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We describe algorithms for two-stage stochastic linear programming with recourse and their implementation on a grid computing platform. In particular, we examine serial and asynchronous versions of the L-shaped method and a trust-region…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jeff Linderoth , Stephen Wright

This letter proposes a novel sparsity-aware adaptive filtering scheme and algorithms based on an alternating optimization strategy with shrinkage. The proposed scheme employs a two-stage structure that consists of an alternating…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Rodrigo C. de Lamare , Raimundo Sampaio-Neto

Simultaneous perturbation stochastic approximation (SPSA) is widely used in stochastic optimization due to its high efficiency, asymptotic stability, and reduced number of required loss function measurements. However, the standard SPSA…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-07 Zhichao Jia , Ziyi Wei , James C. Spall

State-space models (SSMs) are a common tool for modeling multi-variate discrete-time signals. The linear-Gaussian (LG) SSM is widely applied as it allows for a closed-form solution at inference, if the model parameters are known. However,…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Emilie Chouzenoux , Victor Elvira

We present a universal quantum Monte Carlo algorithm for simulating arbitrary high-spin (spin greater than 1/2) Hamiltonians, based on the recently developed permutation matrix representation (PMR) framework. Our approach extends a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Arman Babakhani , Lev Barash , Itay Hen

We study distributed training of deep learning models in time-constrained environments. We propose a new algorithm that periodically pulls workers towards the center variable computed as a weighted average of workers, where the weights are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Tolga Dimlioglu , Anna Choromanska

This paper presents an algorithm for the simulation of Hawkes-type processes where the intensity is expressed in terms of a continuous-time autoregressive moving average model. We identify upper bounds for both the univariate and the…

Computation · Statistics 2025-06-10 Lorenzo Mercuri , Andrea Perchiazzo , Edit Rroji

In this paper, for solving a broad class of large-scale nonconvex and nonsmooth optimization problems, we propose a stochastic two step inertial Bregman proximal alternating linearized minimization (STiBPALM) algorithm with variance-reduced…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-12 Chenzheng Guo , Jing Zhao , Qiao-Li Dong

We propose a decomposition framework for the parallel optimization of the sum of a differentiable function and a (block) separable nonsmooth, convex one. The latter term is typically used to enforce structure in the solution as, for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-11-12 Francisco Facchinei , Simone Sagratella , Gesualdo Scutari

The Artificial Fish Swarm Algorithm (AFSA) is inspired by the ecological behaviors of fish schooling in nature, viz., the preying, swarming and following behaviors. Owing to a number of salient properties, which include flexibility, fast…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Farhad Pourpanah , Ran Wang , Chee Peng Lim , Xi-Zhao Wang , Danial Yazdani

Recently, Sharpness-Aware Minimization (SAM) algorithm has shown state-of-the-art generalization abilities in vision tasks. It demonstrates that flat minima tend to imply better generalization abilities. However, it has some difficulty…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Zhiyuan Zhang , Ruixuan Luo , Qi Su , Xu Sun

Simulation-based inference (SBI) is rapidly establishing itself as a standard machine learning technique for analyzing data in cosmological surveys. Despite continual improvements to the quality of density estimation by learned models,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-03 Pablo Lemos , Miles Cranmer , Muntazir Abidi , ChangHoon Hahn , Michael Eickenberg , Elena Massara , David Yallup , Shirley Ho

In this note we propose a new variant of the hybrid variance-reduced proximal gradient method in [7] to solve a common stochastic composite nonconvex optimization problem under standard assumptions. We simply replace the independent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-21 Deyi Liu , Lam M. Nguyen , Quoc Tran-Dinh

Large scale optimization problems are ubiquitous in machine learning and data analysis and there is a plethora of algorithms for solving such problems. Many of these algorithms employ sub-sampling, as a way to either speed up the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-02-29 Farbod Roosta-Khorasani , Michael W. Mahoney

The Metropolis Hastings algorithm and its multi-proposal extensions are aimed at the computation of the expectation $<\pi,f>$ of a function $f$ under a probability measure $\pi$ difficult to simulate. They consist in constructing by an…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-02-20 Jean-François Delmas , Benjamin Jourdain

We provide an algorithm for computing an effective basis of homology of elliptic surfaces over the complex projective line on which integration of periods can be carried out. This allows the heuristic recovery of several algebraic…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-07 Eric Pichon-Pharabod

Motivated by the sign problem in several systems, we have developed a geometric simulation algorithm based on the strong coupling expansion which can be applied to abelian pure gauge models. We have studied the algorithm in the U(1) model…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2010-05-27 Vicente Azcoiti , Giuseppe Di Carlo , Eduardo Follana , Alejandro Vaquero

Most real-world optimization problems often come with multiple global optima or local optima. Therefore, increasing niching metaheuristic algorithms, which devote to finding multiple optima in a single run, are developed to solve these…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-08 Bing Zeng , Xinyu Li , Liang Gao , Yuyan Zhang , Haozhen Dong

Full Waveform Inversion (FWI) stands as a nonlinear, high-resolution technology for subsurface imaging via surface-recorded data. This paper introduces an augmented Lagrangian dual formulation for FWI, rooted in the viewpoint that Lagrange…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-12-13 Kamal Aghazade , Ali Gholami

We propose and analyze a hybridized discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) method for the spherically symmetric Einstein--scalar system in Bondi gauge. After rewriting the model as a local first-order PDE--ODE system by introducing suitable scaled…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Mukul Dwivedi , Andreas Rupp