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A gradient-free deterministic method is developed to solve global optimization problems for Lipschitz continuous functions defined in arbitrary path-wise connected compact sets in Euclidean spaces. The method can be regarded as granular…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-15 Tao Qian , Lei Dai , Liming Zhang , Zehua Chen

We propose a new globalization strategy that can be used in unconstrained optimization algorithms to support rapid convergence from remote starting points. Our approach is based on using multiple points at each iteration to build a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-16 Figen Öztoprak , Ş. İlker Birbil

We introduce a recursive algorithm of conveniently general form for estimating the coefficient of a moving average model of order one and obtain convergence results for both correct and misspecified MA(1) models. The algorithm encompasses…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-06-13 James L. Cantor , David F. Findley

This paper presents a novel method of global adaptive dynamic programming (ADP) for the adaptive optimal control of nonlinear polynomial systems. The strategy consists of relaxing the problem of solving the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB)…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-01-11 Yu Jiang , Zhong-Ping Jiang

The Zoetrope Genetic Programming (ZGP) algorithm is based on an original representation for mathematical expressions, targeting evolutionary symbolic regression.The zoetropic representation uses repeated fusion operations between partial…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-08-26 Aurélie Boisbunon , Carlo Fanara , Ingrid Grenet , Jonathan Daeden , Alexis Vighi , Marc Schoenauer

We discuss an approach to signal recovery in Generalized Linear Models (GLM) in which the signal estimation problem is reduced to the problem of solving a stochastic monotone variational inequality (VI). The solution to the stochastic VI…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-03-19 Anatoli Juditsky , Arkadi Nemirovski

We present a global optimization approach for solving the maximum a-posteriori (MAP) clustering problem under the Gaussian mixture model.Our approach can accommodate side constraints and it preserves the combinatorial structure of the MAP…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-03-18 Patrick Flaherty , Pitchaya Wiratchotisatian , Ji Ah Lee , Zhou Tang , Andrew C. Trapp

We consider regression problems with binary weights. Such optimization problems are ubiquitous in quantized learning models and digital communication systems. A natural approach is to optimize the corresponding Lagrangian using variants of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Nisan Chiprut , Amir Globerson , Ami Wiesel

We consider distributed estimation of the inverse covariance matrix, also called the concentration or precision matrix, in Gaussian graphical models. Traditional centralized estimation often requires global inference of the covariance…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-06-15 Zhaoshi Meng , Dennis Wei , Ami Wiesel , Alfred O. Hero

Determining the maximum demand a water distribution network can satisfy is crucial for ensuring reliable supply and planning network expansion. This problem, typically formulated as a mixed-integer nonlinear program (MINLP), is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Sai Krishna Kanth Hari , Russell Bent

We introduce a machine-learning framework based on symbolic regression to extract the full symbol alphabet of multi-loop Feynman integrals. By targeting the analytic structure rather than reduction, the method is broadly applicable and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-28 Yuanche Liu , Yingxuan Xu , Yang Zhang

This paper presents Prism, the first symbolic superoptimizer for tensor programs. The key idea is sGraph, a symbolic, hierarchical representation that compactly encodes large classes of tensor programs by symbolically representing some…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Mengdi Wu , Xiaoyu Jiang , Oded Padon , Zhihao Jia

Annealing algorithms such as simulated annealing and population annealing are widely used both for sampling the Gibbs distribution and solving optimization problems (i.e. finding ground states). For both statistical mechanics and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-05-13 Amin Barzegar , Firas Hamze , Christopher Amey , Jonathan Machta

In this paper, we mainly study one class of convex mixed-integer nonlinear programming problems (MINLPs) with non-differentiable data. By dropping the differentiability assumption, we substitute gradients with subgradients obtained from KKT…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-09-22 Zhou Wei , M. Montaz Ali

Fast Function Extraction (FFX) is a deterministic algorithm for solving symbolic regression problems. We improve the accuracy of FFX by adding parameters to the arguments of nonlinear functions. Instead of only optimizing linear parameters,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Lukas Kammerer , Gabriel Kronberger , Michael Kommenda

Mixed integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) problems are encountered in modeling a physical/industrial process consisting both nonlinearity and discrete selective parameters. There are variety of algorithms for solving MINLP problems most…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-17 Negin Bagherpour , Mahdi Sharifzadeh

In symbolic regression, the goal is to find an analytical expression that accurately fits experimental data with the minimal use of mathematical symbols such as operators, variables, and constants. However, the combinatorial space of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Tommaso Bendinelli , Luca Biggio , Pierre-Alexandre Kamienny

Ground-motion model (GMM) is the basis of many earthquake engineering studies. In this study, a novel physics-informed symbolic learner (PISL) method based on the Nest Generation Attenuation-West2 database is proposed to automatically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Su Chen , Xianwei Liu , Lei Fu , Suyang Wang , Bin Zhang , Xiaojun Li

As function approximators, deep neural networks have served as an effective tool to represent various signal types. Recent approaches utilize multi-layer perceptrons (MLPs) to learn a nonlinear mapping from a coordinate to its corresponding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Woojin Cho , Minju Jo , Kookjin Lee , Noseong Park

We show that the method of maximum likelihood (MML) provides us with an efficient scheme for reconstruction of quantum channels from incomplete measurement data. By construction this scheme always results in estimations of channels that are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Mario Ziman , Martin Plesch , Vladimir Buzek , Peter Stelmachovic