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We consider the MAP-MRF inference task, that is, minimizing a function of discrete variables represented as a sum of unary and pairwise terms. A prominent approach for tackling this NP-hard problem in practice is to solve its natural LP…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Asaf Lev-Ran , Pavel Arkhipov , Vladimir Kolmogorov

In this paper, we study the problem of inferring spatially-varying Gaussian Markov random fields (SV-GMRF) where the goal is to learn a network of sparse, context-specific GMRFs representing network relationships between genes. An important…

Applications · Statistics 2022-06-22 Visweswaran Ravikumar , Tong Xu , Wajd N. Al-Holou , Salar Fattahi , Arvind Rao

We aim to derive effective lower bounds for the Discrete Cost Multicommodity Network Design Problem (DCMNDP). Given an undirected graph, the problem requires installing at most one facility on each edge such that a set of point-to-point…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-11 Nesrine Bakkar Ennaifer , Safa Bhar Layeb , Farah Mansour Zeghal

A new relaxed variant of interior point method for low-rank semidefinite programming problems is proposed in this paper. The method is a step outside of the usual interior point framework. In anticipation to converging to a low-rank primal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-26 Stefania Bellavia , Jacek Gondzio , Margherita Porcelli

Pair-wise Markov random fields (MRF) are considered for application to the development of low complexity, iterative MIMO detection. Specifically, we consider two types of MRF, namely, the fully-connected and ring-type. For the edge…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-11-23 Seokhyun Yoon , Jun Heo

Magnetic resonance fingerprinting (MRF) is a technique for quantitative estimation of spin-relaxation parameters from magnetic-resonance data. Most current MRF approaches assume that only one tissue is present in each voxel, which neglects…

Dense conditional random fields (CRFs) have become a popular framework for modelling several problems in computer vision such as stereo correspondence and multi-class semantic segmentation. By modelling long-range interactions, dense CRFs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-29 Thomas Joy , Alban Desmaison , Thalaiyasingam Ajanthan , Rudy Bunel , Mathieu Salzmann , Pushmeet Kohli , Philip H. S. Torr , M. Pawan Kumar

A radial basis function (RBF) based sequential surrogate reliability method (SSRM) is proposed, in which a special optimization problem is solved to update the surrogate model of the limit state function (LSF) iteratively. The objective of…

Computation · Statistics 2017-06-27 Xu Li , Chunlin Gong , Liangxian Gu , Wenkun Gao , Zhao Jing , Hua Su

Due to the intractable partition function, the exact likelihood function for a Markov random field (MRF), in many situations, can only be approximated. Major approximation approaches include pseudolikelihood and Laplace approximation. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Jie Liu , Hao Zheng

Markov random field (MRF) learning is intractable, and its approximation algorithms are computationally expensive. We target a small subset of MRF that is used frequently in computer vision. We characterize this subset with three concepts:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-06-09 Rajasekaran Masatran

We present a new proximal bundle method for Maximum-A-Posteriori (MAP) inference in structured energy minimization problems. The method optimizes a Lagrangean relaxation of the original energy minimization problem using a multi plane…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Paul Swoboda , Vladimir Kolmogorov

Recently, it has become evident that submodularity naturally captures widely occurring concepts in machine learning, signal processing and computer vision. Consequently, there is need for efficient optimization procedures for submodular…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-11-19 Stefanie Jegelka , Francis Bach , Suvrit Sra

Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting (MRF) has emerged as a promising quantitative MR imaging approach. Deep learning methods have been proposed for MRF and demonstrated improved performance over classical compressed sensing algorithms.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-27 Dongdong Chen , Mike E. Davies , Mohammad Golbabaee

Mean field approximation methodology has laid the foundation of modern Continuous Random Field (CRF) based solutions for the refinement of semantic segmentation. In this paper, we propose to relax the hard constraint of mean field…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Xi Mo , Xiangyu Chen , Cuncong Zhong , Rui Li , Kaidong Li , Usman Sajid

We present a novel iterative algorithm for detection of binary Markov random fields (MRFs) corrupted by two-dimensional (2D) intersymbol interference (ISI) and additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN). We assume a first-order binary MRF as a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Ying Zhu , Taikun Cheng , Krishnamoorthy Sivakumar , Benjamin J. Belzer

Safety is an essential requirement for reinforcement learning systems. The newly emerging framework of robust constrained Markov decision processes allows learning policies that satisfy long-term constraints while providing guarantees under…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-19 David M. Bossens , Atsushi Nitanda

In this work, we consider the construction of efficient surrogates for the stochastic version of the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert (LLG) equation using model order reduction techniques, in particular, the Reduced Basis (RB) method. The Stochastic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-01 Andrea Scaglioni , Michael Feischl , Fernando Henríquez

We study the minmax optimization problem introduced in [22] for computing policies for batch mode reinforcement learning in a deterministic setting. First, we show that this problem is NP-hard. In the two-stage case, we provide two…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2012-10-31 Raphael Fonteneau , Damien Ernst , Bernard Boigelot , Quentin Louveaux

Composite optimization problems involve minimizing the composition of a smooth map with a convex function. Such objectives arise in numerous data science and signal processing applications, including phase retrieval, blind deconvolution,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-06 Mateo Díaz , Liwei Jiang , Abdel Ghani Labassi

We propose a Bayesian image super-resolution (SR) method with a causal Gaussian Markov random field (MRF) prior. SR is a technique to estimate a spatially high-resolution image from given multiple low-resolution images. An MRF model with…

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