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In the field of algorithmic analysis, one of the more well-known exercises is the subset sum problem. That is, given a set of integers, determine whether one or more integers in the set can sum to a target value. Aside from the brute-force…

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We study fishnet Feynman diagrams defined by a certain triangulation of a planar n-gon, with massless scalars propagating along and across the cuts. Our solution theory uses the technique of Separation of Variables, in combination with the…

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Hierarchical data analysis is crucial in various fields for making discoveries. The linear mixed model is often used for training hierarchical data, but its parameter estimation is computationally expensive, especially with big data.…

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The meander problem is a combinatorial problem which provides a toy model of the compact folding of polymer chains. In this paper we study various questions relating to the enumeration of meander diagrams, using diagrammatical methods. By…

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We present an algorithm for recovering planted solutions in two well-known models, the stochastic block model and planted constraint satisfaction problems, via a common generalization in terms of random bipartite graphs. Our algorithm…

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The Rooted Maximum Leaf Outbranching problem consists in finding a spanning directed tree rooted at some prescribed vertex of a digraph with the maximum number of leaves. Its parameterized version asks if there exists such a tree with at…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2009-04-20 Jean Daligault , Stephan Thomasse

Working with tree graphs is always easier than with loopy ones and spanning trees are the closest tree-like structures to a given graph. We find a correspondence between the solutions of random K-satisfiability problem and those of spanning…

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The statistical linearization method known in nonlinear mechanics and random vibrations theory has been applied to stochastically quantized fields in finite temperature. It has been shown that even in its simplest form the method yields…

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An algorithm is proposed that solves two decision problems for pseudo-Anosov elements in the mapping class group of a surface with at least one marked fixed point. The first problem is the root problem: decide if the element is a power and…

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Recently, a novel coded compressed sensing (CCS) approach was proposed in [1] for dealing with the scalability problem for large sensing matrices in massive machine-type communications. The approach is to divide the compressed sensing (CS)…

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Recently, Martin Hutzenthaler pointed out that the explicit Euler method fails to converge strongly to the exact solution of a stochastic differential equation (SDE) with superlinearly growing and globally one sided Lipschitz drift…

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Large scale optimization problems are ubiquitous in machine learning and data analysis and there is a plethora of algorithms for solving such problems. Many of these algorithms employ sub-sampling, as a way to either speed up the…

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We introduce the geodesic walk for sampling Riemannian manifolds and apply it to the problem of generating uniform random points from polytopes in R^n specified by m inequalities. The walk is a discrete-time simulation of a stochastic…

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This paper aims to investigate the numerical approximation of a general second order parabolic stochastic partial differential equation(SPDE) driven by multiplicative and additive noise. Our main interest is on such SPDEs where the…

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The usual methods for root finding of polynomials are based on the iteration of a numerical formula for improvement of successive estimations. The unpredictable nature of the iterations prevents to search roots inside a pre-specified region…

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Distributed algorithms for solving coupled semidefinite programs (SDPs) commonly require many iterations to converge. They also put high computational demand on the computational agents. In this paper we show that in case the coupled…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-04-30 Sina Khoshfetrat Pakazad , Anders Hansson , Martin S. Andersen , Anders Rantzer

Stochastic simulation algorithms (SSAs) are widely used to numerically investigate the properties of stochastic, discrete-state models. The Gillespie Direct Method is the pre-eminent SSA, and is widely used to generate sample paths of…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2020-01-22 Christopher Lester , Ruth E. Baker , Christian A. Yates

In this paper, we investigate the stochastic evolution equations (SEEs) driven by $\log$-Whittle-Mat$\acute{{\mathrm{e}}}$rn (W-M) random diffusion coefficient field and $Q$-Wiener multiplicative force noise. First, the well-posedness of…

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