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We improve the "sieve" part of the number field sieve used in factoring integer and computing discrete logarithm. The runtime of our method is shorter than that of existing methods. Under some reasonable assumptions, we prove that it is…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2011-03-09 Qizhi Zhang

The continuation method is a popular approach in non-convex optimization and computer vision. The main idea is to start from a simple function that can be minimized efficiently, and gradually transform it to the more complicated original…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Ali Shameli , Yasin Abbasi-Yadkori

In this paper, we propose an efficient and flexible algorithm to solve dynamic mean-field planning problems based on an accelerated proximal gradient method. Besides an easy-to-implement gradient descent step in this algorithm, a crucial…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-01 Jiajia Yu , Rongjie Lai , Wuchen Li , Stanley Osher

In the setting of nonparametric regression, we propose and study a combination of stochastic gradient methods with Nystr\"om subsampling, allowing multiple passes over the data and mini-batches. Generalization error bounds for the studied…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-10-24 Junhong Lin , Lorenzo Rosasco

The problem of finding aperiodic low auto-correlation binary sequences (LABS) presents a significant computational challenge, particularly as the sequence length increases. Such sequences have important applications in communication…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Blaž Pšeničnik , Rene Mlinarič , Janez Brest , Borko Bošković

Many machine learning applications and tasks rely on the stochastic gradient descent (SGD) algorithm and its variants. Effective step length selection is crucial for the success of these algorithms, which has motivated the development of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Shigeng Sun , Yuchen Xie

We prove that the discrete logarithm problem can be solved in quasi-polynomial expected time in the multiplicative group of finite fields of fixed characteristic. More generally, we prove that it can be solved in the field of cardinality…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-11-19 Thorsten Kleinjung , Benjamin Wesolowski

Modes and ridges of the probability density function behind observed data are useful geometric features. Mode-seeking clustering assigns cluster labels by associating data samples with the nearest modes, and estimation of density ridges…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-04-03 Hiroaki Sasaki , Takafumi Kanamori , Aapo Hyvärinen , Gang Niu , Masashi Sugiyama

We present a homotopic approach to solving challenging, optimization-based motion planning problems. The approach uses Homotopy Optimization, which, unlike standard continuation methods for solving homotopy problems, solves a sequence of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Shayan Pardis , Matthew Chignoli , Sangbae Kim

Stochastic optimization algorithms update models with cheap per-iteration costs sequentially, which makes them amenable for large-scale data analysis. Such algorithms have been widely studied for structured sparse models where the sparsity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-10 Baojian Zhou , Feng Chen , Yiming Ying

We study the task of differentially private clustering. For several basic clustering problems, including Euclidean DensestBall, 1-Cluster, k-means, and k-median, we give efficient differentially private algorithms that achieve essentially…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Badih Ghazi , Ravi Kumar , Pasin Manurangsi

Recent works leveraging Graph Neural Networks to approach graph matching tasks have shown promising results. Recent progress in learning discrete distributions poses new opportunities for learning graph matching models. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Linfeng Liu , Michael C. Hughes , Soha Hassoun , Li-Ping Liu

Discrete optimal transport solvers do not scale well on dense large problems since they do not explicitly exploit the geometric structure of the cost function. In analogy to continuous optimal transport we provide a framework to verify…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-04-19 Bernhard Schmitzer

In this paper, an adjustment to the original differentially private stochastic gradient descent (DPSGD) algorithm for deep learning models is proposed. As a matter of motivation, to date, almost no state-of-the-art machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Mehdi Amian

Nowadays, algorithms with fast convergence, small memory footprints, and low per-iteration complexity are particularly favorable for artificial intelligence applications. In this paper, we propose a doubly stochastic algorithm with a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Zebang Shen , Hui Qian , Tongzhou Mu , Chao Zhang

We consider a quantum polynomial-time algorithm which solves the discrete logarithm problem for points on elliptic curves over $GF(2^m)$. We improve over earlier algorithms by constructing an efficient circuit for multiplying elements of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-12-18 Donny Cheung , Dmitri Maslov , Jimson Mathew , Dhiraj K. Pradhan

This paper focuses on discussing Newton's method and its hybrid with machine learning for the steady state Navier-Stokes Darcy model discretized by mixed element methods. First, a Newton iterative method is introduced for solving the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-07 Jianguo Huang , Hui Peng , Haohao Wu

We aim at computing the derivative of the solution to a parametric optimization problem with respect to the involved parameters. For a class broader than that of strongly convex functions, this can be achieved by automatic differentiation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-15 Sheheryar Mehmood , Peter Ochs

In this work we study the stability regions of linear multistep or multiderivative multistep methods for initial-value problems by using techniques that are straightforward to implement in modern computer algebra systems. In many…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Lajos Lóczi

In this paper we propose a new deterministic approximation method, called discretization approximation, for Bayesian computation. Discretization approximation is very simple to understand and to implement, It only requires calculating…

Computation · Statistics 2026-01-13 Shifeng Xiong