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In this manuscript we study the following optimization problem: given a bounded and regular domain $\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^N$ we look for an optimal shape for the "$\mathrm{W}-$vanishing window" on the boundary with prescribed measure…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-05-22 João Vitor Da Silva , Ariel Salort , Analía Silva , Juan Spedaletti

We study the problem of computing the minimum area triangle that circumscribes a given $n$-sided convex polygon touching edge-to-edge. In other words, we compute the minimum area triangle that is the intersection of 3 half-planes out of $n$…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Kai Jin , Zhiyi Huang

Here we study non-convex composite optimization: first, a finite-sum of smooth but non-convex functions, and second, a general function that admits a simple proximal mapping. Most research on stochastic methods for composite optimization…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-09-13 Xiyu Yu , Dacheng Tao

We consider a range-search variant of the closest-pair problem. Let $\varGamma$ be a fixed shape in the plane. We are interested in storing a given set of $n$ points in the plane in some data structure such that for any specified translate…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-03-25 Jie Xue , Yuan Li , Saladi Rahul , Ravi Janardan

We study the maximum weight convex polytope problem, in which the goal is to find a convex polytope maximizing the total weight of enclosed points. Prior to this work, the only known result for this problem was an $O(n^3)$ algorithm for the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Mohammad Ali Abam , Ali Mohammad Lavasani , Denis Pankratov

In this work, we use algebraic methods for studying distance computation and subgraph detection tasks in the congested clique model. Specifically, we adapt parallel matrix multiplication implementations to the congested clique, obtaining an…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Keren Censor-Hillel , Petteri Kaski , Janne H. Korhonen , Christoph Lenzen , Ami Paz , Jukka Suomela

We propose the first algorithm for non-rigid 2D-to-3D shape matching, where the input is a 2D shape represented as a planar curve and a 3D shape represented as a surface; the output is a continuous curve on the surface. We cast the problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-24 Zorah Lähner , Emanuele Rodolà , Frank R. Schmidt , Michael M. Bronstein , Daniel Cremers

We propose a general scheme for solving convex and non-convex optimization problems on manifolds. The central idea is that, by adding a multiple of the squared retraction distance to the objective function in question, we "convexify" the…

Computation · Statistics 2020-10-20 Lizhen Lin , Bayan Saparbayeva , Michael Minyi Zhang , David B. Dunson

In this paper, we consider the problem of minimizing a difference-of-convex objective over a nonlinear conic constraint, where the cone is closed, convex, pointed and has a nonempty interior. We assume that the support function of a compact…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Jiefeng Xu , Ting Kei Pong , Nung-sing Sze

The knife-edge method is an established technique for profiling of even tightly focused light beams. However the straightforward implementation of this method fails if the materials and geometry of the knife-edges are not chosen carefully…

Optics · Physics 2016-10-28 S. Orlov , C. Huber , P. Marchenko , P. Banzer , G. Leuchs

Small-angle scattering tensor tomography is a technique for studying anisotropic nanostructures of millimeter-sized samples in a volume-resolved manner. It requires the acquisition of data through repeated tomographic rotations about an…

Orthogonal drawings, i.e., embeddings of graphs into grids, are a classic topic in Graph Drawing. Often the goal is to find a drawing that minimizes the number of bends on the edges. A key ingredient for bend minimization algorithms is the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-03-13 Benjamin Niedermann , Ignaz Rutter , Matthias Wolf

We study the iteration complexity of the optimistic gradient descent-ascent (OGDA) method and the extra-gradient (EG) method for finding a saddle point of a convex-concave unconstrained min-max problem. To do so, we first show that both…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-30 Aryan Mokhtari , Asuman Ozdaglar , Sarath Pattathil

We study the minimum \emph{Monitoring Edge Geodetic Set} (\megset) problem introduced in [Foucaud et al., CALDAM'23]: given a graph $G$, we say that an edge is monitored by a pair $u,v$ of vertices if \emph{all} shortest paths between $u$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Davide Bilò , Giordano Colli , Luca Forlizzi , Stefano Leucci

This work is concerned with fan- and cone-beam computed tomography with circular source trajectory, where the reconstruction inverse problem requires an accurate knowledge of source, detector and rotational axis relative positions and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-09 Patricio Guerrero , Simon Bellens , Ricardo Santander , Wim Dewulf

A new deconvolution algorithm based on orthogonal projections onto the epigraph set of a convex cost function is presented. In this algorithm, the dimension of the minimization problem is lifted by one and sets corresponding to the cost…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-02-25 Mohammad Tofighi , Alican Bozkurt , A. Enis Cetin

A variational model for learning convolutional image atoms from corrupted and/or incomplete data is introduced and analyzed both in function space and numerically. Building on lifting and relaxation strategies, the proposed approach is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-10 Antonin Chambolle , Martin Holler Thomas Pock

Convexity prior is one of the main cue for human vision and shape completion with important applications in image processing, computer vision. This paper focuses on characterization methods for convex objects and applications in image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Shousheng Luo , Jinfeng Chen , Yunhai Xiao , Xue-Cheng Tai

This note studies the geometric structure of monotone moment polytopes (the duals of smooth Fano polytopes) using probes. The latter are line segments that enter the polytope at an interior point of a facet and whose direction is integrally…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2011-07-26 Dusa McDuff

We envision programmable matter as a system of nano-scale agents (called particles) with very limited computational capabilities that move and compute collectively to achieve a desired goal. We use the geometric amoebot model as our…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Joshua J. Daymude , Robert Gmyr , Kristian Hinnenthal , Irina Kostitsyna , Christian Scheideler , Andréa W. Richa