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Projecting a vector onto a simplex is a well-studied problem that arises in a wide range of optimization problems. Numerous algorithms have been proposed for determining the projection; however, the primary focus of the literature has been…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-11 Yongzheng Dai , Chen Chen

In Wolke et al. [1] we compare the efficiency of different resource allocation strategies experimentally. We focused on dynamic environments where virtual machines need to be allocated and deallocated to servers over time. In this companion…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-03-02 Andreas Wolke , Martin Bichler , Fernando Chirigati , Victoria Steeves

Drawing a sample from a discrete distribution is one of the building components for Monte Carlo methods. Like other sampling algorithms, discrete sampling suffers from the high computational burden in large-scale inference problems. We…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-04-29 Yutian Chen , Zoubin Ghahramani

Differentiable programming is the combination of classical neural networks modules with algorithmic ones in an end-to-end differentiable model. These new models, that use automatic differentiation to calculate gradients, have new learning…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-05-05 Adrián Hernández , José M. Amigó

In this paper we present a method to generate independent samples for a general random variable, either continuous or discrete. The algorithm is an extension of the acceptance-rejection method, and it is particularly useful for kinetic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-24 Farzin Barekat , Russel Caflisch

We present new algorithms and fast implementations to find efficient approximations for modelling stochastic processes. For many numerical computations it is essential to develop finite approximations for stochastic processes. While the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-03 Kipngeno Benard Kirui , Georg Ch. Pflug , Alois Pichler

We consider deep multivariate models for heterogeneous collections of random variables. In the context of computer vision, such collections may e.g. consist of images, segmentations, image attributes, and latent variables. When developing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Dmitrij Schlesinger , Boris Flach , Alexander Shekhovtsov

In this paper, we propose a new framework for designing fast parallel algorithms for fundamental statistical subset selection tasks that include feature selection and experimental design. Such tasks are known to be weakly submodular and are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Sharon Qian , Yaron Singer

This paper presents an algorithm for sampling random variables that allows to separation of the sampling process into subproblems by dividing the sample space into overlapping parts. The subproblems can be solved independently of each other…

Computation · Statistics 2016-01-26 Jonas Hallgren , Timo Koski

In this paper, we introduce a technique to enhance the computational efficiency of solution algorithms for high-dimensional discrete simulation-based optimization problems. The technique is based on innovative adaptive partitioning…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-04 Jing Lu , Tianli Zhou , Carolina Osorio

Arrival of multicore systems has enforced a new scenario in computing, the parallel and distributed algorithms are fast replacing the older sequential algorithms, with many challenges of these techniques. The distributed algorithms provide…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Rajendra Purohit , K R Chowdhary , S D Purohit

Simulation has become the evaluation method of choice for many areas of distributing computing research. However, most existing simulation packages have several limitations on the size and complexity of the system being modeled. Fine…

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Assembly of large scale structural systems in space is understood as critical to serving applications that cannot be deployed from a single launch. Recent literature proposes the use of discrete modular structures for in-space assembly and…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Allan Costa , Benjamin Jenett , Irina Kostitsyna , Amira Abdel-Rahman , Neil Gershenfeld , Kenneth Cheung

In many distributed learning problems, the heterogeneous loading of computing machines may harm the overall performance of synchronous strategies. In this paper, we propose an effective asynchronous distributed framework for the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-05-23 Bikash Joshi , Franck Iutzeler , Massih-Reza Amini

The Massive Parallel Computing (MPC) model gained popularity during the last decade and it is now seen as the standard model for processing large scale data. One significant shortcoming of the model is that it assumes to work on static…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-23 Giuseppe F. Italiano , Silvio Lattanzi , Vahab S. Mirrokni , Nikos Parotsidis

Recently, there has been a surge of interest in incorporating neural networks into particle filters, e.g. differentiable particle filters, to perform joint sequential state estimation and model learning for non-linear non-Gaussian…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Xiongjie Chen , Yunpeng Li

Dynamical sampling deals with signals that evolve in time under the action of a linear operator. The purpose of the present paper is to analyze the performance of the basic dynamical sampling algorithms in the finite dimensional case and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-16 Akram Aldroubi , Longxiu Huang , Ilya Krishtal , Akos Ledeczi , Roy R. Lederman , Peter Volgyesi

Accurate and efficient prediction of multi-scale flows remains a formidable challenge. Constructing theoretical models and numerical methods often involves the design and optimization of parameters. While gradient descent methods have been…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 Tianbai Xiao

We introduce an optimisation method for variational quantum algorithms and experimentally demonstrate a 100-fold improvement in efficiency compared to naive implementations. The effectiveness of our approach is shown by obtaining…