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This paper presents a comparative analysis of algorithmic strategies for fitting tessellation models to 3D image data of materials such as polycrystals and foams. In this steadily advancing field, we review and assess optimization-based…
The description of distributions related to grain microstructure helps physicists to understand the processes in materials and their properties. This paper presents a general statistical methodology for the analysis of crystallographic…
In this paper we study an inverse problem in convex geometry, inspired by a problem in materials science. Firstly, we consider the question of whether a Laguerre tessellation (a partition by convex polytopes) can be recovered from only the…
We present a general statistical methodology for analysing a Laguerre tessellation data set viewed as a realization of a marked point process model. In the first step, for the points we use a nested sequence of multiscale processes which…
Random tessellations are well suited for probabilistic modeling of three-dimensional (3D) grain microstructures of polycrystalline materials. The present paper is focused on so-called Gibbs-Laguerre tessellations, in which the generators of…
Trajectory optimization methods for motion planning attempt to generate trajectories that minimize a suitable objective function. Such methods efficiently find solutions even for high degree-of-freedom robots. However, a globally optimal…
We present a new technique to fit color-magnitude diagrams of open clusters based on the Cross-Entropy global optimization algorithm. The method uses theoretical isochrones available in the literature and maximizes a weighted likelihood…
Laguerre tessellations of macromolecules capture properties such as molecular interface surfaces, volumes and cavities. Explicit solvent molecular dynamics simulations of a macromolecule are slow as the number of solvent atoms considered…
We give a detailed description of a polynomial optimization method allowing to solve a problem in continuum mechanics: the determination of the elasticity or the piezoelectricity tensor of a specific isotropy stratum the closest to a given…
Recent advances in IoT and biometric sensing technologies have led to the generation of massive and high-dimensional tensor data, yet achieving accurate and efficient low-rank approximation remains a major challenge. Most existing tensor…
The present paper studies mathematical models for representing, imaging, and analyzing polycrystalline materials. We introduce various techniques for converting grain maps into diagram or tessellation representations that rely on…
Labeling a classification dataset implies to define classes and associated coarse labels, that may approximate a smoother and more complicated ground truth. For example, natural images may contain multiple objects, only one of which is…
The traditional way of tackling discrete optimization problems is by using local search on suitably defined cost or fitness landscapes. Such approaches are however limited by the slowing down that occurs when the local minima that are a…
In this paper we describe a fast algorithm for generating periodic RVEs of polycrystalline materials. In particular, we use the damped Newton method from semi-discrete optimal transport theory to generate 3D periodic Laguerre tessellations…
In this paper, we propose a method for the approximation of the solution of high-dimensional weakly coercive problems formulated in tensor spaces using low-rank approximation formats. The method can be seen as a perturbation of a minimal…
Data analysis and interpretation often relies on an approximation of an empirical dataset by some analytic functions or models. Actual implementations usually rely on a non-linear multi-dimensional optimization algorithm, typically…
Near isometric orthogonal embeddings to lower dimensions are a fundamental tool in data science and machine learning. In this paper, we present the construction of such embeddings that minimizes the maximum distortion for a given set of…
Unlike the matrix case, computing low-rank approximations of tensors is NP-hard and numerically ill-posed in general. Even the best rank-1 approximation of a tensor is NP-hard. In this paper, we use convex optimization to develop…
Low-Rank Representation (LRR) highly suffers from discarding the locality information of data points in subspace clustering, as it may not incorporate the data structure nonlinearity and the non-uniform distribution of observations over the…
Global discrete optimization is notoriously difficult due to the lack of gradient information and the curse of dimensionality, making exhaustive search infeasible. Tensor cross approximation is an efficient technique to approximate…