Mao , Guihai Chen

In this paper we consider a family of algorithms for approximate implicitization of rational parametric curves and surfaces. The main approximation tool in all of the approaches is the singular value decomposition, and they are therefore…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-30 Oliver J. D. Barrowclough , Tor Dokken

In many real-world problems, there is a limited set of training data, but an abundance of unlabeled data. We propose a new method, Generative Posterior Networks (GPNs), that uses unlabeled data to estimate epistemic uncertainty in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Melrose Roderick , Felix Berkenkamp , Fatemeh Sheikholeslami , Zico Kolter

We study polynomial-time approximation algorithms for the Quantum Max-Cut (QMC) problem. Given an edge-weighted graph $G$ on n vertices, the QMC problem is to determine the largest eigenvalue of a particular $2^n \times 2^n$ matrix that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-16 Sander Gribling , Lennart Sinjorgo , Renata Sotirov

In this paper, we propose an inexact proximal Newton-type method for nonconvex composite problems. We establish the global convergence rate of the order $\mathcal{O}(k^{-1/2})$ in terms of the minimal norm of the KKT residual mapping and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-26 Hong Zhu

We present an iterative scheme, reminiscent of the Multigrid method, to solve large boundary value problems with Probabilistic Domain Decomposition (PDD). In it, increasingly accurate approximations to the solution are used as control…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-06 Francisco Bernal , Juan A. Acebrón

To solve the separable convex optimization problem with linear constraints, Eckstein and Bertsekas introduced the generalized alternating direction method of multipliers (in short, GADMM), which is an efficient and simple acceleration…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-17 Jianwen Peng , Dexi Liu , Xueqing Zhang , Jen-Chih Yao

The scheme of divided differences is widely used in many approximation and interpolation problems. Computing the Newton coefficients of the interpolating polynomial is the first step of the Bj\"{o}rck and Pereyra algorithm for solving…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Alicja Smoktunowicz , Przemyslaw Kosowski , Iwona Wrobel

Polynomial multiplication is a fundamental problem in symbolic computation. There are efficient methods for the multiplication of two univariate polynomials. However, there is rarely efficiently nontrivial method for the multiplication of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Cancan Wang , Ming Su , Gang Wang , Qingpo Zhang

In this paper, we apply the method of approximate transformation groups proposed by Baikov, Gaziziv and Ibragimov, to compute the first-order approximate symmetry for the Gardner equations with the small parameters. We compute the optimal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-09-21 Mehdi Nadjafikhah , Ardavan Mokhtary

In this paper, we consider the problem of formulating the subresultant polynomials for several univariate polynomials in Newton basis. It is required that the resulting subresultant polynomials be expressed in the same Newton basis as that…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Weidong Wang , Jing Yang

Stochastic Gradient Descent with a constant learning rate (constant SGD) simulates a Markov chain with a stationary distribution. With this perspective, we derive several new results. (1) We show that constant SGD can be used as an…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-01-23 Stephan Mandt , Matthew D. Hoffman , David M. Blei

We resolve a long-standing open question, about the existence of a constant-factor approximation algorithm for the average-case \textsc{Decision Tree} problem with uniform probability distribution over the hypotheses. We answer the question…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Michał Szyfelbein

In this paper, we propose a new inexact version of the projected subgradient method to solve nondifferentiable constrained convex optimization problems. The method combine $\epsilon$-subgradient method with a procedure to obtain a feasible…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-17 Ademir Alves Aguiar , Orizon Pereira Ferreira , Leandro da Fonseca Prudente

We consider Bayesian inference problems with computationally intensive likelihood functions. We propose a Gaussian process (GP) based method to approximate the joint distribution of the unknown parameters and the data. In particular, we…

Computation · Statistics 2018-03-15 Hongqiao Wang , Jinglai Li

In this paper, we introduce proximal gradient temporal difference learning, which provides a principled way of designing and analyzing true stochastic gradient temporal difference learning algorithms. We show how gradient TD (GTD)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Bo Liu , Ian Gemp , Mohammad Ghavamzadeh , Ji Liu , Sridhar Mahadevan , Marek Petrik