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Recent advances in symbolic dynamic programming (SDP) combined with the extended algebraic decision diagram (XADD) data structure have provided exact solutions for mixed discrete and continuous (hybrid) MDPs with piecewise linear dynamics…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-09-27 Luis Gustavo Vianna , Scott Sanner , Leliane Nunes de Barros

In this paper, we present extensions of the exact simulation algorithm introduced by Beskos et al. (2006). First, a modification in the order in which the simulation is done accelerates the algorithm. In addition, we propose a truncated…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-02-14 Victor Reutenauer , Etienne Tanré

A simple yet efficient computational algorithm for computing the continuous optimal experimental design for linear models is proposed. An alternative proof the monotonic convergence for $D$-optimal criterion on continuous design spaces are…

Computation · Statistics 2018-04-10 Jiangtao Duan , Wei Gao , Hon Keung Tony Ng

We propose a new class of exact continuous relaxations of l0-regularized criteria involving non-quadratic data terms such as the Kullback-Leibler divergence and the logistic regression, possibly combined with an l2 regularization. We first…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-26 M'hamed Essafri , Luca Calatroni , Emmanuel Soubies

In this paper, a gradient-free distributed algorithm is introduced to solve a set constrained optimization problem under a directed communication network. Specifically, at each time-step, the agents locally compute a so-called…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-06 Yipeng Pang , Guoqiang Hu

Automatic algorithms attempt to provide approximate solutions that differ from exact solutions by no more than a user-specified error tolerance. This paper describes an automatic, adaptive algorithm for approximating the solution to a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-09-28 Yuhan Ding , Fred J. Hickernell , Lluís Antoni Jiménez Rugama

The paper concerns optimization problems with general equality and inequality constraints and with constraints expressed by a convex set. In order to solve these problems, the general constraints are treated by an exact penalty functions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Bogdan K. Jastrzębski , Radosław Pytlak

This paper deals with some nonlinear problems which exponential and biexponential decays are involved in. A proof of the quasiconvexity of the error function in some of these problems of optimization is presented. This proof is restricted…

In this paper, we consider the nonlinear constrained optimization problem (NCP) with constraint set $\{x \in \mathcal{X}: c(x) = 0\}$, where $\mathcal{X}$ is a closed convex subset of $\mathbb{R}^n$. We propose an exact penalty approach,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-06 Nachuan Xiao , Tianyun Tang , Shiwei Wang , Kim-Chuan Toh

This paper considers simulation-based optimization of the performance of a regime-switching stochastic system over a finite set of feasible configurations. Inspired by the stochastic fictitious play learning rules in game theory, we propose…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-18 Omid Namvar Gharehshiran , Vikram Krishnamurthy , George Yin

We establish sharp well-posedness and approximation estimates for variational saddle point systems at the continuous level. The main results of this note have been known to be true only in the finite dimensional case. Known spectral results…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-11-04 Constantin Bacuta

Quantum simulation is a foundational application for quantum computers, projected to offer insights into complex quantum systems beyond the reach of classical computation. However, with the exception of Trotter-based methods, which suffer…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 Amir Kalev , Itay Hen

Decentralized stochastic optimization has emerged as a fundamental paradigm for large-scale machine learning. However, practical implementations often rely on biased gradient estimators arising from communication compression or inexact…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-10 Qing Xu , Yiwei Liao , Wenqi Fan , Xingxing You , Songyi Dian

We consider a stochastic differential equation of the form \[dX_t=\theta a(t,X_t)\,dt+\sigma_1(t,X_t)\sigma_2(t,Y_t)\,dW_t\] with multiplicative stochastic volatility, where $Y$ is some adapted stochastic process. We prove…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-01-06 Meriem Bel Hadj Khlifa , Yuliya Mishura , Kostiantyn Ralchenko , Mounir Zili

In this paper, we study approximate and exact controllability of the linear difference equation $x(t) = \sum\_{j=1}^N A\_j x(t - \Lambda\_j) + B u(t)$ in $L^2$, with $x(t) \in \mathbb C^d$ and $u(t) \in \mathbb C^m$, using as a basic tool a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-11 Yacine Chitour , Guilherme Mazanti , Mario Sigalotti

We investigate the convergence properties of exact and inexact forward-backward algorithms to minimise the sum of two weakly convex functions defined on a Hilbert space, where one has a Lipschitz-continuous gradient. We show that the exact…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-24 Ewa Bednarczuk , Giovanni Bruccola , Gabriele Scrivanti , The Hung Tran

A fully adaptive finite volume multiresolution scheme for one-dimensional strongly degenerate parabolic equations with discontinuous flux is presented. The numerical scheme is based on a finite volume discretization using the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2008-07-03 Raimund Bürger , Ricardo Ruiz Baier , Mauricio Sepúlveda , Kai Schneider

In this paper implicit and explicit exact difference schemes (EDS) for system $\textbf{x}' = A\textbf{x}$ of three linear differential equations with constant coefficients are constructed. Numerical simulations for stiff problem and for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-03 Quang A Dang , Manh Tuan Hoang

In this work, an efficient approximation scheme has been proposed for getting accurate approximate solution of nonlinear partial differential equations with constant or variable coefficients satisfying initial conditions in a series of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-04 Prakash Kumar Das , M. M. Panja

We consider the stochastic differential equation $$ dX_t = b(X_t) dt + dL_t,$$ where the drift $b$ is a generalized function and $L$ is a symmetric one dimensional $\alpha$-stable L\'evy processes, $\alpha \in (1, 2)$. We define the notion…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-01-11 Siva Athreya , Oleg Butkovsky , Leonid Mytnik