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Using Voronoi's truncated formula for $\Delta(x)$ involving Bessel functions, the first author derives an asymptotic formula for the eighth-power moments with an error term of order $O\left(X^{3 - \frac{1}{254} + \varepsilon}\right)$

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Junhao Liao , Junjie Liao

We propose a new method to accelerate the convergence of optimization algorithms. This method simply adds a power coefficient $\gamma\in[0,1)$ to the gradient during optimization. We call this the Powerball method and analyze the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Ye Yuan , Mu Li , Jun Liu , Claire J. Tomlin

We consider methods for finding high-precision approximations to simple zeros of smooth functions. As an application, we give fast methods for evaluating the elementary functions log(x), exp(x), sin(x) etc. to high precision. For example,…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2010-06-01 Richard P. Brent

The Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm is a widely used method for maximum likelihood estimation in models with latent variables. For estimating mixtures of Gaussians, its iteration can be viewed as a soft version of the k-means…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-06-06 Constantinos Daskalakis , Christos Tzamos , Manolis Zampetakis

A fast and numerically stable algorithm is described for computing the discrete Hankel transform of order $0$ as well as evaluating Schl\"{o}milch and Fourier--Bessel expansions in $\mathcal{O}(N(\log N)^2/\log\!\log N)$ operations. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-21 Alex Townsend

Robust estimation is essential in computer vision, robotics, and navigation, aiming to minimize the impact of outlier measurements for improved accuracy. We present a fast algorithm for Geman-McClure robust estimation, FracGM, leveraging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Bang-Shien Chen , Yu-Kai Lin , Jian-Yu Chen , Chih-Wei Huang , Jann-Long Chern , Ching-Cherng Sun

In 2007, A.I.Aptekarev and his collaborators discovered a sequence of rational approximations to Euler's constant $\gamma$ defined by a linear recurrence. In this paper, we generalize this result and present an explicit construction of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2012-06-04 Khodabakhsh Hessami Pilehrood , Tatiana Hessami Pilehrood

This paper is concerned with the construction of a fast algorithm for computing the maximum speed of propagation in the Riemann solution for the Euler system of gas dynamics with the co-volume equation of state. The novelty in the algorithm…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-07-20 Jean-Luc Guermond , Bojan Popov

This paper provides an error estimate for the u-series method of the Coulomb interaction in molecular dynamics simulations. We show that the number of truncated Gaussians $M$ in the u-series and the base of interpolation nodes $b$ in the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-07 Jiuyang Liang , Zhenli Xu , Qi Zhou

This work focuses on the temporal average of the backward Euler--Maruyama (BEM) method, which is used to approximate the ergodic limit of stochastic ordinary differential equations with super-linearly growing drift coefficients. We give the…

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We construct an accurate estimate for the root mean square force error of the particle-particle-particle-mesh (P3M) algorithm by extending a single particle pair error measure which has been given by Hockney and Eastwood. We also derive an…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Markus Deserno , Christian Holm

This paper investigates the approximation of stochastic delay differential equations (SDDEs) via the backward Euler-Maruyama (BEM) method under generalized monotonicity and Khasminskii-type conditions in the infinite horizon. First, by…

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This paper studies algorithms for efficiently computing Brascamp-Lieb constants, a task that has recently received much interest. In particular, we reduce the computation to a nonlinear matrix-valued iteration, whose convergence we analyze…

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The best bounds of the form $B(\alpha,\beta,\gamma,x)=(\alpha+\sqrt{\beta^2+\gamma^2 x^2})/x$ for ratios of modified Bessel functions are characterized: if $\alpha$, $\beta$ and $\gamma$ are chosen in such a way that…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2023-04-17 J. Segura

Unitary errors, such as those arising from fault-tolerant compilation of quantum algorithms, systematically bias observable estimates. Correcting this bias typically requires additional resources, such as an increased number of non-Clifford…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 Dmitrii Khitrin , Kenneth R. Brown , Abhinav Anand

An algorithm is given for determining an optimal $b$-step approximation of weighted data, where the error is measured with respect to the $L_\infty$ norm. For data presorted by the independent variable the algorithm takes $\Theta(n + \log n…

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We consider a general linear parabolic problem with extended time boundary conditions (including initial value problems and periodic ones), and approximate it by the implicit Euler scheme in time and the Gradient Discretisation method in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-22 J Droniou , R Eymard , T Gallouët , C Guichard , R Herbin

We study the sublinear multivariate mean estimation problem in $d$-dimensional Euclidean space. Specifically, we aim to find the mean $\mu$ of a ground point set $A$, which minimizes the sum of squared Euclidean distances of the points in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Beatrice Bertolotti , Matteo Russo , Chris Schwiegelshohn , Sudarshan Shyam

Quantum metrology is a general term for methods to precisely estimate the value of an unknown parameter by actively using quantum resources. In particular, some classes of entangled states can be used to significantly suppress the…

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