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The computational burden of probabilistic inference remains a hurdle for applying probabilistic programming languages to practical problems of interest. In this work, we provide a semantic and algorithmic foundation for efficient exact…

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We consider the problem of computing the minimum of a polynomial function g on a basic closed semialgebraic set E in R^n. We present a probabilistic symbolic algorithm to find a finite set of sample points of the subset E^{min} of E where…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2013-04-23 Gabriela Jeronimo , Daniel Perrucci

We consider the problem of minimizing a linear function over an affine section of the cone of positive semidefinite matrices, with the additional constraint that the feasible matrix has prescribed rank. When the rank constraint is active,…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-11-22 Simone Naldi

We develop a natural variant of Dikin's affine-scaling method, first for semidefinite programming and then for hyperbolic programming in general. We match the best complexity bounds known for interior-point methods. All previous…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-10-27 James Renegar , Mutiara Sondjaja

The sparse difference resultant introduced in \citep{gao-2015} is a basic concept in difference elimination theory. In this paper, we show that the sparse difference resultant of a generic Laurent transformally essential system can be…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Chun-Ming Yuan , Zhi-Yong Zhang

Let $f_{1}, \ldots, f_{k}$ be polynomials defining an algebraic set in affine $n$-space over a finite field. Suppose $k>n$. We prove that there exists a system of polynomials $g_{1}, \ldots, g_{n}$, each being a linear combination with…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-04-26 Stefan Barańczuk

This paper reexamines univariate reduction from a toric geometric point of view. We begin by constructing a binomial variant of the $u$-resultant and then retailor the generalized characteristic polynomial to fully exploit sparsity in the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2009-09-25 J. Maurice Rojas

Estimating covariance parameters for multivariate spatial Gaussian random fields is computationally challenging, as the number of parameters grows rapidly with the number of variables, and likelihood evaluation requires operations of order…

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We present a symbolic perturbation scheme for arbitrary polynomial geometric predicates which combines the benefits of Emiris and Canny's simple randomized linear perturbation scheme with Yap's multiple infinitesimal scheme for general…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2013-08-12 Geoffrey Irving , Forrest Green

We introduce a sparse estimation in the ordinary kriging for functional data. The functional kriging predicts a feature given as a function at a location where the data are not observed by a linear combination of data observed at other…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-28 Hidetoshi Matsui , Yuya Yamakawa

In this study, we consider the numerical solution of large systems of linear equations obtained from the stochastic Galerkin formulation of stochastic partial differential equations. We propose an iterative algorithm that exploits the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-18 Kookjin Lee , Howard C. Elman

We show that, for a system of univariate polynomials given in sparse encoding, we can compute a single polynomial defining the same zero set, in time quasi-linear in the logarithm of the degree. In particular, it is possible to determine…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-04-15 Francesco Amoroso , Louis Leroux , Martin Sombra

Computing the real solutions to a system of polynomial equations is a challenging problem, particularly verifying that all solutions have been computed. We describe an approach that combines numerical algebraic geometry and sums of squares…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-02-03 Daniel A. Brake , Jonathan D. Hauenstein , Alan C. Liddell

Sparse coding of images is traditionally done by cutting them into small patches and representing each patch individually over some dictionary given a pre-determined number of nonzero coefficients to use for each patch. In lack of a way to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-30 Reza Borhani , Jeremy Watt , Aggelos Katsaggelos

This article presents a strongly polynomial-time algorithm for the general linear programming problem. This algorithm is an implicit reduction procedure that works as follows. Primal and dual problems are combined into a special system of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Samuel Awoniyi

We consider an important class of signal processing problems where the signal of interest is known to be sparse, and can be recovered from data given auxiliary information about how the data was generated. For example, a sparse Green's…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-12-06 Aleksandr Y. Aravkin , Tristan van Leeuwen , Ning Tu

In this paper, we propose a sparse spectral-Galerkin approximation scheme for solving the second-order partial differential equations on an arbitrary tetrahedron. Generalized Koornwinder polynomials are introduced on the reference…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-18 Lueling Jia , Huiyuan Li , Zhimin Zhang

We introduce a method and an algorithm for computing the weighted Moore-Penrose inverse of multiple-variable polynomial matrix and the related algorithm which is appropriated for sparse polynomial matrices. These methods and algorithms are…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2011-04-12 Petković , M. D. , Stanimirović , P. S. , Tasić , M. B

We develop a probabilistic algorithm of Kronecker type for computing a Kronecker representation of a zero-dimensional linear section of an algebraic variety $V$ defined over a perfect field $k$. The variety $V$ is the Zariski closure of the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-18 Nardo Giménez , Joos Heintz , Guillermo Matera , Luis Miguel Pardo , Mariana Pérez , Melina Privitelli

We show how to perform sparse approximate Gaussian elimination for Laplacian matrices. We present a simple, nearly linear time algorithm that approximates a Laplacian by a matrix with a sparse Cholesky factorization, the version of Gaussian…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-05-10 Rasmus Kyng , Sushant Sachdeva