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This paper focuses on regularisation methods using models up to the third order to search for up to second-order critical points of a finite-sum minimisation problem. The variant presented belongs to the framework of [3]: it employs random…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-05 Stefania Bellavia , Gianmarco Gurioli , Benedetta Morini , Philippe L. Toint

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

Given a finite set of points $P \subseteq \mathbb{R}^d$, we would like to find a small subset $S \subseteq P$ such that the convex hull of $S$ approximately contains $P$. More formally, every point in $P$ is within distance $\epsilon$ from…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-12-15 Avrim Blum , Vladimir Braverman , Ananya Kumar , Harry Lang , Lin F. Yang

We consider least squares semidefinite programming (LSSDP) where the primal matrix variable must satisfy given linear equality and inequality constraints, and must also lie in the intersection of the cone of symmetric positive semidefinite…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-05-26 Defeng Sun , Kim-Chuan Toh , Liuqin Yang

In this paper, we propose an inexact block coordinate descent algorithm for large-scale nonsmooth nonconvex optimization problems. At each iteration, a particular block variable is selected and updated by inexactly solving the original…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-12 Yang Yang , Marius Pesavento , Zhi-Quan Luo , Björn Ottersten

The proximal point algorithm is a widely used tool for solving a variety of convex optimization problems such as finding zeros of maximally monotone operators, fixed points of nonexpansive mappings, as well as minimizing convex functions.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-19 Laurentiu Leustean , Adriana Nicolae , Andrei Sipos

Many real-world problems can be formulated as geometric optimization problems in high dimensions, especially in the fields of machine learning and data mining. Moreover, we often need to take into account of outliers when optimizing the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Hu Ding

An approximate sparse recovery system consists of parameters $k,N$, an $m$-by-$N$ measurement matrix, $\Phi$, and a decoding algorithm, $\mathcal{D}$. Given a vector, $x$, the system approximates $x$ by $\widehat x =\mathcal{D}(\Phi x)$,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-02-10 Anna C. Gilbert , Yi Li , Ely Porat , Martin J. Strauss

We study a cutting-plane method for semidefinite optimization problems (SDOs), and supply a proof of the method's convergence, under a boundedness assumption. By relating the method's rate of convergence to an initial outer approximation's…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-17 Dimitris Bertsimas , Ryan Cory-Wright

Let $\cal R$ be a set of $n$ colored imprecise points, where each point is colored by one of $k$ colors. Each imprecise point is specified by a unit disk in which the point lies. We study the problem of computing the smallest and the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Ankush Acharyya , Ramesh K. Jallu , Vahideh Keikha , Maarten Löffler , Maria Saumell

In this paper, an inexact proximal-point penalty method is studied for constrained optimization problems, where the objective function is non-convex, and the constraint functions can also be non-convex. The proposed method approximately…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-02 Qihang Lin , Runchao Ma , Yangyang Xu

In the Euclidean $k$-center problem in sliding window model, input points are given in a data stream and the goal is to find the $k$ smallest congruent balls whose union covers the $N$ most recent points of the stream. In this model, input…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Sang-Sub Kim

Given a convex polygon $P$ with $n$ vertices, the two-center problem is to find two congruent closed disks of minimum radius such that they completely cover $P$. We propose an algorithm for this problem in the streaming setup, where the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-12-09 Sanjib Sadhu , Sasanka Roy , Soumen Nandi , Anil Maheswari , Subhas C. Nandy

In this paper, we revisit the Minimum Enclosing Ball (MEB) problem and its robust version, MEB with outliers, in Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^d$. Though the problem has been extensively studied before, most of the existing algorithms need at…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Hu Ding

This paper describes three methods for carrying out non-asymptotic inference on partially identified parameters that are solutions to a class of optimization problems. Applications in which the optimization problems arise include estimation…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-12-02 Joel L. Horowitz , Sokbae Lee

We consider optimization methods for convex minimization problems under inexact information on the objective function. We introduce inexact model of the objective, which as a particular cases includes $(\delta,L)$ inexact oracle and…

We study the minimum \emph{Monitoring Edge Geodetic Set} (\megset) problem introduced in [Foucaud et al., CALDAM'23]: given a graph $G$, we say that an edge is monitored by a pair $u,v$ of vertices if \emph{all} shortest paths between $u$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Davide Bilò , Giordano Colli , Luca Forlizzi , Stefano Leucci

We study the classical scheduling problem on parallel machines %with precedence constraints where the precedence graph has the bounded depth $h$. Our goal is to minimize the maximum completion time. We focus on developing approximation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Bin Fu , Yumei Huo , Hairong Zhao

We initiate the study of diameter computation in geometric intersection graphs from the fine-grained complexity perspective. A geometric intersection graph is a graph whose vertices correspond to some shapes in $d$-dimensional Euclidean…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Karl Bringmann , Sándor Kisfaludi-Bak , Marvin Künnemann , André Nusser , Zahra Parsaeian

We present a $(1+\epsilon)$-approximation algorithm running in $O(f(\epsilon)\cdot n \log^4 n)$ time for finding the diameter of an undirected planar graph with non-negative edge lengths.

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-04-23 Oren Weimann , Raphael Yuster