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Recently, randomized algorithms for low-rank approximation of quaternion matrices have received increasing attention. However, for large-scale problems, existing quaternion orthonormalizations are inefficient, leading to slow rangefinders.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-19 Chao Chang , Yuning Yang

We consider column-sparse covering integer programs, a generalization of set cover, which have a long line of research of (randomized) approximation algorithms. We develop a new rounding scheme based on the Partial Resampling variant of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Antares Chen , David G. Harris , Aravind Srinivasan

We study pathwise approximation of scalar stochastic differential equations at a single point. We provide the exact rate of convergence of the minimal errors that can be achieved by arbitrary numerical methods that are based (in a…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Thomas Muller-Gronbach

We prove a general result demonstrating the power of Lagrangian relaxation in solving constrained maximization problems with arbitrary objective functions. This yields a unified approach for solving a wide class of {\em subset selection}…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-12-22 Ariel Kulik , Hadas Shachnai , Gal Tamir

We study randomized algorithms for constrained optimization, in abstract frameworks that include, in strictly increasing generality: convex programming; LP-type problems; violator spaces; and a setting we introduce, consistent spaces. Such…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Kenneth L. Clarkson , Bernd Gärtner , Johannes Lengler , May Szedlak

Optimal packing of objects in containers is a critical problem in various real-life and industrial applications. This paper investigates the two-dimensional packing of convex polygons without rotations, where only translations are allowed.…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Adam Kurpisz , Silvan Suter

This paper presents the first optimal-rate $p$-th order methods with $p\geq 1$ for finding first and second-order stationary points of non-convex smooth objective functions over Riemannian manifolds. In contrast to the geodesically convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-23 David Huckleberry Gutman , George Lobo

Bayesian optimization (BO) methods are useful for optimizing functions that are expensive to evaluate, lack an analytical expression and whose evaluations can be contaminated by noise. These methods rely on a probabilistic model of the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-02-04 Eduardo C. Garrido-Merchán , Daniel Hernández-Lobato

We present a randomized polynomial-time simplex algorithm with higher probability and tighter bounds for linear programming by applying improved quasi-convex properties, a logarithmic rounding on a given polytope and its logarithmic…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Daniel Gibor

Brownian diffusion subject to stochastic resetting to a fixed position has been widely studied for applications to random search processes. In an unbounded domain, the mean first-passage time at a target site can be minimized for a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-08 Pedro Julián-Salgado , Leonardo Dagdug , Denis Boyer

We consider some random series parametrised by complex binary strings. The simplest case is that of Rademacher series, independent of a time parameter. This is then extended to the case of Fourier series on the circle with Rademacher…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-01-02 Paul Potgieter

Randomized benchmarking (RB) is a widely used strategy to assess the quality of available quantum gates in a computational context. RB involves applying known random sequences of gates to an initial state and using the statistics of a final…

We provide lower error bounds for randomized algorithms that approximate integrals of functions depending on an unrestricted or even infinite number of variables. More precisely, we consider the infinite-dimensional integration problem on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-09 Michael Gnewuch

Quadratic assignment problem is one of the great challenges in combinatorial optimization. It has many applications in Operations research and Computer Science. In this paper, the author extends the most-used rounding approach to a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-05-11 Wajeb Gharibi , Yong Xia

The approach to the theory of a relativistic random process is considered by the path integral method as Brownian motion taking into account the boundedness of speed. An attempt was made to build a relativistic analogue of the Wiener…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-30 E. A. Kurianovich , A. I. Mikhailov , I. V. Volovich

In [C.W. Gear, T.J. Kaper, I.G. Kevrekidis, and A. Zagaris, Projecting to a Slow Manifold: Singularly Perturbed Systems and Legacy Codes, SIAM J. Appl. Dyn. Syst. 4 (2005) 711-732], we developed a class of iterative algorithms within the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2010-09-17 A. Zagaris , C. W. Gear , T. J. Kaper , I. G. Kevrekidis

This paper demonstrates a practical method for computing the solution of an expectation-constrained robust maximization problem with immediate applications to model-free no-arbitrage bounds and super-replication values for many financial…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2016-10-06 Christopher W. Miller

Approximating a tensor in the tensor train (TT) format has many important applications in scientific computing. Rounding a TT tensor involves further compressing a tensor that is already in the TT format. This paper proposes new randomized…

We present an algorithm for minimizing the sum of a strongly convex time-varying function with a time-invariant, convex, and nonsmooth function. The proposed algorithm employs the prediction-correction scheme alongside the forward-backward…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-07 Nicola Bastianello , Andrea Simonetto , Ruggero Carli

We present an iterative framework to improve the amortized approximations of posterior distributions in the context of Bayesian inverse problems, which is inspired by loop-unrolled gradient descent methods and is theoretically grounded in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Rafael Orozco , Ali Siahkoohi , Mathias Louboutin , Felix J. Herrmann