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We consider the convex hull of the perturbed point process comprised of $n$ i.i.d. points, each distributed as the sum of a uniform point on the unit sphere $\S^{d-1}$ and a uniform point in the $d$-dimensional ball centered at the origin…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-12-24 Pierre Calka , J. E. Yukich

This paper describes a novel and fast, simple and robust algorithm with O(N) expected complexity which enables to decrease run time needed to find the maximum distance of two points in E2. It can be easily modified for the E3 case in…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Vaclav Skala

Taking the convex hull of a curve is a natural construction in computational geometry. On the other hand, path signatures, central in stochastic analysis, capture geometric properties of curves, although their exact interpretation for…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-02 Carlos Améndola , Darrick Lee , Chiara Meroni

Chv\'{a}tal and Klincsek (1980) gave an $O(n^3)$-time algorithm for the problem of finding a maximum-cardinality convex subset of an arbitrary given set $P$ of $n$ points in the plane. This paper examines a generalization of the problem,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Stephane Durocher , J. Mark Keil , Saeed Mehrabi , Debajyoti Mondal

Arithmetic automata recognize infinite words of digits denoting decompositions of real and integer vectors. These automata are known expressive and efficient enough to represent the whole set of solutions of complex linear constraints…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-12-11 Jérôme Leroux

The upper bounds on the coverage probabilities of the confidence regions based on blockwise empirical likelihood [Kitamura (1997)] and nonstandard expansive empirical likelihood [Nordman et al. (2013)] methods for time series data are…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-08-01 Xianyang Zhang , Xiaofeng Shao

We reduce a broad class of machine learning problems, usually addressed by EM or sampling, to the problem of finding the $k$ extremal rays spanning the conical hull of a data point set. These $k$ "anchors" lead to a global solution and a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-06-24 Tianyi Zhou , Jeff Bilmes , Carlos Guestrin

Motivated by the increasing interest in applications of graph geodesic convexity in machine learning and data mining, we present a heuristic for computing the geodesic convex hull of node sets in networks. It generates a set of almost…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Florian Seiffarth , Tamás Horváth , Stefan Wrobel

A programming tactic involving polyhedra is reported that has been widely applied in the polyhedral analysis of (constraint) logic programs. The method enables the computations of convex hulls that are required for polyhedral analysis to be…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Florence Benoy , Andy King , Fred Mesnard

We examine the metrics that arise when a finite set of points is embedded in the real line, in such a way that the distance between each pair of points is at least 1. These metrics are closely related to some other known metrics in the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-08-02 Adam N. Letchford , Hanna Seitz , Dirk Oliver Theis

Deep Learning (DL) has made remarkable achievements in computer vision and adopted in safety critical domains such as medical imaging or autonomous drive. Thus, it is necessary to understand the uncertainty of the model to effectively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Hyekyoung Hwang , Jitae Shin

We consider the following geometric optimization problem: find a convex polygon of maximum area contained in a given simple polygon $P$ with $n$ vertices. We give a randomized near-linear-time $(1-\varepsilon)$-approximation algorithm for…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Sergio Cabello , Josef Cibulka , Jan Kynčl , Maria Saumell , Pavel Valtr

Halfspace (or Tukey) depth is a fundamental and robust measure of centrality of data points in multivariate datasets. Computing the depth of a point with respect to the uniform distribution on an open convex body in $\mathbb{R}^d$ is a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Purvi Gupta , Anant Narayanan

CAT(0) metric spaces and hyperbolic spaces play an important role in combinatorial and geometric group theory. In this paper, we present efficient algorithms for distance problems in CAT(0) planar complexes. First of all, we present an…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-10-09 Daniela Maftuleac

We study the polyhedral structure of the static probabilistic lot-sizing problem and propose valid inequalities that integrate information from the chance constraint and the binary setup variables. We prove that the proposed inequalities…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-02 Xiao Liu , Simge Kucukyavuz

We propose a novel method for computing exact pointwise robustness of deep neural networks for all convex $\ell_p$ norms. Our algorithm, GeoCert, finds the largest $\ell_p$ ball centered at an input point $x_0$, within which the output…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Matt Jordan , Justin Lewis , Alexandros G. Dimakis

We describe an algorithm for solving an important geometric problem arising in computer-aided manufacturing. When cutting away a region from a solid piece of material -- such as steel, wood, ceramics, or plastic -- using a rough tool in a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Mikkel Abrahamsen , Mikkel Thorup

The main purpose of this paper is to report on the state of the art of computing integer hulls and their facets as well as counting lattice points in convex polytopes. Using the polymake system we explore various algorithms and…

In computational inverse problems, it is common that a detailed and accurate forward model is approximated by a computationally less challenging substitute. The model reduction may be necessary to meet constraints in computing time when…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-02-14 Daniela Calvetti , Matthew M. Dunlop , Erkki Somersalo , Andrew M. Stuart

Estimating the volume of a convex body is a central problem in convex geometry and can be viewed as a continuous version of counting. We present a quantum algorithm that estimates the volume of an $n$-dimensional convex body within…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-11 Shouvanik Chakrabarti , Andrew M. Childs , Shih-Han Hung , Tongyang Li , Chunhao Wang , Xiaodi Wu