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Estimating covariance matrices with high-dimensional complex data presents significant challenges, particularly concerning positive definiteness, sparsity, and numerical stability. Existing robust sparse estimators often fail to guarantee…

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In this work we introduce a viscosity-based notion of solution for general approximation schemes associated with partial differential equations, such as dynamic programming principles~(DPPs). A key feature of our approach is that it…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Félix del Teso , Julio D. Rossi , Jorge Ruiz-Cases

Multiscale dynamics are ubiquitous in applications of modern science. Because of time scale separation between relatively small set of slowly evolving variables and (typically) much larger set of rapidly changing variables, direct numerical…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-04-08 Rafail V. Abramov

Information processing techniques based on sparseness have been actively studied in several disciplines. Among them, a mathematical framework to approximately express a given dataset by a combination of a small number of basis vectors of an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-04 Tomoyuki Obuchi , Yoshiyuki Kabashima

In a preliminary attempt to address the problem of data scarcity in physics-based machine learning, we introduce a novel methodology for data generation in physics-based simulations. Our motivation is to overcome the limitations posed by…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-06-21 Rucha Apte , Sheel Nidhan , Rishikesh Ranade , Jay Pathak

Signal processing is rich in inherently continuous and often nonlinear applications, such as spectral estimation, optical imaging, and super-resolution microscopy, in which sparsity plays a key role in obtaining state-of-the-art results.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-23 Luiz F. O. Chamon , Yonina C. Eldar , Alejandro Ribeiro

We propose a novel framework for discovering Stochastic Partial Differential Equations (SPDEs) from data. The proposed approach combines the concepts of stochastic calculus, variational Bayes theory, and sparse learning. We propose the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-06-29 Yogesh Chandrakant Mathpati , Tapas Tripura , Rajdip Nayek , Souvik Chakraborty

This paper considers an optimization problem for a dynamical system whose evolution depends on a collection of binary decision variables. We develop scalable approximation algorithms with provable suboptimality bounds to provide…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-31 Insoon Yang , Samuel A. Burden , Ram Rajagopal , S. Shankar Sastry , Claire J. Tomlin

The problem of minimizing a polynomial over a set of polynomial inequalities is an NP-hard non-convex problem. Thanks to powerful results from real algebraic geometry, one can convert this problem into a nested sequence of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-26 Victor Magron , Jie Wang

Physical design refers to mathematical optimization of a desired objective (e.g. strong light--matter interactions, or complete quantum state transfer) subject to the governing dynamical equations, such as Maxwell's or Schrodinger's…

Optics · Physics 2023-04-03 Shai Gertler , Zeyu Kuang , Colin Christie , Owen D. Miller

Motivated by the modeling of three-dimensional fluid turbulence, we define and study a class of stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs) that are randomly stirred by a spatially smooth and uncorrelated in time forcing term. To…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-12-24 Gabriel B. Apolinário , Laurent Chevillard , Jean-Christophe Mourrat

A procedure for obtaining a "minimal" discretization of a partial differential equation, preserving all of its Lie point symmetries is presented. "Minimal" in this case means that the differential equation is replaced by a partial…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Francis Valiquette , Pavel Winternitz

The accurate numerical solution of partial differential equations is a central task in numerical analysis allowing to model a wide range of natural phenomena by employing specialized solvers depending on the scenario of application. Here,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-13 Moritz Reh , Martin Gärttner

In this paper we show that solutions of stochastic partial differential equations driven by Brownian motion can be approximated by stochastic partial differential equations forced by pure jump noise/random kicks. Applications to stochastic…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-01-31 Giulia Di Nunno , Tusheng Zhang

Spark plays a great role in studying uniqueness of sparse solutions of the underdetermined linear equations. In this article, we derive a new lower bound of spark. As an application, we obtain a new criterion for the uniqueness of sparse…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-10-19 Wajeb Gharibi

To improve the physical understanding and the predictions of complex dynamic systems, such as ocean dynamics and weather predictions, it is of paramount interest to identify interpretable models from coarsely and off-grid sampled…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-05-04 Gert-Jan Both , Georges Tod , Remy Kusters

In this work, we study the problem of finding approximate, with minimum support set, solutions to matrix max-plus equations, which we call sparse approximate solutions. We show how one can obtain such solutions efficiently and in polynomial…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-22 Nikos Tsilivis , Anastasios Tsiamis , Petros Maragos

Hard-thresholding-based algorithms have seen various advantages for sparse optimization in controlling the sparsity and allowing for fast computation. Recent research shows that when techniques of the Newton-type methods are integrated,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-11 Shenglong Zhou

We present the framework of slowly varying regression under sparsity, allowing sparse regression models to exhibit slow and sparse variations. The problem of parameter estimation is formulated as a mixed-integer optimization problem. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Dimitris Bertsimas , Vassilis Digalakis , Michael Linghzi Li , Omar Skali Lami

The paper presents a general strategy to solve ordinary differential equations (ODE), where some coefficient depend on the spatial variable and on additional random variables. The approach is based on the application of a recently developed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-17 Maximilian Bochmann , Lutz Kämmerer , Daniel Potts