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This paper studies the remote estimation of multiple Markov sources over a lossy and rate-constrained channel. Unlike most existing studies that treat all source states equally, we exploit the \emph{semantics of information} and consider…

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In the application of the Expectation Maximization algorithm to identification of dynamical systems, internal states are typically chosen as latent variables, for simplicity. In this work, we propose a different choice of latent variables,…

Computation · Statistics 2016-08-06 Jack Umenberger , Johan Wågberg , Ian R. Manchester , Thomas B. Schön

Based on the Relativistic Mean Field (RMF) approach the existence of the broken pseudo-spin symmetry is investigated. Both spherical RMF and constrained deformed RMF calculations are carried out employing realistic Lagrangian parameters for…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 G. A. Lalazissis , Y. K. Gambhir , J. P. Maharana , C. S. Warke , P. Ring

We study an information-theoretic minimax problem for finite multivariate Markov chains on $d$-dimensional product state spaces. Given a family $\mathcal B=\{P_1,\ldots,P_n\}$ of $\pi$-stationary transition matrices and a class $\mathcal F…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Zheyuan Lai , Michael C. H. Choi

High-speed railway stations are crucial junctions in high-speed railway networks. Compared to operations on the tracks between stations, trains have more routing possibilities within stations. As a result, track allocation at a station is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-03 Qin Zhang , Richard Martin Lusby , Pan Shang , Chang Liu , Wenqian Liu

Stereo matching is a core task for many computer vision and robotics applications. Despite their dominance in traditional stereo methods, the hand-crafted Markov Random Field (MRF) models lack sufficient modeling accuracy compared to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Tongfan Guan , Chen Wang , Yun-Hui Liu

We study the minimization of a spectral risk measure of the total discounted cost generated by a Markov Decision Process (MDP) over a finite or infinite planning horizon. The MDP is assumed to have Borel state and action spaces and the cost…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Nicole Bäuerle , Alexander Glauner

The resource recharging station location routing problem is a generalization of the location routing problem with sophisticated and critical resource consumption and recharging constraints. Based on a representation of discretized acyclic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-02-24 Gongyuan Lu , Xuesong Zhou , Qiyuan Peng , Bisheng He , Monirehalsadat Mahmoudi , Jun Zhao

We propose a new model-order reduction framework to poorly reducible problems arising from parametric partial differential equations with geometric variability. In such problems, the solution manifold exhibits a slowly decaying Kolmogorov…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-30 Abbas Kabalan , Fabien Casenave , Felipe Bordeu , Virginie Ehrlacher , Alexandre Ern

Computing supertrees is a central problem in phylogenetics. The supertree method that is by far the most widely used today was introduced in 1992 and is called Matrix Representation with Parsimony analysis (MRP). Matrix Representation using…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-12-21 Sebastian Böcker , Quang Bao Anh Bui , Francois Nicolas , Anke Truss

We consider the problem of solving LP relaxations of MAP-MRF inference problems, and in particular the method proposed recently in (Swoboda, Kolmogorov 2019; Kolmogorov, Pock 2021). As a key computational subroutine, it uses a variant of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-26 Vladimir Kolmogorov

Swarms are highly robust systems that offer unique benefits compared to their alternatives. In this work, we propose a bio-inspired and artificial potential field-driven robot swarm control method, where the swarm formation dynamics are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Malintha Fernando , Lantao Liu

During initial iterations of training in most Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithms, agents perform a significant number of random exploratory steps. In the real world, this can limit the practicality of these algorithms as it can lead to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Ashish Kumar Jayant , Shalabh Bhatnagar

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has attracted much attention as an approach to solve optimal control problems without mathematical models of systems. On the other hand, in general, constraints may be imposed on optimal control problems.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-11-22 Junya Ikemoto , Toshimitsu Ushio

Spatial modulation (SM) is a promising multiple-input multiple-output system used to increase spectral efficiency. The maximum likelihood (ML) decoder jointly detects the transmitted SM symbol, which is of high complexity. In this paper, a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Ibrahim Al-Nahhal , Octavia A. Dobre , Salama Ikki

In this contribution, we are concerned with parameter optimization problems that are constrained by multiscale PDE state equations. As an efficient numerical solution approach for such problems, we introduce and analyze a new relaxed and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-13 Tim Keil , Mario Ohlberger

The reconstruction of low-rank matrix from its noisy observation finds its usage in many applications. It can be reformulated into a constrained nuclear norm minimization problem, where the bound $\eta$ of the constraint is explicitly given…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-14 Kexin Li , Hongwei Li , Raymond H. Chan , You-wei Wen

We consider move-making algorithms for energy minimization of multi-label Markov Random Fields (MRFs). Since this is not a tractable problem in general, a commonly used heuristic is to minimize over subsets of labels and variables in an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Richard Hartley , Thalaiyasingam Ajanthan

Dynamic Mode Decomposition (DMD) has emerged as a powerful tool for analyzing the dynamics of non-linear systems from experimental datasets. Recently, several attempts have extended DMD to the context of low-rank approximations. This…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-18 Patrick Héas , Cédric Herzet

Discrete Markov random fields are undirected graphical models that capture complex conditional dependencies between discrete variables. Conducting exact posterior inference in these models is often computationally challenging because…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-10 Giuseppe Arena , Maarten Marsman